Short answer: there are two ways to copy trade on fomo. You can follow a trader inside the fomo app, turn on notifications and place the same trade by hand when the alert arrives, or you can use an automatic copy trading tool such as copy.top, which mirrors a fomo trader's buys and sells from your own wallet with the size and limits you set. The manual way only works if you are on your phone at the right moment. The automatic way works while you are busy or asleep, and you still pick the trader, the size and the exit rules.
What is the fomo app, and what does it let you see?
The fomo app is a social trading app for crypto. People trade tokens from their phone, mostly memecoins on solana and also on other chains such as base and bnb, and their trades are visible to others. Three parts of the app matter for copying:
- The fomo leaderboard. It ranks top traders over several time frames (24 hours, 7 days, 30 days and all time). From there you can open a profile and look at positions and recent trades.
- The live stream of trades. You see buys and sells made by traders on the app, and more of them from the people you follow.
- Notifications. You can get an alert when an account you follow buys or sells, and filter those alerts by a minimum trade size.
So the fomo app shows you what good traders are doing. The question is how to act on it without watching a screen all day.
What are my options to copy a fomo trader?
In practice there are three levels, from fully manual to fully automatic.
| By hand in the fomo app | Alerts with one tap on copy.top | Automatic copy on copy.top | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who places the trade | You, each time | You, in one tap from the alert | The tool, from your own wallet |
| Works when you are away | No | No | Yes |
| Delay after the trader | As long as it takes you to see the alert and buy | Shorter, but still depends on you | Short, though never zero |
| Size per trade | You type it each time | You choose it when you tap | Set once per trader (fixed dollar amount or % of their buy) |
| Sells | You have to catch the sell alert too | You decide when to exit | Can sell with the trader, or on your take profit or stop |
| Best for | Following a few slow traders and judging every trade yourself | People who want the final say on each buy | Following active traders you have already vetted |
Option 1: copy by hand inside the fomo app
Follow the trader, turn on notifications for their buys and sells, and when an alert arrives, open the token and buy it yourself. It keeps a human check on every trade. The weak points are speed and exits. Memecoins can move a lot in the minutes between the trader's buy and yours, and it is easy to catch the buy alert but miss the sell alert three hours later. Miss it and you are still holding a token the trader has already left.
Option 2: copy automatically with copy.top
copy.top is a web app (nothing to install) built for this exact job. You choose traders from the fomo app, set a size per trader, and copy.top copies their trades automatically from your own wallet. You keep your keys: the wallet is yours and its key can be exported. You can also stay semi-manual, because copy.top sends an alert to your inbox when a trader you follow buys, and you can buy in one tap.
One thing to be clear about: copy.top is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by fomo.
How do I copy trade a fomo trader on copy.top, step by step?
- Open copy.top and sign in. Go to copy.top in your browser and sign in with Telegram, Google or a wallet.
- Fund your wallet. Copies are placed from your own wallet, so it needs a balance on the chain where your trader is active (solana for most fomo traders). Start with an amount you can afford to lose entirely.
- Find a trader. Open the leaderboard, which ranks fomo and pump.fun traders by realized pnl over the last 30 days. You can also start from /coins, which shows the coins top traders are buying right now, who bought, how much and when.
- Read the trader page before anything else. Check realized pnl over 7, 30 and 60 days, roi, win rate, median hold time, average position, open and closed positions, and the fair play block (more on this below).
- Set your size. Choose a fixed dollar amount per buy (presets such as $10, $25, $50 or $100) or a percentage of the trader's own buy.
- Choose your options. Turn on "first buy only" if you want just their first buy of each token, "sell with them" if you want to exit when they exit, and add a take profit and a stop if you want your own exit rules.
- Start the copy and watch the first trades. Check that the size and the exits behave the way you expected. You can pause or stop a copy at any time.
The help page covers the settings one by one.
How do I pick a fomo trader worth copying?
The top of a leaderboard tells you who made the most money. It does not tell you whether you would have made money copying them. These are the numbers that separate the two.
