Trading on Trenches

Trenches is built for speed: pre-configured presets, one-tap buys from any card, and quick sells from your positions. This page covers the trade flow and every setting behind it.

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Snipe Presets

The snipe config bar is always visible at the top of Trenches. It holds three presets — each a complete trade configuration you can switch between in one click:

• Amount — how much to spend per snipe, in your chosen funding currency
• Buy slippage / sell slippage — your tolerance per side
• Priority settings — how aggressively your transaction competes for inclusion

Defaults ship sensibly (small size, ~10–20% slippage for launch conditions, fast-inclusion settings on) and everything is editable in the preset settings. Fund snipes with SOL, USDC, or USD1 — if a token’s curve quotes in a different currency, Trenches bridges the difference automatically inside the same transaction.

Note

Launch-moment trading needs higher slippage than normal swaps — fast launches routinely move double-digit percent between submission and inclusion. Below 10% your snipes on hot launches are likely to fail; the settings panel warns you accordingly.

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Ways to Trade

1. Quick snipe from a card — one tap on any Live or Explorer card buys with your active preset. Graduated tokens get the same one-tap Buy.
2. The token page terminal — full Buy/Sell panel with amount presets, currency selector, and your slippage / priority / tip settings one tap away. The chart supports overlays for your average entry and exit, and the token’s dev trades.
3. Quick grid — hover (or tap) a position row for an instant grid of buy amounts and sell percentages.
4. Sell from Positions — the Positions tab shows every bag with live PnL; quick-sell buttons fire at your configured sell percentage (default 100%, configurable to 25/50/75% and more).

Transactions are submitted for the fastest possible inclusion, with MEV protection on by default.

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Guardrails

• Price-impact block at 20% — Trenches refuses trades whose quoted impact exceeds 20% of the pool, protecting you from fat-fingering a thin curve.
• Gas pre-check — before a buy, the terminal verifies your SOL covers the trade plus network fees, priority fee, and tips, with a safety buffer, so you don’t strand a transaction mid-flight.
• Trade reverts, not bad fills — if price moves beyond your slippage between submission and inclusion, the trade reverts and you keep your funds (minus network gas).

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Fees

• onchain.cc fee: the same schedule as Swap — 0.50% per trade, with 25–50% returned as cashback by Colosseum rank.
• Launchpad protocol fees: each launchpad charges its own fee on its trades — included in the quoted price you see, not an onchain.cc charge.
• Network costs: Solana gas plus your configured priority fee and inclusion tip.

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Positions and PnL

The Positions tab aggregates every Trenches bag: total value, open positions, and unrealized PnL, with per-position cost basis where available. Pending buys show while a trade confirms. Any position can be shared as a PnL card — copy, download, or post it to X in one tap.

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Warning

One-tap trading is a loaded weapon by design. Check your active preset — amount, slippage, funding currency — before a session. The card you tap is the trade you get.