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⚠️ Risk Warning: GMGN is non-custodial but uses Telegram-connected wallets. Use a dedicated trading wallet only — never your main holdings. Solana memecoin trading is extreme-risk territory. Only use capital you can afford to lose entirely. Nothing on this page is financial advice.
📋 How we built this settings guide: Pulled from the official GMGN documentation and the GMGN web terminal interface, cross-checked against Solana Trading Bots reporting and active testing on Pump.fun launches through May 2026. Settings reflect GMGN’s current execution settings (Off / Reduced / Secure MEV protection modes), Turbo and Anti-MEV slippage tiers, and Smart Money copy trading framework. Last verified May 15, 2026.
GMGN is the on-chain trading platform best known for its AI-powered smart-money tracking and copy trading on Solana — with a web terminal at gmgn.ai for discovery and a Telegram bot at @GMGN_sol_bot for execution. Default settings work for casual trading; optimized settings across slippage, priority fee, MEV protection mode, and copy-wallet filters produce meaningfully better outcomes. Here are the GMGN settings that matter most and the values that calibrate well to current Solana conditions.
If you’re still picking a bot, the BonkBot review and Banana Gun review cover the broader trade-offs in the category.
⚡ TL;DR — Best GMGN Bot Settings
- Slippage (Pump.fun launches): 10–15% standard; 15–20% on hot launches; 5–8% established tokens
- Priority fee (Jito tip): 0.01–0.03 SOL standard; 0.05–0.1 SOL competitive launches
- MEV protection mode: Secure (default for new launches); Reduced (faster, moderate protection); Off (lowest latency, MEV exposed)
- Position size: 0.1–0.5 SOL per trade, max 2–5% of trading wallet
- Copy trading: 5–7 AI-filtered wallets, 10–20% mirror size, >60% win rate over 30+ trades, >7-day history
- Stop-loss: -30% to -40%
- Take-profit (auto-sell): 2X conservative / 5X aggressive
- Anti-MEV Slippage mode: ON when MEV protection is Secure; otherwise routine slippage controls suffice
- Platform fee: 1% per trade — no volume cashback (compare to Trojan Arena’s up to 45% rebate)
Recommended GMGN Settings — full matrix
| Setting | Conservative | Standard | Aggressive / Hot Launch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slippage (new Pump.fun) | 8–12% | 10–15% | 15–25% |
| Slippage (established) | 3–5% | 5–8% | 8–12% |
| Priority fee (Jito tip) | 0.005–0.01 SOL | 0.01–0.03 SOL | 0.05–0.1 SOL |
| MEV protection mode | Secure | Secure for snipes / Reduced for stables | Reduced (speed over protection) |
| Position size per trade | 0.05–0.1 SOL | 0.1–0.5 SOL | 0.5–2 SOL |
| Copy wallets followed | 3 | 5–7 | up to 10 |
| Copy mirror size | 5–10% of source | 10–20% of source | 20–30% of source |
| Stop-loss | -25–30% | -30–40% | -45–50% |
| Take-profit | 1.5–2X | 2–3X | 3–5X |
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Setting-by-setting breakdown
Slippage — and the GMGN slippage modes
GMGN exposes three slippage behaviors:
- Auto Slippage — GMGN dynamically calibrates based on token liquidity and volatility. Good for unfamiliar tokens; you trade explicit control for adaptive defaults.
- Turbo Slippage — Higher tolerance for fast swaps in volatile markets. Use during competitive Pump.fun launches.
- Anti-MEV Slippage — Lower tolerance to protect against sandwich attacks; may slow transactions. Pair with Secure MEV protection mode.
Base values: 10–15% on new Pump.fun launches, 5–8% on established tokens, 1–3% on stable swaps. Push to 15–20% on hot launches where the failure cost of a missed entry is bigger than the cost of overpaying. Above 25%, you’re executing at any price.
MEV protection — Off / Reduced / Secure
GMGN’s MEV protection is a three-mode dial, not on/off:
- Off — Transactions sent to all nodes. Fastest, but fully exposed to sandwich attacks. Use only for stable swaps or tokens with extremely thin MEV opportunity.
- Reduced — Transactions sent to a limited set of nodes. Faster than Secure, but not fully MEV-proof. Reasonable middle ground for routine trades.
- Secure — Transactions routed through Jito’s private mempool. Maximum protection but higher latency. Use this for competitive launches and large-size trades.
Practical default: Secure for new launches and any trade above 0.5 SOL. Reduced for routine 0.1 SOL trades on established tokens.
