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title: 'How to Snipe Pump.fun Memecoins and Avoid Rugs'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Qhnc1B4ZhI'
video_id: '9Qhnc1B4ZhI'
date: 2026-08-04
duration_sec: 1024
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# How to Snipe Pump.fun Memecoins and Avoid Rugs

> Source: [How to Snipe Pump.fun Memecoins and Avoid Rugs](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Qhnc1B4ZhI)

## Summary

This video provides a detailed tutorial on trading low-cap meme coins launched on Pump.fun, focusing on how to identify and avoid common scams and rugs. The creator demonstrates the use of tools like Photon, BullX, and Trench Radar to analyze new launches, check holder distributions, and spot bundled buys, while also sharing strategies for trading post-bonding dips and managing risk.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to Trading Low Cap Meme Coins** [00:01] — The video promises a step-by-step guide on trading low-cap market coins, with tips to help viewers and a request to save the video for later reference.
- **Pump.fun Launches and Tools** [00:14] — The creator introduces Pump.fun as a platform for fair launch meme coins, noting that many are scams, and mentions tools like Photon and BullX for trading.
- **Warning About Scams in Comments** [00:27] — A warning about scam comments on YouTube, advising viewers to only use links from the description and pin comment, and to be wary of impersonators.
- **Understanding Pump.fun Mechanics** [01:10] — Explains how Pump.fun works: new launches have low market caps, and when they reach $100k market cap, they 'graduate' to bonding and potentially become real meme coins.
- **Bonding Curve and Graduation** [02:04] — When a coin reaches $102k market cap, it graduates and gets listed on DEXs, potentially running much higher. The bonding curve progress is shown on the platform.
- **Holder Distribution and Threads** [02:17] — Holder distribution is important, but better tools exist. Threads (comments) become more important later, especially for community takeovers (CTO).
- **Community Takeover (CTO)** [02:45] — If the dev abandons the coin, a community takeover can happen where the community manages socials and pumps the coin. This is a positive sign.
- **King of the Hill (KOTH)** [02:57] — Coins featured as King of the Hill on Pump.fun get extra traffic and are generally bullish, though not massively. This is called KOTH.
- **Scam Statistics** [03:25] — At least 80% of Pump.fun launches are scams or rugs, 10% are genuine but die, and only 10% get a run and do okay. The goal is to stick to the 10%.
- **Using Tools to Avoid Rugs** [04:09] — Using proper tools and software is essential to avoid the 80% rugs. The creator will show how to avoid common rugs.
- **Photon and BullX Setup** [04:49] — Recommends using Photon or BullX for trading, and Memescope for scanning. A link to a full Photon tutorial is provided.
- **Memescope Categories** [05:15] — Memescope shows Pump.fun coins in three categories: brand new, about to graduate, and graduated. Filters can be set for each.
- **Moonot and Pump.fun Focus** [05:41] — Moonot is another platform by Dexscreener, but the creator sticks to Pump.fun because it gets the vast majority of volume and attention.
- **Analyzing Holders and Dev Holdings** [06:07] — Using software like Photon, you can see top 10 holders and dev holdings. High top 10 holder percentage (e.g., 37%) is a red flag.
- **Holder Distribution Analysis** [06:36] — The holders tab shows main holders. A liquidity pool holder is fine, but large individual holders (5%, 4%, etc.) are concerning.
- **Bubble Maps Limitations** [07:04] — Bubble Maps shows wallet connections, but scammers know how to bypass it, so it's rarely used anymore.
- **Spotting Snipers and Insiders** [07:17] — The 'Other Trades' tab shows dev trades, sniper trades, and insider trades. Many snipers at launch indicate a likely rug.
- **Fake Chart Movement** [07:45] — Bot buying can create fake chart movement, pumping the price artificially to catch new buyers. This is a scam sign.
- **Trench Radar Bot** [08:13] — Use the Trench Radar bot (trench scanner bot) to check for bundles. It shows if multiple wallets bought supply at the same time, indicating a scam.
- **Bundling Detection** [08:28] — The bot revealed 15 wallets bought 47% supply at the same time, which is a clear scam. Bundles don't show on Bubble Maps.
- **Avoiding Massive Bundles** [09:10] — If you see massive bundling, stay away. Organic coins take at least 15-20 minutes to pump, not instantly.
- **Real People Buying Scams** [09:36] — Transactions show real people buying into the scam, and then snipers sell, causing a rug. Top traders cashed out.
- **Trading Graduated Coins** [10:15] — For graduated coins, you can zoom out and see the chart. After bonding, they often run first, then dip as people take profits.
- **Strategies After Bonding** [10:40] — One strategy is to wait for a dip after the initial run, then buy the pullback. The run's high gives a target.
- **Manual Trading is Essential** [11:08] — Never use automated buying for fast trench coins; always manually buy and sell. Slippage needs to be high (5-10%) to ensure trades go through.
- **Slippage Explained** [12:05] — Slippage allows trades to execute within a price range. For example, 10% slippage means trades trigger up to 330 or down to 270 from 300.
- **MEV Protection** [12:33] — Enable MEV protection to prevent front-running, but it may slow trades. Use 'Fast' mode if trades aren't going through.
- **Holder Check on Graduated Coins** [12:48] — Check holders on graduated coins too; large holders are normal for low market caps, but ensure no massive bundling.
- **Checking Dev Holdings** [13:13] — If the dev has sold or is not involved, it needs to be a CTO. Check threads on Pump.fun for CTO mentions.
- **Finding CTO Information** [13:42] — Search the coin on Pump.fun and check threads for CTO mentions. Dex paid is a good sign that the community is active.
- **Buying the Dip** [14:10] — Wait for the dip to fully form, look for support at round numbers like 100K, and buy when a higher low forms. Take profits at previous highs.
- **Using Small Timeframes** [14:51] — Use 15-second or 1-second charts for precise entries. Look for higher lows and resistance levels.
- **Dexscreener and Dex Paid** [15:31] — Check Dexscreener for the coin. Dex paid means someone paid $400 to list socials, which is important for visibility and trust.
- **Importance of Dex Paid** [16:13] — After bonding, coins get fresh eyes on Dexscreener. Dex paid helps attract volume and can indicate community commitment.
- **Final Advice** [16:27] — Start very small, expect losses, and don't give up. Overall trading performance matters, and big wins can outweigh losses.

