Ghostbag

Guides & tutorials

Learn the parts
that decide it.

Start with safety, then learn the mechanics. These pages explain the terms people use, the checks a wallet cannot do for you, and the execution details you can practise in Ghostbag.

Foundations

Blockchain basics

Transactions, validators, wallets, smart contracts and finality in concrete terms.

Network

How Solana works

Slots, fees, token programs, liquidity pools and failed transactions.

Market

How memecoins work

Market cap, liquidity, bonding curves, holder risk and why exits fail.

Start here

Memecoin glossary

CA, FOMO, dev, MEV, liquidity, bundles, snipers, bonding curves and multi-wallet setups in plain language.

Security

Wallet safety

Recovery phrases, drainers, approvals, fake links, unsolicited tokens and safer separation between trading and storage.

Risk

Rug-pull checklist

Check the contract, authorities, holders, developer wallets, liquidity and social pressure before acting.

Platform

pump.fun guide

Bonding curves, graduation, current fee structure, market-cap multiples and what to practise.

Research

Wallet tracking

Verify transactions, score a large wallet over many trades and paper-test the delay a follower experiences.

Creators

Launching a token

Supply, authorities, allocations, liquidity, creator fees, operational security and honest disclosure.

Execution lessons

Practise the mechanics.

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.

Still looking for something specific? The Ghostbag FAQ answers common questions about the extension, live prices, wallets, paper fills, MEV and risk.