Copy Trading, Explained Honestly: What Mirroring a Wallet Really Does
Copy trading sounds like a shortcut: find a wallet that trades well, mirror everything it does, and collect the same results. The mechanics are that simple. The results are not, and understanding the gap between the two is the difference between using copy trading as a tool and using it as a lottery ticket. Here is how it works in SOLPULSE. You choose a wallet to copy and a fixed trade size — for example 0.01 SOL per buy. The bot watches that wallet's activity. When it buys a token, the bot places the same buy for you at your chosen size, not at a percentage of the copied wallet's (usually much larger) position. When it sells, the bot sells the same proportion of your position. A first sighting of a wallet does not replay its history — copying starts from live activity forward, so you never inherit a bag of old positions you never chose. Now the honest risks. First, timing: you always enter after the copied wallet, never at its exact price, and in fast memecoins seconds matter....