TRADING FEATURES
Trading on Terminal
Terminal is a memecoin execution terminal, not a perpetuals venue. What it sells is speed into new tokens and structured exits out of them, across Solana and four EVM chains.
Everything below was read out of the app's shipped code rather than its documentation, because the documentation is offline and, where copies survive, out of date. If you are new here, start with how to trade on Terminal and come back.
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The Real Order-Type List
Terminal's order enum contains eleven entries. Several of them are live in the app and were never documented anywhere, which is why third-party feature lists disagree with each other. The table below is transcribed from the shipped bundle, with the interface labels next to the internal names.
| Internal name | Interface label | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| MARKET_BUY / MARKET_SELL | Market | Immediate fill at the best available price, subject to your slippage tolerance. |
| STOP_LOSS | Stop Loss | Sells when price falls to a trigger. Sized as a percentage of the live position. |
| TAKE_PROFIT | Take Profit | Sells when price rises to a trigger. Also position-sized and auto-rescaling. |
| TRAILING_STOP_LOSS | Trailing Stop Loss | Stop that follows price upward and holds at the high-water mark. |
| BUY_DIP | Dip | Buys on a drawdown trigger rather than immediately. |
| DEV_SELL_BUY / DEV_SELL_SELL | Dev sell | Fires a buy or a sell the moment the token creator sells. |
| DCA_BUY / DCA_SELL | DCA | Splits an entry or exit into scheduled tranches. Live in the app, absent from the docs. |
| TOKEN_LAUNCH_BUY | Creation | Buys at token creation. Also undocumented. |
Terminal does not have TWAP orders
It is worth stating flatly because at least one widely read review lists TWAP as a Terminal feature and other pages have copied it. There are zero case-sensitive matches for TWAP in the production bundle and no TWAP member in the order enum. The 59 lowercase hits all belong to twapBoost, a pump.fun token-metadata badge that has nothing to do with order execution. If you need time-weighted execution, DCA orders are the closest thing Terminal ships.
Exit Strategies and Position-Based Sizing
The feature Terminal is genuinely good at is leaving a position. An Exit Strategy attaches up to five independent take-profit or stop-loss conditions to a single buy order, each one sized as a percentage of the live position rather than a fixed token amount. If the position shrinks because one condition already fired, the rest rescale themselves. The old documentation described position-based limit orders as available in Terminal only, and whether or not that claim still holds against every rival, the auto-rescaling behavior is the part that matters in practice.
Two constraints to plan around. All conditions execute as market sells, so your slippage setting applies to every exit as well as every entry. And an Exit Strategy cannot be edited after the order is confirmed. Get the ladder right before you press the button, or cancel and rebuild it. The full walkthrough is in Terminal order types and exit strategies.
Sell Initials is the other exit worth knowing: one click sells exactly enough to recover your original stake and leaves the rest riding. It is Solana only and requires the position to be in profit. The Raydium Migration Sniper is its mirror image on the entry side, pre-setting a buy or sell that fires the instant a pump.fun token migrates, tracked in its own Snipes tab.
Trenches, the Discovery Surface
Trenches is where most of Terminal's engineering effort has gone, by a wide margin. It is a three-column bonding-curve terminal covering New, Almost Bonded and Recently Bonded tokens, with saved filters on market cap, volume, top-10 holder concentration, insider holding percentage, bonding progress, dev holdings and token age. Around nineteen card metrics can be toggled on or off, custom sound alerts fire on filter matches, and a dev blacklist holds up to 200 addresses so creators who have already rugged you never appear again.
Alongside it sit Trending, a watchlist, price alerts, an Alpha Tracker pulling callouts from Discord, Telegram, X and pump.fun, an X feed and a news panel. The last four are all live and none of them were ever documented. The safety layer on each token card includes bundle analysis, dev and insider holding percentages, dev funding source, fresh-wallet buys, bot transaction detection, a liquidity-lock icon, a freeze-authority warning and token tax display. On Ethereum and Base there is an AI contract checker; on EVM chains generally there is a honeypot check. Our Trenches guide covers which filters are worth setting.
One caveat on wallet tracking. Terminal's tracker is Padre's own and integrates Cielo Finance. It is not powered by Kolscan, despite that claim circulating widely. Kolscan was a separate pump.fun acquisition in July 2025 and still runs as its own product.
Execution Presets, Inferno Mode and MEV
The archived documentation describes presets called P1, P2 and P3. The live app calls them Normal, Fast and Ultra, plus Inferno. If a guide elsewhere still says P1, it was written against the old docs. Each preset bundles a priority fee, a tip and a slippage tolerance. Defaults sit around 0.001 SOL of priority fee for trades and tips between 0.0001 and 0.001 SOL, rising to 0.012 SOL in Inferno.
