Entry Strategies
Define when and how your bot enters trading positions.
Overview
An entry strategy is a set of conditions a token must satisfy for your bot to open a position. SharkBlock provides 200+ filter configurations across 12 categories, with timeframe and organic variations. You can combine them as simple filters or as a visual algorithm flow.
Two editor modes:
- Filters — straightforward filter list, all conditions ANDed together
- Algorithm — visual flow with IF / THEN / ELSE branches, AND / OR operators inside each block
See Strategy Algorithms for the flow mode, or Strategy Filters for the simple mode.
Filter Categories (12 Total)
| Category | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Target | DEX / factory selection, token symbol, deployer address |
| Price & Market Cap | Latest price, market cap, ATH/ATL, price change |
| Volume | Total / buy / sell volume (per timeframe, organic variant) |
| Transactions | Trades / buys / sells count (per timeframe, organic variant) |
| Participants | Unique buyers / sellers / traders (per timeframe, organic variant) |
| Liquidity | Pool liquidity, max liquidity, bonding status, SOL reserve, supply |
| Holders | Holder count, top 10/50/100 %, dev / insider / bundler / sniper holdings |
| Trader Types | Counts and buys for insiders, bundlers, snipers, fresh / pro / smart traders |
| Security | Buy/sell tax, burn rate, mint authority, blacklist, transfer-pausable, balance-mutable |
| Visibility | Trending score, rank, DexScreener listing/boost, Twitter rename/reuse, deployer history |
| Timing | Token creation date, age, latest trade date |
| Fees | Fees paid per timeframe, total fees, pool fee % |
Timeframes
Many filters support per-timeframe variants. The available timeframes depend on the field:
- Price change: 1min, 5min, 1h, 4h, 6h, 12h, 24h (7 timeframes — no 15min)
- Volume, transactions, participants, fees, trending score: 1min, 5min, 15min, 1h, 4h, 6h, 12h, 24h
Example: “Volume in the last 5 minutes is greater than $10,000”.
Organic Mode
A subset of filters supports an organic variant that excludes MEV bot activity and likely wash trading. When you enable organic mode on a filter, it uses a cleaned data series.
Available for: volume (total/buy/sell), trades, buys, sells, buyers, sellers, traders.
Useful when you want to validate that human trader interest exists, not just automated noise.
Use Cases
Not sure where to start? See our example setups:
| Use Case | Description | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Scam Protection | Avoid rugs, honeypots, tax traps | Low |
| Sniper Setup | Filters for very new launches | High |
| Whale Detection | Avoid whale-dominated tokens | Medium |
| Momentum Trading | Catch sustained moves | Medium |
| Conservative Strategy | Established, low-risk tokens only | Very Low |
Transaction Presets for Entry
Configure how the buy transaction is sent.
Priority Fee
Priority fee paid to Solana validators to influence inclusion order in the public mempool:
- Low — minimum fee, slower confirmations
- Medium — network average
- High — top-of-block priority
Slippage
Maximum price deviation between quote and execution, in basis points (100 bps = 1%). Valid range: 1 to 10,000 (0.01% to 100%).
Anti-MEV
Bundle protection level:
- Off — public mempool, no protection
- Reduced — private bundle, 0.0001 SOL tip
- Secured — private bundle, 0.001 SOL tip
See Anti-MEV for details.
Next: configure when to exit → Exit Strategies