How copy trading bots work on Telegram
A copy trading bot replicates another wallet's buys and sells in real time: when the tracked wallet enters or exits, your bot places the same trade at the size you set. No signal message to wait for, no manual entry to time.
You keep the controls: allocation per trade, stop loss, which wallets to follow, and a pause button. The upside is access, since a good wallet puts you into tokens you'd never find scrolling. The downside is just as direct: copy a bad wallet and you copy its losses.
Copy trading can pay when disciplined wallet selection meets tight risk limits. It is not passive income: a wallet that crushed last week can blow up this week. Start small and check results daily. Maestro covers multi-chain copying, Trojan covers Solana. Our testing method explains how we compared them.
How to choose wallets worth copying
The wallet you copy decides your result far more than the bot does, so vet it before you pick a tool.
- 🐋 Start from data: on Dexscreener, open the top traders of tokens you know and shortlist wallets with a strong 30-day win rate. Arkham and DeBank show their wider history.
- 🔍 Check across many tokens: look for controlled position sizes and clean exits on several tokens, not one lucky trade.
- 📊 Track before you copy: Maestro's Track Only mode lets you watch a wallet for 3 to 5 days without capital, which separates a hot streak from skill.
- 🎯 Spread chains if you can: Maestro can run one wallet on Ethereum and another on Solana from the same chat.
- 🔄 Pair copying with launch entries: on Solana, Trojan's Migration Sniper buys automatically when a token completes its Pump.fun bonding curve and migrates to Raydium, alongside your copied wallets.
Whatever you copy, set a fixed amount per trade, a daily trade limit and a stop loss at account level. No single copied position should be bigger than what you'd accept losing entirely.
Maestro for multi-chain copy trading
Maestro launched in 2022, reports 573,000 users and more than $12.8 billion in lifetime volume, and copies wallets on all 15 of its chains from one Telegram bot. The chains: Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, Base, Arbitrum, Avalanche, TON, HyperEVM, Monad, Sonic, Tron, Stable, Arc, Robinhood Chain and Ink.
- Copy trading: up to 3 wallets, 12 per chain with Premium. Frontrun or match on Ethereum and BNB Chain, copy-after on Base, Arbitrum and Solana.
- Patented Anti-Rug: designed to detect malicious mempool transactions and sell before a rug, blacklist or tax hike executes; it can still miss, so token checks stay on you.
- Limit Orders 2.0: several TP and SL levels, ladder sells and staged exits, editable without cancelling.
- Whale Bot: live alerts on up to 3 whale wallets per chain.
- Maestro Scraper: a separate bot that watches Telegram channels and snipes the contract addresses posted there.
- Cashback: up to 30% of fees back through /cashback, Pump.fun trades on Solana included.
Strengths and limits
Strengths
- Copy trading on 15 chains from one bot
- Patented Anti-Rug on every trade
- Up to 30% fee cashback
- 573,000 users and more than $12.8 billion in volume
Limits
- Telegram only, no web terminal
- Premium at $200 a month is steep for casual traders
Maestro suits traders whose wallets move across chains and who want one bot for all of it. If you trade only Solana and want the quickest fills there, Trojan has the edge. Full details in our Maestro review.
Trojan for Solana copy trading
Trojan launched in January 2024, has passed $25 billion in lifetime volume and 2 million users, and fills Solana trades in under 2 seconds with its BOLT engine. BOLT Pro, unlocked with 50 SOL or more in the wallet, is built to keep failed transactions near zero on contested launches, and a full web terminal runs at trojan.com.
- BOLT: execution under 2 seconds, with backup bots holding speed at network peaks.
- Copy trading: follows wallet buys and sells with filters for market cap range, minimum liquidity, max spend per buy, and an auto-sell per position.
- Migration Sniper: buys automatically the moment a token migrates off its bonding curve to a DEX.
- Arena cashback: up to 45% at Titan rank, paid in SOL on each completed trade.
- Daily Jackpot: 10% of daily fees to one user each day.
- ETH and SOL bridge: deBridge transfers inside the bot.
- Web terminal: charting, portfolio and the Trenches feed at trojan.com.
Strengths and limits
Strengths
- BOLT execution under 2 seconds on Solana
- Up to 45% cashback paid in SOL
- Web terminal plus Telegram bot
- 2 million users, more than $25 billion in volume
Limits
- Solana only
- BOLT Pro needs 50 SOL or more in the wallet
Pick Trojan if Solana is your main chain and speed matters most; anything beyond Solana needs a second bot or Maestro. Our Trojan review goes deeper.
Maestro vs Trojan copy trading side by side
Same 1% fee; the choice comes down to how many chains your copied wallets trade.
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- Trojan wins on Solana for speed and cashback.
- Maestro wins once your wallets trade beyond Solana, with Anti-Rug and 15 chains in one bot.
PolyGun and Kreo for Polymarket and Kalshi copy trading
Copy trading isn't limited to tokens: PolyGun mirrors Polymarket wallets and Kreo mirrors Kalshi traders, both from Telegram.
- 🎯 PolyGun on Polymarket: copies wallets you pick from a leaderboard built on Polymarket Analytics data; 1% flat per transaction, Polygon gas sponsored, $1 USDC minimum. Details in our PolyGun review.
- 📊 Kreo on Kalshi: shows any Kalshi trader's win rate by category, then copies them with daily caps. Kalshi is CFTC-regulated and funded in US dollars, no crypto wallet. Setup in our Kalshi copy trading guide.
The vetting rule holds here too: copy a category specialist, not a headline win rate, since a trader who wins on Fed decisions may have no edge on sports.
How to copy your first wallet
Six steps; both bots are free to join, with no subscription needed to start.
Pick your chain
Solana first: Trojan. Several chains, or Ethereum, BNB Chain, Base, Arc, Stable, Robinhood Chain or Ink: Maestro.
Open the bot and create a wallet
Start @solana_trojanbot or @MaestroSniperBot, create a fresh non-custodial wallet and back up the secret phrase before you fund anything.
Fund the wallet
Send the right gas token: SOL for Trojan; ETH, BNB or SOL for Maestro depending on the chain. Start with an amount you can afford to lose while you learn the controls.
Find a wallet to copy
Use Dexscreener's top traders on a token you know, then check the wallet's history across several tokens: steady sizes and clean exits, not one lucky trade.
Set your copy rules
Paste the address into the copy module, set the allocation per trade, a stop loss and a daily trade limit. In Maestro, run Track Only for a few days first; in Trojan, set minimum liquidity and market cap filters to block low-quality copies.
Review and adjust
Check results daily. If a wallet's win rate slips over 7 days, pause or replace it, and raise allocation only after 2 weeks or more of verified gains.