Priority fee (Jito tip) — match to congestion
0.01–0.03 SOL standard, 0.05–0.1 SOL for competitive launches. The tip incentivizes Solana validators to include your transaction in the next block. During congestion, low tips mean slow or failed transactions. Never set the tip to 0 on competitive trades. Never set the tip larger than your trade size (a 0.05 SOL trade with a 0.05 SOL tip is an automatic 50% loss before execution).
Position sizing — the single most important risk control
0.1–0.5 SOL per trade is the standard band, and no single position should exceed 2–5% of your trading wallet. This is the lesson every active trader eventually learns — the bot doesn’t protect you from the catastrophic loss of putting half your wallet into one launch that rugs. GMGN’s execution speed only matters if you’re still in the game next week.
Copy trading — GMGN’s differentiator
Smart Money Copying is what GMGN does best. The platform’s wallet tracking and AI-powered filtering tools surface high-performing wallets for replication. The settings that matter:
- Follow 5–7 wallets max. More than that and signal degrades into noise.
- Filter by win rate above 60% over 30+ trades. The 30-trade minimum filters out single-month lucky streaks. The 60%+ threshold rules out gambling-pattern wallets.
- Minimum 7-day history — short-history wallets are statistical noise.
- Profitable across 1-day / 7-day / 30-day windows — consistency, not single-day moonshots.
- Mirror size at 10–20% of source wallet’s position — proportional sizing preserves the signal of the source wallet’s sizing decisions.
Important caveat: GMGN’s execution speed for copy trading has been documented as slower than pure-snipe bots like Banana Gun. For copy trading specifically, the speed is acceptable; for first-block sniping where copy-trading isn’t the use case, faster bots fit better.
Stop-loss and take-profit — automated server-side
GMGN’s auto-sell rules execute server-side, so they trigger even when Telegram is closed. Stop-loss at -30% to -40% as standard floor, take-profit at 2X conservative or 5X aggressive. Set both before you enter the position — once you’re in the trade, your judgment is compromised by P&L emotion. Scaled TPs (sell 50% at 2X, 30% at 5X, ride the remaining 20%) work well on memecoins where the long-tail distribution rewards letting winners ride.
GMGN fees: what you actually pay per trade
GMGN charges 1% of trade value, on the buy and again on the sell. That single number is the entire platform charge, and it does not change by chain, by volume, or between the web terminal and the Telegram bot. What trips people up is everything stacked around it, because the priority fee and Jito tip you configured in the settings above never reach GMGN at all.
| Cost line | Who receives it | Typical amount | Adjustable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform handling fee | GMGN | 1% of trade value, charged on the buy and again on the sell | No, fixed |
| Priority fee / Jito tip | Solana validators | GMGN’s docs suggest 0.002–0.005 SOL routine, 0.006 SOL+ for auto-buy, limit orders and copy trades | Yes, per trade |
| Anti-MEV floor | Solana validators | 0.002 SOL minimum, below which MEV protection will not engage at all | Yes, but capped below |
| Network gas | Solana | Fractions of a cent | No, automatic |
Run that through a round trip and the arithmetic gets uncomfortable. Buy 1 SOL of a token, sell the position later, and GMGN has taken 2% of the value, once on each leg, before you count tips. Add the 0.004 to 0.01 SOL most traders spend getting both legs to land and a typical round trip costs somewhere around 2.4% to 3%. A position that closes up 2% has lost you money.
Worth flagging a gap between GMGN’s own guidance and what actually works: the docs recommend 0.002 to 0.005 SOL as a routine priority fee, which is well below the 0.01 to 0.03 SOL band in our matrix above. The docs figure is fine for established tokens in calm conditions. It is not enough to land a competitive Pump.fun launch, where you are bidding against snipers who have already worked this out. Treat GMGN’s number as the floor, not the target.
There is no cashback, and no token
GMGN runs no volume tiers, no cashback and no fee rebate for traders, and as of August 2026 has not launched a token or points programme despite steady speculation that one is coming. Everyone pays the same 1%, which makes GMGN the most expensive of the major Solana bots once you are trading size. If you pick it, pick it for the copy-trading product and accept that you are paying up for that. Trojan’s Arena cashback reaches up to 45% at top rank, an effective fee near 0.55%, which is roughly half what GMGN charges.
One clarification, since we run affiliate links on this page and the point cuts against us: GMGN’s referral programme pays the referrer a commission of 10% to 30%, scaled to referred volume. GMGN’s published documentation does not state that signing up through a referral link cuts the trader’s own rate. You will find plenty of sites quoting a discounted 0.70% or 0.90% rate tied to a code. We could not verify that figure in GMGN’s own docs, so plan on paying the full 1% and treat anything better as a surprise.
