You reduce round-tripping by giving each copied position its own exit before the chart moves. In the Banana Gun bot, turn Copy Sells off and use Setup Limit Order to set a take profit at +400%, which is 5x, and the sell follows your rule.
What is round-tripping in copy trading?
Round-tripping is when a position goes up several multiples and comes all the way back to your entry or below while you are still holding it. A 5x that returns to 1x is a round trip, and one that sinks to 0.2x is worse.
You see the green number, you wait for a better one, and the number disappears. Memecoins make this easy because the same speed that lifts a price also takes it away.
A copied position can look like a win for hours. At 3x it feels safe, so you do nothing, and a Copy Sells switch left on keeps waiting for a target that may never sell.
Nothing forces a decision at 3x, so the exit has to exist before you get there.
Why do copiers round-trip when they wait for the target to sell?
With Copy Sells on, you hold until the target wallet sells. That sounds sensible, since the target presumably knows something about the token.
The catch is timing. Banana Gun’s copy trade guide says it directly: “Your fill comes after the target’s, so their exit price may not suit your entry.”
The target bought first and likely at a lower price. When it sells, you sell afterwards, possibly at a worse price, or after the top has already passed.
Banana Gun’s docs add a harsher version: some target wallets use copiers as exit liquidity.
Whether the wallet you copy trades on Solana, Base or Elysium, the order of events is the same. The target fills first and you fill second.
Should you use Copy Sells or your own take profit?
Copy Sells is an on/off switch. With it on, you mirror the target’s sells using Sell Exact or Sell Percentage.
For example, with Sell Percentage at 50% and a target that sells 20% of its position, you sell 10% of yours. Your exit depends entirely on the target’s habits.
With Copy Sells off, you can tap Setup Limit Order to give copied positions their own take profit or stop loss. Pick one per position, and check in the bot how it behaves on your setup.
Turn Copy Sells off for any wallet whose exits you have not reviewed. A rule you wrote yourself does not depend on someone else’s habits.
Before the first copy, read the target wallet’s recent trades, as Banana Gun’s docs advise. A wallet whose recent buys keep collapsing within minutes is telling you something that no take profit can repair.
Set a Tax Limit so high-tax tokens are skipped, and add Buy Only Once to stop repeat buys of the same token.
Where do you enter the 5x take profit?
Send /copytrade, tap Edit on the copy trade you want to change, and turn Copy Sells off. Then open Setup Limit Order and enter the take profit.
Enter +400%, which is 5x. Do this before you switch the copy trade to Active, so the first copied buy already has its exit.
Copied buys appear in /positions, so you can check each one after the target buys. Banana Gun’s blog explains how wallet mirroring works across multiple blockchains if you want the background before you set anything.
Banana Gun Pro, the web terminal reached from bananagun.io, has its own copy trade widget if you prefer a browser.
Why pick 5x, and what does it cost?
Five times is a number you chose before the chart moved, so it does not drift upward as the price does. It replaces the in-the-moment guess with a decision made while you are calm.
The order costs nothing while it waits. You pay fees only when it executes: Banana Gun charges 1% per trade on chains other than Ethereum, and a sell charges the same percentage again.
On Elysium, Banana Gun’s X post adds up to 30% cashback, which trims that cost on that chain.
Many tokens never reach 5x. An order that never fills never charges you, and it never protects you either.
What happens when a token peaks at 4x?
Your 5x order never fills, and you may watch the position fall back to entry. A take profit that price never reaches never sells.
A higher target pays more when it hits and hits less often.
The fix is to choose your number before you buy, and to be honest about what you will accept. If 4x would make you happy, set +300%.
Size each copied buy so that a full round trip is survivable. Use Buy Fixed for your spend per trade and a Spending Limit as a total cap, then pick the target for the first position today.
