How to Confirm Conviction by Identifying Holding Patterns with Profiler

Written By Nansen Team

Last updated 11 months ago

🛡️Overview

Difficulty: Intermediate / Steps: 3 / Time it Takes: 5–10 minutes

🔥 Value

  • Identify wallets that aren’t just buying, but holding

  • Confirms stronger conviction and belief in a token

  • Helps you avoid fast flippers or mercenary capital

👤 Who Should Use This

  • Swing traders

  • Long-term thesis builders

  • Token researchers

⚠️ Workflow

  1. Find a wallet of interest and open Nansen Profiler

  2. Track their PnL on the PnL tab within Nansen Profiler:

    • Realized PnL → good for short-term traders.

    • Unrealized PnL → good for long-term holders.

  3. Look for:

    • High unrealized ROI on held positions

    • Consistent entry behavior across multiple tokens

❓When to Use This

  • After identifying a potential token of interest

  • Before entering a trade to validate thesis strength

  • When deciding whether to hold longer

⚙️ Feature Spotlight

  • Realized vs Unrealized PnL breakdown

  • Entry/exit visualization chart

💡Pro Tip

Use the Deep Research feature on Nansen Profiler to analyze the owner of the wallet.

This feature is currently only available for Professional tier users.

Community contribution by @pelimatos. Got a workflow that might be helpful? Share it with the Nansen community. Get in touch at marketing@nansen.ai.