How to set a stop loss on Solana memecoins

How to set a stop loss on Solana memecoins: on one position or every new buy, with a trailing stop, the automatic stop loss, and why a stop can fill worse.

Set the stop while you still think straight. Later you will not.

This guide is the downside. The take-profit side is in your first exit plan, and every control is in Exits.

Test a stop loss with play SOL first: paper trading memecoins, free.

Does a stop loss work on memecoins?

A stop loss works on memecoins as a trigger, not as a price. When the price crosses your level, clusterz sells the whole position at whatever the pool pays at that moment.

In a deep pool that lands near your level. In a thin one the price can jump straight past it. A stop caps the ordinary bleed, not a rug.

In clusterz a stop loss is a percent below your entry price. Set it at 30% and it fires once the position is down 30%.

Every switch starts off, so until you set one, nothing sells a bag you bought yourself. The position reads "No exits. Only you sell this."

How to set a stop loss on one position

Use this for a bag you already hold.

1. Open the position in Portfolio, on the token page, or on its card.
2. Press Set exits, or Edit if it already has some.
3. Turn on Stop loss. Type a percent, from 1% to 95%, or tap a preset: 20%, 30% or 50%.
4. Read the line under it. It says where the stop sits as a market cap, for example "Sells all at about $245K market cap".
5. Press Save exits. The toast confirms the levels, like "Exit set on $TOKEN: TP +100%, SL -30%".

The exit editor on one position: take profit, stop loss and trailing stop.

Faster on a computer: drag the SL line on the chart and release to save. Undo on the toast puts the old level back. See Drag levels on the chart.

Trailing stop on a memecoin

A trailing stop follows the highest price and sells all once the price falls your percent below that high. It is a stop that moves up with a winner and never moves down.

On one position, turn on Trailing stop in the same editor and set 1% to 95%.

Set here, it has no start gain. It trails from the moment you save ("Trails from now, sells 20% under its high"), so it can sell below your entry if the token never climbs.

A Stop loss and a Trailing stop can sit on the same position. Whichever the price crosses first sells it.

Set a default stop loss for every new buy

This is the one to do once, today. It sits with the rest of your exits for new buys.

1. Press the gear (Trade settings).
2. Scroll to Exits for new buys.
3. Turn on Stop loss. The default is 30% ("Sells all at -30%"), within 1% to 95%.
4. Optional: turn on Trailing stop. It starts at a gain you pick, then sells all once the price falls your drop below the high. The defaults are +50% and 20% ("From +50%, sells 20% under its high"). The start gain can be 0% to 10,000%, the drop 1% to 90%.
5. Press Save.

The arithmetic on that trailing stop: from +50% with a 20% drop, the lowest it can sell at is about +20%, because 1.5 × 0.8 is 1.2.

Fees and the fill come off that. A small start gain with a wide drop can sell below entry: from +10% with a 20% drop, about -12%.

Exits for new buys never touch a bag you already hold ("Saved. Open positions keep their exits."). For those, use the editor above.

Exits for new buys: trailing stop and stop loss.

The automatic stop loss and the Protection rules

Press More (Steps, protection) under the levels in Trade settings, or in a position's editor. Under Protection sit four switches, all off until you turn them on:

• Automatic stop loss sells all at -50%, wider when the token swings hard, never past -80%. It is a backstop for a bag with no stop of your own. Set your own Stop loss and it replaces this one ("Your stop loss replaces it.").
• Pool drained sells all if the token's pool loses 45% of its liquidity.
• Time limit sells all after 4 hours.
• Failing sells tries every other way to sell when another rule's sells keep failing.

Your own stop loss always counts. Profit lock takes over the take-profit side, never your stop. See What wins when rules overlap.

One check is always on: clusterz never sells on a price it cannot confirm. A bad print cannot sell your bag, and a real crash waits for a confirmed price.

pump.fun stop loss: why it fills below your level

A stop on a pump.fun token, or any new launch, can fill worse than your level three ways.

1. The gap. Price does not walk down a thin pool, it falls through it. Your stop fires at the first confirmed price past the level, and the sell lands where it lands.
2. Max price move. On Live, an exit's sell obeys Max price move in Trade settings, 10% by default. If the price runs further than that while the sell lands, the sell fails and the exit retries. The position shows Retrying until one goes through.
3. The tab. On Live with no tab open and no permission, the stop waits. See the next section.

Once a level is hit, it stays a sell order even if the price bounces. When a fill lands well away from the level, the toast gives the real return, not the level.

Thin pools are the usual reason. Check Liq on the token page before you buy, as the rug check says.

When a stop loss waits for an open tab

In Practice nothing needs signing, so stops sell with no tab open. In Live your wallet signs each sell, so by default a stop sells only while a clusterz tab is open. The position's tag reads Needs an open tab.

A stop hit while you are away, with no permission:

• Open clusterz within 15 minutes and it sells at once. Unless the level was hit more than 2 minutes ago and the price is now more than 15 points below it: then clusterz asks first.
• After 15 minutes it asks, whatever the price did.
• Either way the position shows Not sold. Press Sell now to sell, or Keep to hold and clear only that level.

To let a stop sell with the tab closed, press Run while closed in the exit editor, or turn on Keep exits running when I close the app in Account, then approve it in your wallet.

The tag turns to Runs while closed. It covers a sell of the whole position at your Take profit, Stop loss or Trailing stop. Everything under More, the Automatic stop loss included, still waits for a tab.

Setup and limits: Live exits while the app is closed and Account and security.

Copies carry their own stop loss

A position opened by a copy sells by that copy's exits, not by your Trade settings. In the copy setup, Stop loss offers -15%, -30%, -50%, or a value from 1% to 95%. A copy of a trader starts at -50%.

More settings adds a Trailing stop, 1% to 95% off the high. Copies run on our server, so they sell with your tab closed. See Copy Trade.

A moonbag you kept when selling all is never sold by any rule, so your stops stop covering it. A level you set on that position yourself stays on.

What a stop loss cannot do

• Promise a price. It is a trigger. The fill is what the pool pays.
• Beat a rug. A dev who pulls the pool moves first. Pool drained reacts after the liquidity leaves.
• Run through an outage. If our Solana connection drops, nothing sells. Your Main wallet's key is yours, so you can export it and sell elsewhere. See When Live trading pauses.
• Pick your level. 30% is the app's default, not a recommendation. Too tight and normal swings shake you out. Too wide and it is decoration.

None of this is advice, and no stop promises a result.

Before you send it

• Set Stop loss in Exits for new buys before your next buy. It does not reach bags you already hold.
• Put a stop on the bags you hold now, one by one, with Set exits.
• Going to sleep in Live? Allow exits while closed, or the stop waits for you.
• Size for a loss at the gap, not at the level. See position sizing.