Solana Copy Trading Glossary

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Definitions for 32+ key terms in Solana copy trading, DeFi, and automated cryptocurrency trading.

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AES-256 Encryption: Advanced Encryption Standard with 256-bit keys — the industry standard for symmetric encryption, used by governments and financial institutions worldwide. Stratium uses AES-256 to encrypt user private keys at rest. Even if Stratium's database were compromised, encrypted private keys would be computationally infeasible to decrypt without the encryption key.
Avg Hold Time: The average duration between a BUY transaction and the corresponding SELL transaction for a given trader, across all closed positions. Measured in seconds, minutes, or hours. Short average hold times (under 4 hours) are common among profitable Solana memecoin traders who capitalize on short-term momentum rather than holding through full market cycles.

B

Bonding Curve: A mathematical formula that determines token price based on supply. On pump.fun, tokens use a bonding curve where price increases as more tokens are purchased. Early buyers get lower prices; later buyers pay more. When the bonding curve reaches its target (~$69,000 market cap), the token "graduates" and liquidity migrates to Raydium for open trading.

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Copy Trading: Automatically replicating the trades of another trader in real time. When the copied trader buys or sells a token, the same trade executes in your wallet proportionally to your allocated capital. Copy trading removes the need for manual market analysis — the platform handles all execution automatically, 24/7.
Custodial: A trading setup where the platform holds your private keys and has full control over your funds. Custodial platforms can execute trades, withdraw funds, and transfer assets on your behalf. This introduces counterparty risk — if the platform is hacked or shuts down, your funds may be at risk.
Copy Ratio: The proportion of a strategy wallet's trade size that is replicated in the follower's wallet. Determined by the follower's allocated capital relative to the strategy wallet's position size. For example, if a strategy wallet buys 10 SOL of a token and your copy ratio is 10%, Stratium will buy 1 SOL of the same token in your wallet.
Cost Basis: The total amount paid to acquire a position, including the purchase price and any fees. Used to calculate realized PnL when a position is closed: PnL = sell proceeds − cost basis. For copy trading, cost basis is the SOL amount spent on the BUY transaction, including Stratium's 0.1% fee and Solana network fees.

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Drawdown: The peak-to-trough decline in portfolio value during a specific period. Maximum drawdown measures the largest such decline from any historical peak. A maximum drawdown of -30% means the portfolio fell 30% from its highest point before recovering. Lower maximum drawdown indicates a more consistent strategy with better risk management.

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Front-Running: Executing a transaction ahead of a known pending transaction to profit from the price impact. In Solana trading, front-running bots monitor the mempool for large buy orders and insert their own buy before the target transaction executes, then sell immediately after at a higher price. MEV protection via Jito bundles prevents front-running by making transaction ordering unpredictable to bots.
Fee-Adjusted ROI: Return on investment calculated after deducting all trading fees. For Stratium, this includes the 0.1% per-trade fee and Solana network transaction fees (typically ~0.000005 SOL per transaction). Fee-adjusted ROI gives a more accurate picture of actual returns than gross PnL, especially for high-frequency copy trading strategies.

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Helius RPC: A high-performance Solana RPC (Remote Procedure Call) provider used by Stratium to fetch transaction history and monitor wallet activity in real time. Helius provides enhanced APIs for parsing Solana transactions, including structured trade data that makes it easier to identify buy/sell events and compute PnL from raw blockchain data.

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ISR (Incremental Static Regeneration): A Next.js rendering strategy that pre-builds pages at deploy time and regenerates them in the background when data changes. Stratium uses ISR for trader profile pages — they're pre-built for the top 50 traders and regenerated on-demand when stats are updated by the daily aggregation cron job. This ensures AI crawlers always see fresh, pre-rendered HTML without JavaScript execution.

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Jito Bundle: A group of Solana transactions submitted together to Jito's block engine, providing MEV protection and guaranteed transaction ordering. Jito is a Solana validator client that allows users to submit transaction bundles that are processed atomically. Using Jito bundles ensures your trade cannot be sandwiched by MEV bots, and provides priority inclusion in the next block.
Jupiter DEX: The leading Solana DEX (decentralized exchange) aggregator that routes trades across all major Solana liquidity pools — including Raydium, Orca, Meteora, and others — to find the best execution price. Stratium uses Jupiter's V6 API for all trade execution, ensuring users get the best available price across the entire Solana DeFi ecosystem.

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Key Access: A model where you have access to your private keys and can export them at any time. On Stratium, your private key is stored AES-256 encrypted on the platform's servers. The platform uses it to execute trades on your behalf. You can export your private key whenever you want.
KOL Wallet: Key Opinion Leader wallet — a Solana wallet associated with a sophisticated trader who consistently achieves above-average returns, often used as a signal source for copy trading. KOL wallets are identified by analyzing on-chain transaction history for consistent profitability, high win rates, and meaningful trading volume. Stratium tracks a curated list of KOL wallets and makes their performance publicly verifiable.