### Conclusion

The video emphasizes the importance of using specialized tools to avoid scams on Pump.fun, and provides a systematic approach to trading meme coins, including checking for bundles, monitoring holders, and trading dips with manual execution and high slippage.

## Transcript

by step exactly how to trade lower cap Market coins we're going to go into the pen and paper for this cuz I'm going to show you a lot of great tips here that will help you and obviously save the video if you need to watch it again
we're going to look at pump fun launches and I'll show you all of the tools I use that helps me with these because there are so many scams and rugs on these new for all of the support I'm getting on my channel don't forget to hit the like
button and subscribe for more tutorials like this and a quick warning about the comment section below for any large YouTuber make sure you only use any links or messages from the description section and pin comment section I'm
mentioning this cuz I know a lot of you are new to crypto trading as well obviously there will be genuine comments uh below that but there will be some scam comments too like these ones where random coins are shilled and mentioned
moderating these comments where it is very difficult because there are so many of them coming in especially on my most viewed videos so things like this where they're recommending random traders who help them um these are all scams so make
and messaging anybody who might be impersonating me that goes for my YouTubers as well so just be very very careful right let's get straight to it so pump. fun if you're new to pump. fun this is where you get Fair launch meme
coins and these are the ones that Trend nowadays and do really well uh on on people making a lot of money from but you have to understand how the mechanics works with pumped off fun launches if I go here to the left on this website and
I click on creation time you can see here these are brand new launches and you can see they have very very low market caps and if people buy into them they'll start buying more and if I click on any of these I can see a chart I can
see an area to trade here on the right bonding curve progress so it says here at the bottom as well graduate when this reaches 102,000 market cap so nowadays when it reaches k then it gets uh bonded and then potentially it gets new eyes
and it could run a lot more as well because it comes quote unquote a real meme coin for your purposes you can trade on here and buy and sell and make and then here we have something that's King of the Hill progress and you can
just a minute on the bottom right you've got holder distribution but again there's better uh tools you can use for this stuff now and then underneath here threads this is where people make comments now this becomes more important
later generally for these new launches is not important but if the dev who created this coin buys and sells then how is the coin going to run who who's going to monitor the socials or pump the coin or kind of increase its attention
on Twitter Etc so you need Community to do that and that's where you get sometimes a CTO Community takeover again more on that in just a minute let's just go back to the homepage first scroll up and we've got King of the Hill so every
so often a coin that's trending and doing well it's mentioned here on pump. you can see a 53,000 and it gets featured here at the top sometimes for seconds to minutes sometimes longer and then it gets a lot
more traffic because everybody's seeing that same coin so it's generally reasonably bullish not massively but reasonably bullish for a coin and this reasonably bullish for a coin and this is called King of the Hill c k t h and
again I'll show you why that's important a little bit later in the video so those all pump fun launches all of the new ones a good at least 80% of them are just scams and rugs and then you get maybe 10% and 10% here 10% of these are
not a a rug in any way it's a genuine coin it's just not a very good coin it doesn't have socials or the socials are not very appealing or the memes not very appealing nobody buys into it it just dies and then you get 10% that get a
little bit of a run and do okay the meme is okay it's not any kind of scam in any and it gets genuine holders and people buying into the meme and the beginning signs of a community forming so it's a small percentage and our job as Traders
we just want to try and stick to this area where possible and you know we might have a quick look at this area but with a bit of experience we'll soon know run at all so it's this area we want to stick in now if we end up always in this
rugged cuz we're not using the right tools and software to warn us about make any money from Trading mean coins especially in the trenches it's as simple as that we're trying to avoid this region here and I'm going to show
because I'm going to show you exactly how to avoid the most common rugs that you see on P fun because remember these are not real rugs per se it's just people have worked out ways to game the system and one of the ways they do it
I'll show you now so let's talk about hold account first of all so you need of these new coins either use Photon or bullex those are my recommendations in tabs and there's one called memes scope if you don't know how to set up Photon
follow the link and also I'll link in the top right a video here where I go through all of the setup with you it's a full tutorial on photon if you if you're completely new to it once you click on memes scope these are those same pump.
fun coins when three separate categories the first on the left are the brand new created ones these ones about to graduate we already know these are the ones that are approaching 100,000 in Market cup they're nearly complete in