Inferno mode is Solana only and works by broadcasting one transaction to bloXroute, NextBlock, Temporal and Jito at the same time. A custom program finalizes whichever route lands first and discards the others, so the tip is paid once, on the winner. It is not user-adjustable. Worth knowing: Jito appears nowhere in the app as a user-facing setting, and the Tip field is generic, described only as SOL paid directly to block builders.
MEV protection defaults to on. It is available on Ethereum, BNB Chain and Solana, and the documentation states plainly that it is not available on Base. Inferno, the Tip field, Sell Initials, the migration sniper, bundle analysis, fresh-wallet buys and bot detection are all Solana-only features.
What Terminal Is Not Good At
Execution speed draws consistent criticism against Axiom, and that is the comparison most active traders are making. A YouTube reviewer in January 2026 named two complaints, PnL calculation he did not trust and slower transaction execution, and two other commenters agreed. We have not measured latency ourselves and we are not going to pretend otherwise, but the criticism is repeated often enough to take seriously. Terminal vs Axiom lays out what is measurable.
There is also no public API. Zero API-key or webhook strings exist in the bundle and no developer documentation was ever published, yet padre terminal api and padre.gg api are both live autocomplete queries. Every product marketed as a "pump.fun API" is third-party and unaffiliated. Copy trading is in the same category: the Automations documentation was deleted and only order attribution remains, so treat it as legacy.
Support is a Discord ticket. The public announcement channel has been silent since 15 October 2025, nine days before the acquisition, so there is no incident feed to check when something breaks. The troubleshooting hub exists partly to fill that gap.
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Order Types & Exit Strategies
The real enum, what each order does, and how to stack up to five take-profit and stop-loss conditions on one entry.
Read the guide →The Trenches Feed
Filters, card metrics, sound alerts and the dev blacklist. How to make the bonding-curve firehose usable.
Trenches guide →Slippage Settings
The 20% default is the most expensive setting in the app for small orders. What to set it to and why.
Fix your slippage →Error Messages Decoded
Slippage Too Low, Trade Limit Exceeded, Account Frozen, Pool Bonded. Every in-app failure string and its real cause.
Error catalog →What Each Trade Costs
Terminal's flat 1%, pump.fun's separate 1.25% bonding-curve fee, priority fees and tips, all in one place.
Fee breakdown →Terminal vs Axiom
The execution-speed comparison most traders are actually making, with the fee and market-share numbers behind it.
Compare →Frequently Asked Questions
What order types does Terminal actually support?
Read straight from the production bundle, the enum is market buy, market sell, stop loss, take profit, dip buy, trailing stop loss, dev-sell buy, dev-sell sell, DCA buy, DCA sell and token-launch buy. The interface labels them Market, Stop Loss, Take Profit, Dip, Trailing Stop Loss, Dev sell, DCA and Creation.
Does Terminal have TWAP orders?
No. At least one widely cited review says it does, but there are zero case-sensitive TWAP matches in Terminal's shipped code and no TWAP entry in the order-type enum. The lowercase hits that do appear all belong to twapBoost, a pump.fun token-metadata badge unrelated to order execution.
What are Exit Strategies on Terminal?
An Exit Strategy attaches up to five independent take-profit or stop-loss conditions to a single buy order. Each condition is sized as a percentage of the live position and rescales automatically as the position changes. They execute as market sells, and they cannot be edited once the order is confirmed.
What is Trenches?
Trenches is Terminal’s bonding-curve discovery terminal and its most heavily built surface. It shows three columns, New, Almost Bonded and Recently Bonded, with saved filters on market cap, volume, top-10 holder concentration, insider holdings, bonding progress, dev holdings and token age, plus a dev blacklist holding up to 200 addresses.
What is Inferno mode?
Inferno is a Solana-only execution mode that broadcasts the same transaction simultaneously to bloXroute, NextBlock, Temporal and Jito. A custom program finalizes whichever lands first and discards the rest, so you pay a tip only on the winning route. It is not user-adjustable, and its presets carry a 50% slippage default.
Does Terminal support copy trading?
Not as a supported headline feature. The Automations documentation page was deleted and only vestigial copy-trade order attribution remains in the code. Treat any third-party description of Terminal copy trading as describing the old Padre product rather than what ships today.
All Trading Guides
Terminal Order Types and Exit Strategies, Explained (2026)
Every order type in pump.fun's Terminal, pulled from the live app: market, stop, take profit, dip, trailing, dev sell, DCA, creation. Plus why TWAP is a myth.
Terminal Trenches Guide: Filters, Alerts and Safety Signals (2026)
A guide to Trenches, Terminal's new-token feed: the three columns, every saved filter, sound alerts, and how to read the bundle, dev and insider safety signals.
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