Give me your top 5

Important Note on the User’s Goal

You’re effectively looking for cryptocurrencies under $1 that could have very large upside (similar to your prior “under $5 to over $50 in 2 years” stock question). No screener can guarantee that a crypto will 10x–50x; that kind of prediction is impossible and extremely speculative.

What these filters can do is narrow the universe down to coins that (a) meet your price requirement, and (b) show traits that are more consistent with viable, liquid projects rather than dead or illiquid tokens.

Screening Filters

1. Price: 0.01 to 1

   • Purpose: Restrict the list to cryptocurrencies trading under $1, while avoiding near-worthless “dust” tokens.
   • Rationale:
     • The upper bound of $1 directly matches your request: “Crypto’s under a dollar.”
     • The lower bound of $0.01 filters out ultra-micro-price tokens (e.g., $0.0000001) that are usually highly illiquid, easy to manipulate, and often not serious projects. This keeps the set more investable and realistic.

2. Market Cap: 10,000,000 to 3,000,000,000

   • Purpose: Focus on small to mid-cap coins that are big enough to be somewhat established but still have room to grow substantially.
   • Rationale:
     • A minimum market cap of $10M helps avoid extremely tiny, obscure tokens that are often “ghost” projects or outright scams.
     • A maximum of $3B avoids mega-cap coins (like the very top of the market) that are less likely to deliver the kind of explosive upside you’re implicitly interested in.
     • This aligns with your goal of hunting for high-upside opportunities: mid/small caps have more potential room to grow than top-10 mega caps, while still being more credible than microcaps.

3. 24h Dollar Volume: ≥ $500,000

   • Purpose: Ensure a minimum level of liquidity.
   • Rationale:
     • A daily trading volume of at least $500k means there’s active buying and selling.
     • This reduces the risk that you get “stuck” in an illiquid token you can’t easily exit, and helps filter out dead or abandoned coins.
     • For a speculative, upside-focused search, liquidity is critical: large potential returns mean little if you can’t enter or exit at fair prices.

4. 1-Month Price Change (%): ≥ 5%

   • Purpose: Capture coins with recent positive momentum.
   • Rationale:
     • A minimum +5% move in the last month indicates some recent positive interest or improving sentiment.
     • This avoids tokens that are flatlined or steadily bleeding out, and instead surfaces projects that the market is at least tentatively rewarding.
     • While this doesn’t guarantee future gains (and momentum can reverse), it is a common way to identify candidates with current traction rather than purely “hope-based” picks.

5. Return on Investment (ROI): ≥ 0

   • Purpose: Filter for projects that have not been net losers since inception (or since listing).
   • Rationale:
     • An ROI ≥ 0 means the asset has at least broken even or made money over its tracked history.
     • This helps exclude long-term failures that are in persistent downtrends, focusing instead on assets that have, at some point, rewarded holders.
     • For your goal of finding potential big winners, it makes sense to start from coins that have already demonstrated some ability to create value.

6. Sorting:

   • Primary sort: month_price_change_pct (descending)

     • Purpose: Show the strongest recent performers first.
     • Rationale: This pushes to the top the coins with the highest 1‑month momentum, which are the ones the market is currently rewarding. For aggressive upside hunting, these are often the first candidates to investigate more deeply.

   • Secondary sort: market_cap (ascending)

     • Purpose: Within similar momentum levels, prioritize smaller market caps first.
     • Rationale: Smaller caps, all else equal, have more room to grow in percentage terms. Among coins with similar recent performance, this highlights the ones with potentially greater upside capacity.

Why These Filters Match Your Request

• Matches the key constraint:

  • The price filter (≤ $1) directly implements your “Crypto’s under a dollar” requirement.

• Oriented toward high-upside candidates, not guarantees:

  • By focusing on small/mid caps, positive recent momentum, and non-negative ROI, the screener is biased toward projects that:
    • Are not already mega-cap,
    • Have some recent strength, and
    • Have not been long-term disasters.
  • This is consistent with your implicit aim: searching for under-$1 cryptos that could plausibly deliver large returns if things go well.

• Controls for practicality and risk:

  • The liquidity (dollar_volume_24h) and minimum market cap filters remove many illiquid, dead, or extremely risky micro-tokens that would make real-world investing difficult or dangerous.

On Indicator Support vs. Your Request

Your explicit request for this screener was mainly: “Crypto’s under a dollar”, and to “do the same analysis” as before (i.e., searching for high-upside opportunities). You did not request any specific technical indicators or on-chain metrics that we then failed to use.

The additional filters (market cap, volume, ROI, momentum) were chosen because:

• They are available, reliable metrics across most cryptocurrencies.
• They help bridge the gap between “under $1” and “potential to run much higher” by focusing on liquidity, viability, and current market interest.

We cannot screen for “will reach $50” or “will 50x in 2 years” because:

• No objective, standardized indicator can provide that kind of deterministic forecast, and
• Price targets of that magnitude are inherently speculative.

Instead, these filters narrow the field to higher-probability candidates given your constraints, while maintaining some basic standards of quality and tradability.