ones that graduated they're the ones that have gone past bonding curve so they bonded completely now and now they can potentially run into the millions or completely die off as well of course and with each of these you can set up your
own filters here as you can see here and I've got pump. fun another platform is called moonot which is created by deck screener but me personally I tend to stick to pump off fun those are the ones that literally get the pumps they get
the vast vast majority of the volume every single day all of the eyes are on pump. fun tokens all all of the recent coins you've seen go to 50 million 100 fair pump. fund launches let's have a look at one of these and have a look at
one and open and by the way even on this homepage we can see the hold account here volume market cap so this one here holders volume market cap so these three here you can see top 10 holders you can see it's very high 37% I'll show you
then you've got Dev Holdings here too so with any of these new coins why we use software is it gives us extra tools so for example if I scroll down here I've Got a Hold account on the holders tab here this tells me all of the main
holders of this token this is important because we don't want the main holders to have too much of a big holding this one we ignore this is a liquidity pool for bonding progress here so that one's fine that 40% doesn't matter is these
next few you can see somebody holding 5% 4% 4% 3% and so on and you can see the care about percentage so you're having a quick glance at this as you get more faster because these new coins they move very quickly so you need to buy and sell
quickly as well next if you click here bubble Maps this shows us the relation bigger wallets sometimes this can give you insights if wallets are connected here however nowadays um these scammers they know how to get around bubble Maps
so I hardly ever use bubble Maps anymore we have to use other software to help us and I'll show you why so this new coin here is launched and you can see SB all over this is one of the reasons I use these tools if you click on other trades
it shows you Dev trades sniper trades and Insider trades this one as soon as it launched brand new um a lot of snipers bought into this coin which means very likely this is going to be a rug also the way the coins moving in
terms of the chart this is not organic chart movement where it goes up and down volume goes high and low and stuff like that this is bot buying pushing it all further and they're trying to catch people out brand new people some of you
watching might be brand new and you'll buy into this coin this is a scam coin but this helps you this SB sign this sniper sign will help you as will the fake chart another tool I use so if you go here click on copy contract address
and search for this bot it's called trench radar uh scanner and the uh handle is trench scanner bot and I'll link it below in the description as well paste the contract address so what it does it tells you if there's some bundle
interesting it tells me very quickly here in this particular slot number that there were 15 wallets and they all bought Supply at the same time 47% that's your bundle there this is a scam so basically these slots these are
specific timestamps where in the exact same time almost the exact same second loads of wallets but at the same time and that can't really be due to chance you might get a couple due to chance but not 15 all at the same time so this is
of the supply at the same time in different wallets but but then spreading doesn't show on Bubble Maps so bubble Maps is not good enough I repeat bubble Maps is not good enough to prevent what I showed you before the 80% of drugs and
scams you need software like this and this is free to use and if you see any massive bundling like this just stay away but remember for this coin we had signs there as well you've got the fake chart pumping as well and it's pumping
very very quick after launch ually organic coins unless it's something very something like that then it might quickly go to bonding otherwise it takes a little bit longer at least 15 20 minutes maybe longer it doesn't instant
go up within 2 3 minutes so this is a massive scam and if you have a look at transactions here unfortunately uh people are buying into this like real people like me and you like literally buying into this scam and
what's happened sniper sold so it's completely rug now all the way back down to 7 within second within a second or two so they coordinate the cells so all
of these cells were all of those tokens that were bundled together this is how they'll make some money from this and if you click here on top Traders here you can see how much they cashed out in every single position which means people
are getting caught out by this okay next let's have a look at um one of the coins say one that's already graduated let's have a look at that this one that's already graduated so we can zoom out we've got 15sec chart 1 second chart
second and you can see how how it's doing here so it got to bonding which was literally here and now it's running after bonding now let's see how it goes very commonly after bonding what I find
is they can run first there's a few strategies you can play one of them is it can run first and then they'll have a dip where a lot of the people on pumped their profits they want to take their profits so we would be looking at a dip
by here and I want to know where it run to as well because that can give me an here's where I can have a look at some socials as well so click on Twitter this is called warp on Soul so it looks like a cat meme fine we keep an eye on the
