What is Trade Mirroring?

Trade mirroring is the technical process of automatically replicating another wallet's trades. When the source wallet buys a token, your wallet buys it. When they sell, your wallet sells. It's the mechanism that powers copy trading and shadow trading.

How Trade Mirroring Works on Solana

• •Monitor — Watch the target wallet for new swap transactions using RPC subscriptions
• •Detect — When a new swap is detected, identify the token and trade direction
• •Execute — Submit the same swap from your wallet via Jupiter
• •Protect — Apply risk management (stop loss, trailing stop, take profit) to the new position

Mirroring Considerations

Timing

There's always a small delay between the whale's trade and your copy. On Solana, this is usually seconds, but during high congestion it could be longer.

Price Difference

Because of the timing delay and potentially different trade sizes, your execution price will differ slightly from the whale's.

Position Sizing

You don't need to trade the same amount as the whale. SOL Wallet Shadow lets you set a fixed amount per trade, so your exposure is controlled.

In SOL Wallet Shadow

Trade mirroring runs automatically once you add a whale to your shadow list and enable monitoring. The system handles detection, execution, and risk management — you just set your preferences and let it run.