How to Copy Trade on Telegram: Step-by-Step Setup for 2026

How to Copy Trade on Telegram Safely in 2026 Guide

Copy trading on Telegram means your bot automatically mirrors a target wallet's on-chain buys and sells the moment they happen, with no manual order entry required. You pick a wallet worth following, set how much capital it can deploy on your behalf, and every qualifying trade it makes gets replicated in yours. This guide walks through the full setup inside Banana Gun, the multichain trading bot unified across ETH, SOL, BNB, Base, and MegaETH as of March 2026, using Base asthe working example. By the end you will have an active copy trade running, asensible spend limit configured, and a clear method for vetting wallets before you trust them with real capital.

Before you open any menu, read the safety step below. Target wallets can turn malicious at any time, and copy traders are a convenient source of exit liquidity. Skipping due diligence is the single most common reason copy traders lose money on setups that look good on paper.

What You Need Before You Start

You need three things: a Banana Gun account (login at bananagun.io or via the Telegram bot),a funded Base wallet inside the bot, and the address of the wallet you want tocopy. If you are already set up, skip to Step 3.

Banana Gun Pro at pro.bananagun.io/app and the Telegram bot share the same session, so changes made in one surface appear instantly in the other. Use whichever you prefer.

Step 1: Log In and Protect Your Private Key

1.       Open the BananaGun Telegram bot or go to pro.bananagun.io/app.

2.       Sign in via Privy using Google, Twitter, or Telegram. Pick one method and use it every time. A different login method creates a separate account with a separate wallet, not a recovery path.

3.       On first login, your private key is generated locally and shown once. Write it down offline. Banana Gun is non-custodial; if you lose this key and lose access to your login method, your funds are unrecoverable.

4.       Set a Security PIN. The platform enforces an8-hour delay on PIN changes and a 7-day reset timer, so configure this while you have no pressure to change it.

Step 2: Fund Your Base Wallet

Copy trading on Base requires ETH on the Base network forgas and for the actual trades. The docs are Solana-centric in their on boarding examples, so there is no Base-specific funding screen. The process is the same as any EVM wallet funding.

5.       In the bot or Banana Gun Pro, locate your Base wallet address. It is a standard 0x EVM address.

6.       From a CEX or another wallet, send ETH on theBase network (not Ethereum mainnet, not Arbitrum) to that address. Sending onthe wrong network means funds do not arrive.

7.       Confirm the balance appears in the bot before proceeding. Gas costs on Base are low, but you need enough ETH both for gas andfor the copy trades themselves.

Step 3: Vet the Target Wallet First

This step comes before you touch any copy trade menu. A wallet that posted strong PnL last week can ape into a honeypot today and use your auto-copied position as exit liquidity. The official Banana Gun documentation states this risk explicitly: review the target's recent trades with a wallet scanner before you copy anyone.

Practical checks: look at trade history over the past 14 days, not just the headline PnL number. Count how many of the winning trades were early entries versus late follows. Check if the wallet sold into copy-trader volume on any position. If you cannot find that information, the wallet is not yet worth copying.

The TOP TRADERS widget inside Banana Gun Pro shows the top 50 PnL traders for any token you are researching, with filters formaker balance, labels (developer, bundler, sniper, cluster, top holders), and aPnL card on hover. One click on a maker address opens a direct copy-trade prompt, which makes it fast to act on good research, and equally fast to act impulsively on bad research. Do the wallet scan first. 

Step 4: Open the Copy Trade Widget and Configure Simple Mode

The COPY TRADE function has three tiers: Simple, Advanced,and Advanced with Presets. Simple mode covers everything a first setup needs.

8.       Open COPY TRADE in the bot menu or in the Banana Gun Pro widget panel.

9.       Select the funding wallet you want to use for this copy. If you have multiple wallets across chains, choose the one holding your Base ETH.

10.   Paste the target wallet address and give it a name you will recognize in the overview later.

11.   Set MAXBUY. This is the per-transaction cap. If the target buys $2,000 worth of atoken and your MAX BUY is $50, your copy buy is $50 regardless of their size.

12.   Set SPENDLIMIT. This is the total capital this copy configuration can deploy acrossall copy trades for that target wallet. When the SPEND LIMIT is reached, copying stops automatically. This is your primary capital control, not MAX BUYalone.  

13.   Set SLIPPAGE for the trades. Higher slippage increases fill rate on volatile tokens at the cost of worse execution price.

14.   Set DURATION. The copy runs for this many hours, then expires. You can always extend or restart.

15.   If BUY MEV is enabled, set your MEV Tip. OnBase, Banana Gun supports block 0copy trading via Base Flashblocks, which are pre confirmation sub-blocks that settle approximately every 200ms within Base's standard 2-second block interval. This means your copy order can land in the same block as the target trade at the sub-block level, not that the bot executes in 200ms flat.

16.   To add a Take Profit or Stop Loss to each copied position, toggle LIMIT ORDER on. Configure your targets. This is optional but recommended for managing exits without manual attention.

17.   Confirm. The copy goes live.

Step 5: Use Advanced Options for Precision Sizing

Simple mode mirrors the target's behavior at a fixed cap.Advanced mode gives you control over how your position size relates to theirs.

Buy % : if the target buys 1 ETH and you set Buy % to 20%, your copy buy is 0.2 ETH regardless of your MAX BUY setting. Useful when you want to scale proportionally to awallet rather than cap at a flat amount.

Buy Fixed: always buys a fixed size regardless of what the target puts in. Good when you want consistent position sizing independent of target behavior.

Buy Only Once: copies only the first signal from the target wallet on any given token. After the copy executes, that token is automatically added to your BLOCKED list, preventing re-buys if the target adds to the position later. This limits over exposure to any single token from a single source.

Min/Max Market Cap: filters out tokens outside your preferred size range. Useful if you want tofollow a wallet's mid-cap trades but not its micro-cap speculations.

Copy Sell: mirrors the target's sell transactions as well as buys. Off by default in Simple mode.

Advanced (Presets) lets you save any combination of these settings as a named template. Once saved, the preset appears in the widget and you can apply it to a new target wallet without reconfiguring from scratch each time. For anyone running multiple copy configurations across different wallet types, presets cut setup time significantly.

Step 6: Monitor Active Copies and Manage Risk

COPY TRADE OVERVIEW is your dashboard once copies arerunning. It has three tabs: ACTIVE, HISTORY, and BLOCKED.

ACTIVE shows every live copy with the target wallet address, the description you assigned, total spend so far against the SPEND LIMIT, time remaining on the DURATION, current status (ACTIVE or INACTIVE), and action controls. From here you can pause a copy without losing the configuration, resume it, edit any parameter, stop it entirely (which removes the target from the menu), or review the positions it has opened.

HISTORY is filterable by date, token, type, amount, and contract address. Run this regularly to understand which targets are actually generating positive outcomes for your copy, not just for theirs.

BLOCKED shows tokens that have been excluded from future copy buys. When Buy Only Once is active, any token the bot has already copied gets auto-added here. You can review and remove entries manually if your thinking on a token changes.

A conservative approach to SPEND LIMIT when starting is to set it at a fraction of what you would normally allocate to a single trade idea. Copy trading compounds risk because you are delegating entry decisions entirely to someone else's behavior, with no knowledge of their full context or exit plan. Start small, review HISTORY after a week, and scale up only on confirmed positive results. For a deeper look at what wallet mirroring actually involves across chains, the copytrading explainer on the blog covers the mechanics in full.