> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.tachyo.ai/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.tachyo.ai/platform/alpha.md).

# Alpha

Alpha answers a question none of the other screens do: **who leads?**

The platform builds a follow graph nightly from actual behaviour: which wallets consistently buy *after* which other wallets, and how long they take to do it. Alpha ranks the wallets at the front of that graph.

| Column        | What it is                                                       |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Trader**    | The leading wallet.                                              |
| **Tier**      | Its score. See [Wallet tiers](/concepts/wallet-tiers.md).        |
| **Followers** | How many wallets have been observed buying after this one.       |
| **Avg lag**   | The typical delay before followers move: minutes, hours or days. |

Sorting is fixed to the natural direction of each column: more followers is better, lower lag is better.

## Why lag is the interesting column

Followers tell you influence. **Lag tells you how much room you have.**

* **Short lag, many followers**: this wallet moves a crowd almost immediately. By the time you see the buy, the follow-through is already happening.
* **Long lag, many followers**: the crowd arrives hours or days later. That gap is the tradeable part.

A wallet with 300 followers at a 4-hour average lag is a very different instrument from one with 300 followers at a 6-minute lag, even though both look "influential".

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## How to use it

1. Find leaders whose tier you respect: an S or A wallet at the head of a follow graph is the combination worth having.
2. Open the follower list to see who moves behind them and how consistently.
3. Track what those leaders touch through the [Live Feed](/platform/feed.md) or by adding the tokens to your [Watchlist](/platform/watchlist.md).

{% hint style="info" %}
Followers here are wallets, not social accounts. This measures money following money, not people following a profile, which is why the number is usually much smaller and much more useful than a follower count on X.
{% endhint %}


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