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Where an automatic bot fits

Manual, assisted and automatic trading compared, what a bot does well and badly, and where Trenchpilot sits, with no promises.

On this page
  1. What automatic trading is good at
  2. What it is bad at
  3. Where Trenchpilot fits
  4. Quiz

Every platform in this track can do some of your trading for you. The real question is how much you hand over. There are three levels.

  1. Manual. You find the coin, check it and press buy and sell yourself. Every terminal, bot and app does this.
  2. Assisted. You press buy, and the app handles the exit with a limit order or an automatic take-profit or stop-loss. Copy trading sits here too: the app buys when a wallet you picked buys. Axiom, GMGN, Trojan and most others offer these tools.
  3. Automatic. A bot finds coins, checks them, and buys and sells by rules you set, without you pressing anything. Trenchpilot works this way.

What automatic trading is good at

A bot does not sleep, does not get bored and does not hesitate at a stop-loss. It runs the same checks on every coin, which a tired person at 3am will not. And it keeps a record of everything, so you can see what your rules really did.

What it is bad at

A bot only sees what its rules can measure. It cannot tell that a meme is spreading on TikTok, or that a dev's post feels off. It will buy every coin that passes its rules, losers included. Rules that worked last month can stop working when the market changes, and someone has to notice.

There is also trust. A bot that trades while you sleep has to be able to sign trades from the wallet it uses. That is true of Telegram bots, of a terminal's automatic sells and of Trenchpilot. Fund any of them only with money you can afford to lose.

Example

One coin, two exits

You buy 0.5 SOL of a coin. It runs up 80%, then crashes to 90% below your entry. Your plan was to sell at +50%.

  1. Step 1: By hand: at +50% you decide to wait for more. At +80% you feel sure. On the way down you hope it comes back. You sell at -90% and lose about 0.45 SOL.
  2. Step 2: With an automatic take-profit at +50%: it sells as the price passes +50%, and you keep about 0.23 SOL of profit after a 1% fee each way and the network costs. The pool's own fee takes a little more.
  3. Step 3: Now flip it. On the next coin the same rule sells at +50%, and the coin goes on to +500%. You miss most of the move.
  4. Step 4: Rules protect you from your worst moments and cost you some of your best. Over many trades, avoiding the big losses is what disciplined traders care about most.

Where Trenchpilot fits

Trenchpilot is an automatic bot for Solana memecoins launched on pump.fun, both on the launch curve and after they move to PumpSwap. You pick a strategy and set the size of each trade, take profit, trailing stop, stop loss, market cap range and a daily loss limit, or keep the defaults. It checks each coin before buying and skips the ones that fail, and your dashboard shows what it skipped and why. How much a check can tell depends on the strategy. Launch snipe buys brand-new coins in their first minutes, before there is a chart, when almost nothing can be checked yet. It is the highest-risk strategy on the platform, for the same reasons the first minutes are the riskiest time for anyone to buy.

The fee is 1% on each buy and each sell, about the same as most terminals and bots, plus roughly 0.002 SOL a side for the network fee and a tip, which do not go to Trenchpilot. There is no subscription. Your bot trades the SOL in your trading wallet, and a new bot starts on real money once you confirm. To watch how a strategy trades first, start it in paper mode instead, with no SOL at stake and no need to fund the wallet yet. To take money out, you withdraw to the address you registered and approve it in Phantom.

How sniping works and why snipers matter

Doing it yourself is a good choice too, especially while you are learning. Many traders mix the two: they trade by hand on a terminal when they have time, and let rules handle the hours they do not.

Bot or do it yourself: the full comparison

Check what you learned

0 of 4 answered

  1. Question 1A limit order and an automatic stop-loss in a terminal are examples of what?
  2. Question 2What can an automatic bot not do well?
  3. Question 3TrickyA bot followed its rules perfectly for a month and lost money. What is the most likely reason?
  4. Question 4What does Trenchpilot charge?

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This guide is for learning. It is not financial advice. Most memecoins go to zero and most people who trade them lose money. Only ever trade what you can afford to lose.