Pump.fun launches a stream of new tokens every hour, and manual trading cannot keep up. Each Pump.fun bot strategy below uses Thor to automate entries, manage exits and catch opportunities on the bonding curve and after graduation.
Understanding Pump.fun's Bonding Curve
Every token on Pump.fun launches on a bonding curve, a pricing mechanism where each buy raises the price and each sell lowers it. A token stays on the bonding curve until enough has been bought to fill it. At that point the token graduates: its liquidity moves into a normal pool, such as PumpSwap, where it trades like any other token.
The bonding curve has two important consequences for traders:
- Early entries have the best cost basis. The first buyers on the curve pay the lowest price that token will ever have on the curve. As more buyers pile in, the curve formula raises the price automatically.
- Most tokens never graduate. The vast majority of Pump.fun launches never attract enough buying to fill the curve. Early entries are also the most likely to end in a partial or total loss.
These two facts define the core tradeoff in Pump.fun trading: the highest potential returns come from early bonding curve entries, but so do the highest failure rates. The three strategies below handle this tradeoff differently. Thor's token page shows how close a launchpad token is to graduating, so you always know where on the curve you are buying.
Thor Chrome Extension on Pump.fun: Trade Without Leaving the Page
The Thor web extension adds a buy and sell panel directly to token pages on Pump.fun, both on the bonding curve and after graduation, and on other sites like Axiom and DexScreener. You can buy or sell in one click without switching tabs, copying addresses or opening a separate app.
Set-up takes a minute: install Thor from the Chrome Web Store, log in with a one-time access code from the bot and open a token page. The extension uses your Thor wallets, and its trades show up in your Thor Portfolio and Activity, where you can follow your profit and loss. Read the Thor Chrome extension trading guide for the full walkthrough.
Strategy 1: Early Bonding Curve Snipe With Auto Sell
Buy as early as possible on the bonding curve, let Auto sell attach your exits, and let the exits manage themselves. This is the highest-risk, highest-reward approach. It suits small positions spread across many tokens rather than big bets on single ones.
How to Execute
- Watch your alpha sources, such as Telegram groups and X accounts, for new Pump.fun launches. The first 1 to 3 minutes of a launch are the entry window with the best cost basis.
- Buy the moment you see a launch. With Auto buy on, forwarding the Pump.fun link or token address to the Thor bot chat buys straight away. You can also click buy in the Thor extension on the Pump.fun page. To skip copy and paste entirely, the Social Sniper for Windows buys as soon as a token address is posted in the X accounts, Telegram groups, Discord channels or WhatsApp chats you watch.
- With Auto sell on, your exits are added to every new buy. Set a take profit (for example, sell 50% at +100%) and a stop loss (for example, sell 100% at -50%) in Settings → Auto sell. For the rest of the position, add a trailing stop from the token's Sell screen, on the Trailing stop tab.
- Walk away. Your orders run on Thor's servers around the clock, even when Telegram is closed, and sell automatically when a target is hit.
Thor Trading Bot
Tip: Because most bonding curve entries fail, keep each position small, for example 0.1 to 0.3 SOL per token. The strategy works across many trades, not on single large bets. See how to snipe Solana tokens on Telegram for more on fast entries.
Strategy 2: Copy Trading a Pump.fun Launch Wallet
Some wallets consistently find high-performing Pump.fun tokens early. Copy trading these wallets means you enter the same tokens they enter, moments after they do, without having to watch any alpha source yourself.
Thor watches the wallets you copy and places your copy buy as soon as the wallet buys, sending it through Thor's own private Solana node. Trades usually land in under half a second in normal conditions, though you will not get exactly the same price as the wallet you copy.
How to Execute
- Find wallets that consistently buy early on successful Pump.fun launches. Use GMGN.ai's smart money views or DexScreener's top traders, and look for a high win rate and early entries on tokens that graduated. Our wallet discovery guide walks through it.
- Open Copy trade in the Thor Mini App, or type
/copytradein the bot chat, tap new and paste the wallet into Target wallet. - Choose what happens when they buy: Fixed buy (the same amount every time), Max buy (their amount, up to your cap) or Fixed ratio (1% to 1000% of what they spend, up to a max amount).
- For when they sell, choose Auto sell so every copied buy gets your own take profit and stop loss, or Copy sells to mirror their exits.
