G01 · 6 min
Slippage, priority fees and why your buy failed
What each setting actually does on Solana: how tolerance is checked against the fill you were quoted, why a tight setting rejects a fill on a fast coin, and why the network fee, priority fee and tip are gone either way.
Practise it: set slippage to 1% on a moving coin, then raise it to 30%.
G02 · 5 min
Reading price impact before you press buy
How constant-product pricing works, why a thin pool punishes size non-linearly, and how to choose an entry you can still exit. Includes the arithmetic behind the impact figure in the panel.
Practise it: buy 1 SOL into a $3k pool and watch the strip turn amber.
G03 · 7 min
Market cap, FDV and what your chart is really showing
Where the number on your terminal comes from, why entry market cap and current market cap have to be derived the same way or they disagree, and what a multiple does and does not tell you about a position.
Practise it: compare Entry MC and Now after a buy; the ratio is the price ratio.
G04 · 4 min
Selling initials without killing the trade
Taking your stake off the table is not invested ÷ price. Fees and impact make proceeds a non-linear function of size, so the honest answer is solved for, not divided.
Practise it: buy, wait for a move, then press Sell initials and read the remainder.
G05 · 8 min
Bonding curves and the migration to PumpSwap
How a pump.fun coin is priced before it graduates, what virtual reserves mean, what changes at migration, and why liquidity behaves differently on each side of it.
Practise it: trade a coin pre- and post-migration and compare the impact.
G06 · 5 min
Keeping a trade journal you will actually read
Using win rate, average hold time and total fees paid to find the leak — and why your fee total is usually the most interesting number on the page.
Practise it: export a week to CSV and sort by fees paid.