If you are only looking for a rise to 5 or 10 times the price, there is no need to rely upon luck.
To do it sustainably and benevolently though, building for real (rather than just victimising folk who are too naive to know better), and thus end up with something real, a "pump with no dump", you need to be responsible about it.
Part of being a responsible coin-dealer of course is to provide for "returns"; that is, to accommodate folk who experience "buyer remourse", by in effect providing a kind of "money back minus a small re-stocking fee" policy in the form of a buy-side, climbing upwards as the price climbs, so that as each sell-offer gets bought the proceeds go back onto the buy-side.
When close to the bottom of the buy-side, which for BTC/IXC and BTC/I0C on FreiExchange means price below 1000 satoshis and even more so way the heck down below 100 satoshis, the sheer cheapness of the coin seems to tend to attract "dumpers", possibly because a lot of folk imagine a coin that cheap must be headed for zero so they feel they should get out fast even at a loss.
Thus at such an extreme bottom of the buy-side it is even more important to build the buy-side strongly to try to limit how far "dumpers" are going to be able to drive the price down by consuming the buy-offers.
For those two particular trading-pairs the current goal is to keep placing offers to buy 1000 coins, at every satoshi of price, all the way up to 1000 satoshis per coin.
But that, obviously, is going to take a while.
Those pairs are still at a stage in which buyers often become impatient with how "thin" the sell-side of the order-book is thus snap up more than one price at a time of the sell offers.
At such low prices of course it is silly to thicken up the sell-side because it would be unfortunate to run out of coins to sell before-or-by the time one actually reaches one's target price, since ultimately a huge part of the point of "ratcheting" up the price is so that the profit on each offer of or for a given number of the coin is larger than it would be lower down in price.
Basically the idea is that the higher the price is built up to the more capable an offer to sell a given number of coins will be at satisfying a buyer's desire to buy a given "value" (number of the buy-side asset) of the coin.
For example if a buyer is using "dollar cost averaging", as the price rises it takes less and less of the sell-side coin to provide them with their desired number of dollars-worth of the coin.
So we try to "thicken" the sell-side not by making each sell offer larger as in number of coins offered per offer but, rather, by piling the offers ever higher so no matter how much a buyer wants to spend there are always more than enough sell offers to accommodate their spend. (They just need to pay higher and higher prices the larger their spend.)
In the cases of treasury-based
Galactic Milieu assets such as IXCoin or I0Coin, it is easy to compute a target price; we can use the
Latest Rates include-file, which shows us for each Milieu asset its total "official treasury" divided by the number minted, as a guide.
When the buy-side of our chosen pair happens to be one of the assets for which a whole historical table of such rates has been computed and put online, such as the
Asset values expressed in BiTCoins (BTC) table, it is particularly easy.
From that latter table for example we can at time of posting this see that according to the Latest Rates IXCoin and I0Coin ought to be worth near 500 satoshis each based on the computed values of all the treasuries.
Of course blindly taking the Latest Rates as gospel is a touristy move; more-serious players are going to want to add a personal touch, apply a bit of their personal expertise, such as for example knowing they can as I am posting this still pick up DeVCoins for way the heck less than a satoshi, way the heck down closer to a litetoshi (litecoin-satoshi; 0.00000001 LTC) on FreiXlite exchange, so they might choose to re-calculate the whole Latest Rates file, which is by default denominated in DeVCoins based on the calculated value of DeVCoin, using their own figuring of how much a DeVCoin should be regarded as being worth.
The bottom line here though is that just the few people reading this post are probably enough, all by ourselves, to pick-and-choose coins to experience a five to ten times multiplying of the price of simply by picking-and-choosing the same pair on the same venue to work on and it being a venue where from time to time someone other than ourselves occasionally happens along and considers buying some.
One of the big differences in this approach though from simply picking a random scam to "pump and dump" is not to dump.
With pairs such as these one is going to run into some "dumpers" eventually as one continues "ratcheting upward" the price, because folks have had way over a decade to pick up "bags" of the coin so the higher the price goes the more chance there is that one of those so-called bag-holders is going to "dump" as in consume buy-offers by selling to them, rather than politely "sell" as in place sell offers and wait for a buyer to buy from their sell offers.
That is why ideally one builds one's buy-side strong and dense; inevitably eventually some "dumpers" are going to "dump", and one wants to be in a position where their doing so is a wonderful windfall of cheap coins raining down upon one's buy-offers gifting one with cheaper and cheaper and cheaper coins, rather than a nasty blow to the values sites such as CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko are going to display to the world as the supposed "value" of one's coin.
-MarkM-