Your first trade

Updated 2026-09-29

In short

Paste any contract address to get a token card with price, liquidity, holders, tax, risk flags and the Judge's verdict, then tap a buy button. Buy amounts, slippage and anti-MEV live in ⚙ Trade settings.

2.1 Paste a contract → token card

Send any token contract address as a plain message (no other words in the message). A link that contains the token's contract address (for example a GMGN or pump.fun token page) also works; DexScreener links usually contain the pool address instead, so paste the contract.

Solana addresses are recognised by format. For 0x… addresses the bot checks BSC, Arc, Robinhood Chain and Base; if the token exists on several chains with similar liquidity it asks "This address exists on several chains — pick one:".
Shared links t.me/Houndsbot?start=<contract> open the token card directly.

The token card shows (items the bot can't get are shown as "—" or left out):

Header — symbol, name, chain, launchpad, and stage (curve xx% = still on the bonding curve with progress, or on DEX).
💰 MC · price · pool — market cap, price, pool liquidity.
📈 5m · 1h · vol/1h · age — price change, 1-hour volume, token age.
🛡 — no mint / mintable, no freeze / freezable, LP burned / not burned, buy / sell tax (where available).
👥 top10 · dev · bundled · holders — holder concentration.
💀 Death risk: low / medium / high (≈x% chance to zero within 10 min, calibrated) — a historical model estimate, not a guarantee.
📡 Our signal: … · pushed … · since push … — shown if we pushed this token as a signal.
💼 Wallet N (in use): balance — the wallet that will be used for this chain.
Links: DexScreener, GMGN (plus Solscan / Pump / BscScan where relevant), and a share link that carries your invite code.

Buttons on the card:

Button	Meaning
🔄 Refresh · 📊 Chart	Redraw the card with fresh data · open the DexScreener chart.
SOL use: 1 2 (or BSC use:)	Only if you have several wallets of that family: pick which one trades. This is a global choice for that family, not just this card.
🟢 Buy 0.2 SOL (×3)	One-tap buy with your preset amounts.
✏️ Custom amount	Send any amount within 2 minutes.
📌 Limit buy · 📌 My orders	Section 5.
🛡 Anti-MEV: on · Slippage 30%	Toggle anti-MEV (this is your global setting) · open trade settings.
🎯 Sell strategy · 📒 Positions · 🏠 Home	Navigation.

2.2 Buy

Tap 🟢 Buy … or ✏️ Custom amount. Per-trade maximums (defaults): 10 SOL, 10 BNB, 200 USDC on ARC, 1 ETH on RBH. The Base maximum is shown in the bot's prompt. The signing service also enforces per-trade and daily caps.
Already holding this token? For button / custom-amount buys the bot first asks: "⚠️ You already hold $SYM (…, N open position(s), X in, now ±y%) — Buy Z more?" Tap ✅ Confirm buy Z or Cancel. This protects you from double-tapping or buying the same coin from two signal cards.
The 1% fee is taken from the buy amount: buying 1 SOL swaps 0.99 SOL and charges 0.01 SOL. Network fees are extra.
Arc, Robinhood Chain and Base buys run a contract safety check first (a simulated $20 buy and full sell). Honeypots, pools with no liquidity and round-trip losses above 30% are refused with nothing charged (section 13).

2.3 What the order messages mean

A live buy posts "⏳ Placing buy of X (on-chain confirmation usually 5–30 s)…" and then edits that same message as it progresses:

Message	Meaning
✍️ buy: signed, sending…	Your transaction is signed.
📡 buy: sent (…), waiting to land…	Broadcast. Shows the fee used (anti-MEV tip + priority fee on SOL, gas on EVM).
⏳ buy: waiting to land, Ns (signature #n, …; the same tx is re-sent, it cannot double-fill)…	Still waiting; the identical transaction is re-sent.
⛽ buy: not landed after Ns, re-signed with a higher fee (#n, …; at most one of them can fill)…	Fee raised; only one version can ever fill.

On Arc / RBH you may also see "🛡 Running the contract safety check…", and when anti-MEV is on for Arc / RBH / Base: "⚠️ … has no private route yet — this order goes through public nodes."

When the buy fills you receive a 📒 Position card (section 3). While an order is still unresolved, another buy (or sell) of the same token is refused with "⏳ This token still has an unfinished order — please wait for its result." If anything goes wrong you get a plain-language message; see section 14.

2.4 Trade settings

⚙ Trade settings (or /settings):

Button	What it does	Default
✏️ SOL buy amounts (one per chain)	Set the amounts on your buy buttons for that chain; send numbers separated by spaces within 2 minutes. Up to 6 amounts, three per row on the card.	SOL 0.2 / 0.5 / 1 · BSC 0.2 / 0.5 / 1 · ARC 50 / 100 / 200 USDC · RBH 0.01 / 0.03 / 0.1 ETH (Base: shown in the bot)
Slippage 10% / 20% / 30% / 50%	Maximum price move you accept; beyond it the trade reverts.	30%
🛡 Anti-MEV: on / off	Private routing where available (section 13).	on
🔐 Trade PIN: …	Set / change / reset your PIN (10.5).	not set
🎯 Sell strategy	Default strategies for new positions (section 4).	Double-out at 2x

Try it in the bot while you read.

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