PumpStriker Settings: Auto-Buy, HOT/COLD & Sell Tiers

This is the chapter that turns PumpStriker from a notifier into a trader. You'll learn how to flip auto-buy on, set the score threshold that triggers it, and configure the 5 sell-tiers so every buy has TP / SL / Trailing Stop already armed before you even see it.

The two ways PumpStriker can trade

PumpStriker can run in two modes, you pick which (or use both):

Both modes can run at the same time, auto-buy fires when filters pass, manual buttons stay available for everything else.

The /menu, your control panel

Send /menu to your bot. You get 8 buttons:

📡 The Signals menu, your auto-buy gate

Open with /menu → 📡 Signals. This is the single most important screen in the bot:

📡 PumpStriker Signals

Status: ❌ Inactive
Min Score: 72
Buy Amount: 0.01 SOL
Slippage: 3.0%
Degen Mode: OFF
Min MCap: None
Max MCap: None
Min Liq: None
Duplicate Buy: Block
🔥 Auto-Buy filter: HOT (HOT=corroborated)
🔁 Buy at signal #: 1
⬆️ Buy only on upgrade re-fire: OFF

💸 Auto-Sell by Score Tier: ✅ ON
 ✅ 🟡 Alpha Signal [B] (65-75), 2 orders
 ✅ 💚 High Potential [B+] (75-82), 4 orders
 ✅ 💎 Strong Conviction [A] (82-88), 4 orders
 ✅ 🔥 Fire Signal [S] (88-93), 4 orders
 ✅ 🌙 Moon Shot [S+] (93-100), 4 orders

Every field on this card explained

🔥 HOT / COLD signals + smarter auto-buy

Every signal card carries a 🔥 HOT or 🧊 COLD conviction tag, and the Signals menu has three auto-buy filters so you can point auto-capital at the higher-conviction calls. It's all execution-only, every signal still lands in your Telegram regardless.

🔥 HOT vs 🧊 COLD, the conviction tag

The tag never changes which signals are delivered, it only tells you which to lean into.

🔁 Three auto-buy filters

/menu → 📡 Signals. When auto-buy is active these shape which signals it acts on (the Telegram ping is unaffected):

↻ Re-fire on upgrade

If a token you were already alerted on gets stronger, its tag flips 🧊 → 🔥, or it climbs a tier, the bot re-sends it once, stamped "RE-FIRE, UPGRADED (signal #N)". (Re-fires are strictly capped per token to prevent spam.)

💡 How to use it: leave the Auto-Buy filter on HOT as your default, it points auto-capital at the corroborated pool. Want maximum conviction? Set Buy at signal #2 or Buy only on upgrade so auto-capital waits for a token to prove itself before committing.

⚡ How to turn on auto-buy (3 taps)

1. /menu → 📡 Signals
2. Tap 🔴 Inactive, Toggle ON. Status flips to ✅ Active.
3. Verify your Min Score, Buy Amount, MCap range, Min Liquidity are sane (see recommended configs below).

💡 Pro tip: Toggle Auto-Sell by Score Tier ON in the same menu. Without it, your auto-buys have no exit plan.

How the auto-buy decision actually works

When a signal hits the bot, it runs through these gates in order. First gate that fails → no auto-buy (the signal still arrives in TG with manual Buy buttons):

Signal arrives (score 78, mcap $42K, liq $8K)
 ↓
1. Signals enabled? → NO → SKIP (status: inactive)
2. score >= Min Score? → NO → SKIP (score too low)
3. mcap in [Min, Max] range? → NO → SKIP (mcap too low/high)
4. liquidity in range? → NO → SKIP (liq too low/high)
5. Already hold this token? → YES & dupBuy=OFF → SKIP (duplicate)
6. Have a default wallet? → NO → SKIP (no wallet)
 ↓ all pass
7. EXECUTE BUY (sig.buyAmount SOL @ sig.slippageBps slippage)
 ↓
8. Auto-Sell tier ON? → YES → Apply matching tier's TP/SL/TSL presets
 ↓
9. 🤖 Auto-bought $TICKER, 0.05 SOL → TG card with tx link

🎯 The 5 Score Tiers, your sell-side strategy

The bot has 5 default tiers mapped to score ranges. Each tier has its own TP / SL / TSL preset stack. When auto-sell is ON and a buy confirms, the matching tier's orders are armed automatically.