hand side here we've got our dashboard where we can click on buy now and we can buy certain amounts when you're trading these fast trench coins never ever be all manual here cuz things are happening too fast so you literally need to uh
too fast so you literally need to uh click on buy now click on sell now never uh automated buying automatic profit unless it's ran really far and you're want to put automatic take profits at certain levels that's a different
scenario but generally you're manually buying I repeat manually buying and selling otherwise you will get into trouble with these because they move so fast the slippage needs to be very high so your trades don't always go through
so for example here let's say if I wanted to buy two um salana I click on advanced settings I would need my slippage to be very high anywhere from 5 to 10% maybe even more what that means is if I want to buy at a certain price
let's say the price is 300K but as I click the buy button the price has gone to 310 or it's gone down to 290 will it still trigger my trade well if my slippage is enough then it will if my slippage is 10% then anything up to 330
slippage is 10% then anything up to 330 or down to 270 anywhere in that region within my slippage settings if that makes sense smart me protection again this whole tutorial just explaining that but generally you want it to be
secure where possible so nobody fronts runs your trades especially when buying trades are not going through just uh click it on Fast instead and that way it little bit on the trade but it's still okay you see this this one's running
even the ones that run well and are anyway let's have a look at holders here because we talking about that before worry about that it's these other percentage holders these ones don't look
too bad um there are a few that are holding a little bit more but it's normal for such a low market cap coin so I wouldn't be worried about that again I sure there's no massive bundling going on because people can still rug even
after uh reaching radium too and the other thing here when you click on other as well there's nothing mentioning the dev here so we just want to quickly look we can't see the dev holding here did the dev sell at all no so there's no Dev
involved so really this needs needs to be a CTO Community takeover um of that particular um Twitter profile or the Twitter profile that was created is a CTO uh profile and you can find information about that one of the best
places is go back to pump. fund search for the coin check in the threads underneath and see if there's any mention so you see here if they mention CTO and you can see um a few people mentioning it CTO Dex is paid by CTO
member and that's the TG link so this is a community takeover and some of these potentially can keep running you can see that Dex is paid so you can check that there too this is the pullback I'm talking about so note where it run to
reasons it gives me the strength of the coin but also the target when I'm buying the dip so let's say this fully dips out so I wait this is how I trade this particular scenario wait for it to fully dip out one of the uh places I'll be
looking at is around 100K round number support as well sometimes 125 as well and then lower if it struggles there maybe 50k but wherever it dips cuz I see some green candles coming in again and then ideally as I've shown you on my
videos before a higher low forming once we get that structure we buy and we must take profits here if it does run here to the previous High that's normal like basic ta basic technical analysis that's a profit level and we manually will sell
out that but if we want to we can go for whole whole number targets as well like 500 if this turns it looks like it might want to turn up 150 we wait patiently and we see and we want to be on a
smaller time frame so I 15 seconds or even a second chart I know it looks a lot noisy on a 1 second but it does really help sometimes so again even on a 1 second here are we going to get a bit of selling again and then a lower high
that see here we run to 200 getting some resistance here normal but if that's the dip then you can either buy a small amount here or you can wait and see if there's a bit more of a pullback to confirm that we've had a higher low so
couple of ways we can look at that but regardless if you're in the position profits there and then wait and see what happens the next place after 500 anyway let's move on so we talked about Dex paid briefly and we saw Dex paid is uh
here but let's have a look at this particular coin on Dex screener now so if we search for it here the same pump upun coin vul all this on the right telegram somebody has to pay that to get socials there and it usually cost
$400 and sometimes a Community member has to pay that if the dev's not in the doesn't care and it's important to pay this cuz a lot of people use Dex screener for trading so this coin first comes on here after it's reached bonding
and it gets it loads and loads of fresh eyes and potentially a lot of new volume that the Dex is paid so we need to check that for coins after bonding to see if that for coins after bonding to see if they run a lot of people pay for decks
bonding or even well before that if they're very confident about the coin they'll automatically apply for this beforehand so I hope you found some of is just start very very small whatever your budget is start with small
positions and build up from there you're going to get a lot of losses especially at the beginning and even now like even me for example when I'm trading I still take plenty of losses all of the time but again it's overall how you doing
your trading that matters and sometimes those massive massive wins can greatly outweigh a lot of a lot es so don't give up either like any new skill it just takes a while to learn thanks for listening