Copy trading sounds like a single click: find a wallet, follow it, done. In practice it is a set of decisions you make up front, before you ever hit copy.
Banana Gun builds copy trading into the Telegram bot as a group of controls, not one switch. You choose your buy size, how often a wallet can trigger a repeat entry, and what size of token you are even willing to copy into.
Banana Gun walked through this refresh in the copy trade 2.0 recap, worth a read if you want the full picture of what changed.
Choosing a Wallet Is the First Decision, Not the Last
Most people picture copy trading as finding a wallet and letting it run. The order is actually reversed. The controls come first, and the wallet is what you point them at once they are set.
Think about what you actually know about a wallet before you follow it. You can see what it has bought. You cannot see why, and you cannot see what it plans to do next.
Banana Gun gives you boundaries to set instead of a blank follow button, because of that gap. The wallet decides what to trade. Your settings decide what actually reaches your account.
Setting those boundaries before you copy anything is what separates following a wallet from letting a wallet run your account for you.
Buy Fixed Sets Your Size, Not the Wallet’s
When you copy a wallet, you are not required to match its trade sizes. Buy Fixed lets you set your own buy amount and keep it consistent across every trade you copy.
The wallet you follow might size a position however it wants, small one time and large the next. Your account does not have to move the same way either time.
Once you set a fixed buy amount, it holds steady across every wallet you copy, until you decide to change it.
Buy Only Once Stops a Wallet From Filling Your Feed
A wallet you copy might buy into the same token more than once. Buy Only Once is the control that decides whether you follow along each time or just the first.
Turn it on and Banana Gun applies a seven day block against repeat entries from that same wallet. If the wallet buys again inside that window, your account does not copy the second buy.
The block sits at the wallet level, not anywhere narrower. One entry, then a week of quiet from that source before another copy can land.
Buy Only Once exists so repeat activity from one wallet does not turn into repeat entries on your side.
Min/Max Market Cap Filters What You Copy Into
Not every token a wallet touches belongs in your portfolio. Min/Max Market Cap lets you set a floor and a ceiling, so copy trading only fires within that range.
A wallet might buy something tiny and speculative one hour, then something far more established the next. This control is how you decide which of those two you actually want to copy, without watching every trade the wallet makes.
Set the range once and Banana Gun checks every wallet trade against it before deciding whether to copy the buy at all. Trades outside your range simply do not get copied.
Defaults, Modes, and What to Check Before You Follow
Copy trading does not run without a safety net underneath it. Honeypot detection is on by default and blocks contracts you would not be able to sell later. Anti-MEV protection is also on by default, using Jito on Solana.
Fees apply the same way they do on any other order type on the bot. Manual buys and limit orders on Ethereum cost 0.5 percent. Every other chain the bot supports, Solana included, costs 1 percent.
Banana Gun also runs three copy trading modes: Simple, Advanced, and Advanced Presets. The bot shows you what each one currently includes, so check there rather than guessing from the name alone.
Buy Fixed, Buy Only Once, and Min/Max Market Cap are yours to configure however suits the wallet you are following. If you have not set any of this up yet, get set up and configure your own settings before you follow your first wallet.