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Liquidity Pool: A smart contract holding reserves of two tokens that enables decentralized trading. When you buy a token on Raydium or Orca, you're trading against a liquidity pool rather than a counterparty. The pool's price adjusts automatically based on the ratio of tokens. Larger liquidity pools have less slippage; smaller pools are more volatile and susceptible to price manipulation.

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MEV Protection: Protection against Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) attacks, where bots front-run or sandwich your transactions to extract profit at your expense. In a sandwich attack, a bot detects your pending transaction, buys the token before you (raising the price), lets your trade execute at the higher price, then immediately sells (lowering the price again). Stratium uses Jito bundles to submit transactions in a way that prevents sandwich attacks.
Memecoin: A cryptocurrency token, typically on Solana, that derives value primarily from community sentiment, social momentum, and internet culture rather than fundamental utility or technology. Memecoins are high-risk, high-volatility assets with the potential for rapid gains and rapid losses. Examples include BONK, DOGWIFHAT, FARTCOIN, and thousands of tokens launched daily on pump.fun.

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On-Chain Verification: The ability to independently verify any trade by looking up its transaction signature on a Solana block explorer such as Solscan or Solana.fm. Every Stratium trade is a real on-chain Solana transaction with a publicly verifiable signature. On-chain verification means trader performance data cannot be fabricated — all statistics are derived from the immutable public ledger.

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PnL (Profit and Loss): The realized profit or loss from a closed trading position, calculated as (sell proceeds in SOL) minus (buy cost basis in SOL). Positive PnL means the trade was profitable; negative PnL means a loss. On Stratium, PnL is always denominated in SOL and computed from on-chain transaction data. Unrealized PnL refers to open positions not yet sold.
Pump.fun: A Solana platform for launching memecoins using a bonding curve mechanism. Tokens launched on pump.fun start with a fixed supply and a price that increases as more people buy. Once the bonding curve reaches its target market cap (~$69,000), liquidity migrates to Raydium. Many tokens traded by Stratium strategy wallets originate on pump.fun.
Position Sizing: The amount of capital allocated to a single trade, expressed as a percentage of total portfolio or as a fixed SOL amount. Proper position sizing is critical for risk management — allocating too much to a single trade increases the impact of losses. A common guideline is to risk no more than 1-5% of total portfolio per trade.
Private Key: A secret cryptographic key that proves ownership of a Solana wallet and authorizes transactions. Anyone with your private key has full control of your wallet and all funds in it. Never share your private key. On Stratium, your private key is stored AES-256 encrypted — Stratium uses it only to sign trade transactions and cannot use it to withdraw funds to external addresses.

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Realized PnL: Profit or loss from positions that have been fully closed — i.e., a SELL transaction has been executed. Realized PnL is locked in and cannot change. Contrasted with unrealized PnL, which represents the current paper profit/loss on open positions that have not yet been sold. Stratium's leaderboard shows realized PnL only, sourced from on-chain SELL transactions.

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Strategy Wallet: The curated KOL (Key Opinion Leader) wallet being copied by Stratium users. Strategy wallets are selected based on verified on-chain performance history — win rate, total PnL, trade count, and consistency. Distinct from the user's own wallet. When a strategy wallet executes a trade on Solana, all followers automatically mirror it.
Slippage: The difference between the expected price of a trade and the actual execution price, caused by price movement between order submission and execution. Higher slippage tolerance allows trades to execute even when prices move significantly, but risks worse execution. Lower slippage tolerance protects against bad fills but may cause transactions to fail in volatile markets. Stratium uses automatic slippage management via Jupiter.
Sandwich Attack: A type of MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) attack where a bot detects a pending transaction in the mempool, inserts a buy order before it (front-running) and a sell order after it (back-running), effectively "sandwiching" the victim's transaction. The bot profits from the price impact of the victim's trade. Stratium prevents sandwich attacks by using Jito bundles for all trade execution.
Sub-Second Execution: Trade execution that completes in under one second from signal detection to on-chain confirmation. Stratium achieves an average execution time of ~825ms from detecting a strategy wallet's trade to completing the mirrored trade in the follower's wallet. Sub-second execution is critical for copy trading because entry price degrades rapidly after a large wallet's trade moves the market.
Smart Money Wallet: An on-chain wallet associated with sophisticated traders who consistently achieve above-average returns, often identified through on-chain analytics. Smart money wallets are characterized by early entry into profitable tokens, consistent win rates above 55%, and meaningful trading volume. Stratium's KOL wallet list is composed of verified smart money wallets.

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Transaction Signature: A unique cryptographic identifier for every transaction on the Solana blockchain. Every trade executed by Stratium has a transaction signature that can be looked up on Solscan or Solana.fm to verify the exact details: token, amount, price, timestamp, and wallet addresses. Transaction signatures are the basis for on-chain verification of all Stratium performance data.

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Win Rate: The percentage of closed trades (SELL transactions) that resulted in a profit. Calculated as: (number of profitable SELL transactions) ÷ (total SELL transactions) × 100. A win rate of 60% means 6 out of every 10 closed trades were profitable. Win rate alone does not indicate overall profitability — a trader with 40% win rate but large wins and small losses can be more profitable than one with 70% win rate and small wins.

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