WHY SOME COINS PUMP WHEN $BTC & TOP ALTS DUMP?
When BTC drops, most large-cap alts follow.
But sometimes you’ll see coins like $NOM and $AUCTION keep climbing. Why?
Here’s the simple logic 👇
They’re not in the same liquidity pool
Big alts move with Bitcoin because institutions and large funds rotate capital together. Smaller or niche coins often trade on different flows.
Independent catalysts
Specific narratives, listings, rotations, or sudden attention can overpower market-wide fear.
Lower correlation = higher volatility
Low-cap or mid-cap coins don’t need massive money to move. A small inflow can push price hard.
Rotation during fear
When traders exit majors, some capital hunts “relative strength”, coins that refuse to go down.
📌 Lesson:
Not every pump is market strength.
Sometimes it’s isolation, rotation, or short-term imbalance.
