Exit Strategy · Trenchers Docs

Exit rules decide when your bot sells. They live on the bot's Exit Strategy tab and run on every open position while the bot is active.

Take-profit steps

Each step sells a share of what the bot still holds once the price reaches a multiple of what it paid. Every bot needs at least one step.

With the ladder shown here, a position:

at 2x sells half and keeps half;
at 5x sells half of what is left, a quarter of the original;
at 10x sells the last quarter.

So two 50% steps sell 75% in total, not 100%. If your highest step sells less than 100%, the rest stays open until the stop, the trailing stop or a time limit sells it.

Take-profit & stops

Where the bot sells into a win, and where it cuts a loss.

Sells in 3 steps, from 2x to 10x. Stop at 0.6x.

1xyou buy2x5x10x

0.6xstop15x

Step 1: sell % of what's left when the price hits x.
Step 2: sell % of what's left when the price hits x.
Step 3: sell % of what's left when the price hits x.
Stop: sell everything if the price falls to x of what you paid.

Stop and trailing stop

Stop (the stop loss) sells everything if the price falls to a multiple of what you paid. At 0.6x, that is a 40% loss. Switched off, the bot never sells on a price drop.
Trailing stop arms once the price reaches Trailing activation. It then sells everything if the price slips back to a share of its peak. At 85%, that is a 15% fall from the top.

Other exits

Exit	Sells everything when
Hold timeout	It has held a while with no recent trades, and the price is at least your set multiple.
Dead-token timeout	The token has had no trades at all for this long.
Max hold time	It has held this long, win or lose.
Curve going backwards	The curve slides back below a share of its level at entry. Launch bots only.
Dev starts selling	The creator sells while still holding this much of the supply.
Liquidity-pull exit %	The pool's SOL falls this far from its high.
Fade-from-ATH exit %	The price fades this far below its all-time high.
Momentum-reversal exit %	The price drops this much within 5 minutes.

Migration, and which exit fires

By default a bot holds through a token's migration to PumpSwap. Selling waits while the token moves, then the exits run again on the new pool. Turn on Sell before migration to sell as the curve fills instead.

When several rules match at once, the first in this order sells: the stop, Curve going backwards, the take-profit steps, the trailing stop, the other safety nets, then the time limits.