Guide Solana Memecoin Manual Trading 101: Quick Start Guide

[djenmarketer]

Quick-start Guide - Manual Trading Solana Memecoins

Memecoin Trading is about speed, experience and strategy. If you’re looking to get started this guide will provide you with key principles, step-by-step guides and videos to ensure that you get started with your first solana memecoin trade ASAP.

Why learn solana memecoin trading?

Solana memecoin trading will always be around – or a version of it. The skills and experience you gain trading this can be applied in the years to come, it is also rumoured at the time of this writing that the memecoin supercycle is happening soon (sometime around July-August 2025) so it’s best to take advantage of this slow period and learn the skills needed to trade when this happens.

Key Principles​

1. Research & Risk Management:
   
   Memecoin trading is all about research and managing risks. The goal is to have enough winners to build a solid amount of SOL, enabling you to engage more confidently as you gain experience in finding gems and managing risks.
   
   
   • Common Mistake: Beginners often risk too much of their funds while still learning.
   • Research First, Trade Second: When you’re learning take your time to do a double take before trading your first memecoin.
     
     Step 1: Test-drive a Trade: Use or add 0.2 Sol into your wallet and start trading with 0.02, this will allow you to understand the buttons and get you a feel for trading. Trade at least 3 times to get a feel of it.
     
     Step 2: Divide your memecoin trading funds into 10% per trade.
     
     Step 3: Start trading, don’t overthink, get started asap. Keep at least 0.3 SOL extra to ensure you have enough for 10 trades (buying and selling).

Here’s a quick example: Start with 0.8 SOL = 0.5SOL (for trading) +0.3SOL (gas) divide the trades into 0.05 for 10 trades. This is to get you going and understand the process.

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Top 3 Steps to Begin with Solana Memecoins​

1. Join Pump.fun -​

The reason why Pump.fun is super popular is it is very cheap to release a coin and there is no way to do liquidity rugpull. The dangers of Pump.fun is there are many bots and bundled trading that will allow you to trade but will sell and eat your liquidity if you are not careful.

Here are the top 3 things you need to learn.

1. How to login and add funds:

• Login via Email or Connect Your Wallet
• How to Add Funds:
  
  • Add via CEX (Centralized Exchange).
  • Use Apple Pay or Credit Card.
  • Connect your Phantom wallet, Solflare or other decentralized wallets or create a pump.fun account where it will create a new wallet for you.

Checkout the video below for more details:

Pump Fun Quick Video

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2. Use Photon Memescope -​

Step 1: Sign-up/connect wallet to https://photon-sol.tinyastro.io/
Step 2: Go to Memescope:

• Finding “About to Graduate” Memecoins:

• Look for coins that are about to gain traction and you can do this by clicking the 2 dots above and then you will see settings.

• Main Settings For Graduating tokens:

• Focus on tokens “about to graduate.”
• Top 3 Settings to look at: 1. Filters, General and Audit
• Use these settings:
  
  • 8 Minutes Live
  • Max 11k Market Cap
  • Top 10: Max 10%
  • Has at least 1 social
• Checklist for “About to Graduate” Coins:
  
  • Avoid bundled coins by maxing your top 10 to 10% and also looking at token age.
  • Check for coin age
  • Analyze socials and more
  • Identify narratives.
  • Advanced: Examine wallets.
• Common Mistakes:
  
  • Not using the checklist.
  • Being late to trends.
  • Failing to identify bundled coins.

General Setup:

1. Marketcap Max 20k
2. Bot Holder Count 100

Audit Setup:

1. Top 10% Hold Max 10%
2. Age: Max 8 minutes

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3. Trading Memecoins - Here is where you build experience and research. So simple process – 1) Look at tokens about to graduate on Pump.fun 2) Check twitter/telegram - how big the community is 3) Decide to trade if you believe it’s on an uptrend. ​

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Most memecoins at this current market don’t survive more than a few days so it’s best if you come in and get your capital asap back. If it flies you’re protected, in case it goes down you have minimal loss. ​

Key Focus Areas:

1. Timing.
2. Simple risk management.
3. Understanding trading basics.

For trading all you have to do is connect your wallet and click on ‘Quick buy’ in Photon and then you monitor it.

• Common Mistakes:
  
  1. Rushing in without preparation.
  2. Lacking a systematic approach.
  3. Overanalyzing instead of taking action.

Final Tip: Learn Now Before The Next Supercycle
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The goal is to start trading and get a feel for how things work and research tokens that have potential, there are at least 500 tokens launched daily on Pump.fun (since market is still slow) So the goal of this guide is to turn that into 5-10 tokens for you to research and trade. You need to get in the trenches and start trading even if you incur losses from time to time. This hands-on experience is crucial so that when the memecoin supercycle happens, you’ll be ready to trade confidently and start taking advantage of the experience you will gain right now.

 

[chris]

Thanks a lot for putting this together!
Really appreciate the effort — this guide is super helpful. I’m sure it’ll be a great starting point for new members who want to learn manual trading in the Solana meme coin space. I believe more beginners will see this and benefit from it