How to read a Pump.fun chart on ripr

By ripr Editorial Team12 Nov 20267 min read

On ripr, reading a Pump.fun chart takes four things in order: the coin's bonding-curve stage, the right timeframe, the candles and volume together, and the holder data the candles leave out. Start with the stage, because the same candle shape means one thing on a coin a third of the way up its curve and something else on a coin that has already graduated. Everything below happens on the coin's own page, on web or in the app.

Where to find a Pump.fun coin's chart on ripr

A Pump.fun coin's chart lives on that coin's page in ripr, which you reach either from search or from one of the lists in Explore. ripr lists coins from pump.fun's curve alongside the ones launched on its own, and nearly every new pump.fun coin appears in its newest-coins list.

ripr's Explore screener holds the trending, newest and upcoming lists plus your watchlists, on web, iOS and Android, and its filters include the launchpad a coin came from. If you already have the coin in mind, search is faster: ripr finds any Solana coin by name, ticker or full contract address.

Paste the address when you can. A contract address is a coin's unique ID on Solana, a long string of letters and numbers, and it is the only part of a coin that a copycat using the same name and logo cannot fake. You can look the same address up on Solana Explorer if you want the raw account behind it.

Read the bonding-curve stage before the candles

On a Pump.fun chart in ripr, the first number to read is not on the chart at all: it is Bonding Curve progress, in the About section of the coin page. It updates live as the coin trades toward graduation. A bonding curve is the pricing path a coin follows as people buy and sell it: buying pressure walks the price up the curve, selling walks it back down.

Below 100%, the coin is still on its curve. At 100% it has graduated, its liquidity has moved to a normal trading pool, and it can carry a Migrated badge in ripr. The help centre explains the two stages in what "about to graduate" and "graduated" mean for users and the mechanics in what a bonding curve is in simple terms.

The stage tells you how much weight to give each candle. One pump.fun coin about a third of the way along its curve was carrying roughly $800 of liquidity while about 5,000 trades passed through it in its first six hours. Another coin, already at 100% and still under a day old, sat on about $50,000. On the thin one, an ordinary-sized buy prints a candle you can see from across the room; on the deeper one, the same buy barely registers. The help centre makes the same point in why price moves so quickly on new coins.

Which timeframe should you use on a Pump.fun chart?

Match the timeframe on a Pump.fun chart to the coin's age, because a coin only holds as much history as it has lived. On ripr's web charts you get eight of them — 1 second, 1 minute, 5, 15 and 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours and 1 day — and you can show the chart in price, market cap or volume, priced in USD, SOL or INR. The iOS and Android apps run from a live tick view up to 1 day.

Each chart loads the most recent 300 candles for the interval you choose and then updates live, so the interval decides your window: 300 one-minute candles cover about five hours. A coin twenty minutes old has twenty one-minute candles and nothing more, which is why the tick view and the 1-second candles — they cover the most recent few minutes — are the ones that show anything at all in the first minutes after a launch.

In practice:

First minutes after launch: the tick view on your phone, or 1-second and 1-minute candles on web.
First few hours: 1 minute or 5 minutes, which is where most curve coins live.
Older than a day: 15 minutes, 1 hour or 1 day, so the early spike stops dominating the shape.

Switch to the market-cap view when you want to compare one coin to another, since price per token means little on its own; trading a meme coin by market-cap stage goes further into that. Then add your own lines. On iOS and Android the chart draws your entry line and markers for your own trades, with draggable take-profit and stop-loss lines that sell while the app is open. Desktop web adds 31 drawing tools and four technical indicators.

How to read a Pump.fun chart's candles and volume

On a Pump.fun chart, each candle packs one period of trading into one shape: where the price opened, where it closed, and the highest and lowest it traded in between. The thin lines above and below the body are wicks, and they are the part worth your attention on a curve coin — a long upper wick means the price spiked and came straight back, which is the signature of a thin market.

On web, ripr builds the live candle from individual trades as it decodes them, and filters fills far outside the recent price range so one odd print cannot spike the chart. Prices, candles and the trade feed arrive over a streaming connection rather than on a page refresh, and the recent-trades list updates beside the chart.

Read that list and the volume together with the candles. Volume is how much changed hands in each period, so a climb on heavy volume and a climb on almost none are two different stories. Trade count is not the same as interest, either: the curve coin above took its 5,000 trades from roughly 1,100 different wallets, and fewer than a hundred wallets held it at the time. Busy chart. Thin holder base.

Check ripr's warnings and holder data beside the chart

Two things sit beside a Pump.fun coin's chart in ripr that no candle can show you: its rug warnings and its holder data. Before you buy, ripr shows warnings for known rug patterns — a creator holding unlocked liquidity, liquidity that has already been pulled, a coordinated launch — alongside its own plain note: "These are the risks we can check for. Not seeing one never means a coin is safe."

Holder data is the other half. ripr shows how much of the supply the top 10 and top 50 holders and the creator hold, leaving pools and vaults out, which is the context a green candle never gives you. On iOS and Android, the coin page also tells you when a coin is under review, has low liquidity, has paused prices or is still being checked.

The rest is ordinary discipline. Start with an amount you would be relaxed about losing in full, keep a little SOL spare for network fees, and let Auto slippage set your maximum slippage from the coin's last five minutes of movement — between 3% and 15% — unless you have a reason to set it yourself. The help centre walks through that choice in what slippage is and how to set it.

Frequently asked questions

How far back does a Pump.fun chart go on ripr?

Each chart in ripr loads the most recent 300 candles for the interval you pick and then keeps updating live, so your window depends on that choice. Three hundred one-minute candles cover about five hours of a Pump.fun coin's life, while 300 one-hour candles cover roughly twelve days. Pick a longer interval when you want more history on screen.

Why does the price on a Pump.fun chart jump between candles?

A coin still on its bonding curve usually has light liquidity and a lot of attention, so a single trade can move the price further than you would expect, and that shows up as long wicks and gaps. Auto slippage in ripr sets your maximum slippage from how much the coin moved in the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%, which is how you keep a fast-moving fill inside a limit you chose.

Can I draw trendlines on a Pump.fun chart in ripr?

On desktop web, yes: ripr's charts there include 31 drawing tools and four technical indicators, so you can mark levels and trendlines on a Pump.fun coin's candles. On iOS and Android the chart carries your entry line, markers for your own trades and draggable take-profit and stop-loss lines that sell while the app is open.

Does the chart keep going after a Pump.fun coin graduates?

Yes. Once Bonding Curve progress reaches 100%, the coin has graduated and its liquidity has moved to a normal trading pool, and ripr goes on charting and trading it from there, depending on the pool it lands in. The candles often behave differently afterwards, because trading has moved from the curve to a pool with its own spread and liquidity.

Start with one Pump.fun chart on ripr

Pick one pump.fun coin on ripr, read its Bonding Curve progress, set the chart to one minute and watch it for ten minutes before you trade anything. Doing that once teaches you more about launchpad candles than any pattern list. When you are ready to act on what you see, how to buy a Solana meme coin on ripr walks through the trade itself.

Last verified 3 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.