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How to Find Profitable Sol Wallets to Copy Trade
A step by step method for finding profitable Solana wallets, the checks that separate wallets worth copying from wallets that only look rich, and a faster way to get the list.
By @ceosvex5 min read
Finding profitable Sol wallets is easy. Every token page has a list of them. Finding wallets to copy trade is a different job, because a wallet can be deep in profit and still lose money for everyone who follows it.
This guide covers how to find profitable Solana wallets by hand, the five checks that matter before you copy one, and how to skip most of the work.
Profitable and copyable are not the same thing
A wallet's profit tells you what it earned. It says nothing about what you would earn buying after it.
You always buy later than the wallet you copy. Your bot has to see the trade, build its own, and land it. By then the price has moved. Then you pay a bot fee, a priority fee and a tip on the way in, and again on the way out.
On a slow, liquid token that gap is small. On a fresh memecoin with thin liquidity, it can be the whole trade. So the question to ask of any wallet is not "is it profitable". It is "would a copy of it be profitable". We go deeper on that in Is Copy Trading Profitable?.
In 10 of these 12 Copy wallets, the copy wins less often than the wallet
| Wallet | Own win rate | Copies closed in profit | Copy, average per token |
|---|---|---|---|
| FdBB…pzxZ | 78% | 60% | +50% |
| HZtb…SB72 | 52% | 72% | +125% |
| 5m1G…kW7a | 79% | 51% | +47% |
| 7Pgq…urSg | 68% | 65% | +133% |
| 2dV2…C2Vb | 79% | 56% | +25% |
| Gmjv…LXyK | 72% | 67% | +30% |
| HzeF…kRq7 | 62% | 68% | +88% |
| CrKw…Y7fD | 79% | 61% | +71% |
| HhYG…gKR3 | 65% | 60% | +150% |
| 824R…Vd6A | 76% | 59% | +20% |
| 2N3F…Poi5 | 58% | 50% | +52% |
| BDUV…cbKG | 52% | 50% | +50% |
The manual way to find profitable Solana wallets
You need a block explorer, a token terminal with a top traders list, and a spreadsheet.
- Start from winners. Pick five to ten tokens from the last two weeks that held a real market cap for hours, not minutes.
- Pull the top traders on each. Most terminals list the wallets that made the most on a token. Copy the top 20 to 30 from each into your sheet.
- Look for repeats. A wallet that appears on one list got lucky or got information once. A wallet on three or four lists is doing something on purpose.
- Open each repeat wallet. Go through its recent trades. Note how many tokens it traded, how many closed green, its usual size and how long it holds.
- Run the five checks below. Most wallets fail at least one.
- Add the survivors to your bot with small size and watch for a week before you raise it.
Budget an evening for this. Then budget another one next week, because the list ages fast.
The manual method works. It is the repeating that costs you
By hand
- Pick tokens that ran
- Pull their top traders
- Find the wallets that repeat
- Read each wallet's history
- Test what a copy would have earned
- Do it all again next week
From a tested list
- Open the wallets marked Copy
- Filter to how you trade
- Paste them into your own bot
Five checks before you copy a wallet
1. Does it win often, or did it win once? Sort the wallet's trades by profit. If one trade is most of the total, you are looking at a lottery ticket. You want many medium wins.
2. How long does it hold? A wallet that buys and sells inside a few seconds cannot be copied. Your buy lands as it exits. Look for hold times long enough that a late entry still has room.
3. How big is it compared with the pool? If the wallet's own buy moves the price a lot, your entry is far worse than its entry. Small buys into deep pools copy well. Large buys into new pools do not.
4. Is it still active and still winning? Check the last seven days on their own. A wallet that was great three weeks ago and flat since is a history lesson.
5. Who is it? Check where the wallet got its first SOL and whether it buys in the same block a token launches. Wallets tied to the deployer, or part of a bundle, are early because they are the team. Their plan is to sell into buyers like you. Our guide to insider wallets covers how to spot them.
Where the manual method breaks
It only sees what you looked at. Ten tokens is a tiny sample. The best wallets for your style may never have touched them.
Check 3 is close to impossible by hand. To know what a copy would have earned, you need the price one moment after each of the wallet's buys, minus real costs, across dozens of trades. Nobody does that in a spreadsheet. People skip it, and it is the check that matters most. Why the wallet's own number misleads is covered in How to Check Solana Wallet PnL.
It goes stale. Wallets cool off, change style, or get rotated. A hand built list is out of date in days.
Survivorship bias. Starting from winning tokens only shows you wallets at their best. You never see the same wallet's twenty losers unless you dig for them.
The faster way
Hood Hunt does this work for you and gives you the result: profitable Sol wallets to copy and devs worth sniping. It does not trade and it never connects to your wallet. You take the list to your own bot.
A verdict on every wallet. Copy, Watch, Check or Skip. The verdict comes from a copy test: what you would have earned buying one second after that wallet, after fees, tips and entry delay. That is check 3, done for every trade.
164 of 10,952 wallets pass all 13 default checks
| Check | Wallets left |
|---|---|
| All wallets | 10,952 |
| Does not copy another wallet | 5,640 |
| 15+ tokens | 5,316 |
| Snipes 30% at most | 5,276 |
| Own tokens 5% at most | 5,124 |
| In profit on 50%+ of tokens | 1,104 |
| Profit factor 1.5x+ | 921 |
| Holds 60+ seconds | 612 |
| Flips 5% at most | 582 |
| Up to 30 tokens a day | 556 |
| Traded in the last 3 days | 387 |
| 7-day PnL in profit | 295 |
| Copy one second later in profit | 213 |
| Balance 1+ SOL | 164 |
Fresh data. The last 30 days, rebuilt every hour. A Hot view shows the wallets earning the most right now.
120 filters. Narrow the list to how you trade: hold time, size, win rate and more.
A score that was tested. The wallet score was checked on a week it had never seen. Wallets were picked on 23 Oct 2026 and checked on 30 Oct 2026. Of the top wallets by score, 73% closed those seven days in profit, against 52% for all wallets.
73% of the top wallets by score closed the next week in profit, against 52% of all wallets
| Group | Closed the next 7 days in profit |
|---|---|
| Top 200 by score | 73% |
| All wallets | 52% |
Plans start at 1.5 SOL for a week. See pricing.
What to do with the list
- Keep the wallets marked Copy.
- Filter to hold times and sizes your bot and your balance can follow.
- Paste them into the bot you already use: Axiom, GMGN, Trojan, Padre, Bloom or Blizz.
- Start with small size and a hard limit on spend per trade.
- Recheck weekly. Drop wallets that fall out of Copy.
The short version
Profitable Solana wallets are everywhere. Wallets to copy trade are rare, because the copy pays worse prices and extra costs. Test the copy, not the wallet. Do it by hand for a few wallets, or start from a list where every wallet has already been through that test.
Past results are not a promise of future ones. Memecoins are high risk, and you can lose everything you put in.