Copy Trade logs: bought, missed and skipped¶

Why your copy trade did not buy: where clusterz logs every copy buy, sell, failed buy and skip, what each reason means, and what to change, if anything.

Your trader aped, your copy sat still, and the chart did a 5x without you. Before you blame the bot, read the log. It writes down why.

Most skips are your own settings doing their job. A few are worth fixing. This page tells them apart.

Copy Trade on one page: the Solana copy trading bot.

Bought, missed, skipped: three different things¶

Bought: the copy bought. A matching Sold line follows when it sells.
Missed: it tried and the buy failed. The line reads Buy failed, and you hold nothing from it.
Skipped: a filter, a cap or a balance check said no before anything was sent. Nothing was spent.

A copy that buys nothing at all, with no lines, is a third case: it is held. Its tag in My copies says why: Off, Paused, Limit hit, or one of the Practice tags. See Why did my copy or snipe not buy?

Where the copy trading logs are¶

All of them sit in Copy Trade, on My copies:

Bought, missed, skipped: the latest lines from your fast, together and dev copies. On a desktop it sits in the right column. On a phone it is further down the page.
Latest trades: the same lines for your copies of traders and lists. Desktop only.
The note on a fast, together or dev copy's row: today's trouble in one line, like "2 failed buys today" with the last token and why, or "5 skipped today" with the latest reason.
A copy's own page: open the copy, then Trades or Skipped. Skipped has up to 100 skips with the time, the token and Why skipped. Failed buys that paused the copy sit on top in orange. Nothing yet: "Nothing skipped."
History: filter by Failed buys for the last 30 days.

The two feeds show the latest 15 lines, newest first, with the time. Nothing logged yet: "Nothing yet." or "No trades yet."

How to read a log line¶

Each line starts with a badge: B bought, S sold, × failed, and a short dash for skipped. Then the copy's face, the token and the rest.

Bought on a fast or together copy says how far behind the trader it landed, like "0.3 s after" and his name. A dev copy on Launch says "at launch". On a copy of a trader it shows the size and that he bought.
Sold says why it sold. On fast, together and dev copies: "at +30%", "after 20 s", "when they sold", "you sold", "on the trailing stop" or a stop loss with its percent. On copies of traders and lists: his name and "sold", "you sold", "your take profit", "your stop loss", "your trailing stop", "after 20 s" or "daily limit reached". The P&L sits at the end.
Buy failed gives the short reason.
Skipped gives the reason in a few words. On a copy of a trader it starts with the copy's name and "bought", so you see what you missed.

Why a copy trade missed: failed buys¶

The line says	What happened	What to do
"Price moved 12%, past your slippage"	The price ran past your slippage before the buy landed.	Usually let it go. You were late. Raise slippage only if you accept buying higher.
"Timed out"	The buy did not land in time.	Nothing, if it is rare. Many in a row: a higher tip lands faster, and costs more.
"Copy wallet low: deposit to keep buying"	Not enough SOL in the Copy wallet.	Add SOL. See Funding your wallet.
"Practice could not buy it"	Practice could not fill that token.	Nothing to fix.
"Buy failed"	Any other failure.	Watch for a pattern.

After 3 buys in a row fail the same way, the copy pauses and shows under Needs you: "Price moved past your 20% slippage.", "Each buy timed out." or "Practice could not buy these tokens."

A slippage pause can offer a fix like "Allow 25% slippage and resume". See My copies.

Why a copy trade skipped¶

Every skip carries one reason: the first check that said no. A token can fail three filters and you see one. On fast, together and dev copies the checks run in order: their buy, then how late you are, then the token, then your caps.

Their buy¶

"not their first buy": the copy buys their first buy of a token. This was a second one.
"first buy too small", "their buy too small": under your Min first buy or Min their buy.
"too few wallets": a together copy saw fewer wallets in the block than you asked for.
"later than 3 s", with your number: your Skip if later than. Keep it short. Late copies buy their top.
"already copied", "not a buy": the same trade seen twice, or a move that was not a buy. Ignore.

The token¶

"too old", "too new", "market cap out of range", "market cap too low", "market cap too high", "curve out of range": your filters.
"wrong venue", "venue not copied yet": only pump.fun and PumpSwap buys are copied, and in Live only the pump.fun curve. See Limits.
"Mayhem token": your Skip Mayhem tokens guard.
"dev sign", "bundle sign", "snipers sign", "top 10 sign", and on copies of traders "mint authority sign": a warning sign you chose to skip.
"freeze authority", "not transferable", "permanent delegate", "transfer hook", "transfer fee": token traps. A copy of a trader refuses these tokens. Good.
"age unknown", "market cap unknown", "venue unknown", "curve unknown", "signs unknown", "Mayhem not known in time", "token not checked": a filter you set needs a figure we did not have yet. An unknown never passes. Fewer filters means fewer of these, and more risk.

Your caps and limits¶

"max open reached", "max buys per hour reached", "daily budget used": your caps.
"daily loss limit reached": the copy shows Limit hit until 00:00 UTC. On a copied list the list's own daily cap can show as "list day loss" or "list day spend".
"already held": you already hold a copy of it.

These are the brakes you asked for. Change them only if you meant different numbers.

Wallet and Live¶

"Copy wallet short of SOL": each buy leaves at least 0.003 SOL behind for network costs, plus tip and fees. Add SOL.
"no Copy wallet", "Live is off", "Live not ready": set up Live. See Copy in Live.
"Copy wallet over its limit": withdraw some, or move it to Main.
"real trading paused": Live trading is paused. It resumes on its own. See When Live trading pauses.
"balance not read yet", "no recent block", "fees not read yet", "could not be built": a moment where the network or our read of it was not ready. Nothing to change. Many in a row, report it.
"slippage over the limit", "tip over the limit", "size over the limit", "hourly trade limit", "hourly SOL limit": the buy went over one of the hard limits on Live copy buys. Lower the setting the line names.

Piling in: what your traders buy together¶

Two shelves show tokens several traders bought close together. They are not a log of your copies, but they sit beside them for a reason.

Your traders piling in, on My copies: tokens 2 or more wallets you copy bought in the last 5 minutes, with their faces, how many wallets, "same block" when they landed together, and how long ago. Buy buys at your first quick-buy size from your Main wallet, not your Copy wallet. Show on map opens the Map. With no copies: "Copy a trader to see what the wallets you copy buy together."
Piling in, on Top traders: tokens 3 or more rated traders bought in the last 30 minutes, with how many, when the first one bought and the market cap move since. Up to 3 rows on a desktop, 2 on a phone. See Find a trader to copy.

A pile-in is a crowd, not a signal you can bank on. By the time three traders are in, you may be the exit. See exit liquidity.

Before you change a setting¶

Count first. One skip is noise. Twenty of the same reason is a setting.
Ask whether the skip saved you. Open the token. If it dumped, the filter earned its keep.
Change one thing at a time, then read the log again tomorrow.
New to this? Your first copy trade has a starting setup that skips less for the wrong reasons.