# Snipers and launches

> Buy new launches that match your filters with a budget and a breaker, backtested on the last days of launches first. Or launch your own token and trade it in one workflow.

## Snipers

A sniper is a workflow triggered by **new launches**. Every launch that matches its filter gets its own run of the steps, on its bonding curve.

| Part | Sets |
|---|---|
| Launchpad | Pons or Flap on Robinhood Chain; pump.fun or letsbonk on Solana |
| Filter | Tickers, words, the dev's buy, the deployer's history |
| Budget | ETH per launch, ETH in total, and the most launches |
| Breaker | Stops buying after a drawdown |
| Windows | The hours it may buy in |

A typical run buys on the curve, rests a take-profit ladder and a stop, then watches for graduation and trades the new pool.

### Backtest it first

`backtest_sniper` replays a sniper over the last days of real launches before you arm it: what it would have bought, totals, win rate, drawdown, and where the breaker would have tripped. `list_launches` shows recent launches and whether each would have matched.

## Launch your own token

A project can hold its own token launches, with supply steps, liquidity range rules and staged programs.

```steps
### Define the launch
The token, its launchpad (Pons, Flap or pump.fun), and the wallets that buy at launch.
### Preview it
ftw.trade predicts the token's address, its bonding curve and the pool it graduates into before anything is sent, so later steps can name them.
### Write the workflow
A manual workflow with a `launch` step sends it from the creator wallet ftw.trade holds; the steps after it read its outputs: buy on the curve, watch for graduation, then rest orders on the new pool.
### Use a launch strategy
Staged buys, dip buys, take-profit ladders, DCA in a band and counter-trading are ready strategies to run as stages.
```

On a live Pons launch, the **launch book** runs the whole workflow at chain speed: arm it, launch, and pause it if you need to.

## Many wallets

Launch desks often trade from many wallets. ftw.trade can:

- **warm** new wallets: fund each on a staggered schedule and run small round trips so they have history before a launch;
- **buy** aged wallets from the marketplace, with minimum age and transaction counts;
- **fund** them privately through Husher, so nothing on chain links them. See [Private sends](https://docs.ftw.trade/wallets/private-sends).