Copytrading
How do I start copy trading?
Start by funding a wallet you are willing to lose in full, choosing one trader rather than five, and setting a fixed per-trade size plus a stop loss before the first copy fires. The order matters: people who configure sizing after their first few trades almost always size up after a win, which is the single most reliable way to lose the account.
Before you copy anyone
- Fund a dedicated wallet. Not your main holdings. An amount whose total loss changes nothing about your month.
- Decide the per-trade size in advance, as a number. If the wallet holds 2 SOL and you want to survive twenty losers, the size is 0.1 SOL, and it stays 0.1 SOL after a win.
- Set a stop loss and a take profit. They fire on your position regardless of what the copied trader does.
- Set a liquidity floor. Tokens below it are skipped. This one filter removes most of the trades you would later regret.
- Cap concurrent positions. Five open at once is a portfolio; forty is an accident.
Choosing the first trader
Rank on realised profit over a period long enough to include a bad month, not on a single trade or a 24-hour window. Then look past the number at how they trade: how many trades a day, what size tokens, how long they hold. A trader making four trades a day in tokens with real liquidity is copyable. A trader making sixty trades a day in tokens minutes old is generating fees for you and very little else.
The first week
- Copy one trader, not five. Five correlated traders is one oversized position with extra fees.
- Do not change size mid-week. You are measuring, and changing the size changes what you are measuring.
- Record your fills, not theirs. The gap between the two is your real cost of copying.
- Expect failed transactions. On a fast-moving token some copies will not land, and that is the system refusing a bad price rather than malfunctioning.
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