GMGN copy trading: limits, modes and where it breaks
GMGN’s terminal expanded across roughly ten networks through 2026, picking up Robinhood Chain shortly after that network reached mainnet in July. Copy trading still runs on Solana only. If you came to GMGN wanting to mirror wallets on Base or BNB Chain, the feature is not there, and nothing in the settings will turn it on.
You can run a maximum of 10 copy tasks at once, on web and in the app alike. Hit the ceiling and you delete an existing task to add another, which lines up with the 5 to 7 wallet target in the matrix above and leaves room to trial two or three more without tearing down what already works.
| Buy mode | What it does | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed Buy | Spends the same amount on every copied entry regardless of the target’s size | Predictable risk, and the default worth starting on |
| Max Buy | Mirrors the target’s position size up to a ceiling you set | Following a wallet whose sizing you actually trust |
| Fixed Ratio | Copies a set percentage of whatever the target spends | Scaling with a whale without matching their absolute size |
Sells copy proportionally, and only across tokens the copy task itself bought, so a target trimming a third of a position trims a third of yours and your manual holdings stay untouched. GMGN added batch take-profit and stop-loss during 2026, so a single task can now carry several exit tiers instead of one trigger. The older setup forced a choice between exiting early on a runner and holding through a reversal, and there was no good answer to that.
The filters are where a copy task stops being a blunt instrument. You can gate entries on market cap, liquidity, token age and minimum pool-burn ratio, cap the spend per transaction and per token, restrict to specific venues such as Pump.fun or Raydium, and blacklist up to 20 tokens outright. A wallet worth copying still buys things you would not; the filters are how you decline without dropping the wallet.
Where copy trades actually fail
GMGN publishes its own failure codes, which is more candour than most bots offer, and the list maps cleanly onto the settings above. Priority fee too low and the transaction times out. Slippage too tight and the trade never triggers on a fast-moving price. Anti-MEV routing can fail at the RPC layer. Honeypot contracts get blocked outright. If the developer pulls liquidity, you get “no available routing” and the position is simply stuck.
The structural risk sits underneath all of those, and no setting removes it: you are always a block or more behind the wallet you copy. A target that exits into your entry leaves you holding what they sold. Filters, per-token caps and a blacklist reduce the damage, and GMGN’s Lightning Mode shaves roughly two seconds off execution by acting on unconfirmed messages, though it accepts a rollback or duplicate-execution risk in exchange. None of it closes the gap. Size copy positions on the assumption that some fraction of them are buying somebody else’s exit.
One custody note that belongs with any automated strategy. Connect an external wallet such as Phantom and GMGN stays non-custodial. Sign in by email, social or Telegram instead and GMGN generates an in-app hot wallet whose key you can export but which is live on the internet for as long as the bot runs. GMGN’s own safety guidance says to keep only an active trading balance there and sweep profits out. Follow it. Our Solana bot security checklist covers the wallet hygiene in more depth.
GMGN web terminal vs Telegram — when to use which
| Use case | Best surface | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Wallet discovery / smart money scanning | Web terminal (gmgn.ai) | Multi-tab dashboard, advanced filters, full analytics |
| Fast snipe on a live launch | Telegram bot | One-tap preset execution, fastest from notification to fill |
| Setting up copy trading | Web terminal | Smart Money filters easier to configure with full data |
| Monitoring open positions | Web terminal | Multi-tab portfolio view |
| Early-buyer / pump FOMO alerts | Telegram bot | Real-time push notifications |
| Custom limit orders + DCA | Either | Both surfaces have full server-side execution |
The two surfaces don’t always sync flawlessly — some users report watchlist desync between Telegram and web. If you rely on watchlists, configure them in the surface where you’ll actually trade from.
💡 Expert tip — GMGN’s biggest leverage point isn’t a setting: The most important GMGN decision isn’t slippage or priority fee — it’s wallet selection for copy trading. A wallet that hits 60% win rate over 30+ trades and is profitable across all three time windows (1d/7d/30d) is genuinely rare; if you find 5–7 of them, you’ve compounded your edge dramatically. Spend more time on the Smart Money filters than on tweaking slippage — that’s where GMGN’s value sits versus simpler bots.
Settings to avoid
- Slippage above 25% routinely. Acceptable on a single hot snipe; not acceptable as a default.