Default tier presets (factory)

Read it like this: "Fire Signal: at +50% take 35% off the table, at +250% take another 35%, stop-loss at -30% dumps everything, and once price hits +120% from entry the trailing stop arms."

What TP / SL / TSL actually mean

✏️ How to edit a tier (add / remove orders)

Say you want to add an extra TP at +500% to the Moon Shot tier:

1. /menu → 📡 Signals
2. Tap the tier row: 🌙 [S+] 93-100: 4 order(s)
3. You see the tier detail card with current orders and 3 buttons: ➕ Add TP, ➕ Add SL, ➕ Add TSL
4. Tap ➕ Add TP. Bot asks: "Enter trigger % (e.g. 50 for +50%)" → send 500
5. Bot asks: "Sell what % of balance?" → send 25
6. Bot asks: "Order duration (hours)" → send 96
7. ✅ New TP added.

Removing or clearing orders

• Remove one: Tap the ❌ Remove button next to the order
• Clear all: Tap 🗑 Clear All at the bottom (asks for confirm)
• Disable a whole tier: Tap ✅ Enabled, Disable at the top. The tier stays defined but won't apply to auto-sells.

⚙️ Buy Settings (manual-buy defaults)

Controls the manual Buy buttons on signal cards and /buy <CA> <SOL>. Does not affect auto-buy.

💡 Recommendation: Turn Auto-Sell on Manual Buy ON. That way every buy, manual or auto, gets TP/SL/TSL armed instantly. No naked positions.

⚙️ Sell Settings (manual-sell defaults)

🌐 Global Settings

💡 Turn Anti-MEV ON immediately. It's free, adds zero latency, and prevents sandwich attacks.

🦑 MEV Rebates

KYC'd searchers backrun your tx, you get 50% of the captured MEV paid to a wallet you specify. Mainnet single-tx only. /menu → 🦑 MEV Rebates → set wallet address → toggle ON.

🚨 The Auto-Buy Circuit Breaker (safety)

The bot has a hardcoded safety: if 10+ consecutive auto-buys happen without a single successful sell in 30 minutes, all further auto-buys are automatically rejected until you restart the bot.

Why

This was a real incident: May 7, 2026. Jupiter rate-limited the sell path silently for hours. The engine kept firing buy signals, 85 auto-buys executed, 0 sells completed, and the wallet bled because every sell attempt 429'd. The breaker now stops this cold.

How to recover

1. Open /positions, are positions actually being sold?
2. Check pm2 logs --err, are sells failing with Jupiter 429 or similar?
3. Fix the root cause (often: Jupiter rate limit → enable JUPITER_API_KEY_FALLBACK in .env)
4. Restart the bot: pm2 restart pumpstriker-bot

📋 Recommended starter configs

🟢 Conservative (your first week)

🟡 Balanced (after 2 weeks of data)

🔴 Aggressive (only when you trust the engine)

High frequency, high variance. Don't run this until you've done at least 2 weeks of Conservative and reviewed the data. Min Score 70, Buy Amount 0.1 SOL, Min MCap $5,000, Min Liq $2,000, Slippage 5% (or auto-curve), Degen Mode ON, Anti-MEV ON, Allow Duplicate Buy ON (DCA into runners).

⚠️ Common pitfalls

🔝 The "set it and forget it" checklist

Before you walk away from the bot for 24 hours, confirm:

• Default wallet has at least 0.5 SOL
• /menu → 📡 Signals → Status: ✅ Active
• Auto-Sell by Score Tier: ✅ ON
• Min Score set (75-80 for first runs)
• Min Liq set ($3K+ minimum)
• Anti-MEV ON in Global Settings
• All 5 score tiers show at least 1 SL preset (so nothing buys naked)
• Telegram notifications enabled on your phone
• PM2 set to auto-restart on VPS (pm2 startup ran)

✅ Now it's hunting for you. Sleep well.

➡️ Next chapter: 8. Your Dashboard, Tab-by-Tab Tour, see what the engine sees in real time.