1. Choose activity worth studying
A wallet address shows public on-chain activity, not a complete investment record. Selection should consider enough history, realized outcomes, drawdowns, trade concentration, and whether the wallet behavior is repeatable at your intended size.
- Use a public Solana address
- Inspect more than a recent winning trade
- Treat identity and intent as unknown
2. Configure your copy rules
Rules define the boundary between observed activity and a hypothetical action. A useful configuration records position size, allowed venue, token constraints, account limits, and whether the decision is only for paper review.
- Choose a size you can afford to lose
- Separate buy and sell behavior
- Account for fees and slippage
- Keep live execution disabled while testing
3. Test in paper mode
Paper mode lets you evaluate the decision process without sending a live transaction. Results remain hypothetical. Market movement, latency, liquidity, network conditions, and venue behavior can make live outcomes materially different.
The production automated trading engine is still gated. PumpCopy does not currently represent paper decisions as executed trades.
4. Review the decision receipt
A clear receipt should keep the source wallet activity, matched rules, selected mode, and cost assumptions together. That makes a skipped decision as understandable as one that would buy or sell in paper mode.
- Source activity
- Rule evaluation
- Paper decision
- Cost assumptions
What this workflow cannot promise
Copying cannot guarantee the source wallet's entry price, timing, return, or ability to exit. A public wallet can change behavior, use other wallets, hedge elsewhere, or make trades that are unsuitable for your account.