Signals: the copy book

Signals is a copy-trading book run in the open. Hoodini follows the accounts of proven traders on fomo — the app most Robinhood Chain memecoin traders use — and when one of them buys, the agent vets the token and copies the buy with a fixed ticket. Every entry, every exit and every skip is listed with its reason, live.

The headline statistics are open to everyone. The live rows — every position with its reason — are Premium+; below that they render as placeholder data behind a blur, never as real positions dressed up. See Accounts and membership.

Two books

• Paper — the default. Entries are quoted through the token's real route on the chain at the moment the signal passes the gates, marks come from the same route, and exits are booked at chain-confirmed prices, minus an assumed exit slippage. Nothing is sent.
• Live — the bot sends real transactions from its own wallet. A live position is real only once its buy has filled and closed only once its sell has confirmed; the gas it paid is recorded on the row and subtracted from its P&L. The page says which book it is showing.

The two never mix: every position and every log line carries the book it was made in.

What the page shows

Four tabs of open positions sit above the closed list:

• Open — the positions that hold a slot. Their P&L is the open P&L.
• Dust — copies of a trader's small buys, taken at a reduced size and holding no slot. A real-size buy of the same token later upgrades the row to a full position at the blended entry.
• Parked — a position that fell under its stop while the trader is still in it. Rather than sell into the hole, the book gives up the slot and lets the trader's own exit close it.
• Conviction — a token several tracked traders bought and still hold. It ignores the one seller who left, is never closed by a clock, and ends when its price says so.

Below them, the closed positions and the activity log. A time window — 4h, 24h, 7 days, all time — filters the closed list, the log, the tiles and the statistics panel, open positions included.

Each row states its size in ETH and the entry market cap, the mark, the P&L in ETH and in percent, the trader it followed, and how many seconds after the trader's buy the agent got in. A position bought in more than once lists its fills and their median entry market cap. The closed list groups by token: a token traded five times is one line carrying the whole result, with the individual closes one click underneath. See more statistics opens the charts: how positions ended, return per position, cumulative realized P&L, hold times, and the best and worst traders to copy.

Every figure is stated in ETH with the USD value beside it; the ETH/USD rate is recorded at entry and at exit, so the ETH numbers are exact.

How a copy runs

1. A tracked trader buys. How we know a buy is a buy is its own chapter — most of what lands in a famous wallet is not a buy.
2. The token is vetted. It needs a real pool with enough liquidity behind it, a route that quotes the ticket on the chain, and corroboration from an independent security read. The buy has to be fresh — one surfaced long after the fact is recorded but never copied. The pair has to be young for the size of the buy: an established market is not a launch, and the book is not for trading established markets. And we must not be late — a token several shortlist wallets are already in is a crowd, and arriving after one is the expensive end of this business.
3. The ticket is sized by the trader's measured record here — not by what they claim. A trader whose copies have made money takes a larger ticket, one whose copies have lost takes a smaller one, and a long losing run shrinks it further. A trader is never removed for a bad run: the wallet keeps being followed for its sells, and keeps being given the occasional probe copy, so a record can recover on its own. The size and its multiplier are shown on every position row.
4. The position is managed until it exits. Take-profits sell in slices as the price multiplies, a trailing rule locks a run in once it is big enough, a stop parks a loser while the trader is still in it, the trader's own exit closes the copy, and a position that is going nowhere is displaced when a stronger signal needs its slot — what gets sold is chosen on which position has stopped moving, not on which one is losing. When other watched traders buy in behind us, the position stops selling on rungs built for a token nobody else wants and is held for longer. The crowd that forms behind an entry is the one that pays; the crowd already there before it is the one step 2 refuses. Every exit names its reason, and every mark is kept so the rules can be re-tested against what the price actually did.
5. A token is never done, but not right away. Closed and bought again by a tracked trader, it is a fresh position — unless the book left it entirely a short while ago, in which case the signal is skipped. A parked position bought again is a full position again, and the entry becomes the cost-weighted average of everything held — the reference every later multiple is measured from. A conviction position takes the ticket on top and stays conviction.

The trading day

The hours of the day are a rule of their own, and they apply to every book — the traders', the dex book and Latitude. Measured over 2,187 positions copied regardless of the clock, all four parts of the day made money, so none of them is switched off; the weaker ones trade a smaller ticket instead of being refused outright, which is what they had been.

What a token looks like and when we happen to be awake are separate questions, and they are now separate rules: the measured market-cap and pair-age cells apply at every hour, not only in the afternoon.

The wallet

The book trades from a wallet that belongs to hoodini — never a user's. That wallet can be changed and changed back: new buys go to whichever one is active, and any position already open keeps selling, and topping up, from the wallet that bought it, so switching never strands a bag.

The live book can also hold more positions while the wallet can pay for them, up to a ceiling, instead of selling one to fund the next. Everything it holds keeps its stop and its trail.

What the log tells you

Every signal the agent looked at is in the log, including the ones it passed on: too little liquidity, a pair too old for a buy that small, a honeypot flag, a buy spotted too late, a crowd already in the token, a trader switched off in admin. Deliveries that were not buys at all are filed separately as deposits and stay out of the log.

What we don't publish

Every bar in step 2 and every rung in step 4 is a number, and every number came from measuring this book's own record — then moved again when the record moved. The numbers themselves stay ours. A published gate is a gate someone builds a token to clear, and a published exit is a price someone else can stand in front of. So the page, this chapter and the Telegram cards all describe what happened — never the recipe, and never advice.

Where it lives

hoodini.sh/signals — and every card, live, in the Telegram channel. See Telegram and Traders.