Thor Trading Bot
Give each copy trade its own wallet, or USD Cash, so its P&L and risk stay separate, and turn Buy owned tokens off and set Max buys per token to 1 or 2 in Advanced settings. Copied buys of honeypots, tokens with no healthy sell route or too-high tax are skipped, and each skip says why in the Copied trades feed. The full setup is covered in how to copy trade Solana wallets.
Strategy 3: Limit Buy Ladder on Graduated Tokens
After a token graduates from Pump.fun, its liquidity profile changes. The bonding curve is replaced by an open pool, and early bonding curve buyers often take profit, which can cause a post-graduation sell-off. That dip is a re-entry opportunity for traders who missed the curve.
A limit buy ladder places several buy orders at descending price levels below the graduation price. Rather than trying to time the exact bottom, you spread your entries across a range and buy at different price points.
How to Execute
- Pick a graduated token with real strength: a recognizable narrative, an active community and no concentrated whale wallets.
- Open the token in the Thor Mini App and note the price or market cap at graduation.
- Use Buy when to set three limit buys at staggered levels below the current price, for example -20%, -40% and -60%. You can trigger on Price, Market cap or % from entry, and add an expiry such as 2d so stale orders do not hang around. Use a small, equal amount for each order.
- Keep Auto sell on so each filled buy gets its own take profit and stop loss, giving every entry its own managed exit.
Thor Trading Bot
You can watch, edit, pause or cancel every order in Portfolio → Orders. For more on order types, read the Solana limit orders guide.
Warning: Not all graduated tokens recover. A ladder works best on tokens with genuine community momentum. If volume dies after graduation and the chart shows only selling with no buy support, cancel your open limit buys rather than letting them fill into a dead token.
Risk Management Across All Three Strategies
- Spread out across many tokens. No single Pump.fun position should be more than 5% to 10% of your trading capital. Most individual tokens fail, so profit comes from many trades, not from concentrated bets.
- Always have a stop loss. Every Pump.fun entry should have a stop loss attached, and Auto sell does that for you on every buy. The question is never whether to have a stop loss, only where to set it.
- Avoid tokens with concentrated supply. If one wallet holds 20% or more of the supply, a coordinated dump can move the price past your stop loss before it fills. Check holders before you buy, and watch for warning tags like Bundle share and Sell pressure in Trenches.
- Keep Price impact protection on. On small coins, a big buy can move the price a lot. Thor asks you to confirm any trade above your price impact limit (20% by default). Thor's routing also helps shield your trades from front-running bots.
Buy on the Bonding Curve. Exit Automatically.
Trade Pump.fun from the Telegram bot, the Mini App or the Chrome extension, with Auto sell adding your exits the moment you buy. Thor charges a flat 0.5% per spot trade, or 0% bot fees on spot with the $100 for 30 days subscription. Extension trades have their own 0.25% fee. See Fees and Thor apps.
Open Thor on Telegram to start trading Pump.fun with automation.
Frequently asked questions
Does the Thor Chrome extension work on Pump.fun before a token graduates?
Yes. The extension adds a buy and sell panel to Pump.fun token pages, so you can trade during the bonding curve stage without switching tabs. It also works on sites like Axiom and DexScreener after the token graduates.
What is the bonding curve and why does it matter for timing?
Pump.fun prices new tokens on a bonding curve until they graduate to a normal liquidity pool. On the curve, price is set only by buys and sells into the curve. Early entries get the lowest cost basis, but they also carry the highest risk that the token never graduates.
Can I copy trade a wallet that buys new Pump.fun launches?
Yes. If a wallet you copy buys into a Pump.fun launch, Thor copies the buy with your own settings for amount, slippage and priority fee. Trades go through Thor's own private Solana node and usually land in under half a second, but you will not get exactly the same price.
How do I know if a Pump.fun token will graduate?
There is no reliable way to predict it. Signs that improve the odds are steady buy volume in the first 5 to 10 minutes, no single wallet holding more than 10 to 15% of supply, active socials and a clear narrative. Even then most tokens do not graduate, so size your positions for that.
Can I use Auto sell on Pump.fun bonding curve tokens?
Yes. Auto sell adds take profit and stop loss orders to every new buy, and those orders run on Thor's servers even when Telegram is closed. You can set targets by percentage or by market cap.
Step-by-step in the Docs
- Auto sell: Take profit, stop loss and trailing stop added to every new buy, wherever you buy.
- Copy trade: Follow any wallet and trade the same tokens from yours, with per-copy P&L and a live feed.
- Buy when (limit buy): A limit buy that fires at a % from your entry, a price or a market cap.
- Web extension: Trade on the sites you already use.