Pump.fun trading strategy: a repeatable routine for new tokens on ripr

On ripr, a Pump.fun trading strategy comes down to four decisions you make before any money is at risk: which new coins you look at, what disqualifies one, how big the first buy is, and where you get out. The app has a screen for each. Here is the routine, in the order you run it.

Why new Pump.fun coins need their own strategy

New Pump.fun coins need their own strategy because they are minutes or hours old, thinly funded, and swing far harder than a coin that has traded for months. They trade on a bonding curve, which is a formula that sets the price from how much of the supply has been bought: every buy nudges it up, every sell nudges it down.

The window is short and the information is thin. Settle your rules first, not while a coin is moving.

ripr lists coins from Pump.fun and the other main Solana launchpads and trades them in the same app, so the whole routine happens in one place. The coin page shows live bonding-curve progress, so you can always tell which stage you are buying into.

Step 1: Build a shortlist of new Pump.fun coins in ripr's Explore

Your shortlist comes from ripr's Explore screen, which lists trending coins, newly launched coins, and upcoming launches, and lets you keep watchlists. New coins reach the New tab on the home page a few seconds after the block that created them, so this is where a launch-stage routine starts.

A strategy needs a narrower list than "everything new", and the screener is what narrows it. Filter by launchpad, so only Pump.fun coins show up, then by range: market cap, liquidity, holders, and age. Send whatever survives to a watchlist. Two orderings earn their place: Trending, which ranks coins on how fast trades, volume, and distinct buyers are growing and pushes down activity that looks manipulated, and Creation Time, the raw feed in launch order.

One habit matters more than any filter. When someone hands you a ticker, don't search the ticker: copycat names are everywhere at launch stage. A contract address is the string that identifies one exact coin on chain, and pasting it in full is the only way to be sure. ripr searches by name, ticker, or address, and you can look an address up on Solana's block explorer.

Step 2: Run the same checks on every coin, every time

The checks are what make this a strategy instead of a coin flip, and on ripr they sit together on the coin page. Four matter for a brand-new Pump.fun coin.

1. Warnings. ripr checks coins, including newly created ones, for coordinated-launch patterns, linked wallets, and creators keeping supply, and shows anything it finds as a warning on the coin. The warnings appear in the buy flow too. Read them as patterns found, not as a verdict: ripr never calls a coin safe.
2. Who holds the supply. The coin page shows how much of the supply the top 10 holders, the top 50 and the creator hold, leaving out pools and vaults. On one Pump.fun coin a little over an hour into its life, the top 10 wallets held just over half of the supply sitting in wallets, and the top 50 held almost all of it. That tells you how few holders have to change their minds to move the price.
3. The creator's other coins. ripr lists the other coins the same creator has launched, so you can open them and judge for yourself.
4. Curve stage. Open the coin, go to the About section, and read the Bonding Curve figure. It updates live as the coin trades toward graduation, and ripr's help centre notes that activity and price can move faster as a coin nears its target.

Explore also has a "Hide warnings" filter that takes flagged coins out of the lists. It is off until you switch it on, which is worth doing while you learn what each warning means. You still run the four checks on every coin you open. Our guide to spotting a risky meme coin before you buy covers these checks in more detail.

Step 3: Size the first buy and set slippage

On ripr, the opening move on a new Pump.fun coin is a small first buy with slippage left on Auto. Size is the part of a strategy you control completely: a new coin has thin liquidity and heavy attention at once, which means your own order moves the quoted price. The help centre puts the method plainly: start with a small test order, watch what the quote does as you type the amount, and split a larger buy into steps.

Slippage is the gap you accept between the price you were quoted and the price you get. ripr's Auto slippage sets your maximum from how much the coin moved in the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%, and you can set a figure yourself instead. On a coin minutes old, leave it on Auto.

Before you confirm, the trade sheet on iOS and Android lists the network fee, any ripr router fee, and the refundable account deposit. About 0.0015 SOL opens the token account on your first buy of a coin and comes back when that account closes, so keep a little SOL spare. The app then checks the prepared transaction against your order and refuses it if anything differs.

Step 4: Decide the exit before you buy

Your exit should be a decision, not a reaction, and ripr lets you put it on the chart before the coin moves. The iOS and Android charts carry your entry line, markers for your own trades, and draggable take-profit and stop-loss lines. Those lines sell while the app is open; nothing fires once you close it, and a fill is never certain. Keep the app open while a trade is live.

So write two numbers down before you buy. The first is the gain that makes you sell part of the position. The second is the drop that ends the trade.

Then put both on the chart and stop renegotiating with yourself.

A real example shows why the order matters. That same Pump.fun coin was about 46% of the way along its bonding curve a little over an hour after launch, and already around 75% below its own high. Anyone who left the exit decision until after that high had nothing left to act on.

Over a run of trades, your own record is the only honest scoreboard. ripr's apps show your realized and open profit and loss across the last 7 or 30 days, worked out from your indexed trades. Judge the routine on that, not on the one coin that ran.

Our post on when to sell meme coins and take profits goes deeper on exits.

Frequently asked questions

How much should I risk on a new Pump.fun coin?

Risk an amount you would be comfortable writing off, and open with a test order rather than your full size. ripr's help centre recommends a small first order on new coins, because one trade moves the quoted price more in a thin market. Our guide to position sizing for meme coins works through the arithmetic.

What slippage should I set for a new Pump.fun token?

ripr's Auto slippage is the sensible starting point on a brand-new Pump.fun coin: it sets your maximum from how much that coin moved over the last five minutes, within a 3% to 15% band. You can enter a figure yourself, but a tight manual setting on a coin minutes old usually means the buy never fills.

Can I set a stop-loss on a Pump.fun coin in ripr?

Yes. On ripr's iOS and Android charts you can drag a stop-loss line and a take-profit line onto your position, and they sell automatically while the app is open. Nothing triggers once the app is closed and a fill is never certain, so keep the app open while the trade is live.

Does a Pump.fun coin near graduation trade differently?

Curve progress tells you the stage, not the outcome. ripr shows the figure on the coin page under About, and ripr's help centre notes that activity can pick up and price can move faster as a coin approaches its bonding-curve target, with quotes changing more between preview and confirmation. Treat it as context for your size and slippage.

Running the routine on your next Pump.fun launch

The routine is the strategy: shortlist in Explore, four checks on the coin page, a small first buy with Auto slippage, and an exit already drawn on the chart. None of it needs a prediction about which coin runs. It needs the same four steps in the same order, with sizes small enough that one bad launch is boring.

Open ripr's Explore screener, filter down to Pump.fun launches, and walk one coin through all four steps before you commit anything. For the same loop across Solana meme coins more broadly, read our Solana meme coin trading strategy.

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