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Solana Copy Trading: Who to Copy Matters More Than Which Bot
How Solana copy trading works, why the wallet list decides the result more than the bot does, and how to choose and manage the wallets you copy.
By @ceosvex5 min read
Search for Solana copy trading and you get bot comparisons. Speed tests, fee tables, feature lists.
Those matter a little. The wallet list matters a lot. Give a great bot a bad wallet and it will lose your money quickly and reliably. Give an average bot a good wallet and you have a chance.
This guide explains how copy trading on Solana works, what the bots really decide, and how to choose who to copy.
Choosing who to follow comes before choosing a tool
- Decide whoWallets to copy and devs to snipe. This is where a wallet finder such as Hood Hunt sits.
- ExecuteYour own bot or terminal: Axiom, GMGN, Trojan, Padre, Bloom or Blizz.
- ReviewYour own log. Keep what paid after costs, cut the rest.
How Sol copy trading works
You give a bot a target wallet. When the target buys a token, the bot buys it for you. When the target sells, the bot can sell too.
The settings look alike across tools. Going by each tool's own docs:
- Blizz uses copy orders. Each order follows one target wallet with one of your wallets. Buys use your fixed Buy Amount whatever the target spent, and sells follow the target's sells by share when that option is on.
- Trojan lets you enter a target address, size buys as a percentage of the target's buy or a fixed SOL amount, mirror sells or use auto sell, and filter by market cap and liquidity.
- Bloom takes wallet addresses in its Telegram bot, one per line for several at once, with exact, percentage or fixed buy modes, a follow sells switch and token filters.
- GMGN documents an automatic copy wallet function in its Solana Telegram bot.
So the tools agree on the shape: target, size, sell rule, filters. Which means the bot is mostly a set of dials. The input is the wallet.
What the bot decides
Entry delay. How long between the target's buy and yours. Better infrastructure, a shorter gap.
Costs. The platform fee, plus the priority fee and tip you set.
Protection. Filters, limits and pauses that stop a bad copy before it happens.
These shift your result by some margin on every trade. They cannot turn a losing wallet into a winning one.
What the wallet decides
Everything else.
Whether the trades win at all. Obvious, and still the thing most people check least.
Whether there is room for a second buyer. A wallet that holds for seconds leaves nothing for a copier. A wallet that holds for minutes or hours does.
Whether its buys move the price. If the target's own buy pushes the token up hard, you enter at the top of that push.
Whether it wants you there. Some wallets are set up to be copied. They buy, the copiers pile in, they sell into the copiers. Dev linked wallets and bundles do this by design.
Same copy test, 30 wallets: from +1% to +150% per token
| Wallet | Verdict | Copy, average per token | Copies closed in profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| EX2L…aZs8 | Watch | +1% | 32% |
| B3ng…T5VF | Watch | +3% | 27% |
| EXfF…46ou | Watch | +5% | 27% |
| 9NJi…gKLr | Watch | +6% | 36% |
| 4d14…7zw1 | Watch | +13% | 32% |
| 63Qu…KKH5 | Watch | +13% | 37% |
| HSeC…1ENB | Watch | +15% | 38% |
| AXmM…PJwd | Watch | +16% | 44% |
| 824R…Vd6A | Copy | +20% | 59% |
| ENGk…w8CT | Watch | +20% | 44% |
| 7dEW…ttBa | Watch | +23% | 46% |
| 2dV2…C2Vb | Copy | +25% | 56% |
| E2kn…4o9A | Watch | +26% | 47% |
| HVba…Gxrx | Watch | +26% | 44% |
| Gmjv…LXyK | Copy | +30% | 67% |
| Dvbv…UaRv | Watch | +40% | 38% |
| GDKS…ny1Z | Watch | +42% | 36% |
| 5m1G…kW7a | Copy | +47% | 51% |
| FdBB…pzxZ | Copy | +50% | 60% |
| BDUV…cbKG | Copy | +50% | 50% |
| 2N3F…Poi5 | Copy | +52% | 50% |
| CQXW…ebET | Watch | +52% | 48% |
| GRES…xzee | Watch | +59% | 46% |
| BHkq…jbv1 | Watch | +69% | 27% |
| CrKw…Y7fD | Copy | +71% | 61% |
| HzeF…kRq7 | Copy | +88% | 68% |
| HuMp…kgid | Watch | +109% | 47% |
| HZtb…SB72 | Copy | +125% | 72% |
| 7Pgq…urSg | Copy | +133% | 65% |
| HhYG…gKR3 | Copy | +150% | 60% |
How to choose who to copy
Run every candidate through this list.
- Many wins, not one. Profit spread over many trades.
- Hold time you can follow. Longer than your entry delay by a wide margin.
- Reasonable size. Buys that do not shove the price.
- Active this week. Recent trades, recent wins.
- Not the team. No deployer funding, no launch block buys.
- Passes the copy test. Would a buyer one moment later, after costs, have made money? This is the one that counts. See Is Copy Trading Profitable? for how to test it.
The full manual method for building a candidate list is in How to Find Profitable Sol Wallets to Copy Trade.
How many wallets to copy
Fewer than you think.
Five to ten good wallets beat fifty average ones. Every extra wallet adds trades, and every trade pays fees. Wallets also overlap: three of them buy the same token and you now hold three times your intended size. If your bot has a duplicate buy filter, turn it on. Trojan's docs list one, for example.
Settings that protect you
- Fixed buy amount. Not a percentage of a whale's buy.
- Max spend per token and a cap on buys per target.
- Market cap and liquidity filters. Skip tokens too small to exit.
- An exit rule of your own. Follow sells is useful, but add a stop loss or take profit in case the target holds to zero.
- A separate wallet holding only your copy trading budget.
Where Hood Hunt fits
Hood Hunt handles the "who" and leaves the "how" to your bot. It gives you profitable Sol wallets to copy and devs worth sniping. It does not trade and never connects to your wallet.
Every wallet gets a verdict: 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. Point 6 on the list above, already run.
The data covers the last 30 days and is rebuilt every hour. There is a Hot view for wallets earning the most right now, and 120 filters to fit the list to your style. The wallet score was tested on a week it had not seen: of the top wallets by score, 73% closed the next 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% |
Take the wallets, paste them into Axiom, GMGN, Trojan, Padre, Bloom or Blizz, and trade there. Plans are 1.5 SOL for a week, 2.5 SOL for a month or 5 SOL for three months, all with the same features. See pricing.
Which bot, then?
Pick the one you find easy to control, with the filters and limits listed above. If you are choosing between the two most searched names, we compare them in GMGN vs Axiom.
The short version
In Solana copy trading the bot is the hands and the wallet is the brain. Spend an hour choosing the bot and the rest of your time choosing, testing and refreshing the wallets.
Past results are not a promise of future ones. Memecoins are high risk, and you can lose everything you put in.