I’ve been trading crypto on and off for a couple of years, mostly setting limit orders on DEXs and CEXs, but lately I’m itching to automate more of it. I’m talking about small wins of one to three percent per trade and scaling up when it makes sense. Right now my manual trades hit maybe 60 percent of the time and my average profit per successful trade is about 1.8 percent after fees.
I gave a bot a try recently — I used Banana Gun bot for a few weeks, ran ten snipes and got six winners but had four failed transactions that cost me around two dollars each in gas. My net profit was only about three percent overall, so I pulled back. It felt like a lot of babysitting anyway, adjusting gas price and dealing with slippage.
I’m curious what other people are doing for real on-chain automation. Do you run your own scripts on a VPS or use a service? What kind of success rates do you see and how do you protect yourself from failed transactions or MEV front-runs? How do you balance the cost of gas or RPC calls with tiny profit margins?
Would love to hear about your setups, the actual numbers you hit, and which tools or strategies you trust to keep your wins ahead of your costs.
