Trojan Sniper Settings: Slippage, Fees and MEV
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Trojan's sniper and trade settings live in Trade Settings Profiles: saved presets that control your buy and sell amounts, slippage, priority fee, bribe, MEV protection and auto-sell orders. The settings that matter most when buying new launches are slippage (how much price movement you accept), priority fee (how fast your transaction lands) and MEV protection (whether bots can sandwich your trade). Trojan's documentation does not publish "best" values, so treat any fixed number you see online with suspicion.
This guide explains each field using Trojan's official docs, the trade-offs between them, and a careful way to start.
Where to find Trojan's trade settings
Trojan groups trade settings into Trade Settings Profiles. Three profiles appear the first time you open them, and you can rename and edit each one. A profile holds both a Buy side and a Sell side. Trojan's docs specifically warn you to switch between Buy and Sell and fill in both.
You choose a profile in the trade panel, in the Instant Trade window and in Trenches, so you can keep one profile for careful entries and another for fast new-launch buys.
Separate page-level options (display currency, PnL mode, hotkeys, notifications) sit in the general Settings menu at the bottom right of every page. They change how Trojan looks and alerts you, not how your orders execute.
Every trade setting explained
| Setting | What it does | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|
| Quick amounts | Preset buy sizes in SOL and sell sizes as % of your holding | Bigger presets mean bigger mistakes when you click fast |
| Clipboard Quick Buy | Amount used when Trojan buys a token address copied to your clipboard | Fast, but easy to trigger on the wrong token |
| Priority fee | Extra fee paid to get your transaction confirmed sooner | Faster fills, higher cost on every trade |
| Bribe | Tip used when MEV protection is on | Needed for protected transactions, adds cost |
| Slippage | Maximum price change you accept between clicking and execution | Low slippage fails more often; high slippage can fill at a much worse price |
| Snipe slippage | Separate, usually higher slippage used by the migration sniper | Lets snipes go through on violent moves, at the risk of a bad fill |
| Spam buy / spam sell | Splits an order into up to 10 rapid transactions | Raises the chance some fill; multiplies fees |
| MEV protection | Sends your trade privately so bots cannot sandwich it | Safer price; may be slightly slower and needs a bribe |
| Auto-sell | Creates take-profit and stop-loss limit orders when you buy | Plans your exit in advance; must be set before buying |
There is also a one-time token account deposit of about 0.002 SOL the first time you buy a token. You get it back after you sell.
Slippage and snipe slippage
Slippage is the setting people most often get wrong. When you buy a token that is moving fast, its price can change between your click and the moment your transaction lands. If the change is larger than your slippage, the trade fails. If your slippage is very high, the trade goes through but you may pay far more than the price you saw.
Trojan's FAQ suggests starting around 10–15% and raising it only if trades keep failing. Volatile tokens and wallets that many people copy can need more. Snipe slippage is a separate field for the migration sniper and is usually set higher, because snipes happen at the most chaotic moment of a token's life.
A practical rule: raise slippage in small steps, and look at the price you actually paid after each fill.
Priority fee, bribe and MEV protection
Solana orders transactions partly by fee, so a priority fee helps your buy land before others during busy launches. The cost is paid on every trade, win or lose, so a high priority fee on small trades can eat a large share of your position.
MEV protection hides your transaction from bots that would otherwise buy just before you and sell just after you at your expense (a "sandwich"). When it is on, Trojan uses the bribe you set as the tip for private submission. Trojan's docs note that turning MEV protection off may increase speed but removes that protection.
Trojan's documentation does not publish default amounts for priority fee or bribe. The honest approach is to start small, watch whether your transactions land, and check the total fee shown before confirming.
Auto-sell: take profit and stop loss
Auto-sell places limit orders automatically at the moment you buy, based on your entry price:
- Take profit (T/P): a positive percentage above entry.
- Stop loss (S/L): a negative percentage below entry.
Trojan's docs give this example:
| Order | Trigger vs entry | Sells |
|---|---|---|
| T/P 1 | +100% (2x) | 50% of the position |
| T/P 2 | +200% (3x) | 10% |
| T/P 3 | +300% (4x) | 10% |
| S/L | −25% | 100% |
Rules from the docs: the total sell percentage of your T/P orders and of your S/L orders must each stay at or below 100%; auto-sell must be set before you buy; and if you buy the same token again, close the earlier limit orders first. In Trenches and Explorer, a green indicator shows that auto-sell is active for Quick Buys.
A stop loss is not a guarantee. On thin memecoin markets, price can gap far past your trigger before the order fills.
Quick Buy, Instant Trade and Trenches
- Quick Buy buys instantly with a preset amount. In Trenches you can set a different Quick Buy amount for each column: New Tokens, About to Migrate and Migrated.
- Instant Trade is a floating window with one-click buy and sell presets taken from your profile, with optional hotkeys.
- Quick Sell hotkeys sell 100% of a position at once.
- Trenches filters let you screen launches by launchpad, social links, dev and insider holdings, snipers, top-10 holders, liquidity, volume and token age. Using the holder filters is one of the few ways to avoid tokens where a handful of wallets control the supply.
One-click tools remove the moment where you would normally double-check the token address. That is their whole point, and also their biggest risk.
A careful starting setup
These are steps, not magic numbers:
- Create one profile for careful entries: small buy presets, slippage around 10–15%, MEV protection on, a modest priority fee.
- Fill in the Sell side of the profile and add an auto-sell stop loss before your first buy.
- Make one tiny test trade and read the full cost: Trojan's 1% fee, priority fee, bribe and the token account deposit. See what Trojan really costs.
- Only then create a faster profile for new launches, with higher snipe slippage, and keep its buy presets small.
- Turn on Trenches holder filters before using Quick Buy on new tokens.
Mistakes that cost money
- Copying "best sniper settings" from strangers without knowing what each field does.
- Very high slippage on every trade, not just on snipes.
- Large priority fees on tiny buys.
- Forgetting the Sell side of a profile, or setting auto-sell after buying.
- Clipboard Buy left on while copying addresses from chats.
- Spam buy turned on by accident, multiplying fees.
FAQ
What are the best Trojan sniper settings?
There is no single best setup, and Trojan's docs do not publish one. The right values depend on how volatile the token is and how much you are buying. Start with modest slippage and fees, then adjust based on your own fills.
Why does my Trojan buy keep failing?
Usually slippage is too low for a fast-moving token, or the priority fee is too low to land in time. Raise one at a time, in small steps.
Should I turn MEV protection off for speed?
Trojan notes it may be slightly faster without it, but your trade can then be sandwiched by bots. If you turn it off, you accept that risk on every trade.
Does Trojan have a migration sniper?
Trojan's settings include a separate snipe slippage for the migration sniper, and a Snipe icon appears on tokens about to migrate in Trenches.
Keep learning
- What is Trojan? Fees, features and risks
- Trojan referral code: join with a fee discount
- Trojan fact sheet
- How leverage and liquidation work
Settings and examples come from Trojan's official documentation (docs.trojan.com), checked on the update date above. Features can change; check the current settings in your account.