- Realized pnl over several windows. Look at 7, 30 and 60 days together. A trader who is strong on all three is more convincing than one huge week. Realized means the profit was actually taken, not a position that only looks good on paper.
- Win rate, read with pnl. A high win rate with small pnl can hide a few large losses. A low win rate with large pnl means the trader depends on rare big winners, and you have to copy long enough (and consistently enough) to be there for them.
- Median hold time. This is the most underrated number for copiers. If a trader's median hold is a couple of minutes, your copy enters after them and exits after them, on a move that may already be over. Traders who hold for hours or days leave room for a copier.
- Average position. A trader who puts thousands of dollars into tiny tokens moves the price with their own buy. Your copy then fills at a higher price than theirs.
- Top trades and open positions. Check whether the pnl comes from one lucky token or from many trades, and whether they are sitting on open positions that are deep in the red.
- Fair play flags. copy.top's fair play block flags behavior that hurts copiers, for example "sells into copiers" (the trader sells right after copiers buy) and "flipper" (sells within minutes), and it shows linked wallets counts. A trader with these flags can show great pnl precisely because copiers are the ones buying from them. Skip those.
How much should I put on each copied trade?
Sizing matters more than which trader you pick, because it decides how much a bad streak costs you.
- Start with a fixed amount. A fixed dollar amount per buy is easier to reason about than a percentage. You know the most you can lose on any single buy.
- Count buys, not just size. An active trader can make many buys in a day. At $25 per buy, twenty buys is $500 deployed. Look at how often the trader trades before you choose the amount.
- Use "first buy only" at the beginning. Some traders add to the same token several times. Copying only the first buy keeps your exposure per token capped.
- Use a percentage only when you know the trader's sizes. A % of their buy follows their conviction (bigger when they go big), but one unusually large buy on their side becomes a large buy on yours.
- Decide your exits up front. "Sell with them" keeps you in step with the trader. A stop limits the damage when a token collapses, and a take profit locks in a gain even if the trader holds on.
What are the risks and the most common mistakes?
Memecoins can go to zero, and copying a good trader does not reduce that risk. You always buy later than the trader you copy, so you get a worse price on the way in and often on the way out. Nothing here is financial advice. Only use money you can lose completely.
Beyond that, these are the common mistakes:
- Copying the number one trader of the week. One week of pnl is often one token. Past results say little about the next month.
- Ignoring hold time and fair play flags. A trader who is in and out within minutes, or who sells into copiers, can win on trades where you lose.
- Sizing too big on day one. Run small for a week or two and compare your results with the trader's before you raise anything.
- Setting it and never looking again. Traders change style, go cold or stop trading. Review each copy regularly and pause the ones that no longer fit.
Automatic copying also has limits worth knowing. On copy.top you can read hyperliquid traders and markets at /hl, but copying hyperliquid is marked "soon", so today the copy works for traders from the fomo app and from pump.fun. If you are comparing tools more broadly, see our guides on choosing a solana copy trading bot and on copying pump.fun traders.
FAQ
Can you copy trade on fomo?
Yes. You can follow a trader in the fomo app and repeat their trades by hand when you get a notification, or you can use an automatic tool such as copy.top that mirrors a fomo trader's buys and sells from your own wallet.
Does copy.top hold my money?
No. Trades are made from your own wallet, you keep your keys, and the wallet's key can be exported.
Is copy.top part of the fomo app?
No. copy.top is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by fomo or pump.fun.
Will I get the same results as the trader I copy?
No. You buy after them, usually at a worse price, with a different size, so your results will differ and can be negative even when the trader is in profit.
Which fomo traders are best to copy?
Look for steady realized pnl over 7, 30 and 60 days, a median hold time long enough for a copier to follow, and no fair play flags such as "sells into copiers" or "flipper". The copy.top leaderboard shows these numbers on each trader page.
Can I stop copying whenever I want?
Yes. You can pause or stop a copy at any time, and you can also change the size or the exit options for each trader.