Merlijn The Trader engagement report
@MerlijnTrader - 425K followers on X
Measured over 87 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 173 interactions against 425K followers, an engagement rate of 0.041%. Measured over 87 original posts, its engagement rate beats 56% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 19K times each, and 0.932% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.37% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 87 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 6.3x its own typical post.
Measured over 87 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on September 25, 2026.
Compared with accounts its own size
Merlijn The Trader's engagement rate beats 56% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 10 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 46% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.041%, Merlijn The Trader sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the below the median band, which runs 0.024% to 0.143%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.004% |
| 25th percentile | 0.024% |
| 50th percentile | 0.143% |
| 75th percentile | 0.677% |
| 90th percentile | 2.55% |
| 99th percentile | 82.4% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | -1% | 89K |
| 01:00 UTC | -2% | 90K |
| 02:00 UTC | -3% | 88K |
| 03:00 UTC | -4% | 94K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 76K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 75K |
| 06:00 UTC | -5% | 86K |
| 07:00 UTC | -5% | 93K |
| 08:00 UTC | -4% | 108K |
| 09:00 UTC | -4% | 124K |
| 10:00 UTC | -3% | 129K |
| 11:00 UTC | -3% | 141K |
| 12:00 UTC | -3% | 154K |
| 13:00 UTC | -3% | 167K |
| 14:00 UTC | -4% | 173K |
| 15:00 UTC | -2% | 176K |
| 16:00 UTC | -3% | 171K |
| 17:00 UTC | -3% | 159K |
| 18:00 UTC | -2% | 149K |
| 19:00 UTC | -2% | 141K |
| 20:00 UTC | -1% | 131K |
| 21:00 UTC | 0% | 116K |
| 22:00 UTC | -2% | 100K |
| 23:00 UTC | -1% | 90K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +5% | 393K |
| Monday | +1% | 483K |
| Tuesday | -2% | 520K |
| Wednesday | -3% | 472K |
| Thursday | -2% | 430K |
| Friday | -3% | 447K |
| Saturday | +2% | 393K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 100% of posts | +111% | +108% to +115% | 34K |
| Outbound link | 18% of posts | -41% | -42% to -40% | 32K |
| Typical length | - | no effect | -2% to -1% | 42K |
- 100% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 111% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 18% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 41% below the same accounts' other posts.
- Its average post runs 227 characters, which falls in the 180 - 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts of 180 to 280 characters match the same accounts' other posts almost exactly.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Aug 26, 20266.3x their median
BITCOIN $79,000. THE 2026 DCA IS DONE. Bought $53,000-$65,000. That was part one. Part two: derisk $88,000, $113,000, $136,000. Buy back $75,000, $100,500, $118,000. Part three: sell zone $150,000-$170,000. The plan does the thinking. I just execute. https://t.co/prlq4pgACC
- Sep 19, 20264.6x their median
$ETH is giving me more reasons to stay bullish. I think Ethereum could be THE play of this cycle. Bookmark this. https://t.co/JUL9eat9Bu
- Sep 24, 20263.6x their median
ALTCOIN HOLDERS, WAKE UP. Altcoins are knocking on the door again. Promise me one thing: Buy QUALITY, not memes. https://t.co/aqTBPOrpcJ
- Sep 23, 20263.3x their median
BREAKING: Odds Bitcoin hits $100,000 this year have doubled to 40% https://t.co/7DUhL1HOV7
- Aug 19, 20263.2x their median
BITCOIN JUST PRINTED THE 2020 SETUP THAT RAN 90% IN NINE WEEKS. Four rejections, wedge broken, then the bottom. Last time Bitcoin ran from $10,000 to $19,000. Price is at $64,305. Chart target $150,000. Bears calling $40,000 will call $40,000 all the way up. Weekly close below $58,000 invalidates this.
- Sep 22, 20262.7x their median
ALTSEASON WILL RETURN. But I don’t expect every coin to fly. The real winners will be quality alts. https://t.co/OkHuhAjawn
- Sep 23, 20262.7x their median
I hope you didn’t sleep on $ETH. TradFi is coming onchain. Ethereum will be this cycle’s biggest sleeper. https://t.co/wexOuEoW4l
- Sep 22, 20262.6x their median
I’m not chasing $ETH here. Give me a clean bullish retest around $2,560 and I’ll look to go heavy on longs. https://t.co/PPx9n8yq2t
- Sep 23, 20262.5x their median
EVERYONE CALLED IT A BEAR MARKET. I called it a bear trap. Now Bitcoin is waking up. $170K is still my target. https://t.co/hYMKfIIQr9
- Aug 24, 20262.4x their median
BITCOIN AT $77,405. THE 2026 BEAR CYCLE IS 365 DAYS. IT IS ALMOST OVER. Every bull cycle since 2016 lasted 1,064 days. Every bear that followed lasted 365 days. Three for three. The next 1,064-day cycle starts here. Target: $150,000. Time is running out to accumulate. https://t.co/RwuHLFxFMQ
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 173 interactions against 425K followers, an engagement rate of 0.041%. Measured over 87 original posts, its engagement rate beats 56% of 20,444 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 19K times each, and 0.932% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 4.37% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 4.1 posts a day over the last 30 days, with activity on roughly 73% of days. Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 87 posts sampled, 100% carry an image or video, 7% are part of a thread and 18% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 1.1K interactions, about 6.3x its own typical post.
- What is Merlijn The Trader's engagement rate on X?
- Merlijn The Trader (@MerlijnTrader) has an engagement rate of 0.041%, based on the median interactions across 87 original posts from the last 30 days against 425,248 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.041%, Merlijn The Trader sits above the 25th percentile of the 204,694 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @MerlijnTrader have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 56% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (20,444 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @MerlijnTrader post?
- Most posts go out around 09:00 UTC, and Thursday is its busiest day, at roughly 4.13 posts per day across the measured window.