- MEV protection Off on large trades. Sandwich attacks scale with trade size — a 5 SOL position is a juicy target without protection.
- Copy trading 10+ wallets simultaneously. Signal collapses into noise; you end up mirroring contradictory positions.
- Fixed-SOL copy mirror size. You lose the source wallet’s proportional sizing signal entirely. Always use percentage-of-source.
- Stop-loss below -50%. You’re hoping for a bounce that rarely comes on meme coins.
- Trading from your main wallet. Dedicated trading wallet, always.
Frequently Asked Questions
What slippage should I use on GMGN for new Pump.fun launches?
10–15% standard, 15–25% on hot launches, 5–8% on established tokens, 1–3% on stable swaps. New Pump.fun launches need higher slippage because price moves fast between transaction submission and inclusion — low slippage means failed trades that miss the launch window. Don’t exceed 25% as a default; you’re executing at any price the liquidity pool can offer. Pair high slippage with Secure MEV protection mode to avoid sandwich attacks at the high slippage value.
What’s the difference between GMGN’s Off / Reduced / Secure MEV modes?
Three escalating protection tiers. Off sends transactions to all nodes — fastest, fully MEV-exposed. Reduced routes through a limited set of nodes — faster than Secure, partial protection. Secure routes through Jito’s private mempool — maximum protection but higher latency. Use Secure for competitive launches and trades above 0.5 SOL; Reduced for routine 0.1 SOL trades; Off only for stable swaps or when latency dominates everything else.
What priority fee (Jito tip) should I set?
0.01–0.03 SOL handles most standard trades. Competitive Pump.fun launches need 0.05–0.1 SOL to beat other sniper bots in the mempool queue. Never set the tip to 0 — your transaction may sit unconfirmed or fail during congestion. Never set the tip larger than your trade size — a 0.05 SOL trade with a 0.05 SOL tip is a 50% automatic loss.
How many wallets should I copy trade on GMGN?
5–7 wallets is the sweet spot. More than 10 and signal collapses into noise. Filter aggressively: minimum 60% win rate over 30+ trades, profitable across 1-day / 7-day / 30-day windows, minimum 7-day account history. Mirror size at 10–20% of the source wallet’s position — never a fixed SOL amount, which kills the proportional sizing signal of the source wallet’s decisions.
What position size should I use on GMGN?
0.1–0.5 SOL per trade is the standard band. No single position should exceed 2–5% of your total trading wallet. This is the single most important risk control on any sniper bot — execution speed only matters if you’re still in the game next week. Whale accounts running 1+ SOL positions need to scale priority fee and bribe proportionally to make the trades land.
What stop-loss and take-profit should I set on GMGN?
Stop-loss at -30% to -40% as standard floor. Below -50%, you’re hoping for a bounce that rarely comes on meme coins. Take-profit at 2X (conservative — initial capital comes off the table, the rest is house money) or 5X (aggressive for high-conviction memes). GMGN’s auto-sell rules execute server-side, so set both before you enter the position — once you’re in the trade, P&L emotion compromises your judgment.
How does GMGN compare to Trojan for Solana trading?
Different fit profiles. GMGN’s strength is Smart Money copy trading — AI-powered wallet filtering and tracking. Trojan’s strength is execution depth — $25B+ lifetime processed volume, Arena cashback up to 45% (effective fee ~0.55%), sub-2-second BOLT execution. For copy trading as your primary strategy: GMGN. For active Solana trading with the lowest effective fee at volume: Trojan. Many traders run both — GMGN for wallet discovery and smart-money tracking, Trojan for direct execution at scale.
Is GMGN safe to use?
GMGN is non-custodial — your wallet keys are stored locally. The platform doesn’t hold custody of funds. Standard practice applies: use a dedicated trading wallet, never connect your main holdings, verify you’re using the official Telegram handle (@GMGN_sol_bot) before initial setup to avoid impersonators, store seed phrases offline, and never share your private key with anyone claiming to be GMGN support. Watch out for fake Telegram bots and ads — phishing risk is real on any popular trading bot.
Does GMGN have a token or fee rebate program?
No. GMGN charges 1% per trade flat with no volume tiers, no token holder distribution, no cashback program. Compare to Trojan’s Arena cashback (up to 45% rebate at Titan rank, effective fee ~0.55%), Banana Gun’s $BANANA token distribution (40% of fees to holders every 4 hours), or Padre’s referral cashback (up to 20%). For pure cost efficiency at high volume, GMGN is the most expensive of the major Solana bots. Its value sits in the copy trading product, not the fee structure.
