Auto-trading and backtest (Pro+)

Updated 2026-09-29

In short

Pro+ auto-trades the signal sources you choose (launchpad signals, our public channel, your own channels) with your own amount, budget and filters; external calls pass extra safety checks. Backtest your rules on up to 90 days first.

7.1 Turning it on

🤖 Auto-trade Pro+ (or /auto).
Tap ▶️ Enable auto-trading. The bot checks each selected chain for a wallet and enough balance (per-trade amount plus a small network reserve). Chains that aren't ready are listed with 🔐 Create wallet / 💰 Deposit buttons.
Read "⚠️ Before enabling" and tap I understand the risk, enable. Only the ready chains are enabled.
⏸ Pause auto-trading stops it any time. Open positions keep their sell strategies.

7.2 Settings

Setting	Button	Default	Notes
Signal sources	Launchpad signals · Public channel · Custom channels	launchpad signals only	Multi-select. Public-channel and custom-channel calls get extra safety checks (7.3). Custom channels are the ones you added under 📡 Signal settings.
Chains / tiers	chain buttons · S (ring) · A (silent)	follow your signal settings	Tapping narrows the selection; ↩️ Follow my signal settings (chains + levels) restores following.
Amount per trade	✏️ Per-trade amount	0.1 SOL · 0.05 BNB · 20 USDC · 0.005 ETH (RBH)	Send numbers in the chain order the prompt shows; chains you leave out stay unchanged; each ≤ the chain's max.
24 h budget	✏️ 24 h budget	1 SOL · 0.5 BNB · 200 USDC · 0.05 ETH (RBH)	Per chain, counts auto-buys opened in the last 24 h.
Max open positions	✏️ Max open positions	3	1–20, counted across all chains.
Filters	✏️ Filters	progress none · top10 none · death risk ≤ 50%	Send three % values: `min curve progress · max top10 holding · max death risk`, `0` = no limit, e.g. `30 40 50`.
Sell strategy	🎯 Sell strategy	your defaults	Plus an automatic −50% stop loss if you have none.

Base defaults are set by the platform and shown on the page.

7.3 Rules you should know

Auto-trading acts on the sources you ticked (launchpad signals by default; public channel and custom channels are optional), and only if the signal is at most 60 seconds old. It does not need signal push to be on. Copy-trading alerts are handled by 👣 Copy, not here.
Calls from the public channel or your custom channels only buy if every check passes: the Judge gives a verdict that isn't "no chance"; the 1-hour death risk is at or below your death-risk cap; liquidity is at least $5,000; buy and sell tax are at most 10% (on BSC, no buy if the tax can't be read); and on Solana the mint and freeze authority are renounced. If a check can't be read, it doesn't buy. At most 5 external auto-buys per day. Tiers and the progress filter don't apply to external calls.
One auto-buy per token per user. It won't buy if the price is already more than 30% above the push price.
Fairness: auto-traders are shuffled randomly for every signal, and each signal has a total auto-trade capacity. When it is full you get "this signal's auto-trade capacity … is full — no buy this time".
Each buy is announced: "🤖 Auto-trade: signal … → buy X (live)". Manual buys and all sells are processed before auto-buys.
If a chain runs out of funds, you get "🤖 … had a signal but no auto-buy" (at most every 6 hours) with deposit instructions.
In replays most rules averaged negative per trade after costs. Auto-trading does not guarantee profit — use small amounts.

7.4 Strategy backtest

🧪 Strategy backtest (auto-trade page or /backtest) replays the signals we have pushed with your rules — the same filters as auto-trading and the same sell engine as your positions, including the 1% fee, about 1.5% slippage and network costs.

Pick a source: Curve signals (on-chain trade prices) or Public signals (5-second snapshots; tier and progress filters don't apply).
30 days / 90 days and the shorter windows run your current auto-trade settings. Public signals go back to June 2026; launchpad signals start from 24 Sep 2026 and grow every day. The result page shows exactly which dates the data covers; Hold 1 h / 6 h / 24 h sets the maximum hold (default 6 h).
✍️ One-sentence backtest: describe rules, e.g. sol S tier 0.2 sol each, double-out, stop loss 50%, last 30 days. The bot shows how it understood you → ▶️ Run backtest or ✍️ Describe again. Anything you don't mention uses your current settings; if you mention sell rules, only those are used. (Chain words understood: SOL, BSC, ARC.)
The result shows the funnel (signals → buys and why others were skipped) and per chain: trades, winners, total and return, median and mean trade, share of profit from the best 1 and top 5 trades, longest losing streak, max drawdown, best / worst trade. Check the median and top-5 share, not just the average. Past replay is not future performance. One backtest per 20 seconds.

Try it in the bot while you read.

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