copy trading without buying the top

copy trading without buying the top means refusing to pay for the move your trader just created. on copyfomo, max chase skips a copy once the price has run too far past their entry (they paid $0.010, at 25% a fill at $0.013 is refused), and max impact skips fills your own order would push too far.

the candle the trader created

here is the pattern. a well-followed fomo trader buys a small token. their order lifts the price. the fomo notification reaches their followers, who buy too. a few seconds later, a copy of that trade arrives at a price that already includes all of it.

we timed 29 first buys from a large fomo wallet: median +39% one minute after the leader's fill, +43% at fifteen minutes, most given back by sixty. the first-buy study has the method and the caveats, and past moves do not predict future ones. what it shows is that much of the move happens very early, which is exactly when a copy is being filled.

a copyfomo copy lands within seconds of the trader's buy, which puts you well ahead of anyone reacting to a notification by hand. on the fastest tokens, seconds still matter, and that is what these settings are for.

three settings, three different jobs

people mix these up constantly, and the mix-up is expensive. only one of them caps your entry price relative to the trader.

max chase: the cap on your entry

max chase compares the price your trade would land at with the price your trader paid. past your limit, the copy is skipped and you get a message saying so.

the trade-off is honest in both directions. tight means more skipped copies on fast movers, and some of those skipped tokens will keep running without you. loose means you sometimes buy the candle they created. off means you accept whatever price exists when your trade lands.

max chase is account-wide, so it applies to every trader you copy. if you copy a trader who buys very early launches, a tight value will skip more of their trades. that is often the correct outcome.

max impact: not paying for thin pools

max chase looks at the market before your order. max impact looks at what your own order does to it. if the fair price would give you 1,000 tokens and the pool gives you 900, that is 10% impact, paid by you, to nobody useful.

most fills land under 3%. the exceptions are the smallest launches, where a normal ticket is a large share of the pool. turning max impact on, at 3% or 5% for example, stops you paying for illiquidity, at the cost of missing some of those launches. that is why it is off by default.

max impact is also a hint about size. if it keeps firing on a trader's tokens, your ticket is large relative to what they trade. a smaller fixed amount, or a lower max per trade, can fix that without switching the guard off. copy trading with a small account covers ticket sizing.

slippage: whether it fills, not what you pay

slippage is the most misunderstood of the three. it controls how far the price may move between the quote and the fill. on auto, the default, it widens as the price keeps running, so the trade goes through.

that sounds dangerous until you see how the pieces fit: slippage decides whether a trade fills, max chase decides what you are willing to pay. with a sensible max chase, auto slippage cannot drag your entry past your cap. set slippage too tight instead, and trades simply come back unfilled on the fast tokens where copying matters most. the same logic, from the fomo app's side, is in why fomo trades fail to buy.

settings that help from other angles

• first buys only: copy only a trader's very first entry into a token. later buys often come after the big move. why first buys only exists.
• market cap band: tiny caps run harder and rug harder. a floor keeps you out of the youngest, thinnest pools.
• minimum trade: ignore a trader's small probes (default $20), so you copy the trades where they committed.
• cooldown: a repeat buy of a token you already hold inside the window is skipped, which stops you averaging up blindly into a burst.

a starter setup

adjust from what your skip messages tell you. if a trader's copies are skipped for max chase again and again, either loosen it or accept that their style does not suit being copied at your speed and size. the full list of guards is in the docs.

copyfomo is independent and not affiliated with fomo. max chase is one of the last questions in the copy flow in @copyfomo_bot, and max impact and slippage sit in /settings. check the last screen before arming, and you will know exactly what price you have agreed to pay.