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Auto-trading and backtests

In short

Signal auto-trade buys signals from the sources, chains and tiers you choose, with your own per-buy amount, 24h budget and filters, then sells by your sell rules. Backtest your buy and sell rules on up to 90 days of past signals first.

Auto-trading and backtests — Screenshot of the current website

This section covers buying automatically the moment a signal arrives, and replaying your rules on past signals first.

7.1 Open the auto-trading page

Automate → Copy in the top bar. The page has three tabs: Signal auto-trade · Wallet copy · Order log. This section covers Signal auto-trade; wallet copy is in section 8. You need to be logged in and have a wallet, and any of your wallets must have a balance above 0.

7.2 Settings

Block	Setting	What it does
Which signals to buy	Sources	Hounds signals · Public channel · Custom channels; pick at least one. Only Hounds signals by default. Custom channels are the channels you added under signal push.
	Chains and tiers	Turn on "Follow my signal push settings" to use your push settings as the scope; turn it off to choose Chains and Signal tiers (Tier S / Tier A) yourself.
	Rules in this scope	A read-only list of the rules in scope with their "7d 2x rate · samples" history. Rules belong to Hounds signals only.
How much to buy	Per buy / 24h budget (one row per chain)	Per buy cannot exceed the chain's per-trade limit; the budget cannot be below the per-buy amount.
	Max open positions	A whole number, 1–20, across all chains.
Filters	Curve progress at least · Top 10 holding at most · Dead-coin risk at most	Blank = no limit.
Selling	—	Positions opened here are sold by your "sell rules". Tap Edit sell rules to change them (section 4).

Defaults (as shown on the page): per buy SOL 0.1 · BSC 0.05 BNB · ARC 20 USDC · RBH 0.005 ETH; 24h budget SOL 10 · BSC 5 BNB · ARC 800 USDC · RBH 0.5 ETH · Base 0.5 ETH; max open positions 3; dead-coin risk at most 50%, no limit on progress or top 10. Base's per-buy amount is as shown on the page.

Tap Save settings when you are done (the right side shows "Unsaved changes", and you can tap Discard).

7.3 Turn it on and off

Status on the right shows Running / Off, plus Last 24 hours figures for Auto buys, Open and PnL.
Tap Turn on auto-trade → read the warning (once on, signals inside your scope are bought automatically with funds from your wallet; trades can lose money), check the sources, scope, amount / budget, position limit and selling → Turn on. Turning it on uses your saved settings.
To turn it off: Turn off auto-trade → Turn off. New signals are no longer bought automatically, and the sell rules of existing positions keep running.

Orders from auto-trading and copy trading are in the Order log tab: choose Auto and copy / All orders / Failed only.

7.4 AI picks follow

At the top of the auto-trading page is the "AI picks follow" template card (optional; it only applies if you tap it yourself). Its status shows In use or "Current: custom":

Follows AI pick signals only, sells everything at 2x, and sells after 10 minutes if it never reached 2x; known scam patterns are skipped automatically.

Tap Use it → check the details in "Use AI picks follow". Using it changes SOL only: on SOL, auto-buy follows AI pick signals only (channel / custom-source SOL signals are no longer auto-bought), 0.3 SOL per trade; SOL positions opened by auto-buy sell everything at 2x, and sell everything 10 minutes after buying if they never reached 2x, with no stop-loss. Other chains, manual buys, budget and other settings stay as they are.
Using it only changes settings. If auto-trade is off, you still need to tap Turn on auto-trade.
Keep Hounds signals in the sources, or AI pick signals will not be auto-bought.
Changing the SOL amount or removing SOL turns it into "custom". Tap Turn off AI picks follow → Turn off: SOL goes back to your own tiers and sell rules, and the per-trade amount stays at 0.3 SOL; you can change it on this page.
This is a way to lose less, not a guarantee of profit. In the backtest period roughly half of the tokens never reached 2x and were sold at a loss at the 10-minute mark.

7.5 Rules to know

A signal must be fresh (within 60 seconds of the push) to be auto-bought. Telegram signal pushes do not need to be on.
The same token is usually auto-bought only once; if the last attempt did not buy, a later signal can trigger it again after a short while.
Signals from the public channel and custom channels must also pass an extra set of safety checks, all of them, to be bought: the Verdict has made a call and it is not the lowest level; dead-coin risk is not above your limit; liquidity is at least $5,000; buy tax and sell tax are both at most 10% (on BSC, no buy if the sell tax cannot be read); tokens on Solana must have mint and freeze authority renounced. External signals are auto-bought at most 5 times in any rolling 24 hours.
When the wallet balance cannot cover one buy, or open positions reach the limit, auto-buy pauses and the bell shows "Auto-buy paused" with the reason. It resumes after you top up or a position is sold.
If auto-trading settings were changed on a new device, for about 24 hours auto-buy from channel / custom sources only buys tokens the platform pushed. The same happens after signing out of all devices; save your auto-trading settings again to restore it.
Auto-trading does not guarantee profit. Use small amounts.

7.6 Strategy backtest

Automate → Backtest in the top bar: replay past signals with your own buy and sell rules. You need to be logged in.

Parameters on the left (each block expands):

Block	Settings
Signals	Source: Hounds signals / Public channel; Chains, Signal tiers (S / A / B; none selected = those in your auto-trade settings); Rules (Choose → only the selected rules are replayed; none selected = all rules). Public-channel signals have no tiers or rules.
Time range	Look back: 1 / 3 / 7 / 30 / 90 days, or enter 1–90, 7 days by default; Max hold: 1 / 6 / 24 hours, or enter 0.25–24 hours, 6 hours by default. A position still open at the limit is settled at the market price at that moment.
Buying	Per chain: Per buy, 24h budget, Max open positions (starting values are your auto-trade settings); Entry timing: Wait after the push 0–1800 seconds, Skip if already up more than, Skip if already down more than.
Filters	Curve progress at least, Top 10 holding at most, Dead-coin risk at most; Custom conditions (all must hold to buy, up to 20; if a signal lacks the data: Do not buy or Ignore the condition).
Selling	My sell rules · Preset · max upside · Preset · steady · Custom (take cost back, take profit in steps, trailing exit, stop loss, time exit). Presets cover SOL and BSC only. With no sell rule at all, positions are held to the max-hold limit.
Cost assumptions	Fee per side, Slippage per side, Network fee per tx. Blank = the server defaults: 1% fee on each buy and sell; slippage per side 1.5% on SOL and BSC, 1% on ARC; network fee per tx SOL 0.0003, BSC 0.0002 BNB, ARC 0. The values actually used are listed with the result.

Tap Run backtest. Backtests on the right lists your jobs (Queued / Running / Done / Failed / Not accepted); the server usually takes 5–30 seconds. Tap a job to see its Result:

Key numbers: Trades, Win rate, Total PnL, Max drawdown, Median per trade, Best / worst, Longest losing run, Top trade’s share of gains.
The Cumulative PnL curve, the Trades list, Why signals were not bought ("n signals → m trades" and the count for each reason), and Parameters used.
How the page computes it: each trade replays the prices after the signal's push price and deducts the fee, slippage and network-fee assumptions; past results say nothing certain about the future. Look at the median and the top trade's share too, not just the total.
Each account can have only one backtest queued or running at a time; submitting too often tells you to try again in a minute (at most 4 per minute).

Try it on the workbench while you read.

Open the workbench