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Core Volume only trades when the market does. Each time someone buys, a Volume sell sells your share into that buy. When the market is busy it moves more, and when it is quiet it waits.

A Volume sell in the Sonar app: sell strength with a live example.

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When To Use It

Good For

  • Moving size without standing out
  • Selling into demand after a launch
  • Absorbing sell pressure on the buy side

Watch Out For

  • No fixed end time
  • In a quiet market it waits, possibly for a long time

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How It Works

Your strength sets how much of each incoming trade your strategy counters.
  • Small trades: if your share is below the chain’s minimum, it builds up until it is big enough.
  • MEV: bot and MEV volume can be left out with Execution Exemptions.
Pick a direction, set the strength and see what Sonar trades against one incoming order.

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Set It Up

1

Open Create Strategy

Pick the chain, choose Buy or Sell, then Core and Volume. Add a name if you like, and press Continue.
2

Pick The Token And Size

Select the token and how much to trade, the source if more than one holds it, and the counter asset: the chain’s native token or a stablecoin.
3

Set The Strength

Lower is quieter but slower. Higher finishes sooner and is more visible.
4

Add Optional Parameters

Extra parameters, such as limits or a scheduled start. Skip them to run on defaults.
5

Set Strategy

It starts right away, or at your scheduled start.
High Strength Moves The Price
At high sell strength you take most of every buy, which can stall the chart. Combine with a minimum market cap limit so it pauses on the way down.

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Optional Settings

Turning Price Impact Off
A higher threshold, or none, lets trades execute at worse prices, so you may receive less value per trade.

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FAQ

It waits. Volume only trades when real buyers or sellers show up, so there is no fixed end time.
A limit isn’t met. That isn’t an error: the strategy keeps watching and resumes on its own when the condition is met again.
Yes. Strength, limits and most other settings can be adjusted while it runs. See Manage Strategies.

Volume Response

Answers other people’s trades. The bigger the trade, the bigger the share it answers with.

Manage Strategies

Run several strategies on the same token, each with its own rules and balance.