🔝Maximizing your gains

Noticing unexpected drops in your wallet balance? Wondering why your PnL isn’t matching what you expect? Here’s a full checklist of things to review, tweak, and understand to make sure you’re getting

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Managing Risk and Preserving Gains

You can gain 80% in a day, or lose 80% in a day. If the wallet you're following enters a losing streak, you can reduce your exposure and preserve capital by setting up the right filters and controls.

Use the following in order of importance:

1. Set Token Filters

   • Min Token Age: Set to > 2 hours (ideally 8 hours)

   • Min Market Cap: > $800k (ideally > $2 million)

   • Jupiter Organic Score: Always set to > 55

   • These help avoid high-volatility or low-liquidity tokens that can nuke quickly.

2. Use Proper Ratio Settings

   • If the wallet you're copying loses 5%, but you lose 30%, your copy ratio is incorrect.

   • Run /ratio-help to learn how to calculate it correctly.

   • Ensure your copy trade max size and ratio align with the wallet's typical trade sizes.

3. Set a Stop Loss

   • Configure your stop loss in /settings_dlmm to limit downside risk on any single position.

   • This helps automate exits on failed tokens and protect against large drops.

4. Set a Take Profit Percentage — Auto closes a position when it reaches a set % profit

5. Enable SOL-Only Mode

   • This setting avoids risky tokens and only copies SOL-based trades.

   • Reduces chances of being stuck in illiquid or volatile tokens.

6. Enable Single Pool Per Token

   • Prevents the bot from opening multiple positions in the same token.

   • On a bad trade, you'll take one hit instead of several.

7. Limit Trade Frequency

   • Cap your positions to 1 every 6 hours if needed.

   • This makes it easier to track which trades are affecting your balance and simplifies reviewing DMs.

Treat copy trading as a marathon — not a sprint.

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1. LPAgent and Metlex Accuracy

• LPAgent stats may not always reflect reality. See: https://discord.com/channels/687032564829126657/1362307923069636788/1389525984612712559

• Use the Metlex links from the bot's DMs to analyze trade results — they’re often more accurate.

• On LPAgent, click the chart icon for the trade, switch to 1-minute view, and scroll to the time of your exit. Look for sudden token price movements that may have impacted your exit result.

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2. Avoid Following Over-Copied or Risky Wallets

Avoid wallets that:

• Focus on token-only or mixed token/SOL plays

• Trade low market cap tokens (< $2M)

• Are followed by too many users (use /get_pnl to check)

These wallets often have worse execution for copiers due to slippage on both entry and exit.

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3. Recover Lost or Idle SOL

Visit the farming app and click on Burnlify (bottom left). Use both flows to:

• Burn old tokens

• Close empty accounts This helps free up locked SOL and improve your wallet’s real balance.

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4. Check and Adjust Your Ratios

If your results are worse than the wallet you're following, recheck your copy ratio:

• They may have lost 50% on a trade, but only risked 5% of their capital

• If you cap your size and skip their bigger trades, you’ll miss the winning ones and absorb all the bad ones

• Always use /ratio-help to understand how to balance your size and exposure

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5. Optimize Fees

Run /settings and check the following:

• Priority Fee: Set to Medium or Low

• Max Jito Fee: Cap it around 0.00005–0.0001 SOL (~1 cent) Don’t overspend 17 cents per tx when 1 cent is enough.

Track your fee history:

• Jito tips paid

• Valhalla fee wallet

• Fee recharges

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6. Review Your Copy Setup

• Follow 1–2 wallets only for better focus

• Check your DMs to audit:

  • PnL images

  • Trade entries and exits

  • Unexpected balance changes

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7. Tune Token Settings

Run /settings_dlmm → More Settings to adjust:

• Increase Token Age or Market Cap filters to avoid volatile or low-liquidity coins

• Decrease these filters if you're missing early opportunities and want to take more risk

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8. Still Need Help?

If you're still confused, go to the public support channel and post:

• Your wallet address

• The wallet you're copying

• What specifically looks wrong

Here’s a shortened version of the section for the Maximizing Your Gains page. It keeps all key insights but cuts down the length for faster reading.

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PNL Image Says Green, Wallet Says Red?

Sometimes your PNL image or Metlex shows a profit, but your wallet balance says otherwise. Here’s how to check what actually happened.

1. The PNL Says You're Up

In this example, it shows a 0.46 SOL gain, but the wallet balance actually dropped.

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2. Check the 1-Minute Candle on LPAgent

• Go to the position on LPAgent → click the chart icon

• Switch to 1m view, find the time the position closed

• Use the ruler tool — in this case, the token dropped 13.25% in the same minute it was closed

The trade exited after the dump, not before — this is why the final result is red.

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3. Click into the Position

• Check how much token you had on exit — here it shows $3,777 worth

• In theory that would convert to SOL at full value, but:

  • The token price dropped during the swap

  • Meteora charges swap fees (1–10%) when you exit

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4. Confirm on Solscan

• You got 16.75 SOL from the token swap

• Add that to the 12.35 SOL from the position = 29.1 SOL out

• You deposited 30 SOL → Final result: 0.9 SOL loss, not a gain

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