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 - **Market-maker monitoring** — follow order lifecycle and AMM-vs-book fill share
 
 Start with the [Phoenix Perpetuals API](/docs/perpetuals/solana/phoenix-perpetuals-api)
-page — it documents every cube with working queries and streams.
+page — it documents every cube with working queries and streams. Then jump to the
+[Perps Trader Cookbook](/docs/perpetuals/solana/perps-trader-cookbook) for
+workflow-shaped recipes: copy-trading a wallet, trader win-rate report cards, top
+unrealized positions, whale fills, OHLC candles, open-interest and order-flow series.
 
 <FAQ
   items={[
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+---
+title: "Solana Perps Trader Cookbook — Copy Trading, PnL & Signals"
+sidebar_label: "Trader Cookbook"
+sidebar_position: 3
+description: "Ready-to-run Solana perps queries: copy-trade a wallet, rank traders by PnL and win rate, unrealized positions, whale fills, OHLC, open interest, order flow."
+keywords:
+  - copy trading api solana
+  - crypto copy trading
+  - copy trading bot
+  - solana perps signals
+  - track perp trader wallet
+  - perp trader pnl api
+  - trader win rate api
+  - unrealized pnl api
+  - whale trades solana
+  - perps ohlc candles api
+  - open interest chart api
+  - order flow imbalance
+  - funding payments api
+  - liquidation leaderboard
+  - solana trading strategy data
+  - perp dex analytics queries
+---
+
+import FAQ from "@site/src/components/FAQ";
+
+# Solana Perps Trader Cookbook
+
+Ready-to-run recipes for the questions traders, copy-traders and strategy builders
+actually ask, built on the [Perp DEX cubes](/docs/perpetuals/). Every query here was
+validated against the live endpoint; swap the example wallet/market for your own. Field
+semantics live on the [Phoenix Perpetuals API](/docs/perpetuals/solana/phoenix-perpetuals-api)
+page.
+
+Two rules apply to almost every recipe:
+
+- **`TraderIsAmm: false`** — the venue's AMM backstop trades every market; leave it in
+  and it tops every leaderboard.
+- **Latest-state snapshots** use `limitBy` + `orderBy: {descending: Block_Time}` — the
+  newest row per key *is* the current state. Don't pre-filter `Closed: false` or
+  `Size: {ne: 0}`: that skips past closing rows and resurrects stale positions. Take
+  the latest row, then drop flats (`Size == 0`) client-side.
+
+## Copy trading
+
+### Follow a trader's every fill, live
+
+Stream each execution of a wallet you follow — the signal feed a copy-trading bot
+subscribes to, including the position each fill produced:
+
+```graphql
+subscription {
+  Solana {
+    PerpetualFills(
+      where: {
+        Fill: {
+          Trader: { is: "DUGirckBgoaW3zoEPhTVVo68pZpXrTKuJrsLBLWcZQo2" }
+          Liquidation: false
+        }
+      }
+    ) {
+      Block { Time }
+      Fill {
+        Asset { Symbol }
+        Side
+        ExecutionPrice
+        Amount { Filled Quote }
+        Position { Size EntryPrice }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`Position { Size, EntryPrice }` after each fill tells you their resulting exposure —
+you see reduces and flips, not just entries. Note that `Trader` is the venue's
+position account (a PDA), which you learn from any of their fills or positions.
+
+### A trader's current open book
+
+Latest state per market for one wallet — what they hold right now:
+
+```graphql
+query {
+  Solana {
+    PerpetualPositions(
+      limitBy: { by: Position_Asset_Id, count: 1 }
+      orderBy: { descending: Block_Time }
+      limit: { count: 100 }
+      where: {
+        Position: { Trader: { is: "DUGirckBgoaW3zoEPhTVVo68pZpXrTKuJrsLBLWcZQo2" } }
+      }
+    ) {
+      Block { Time }
+      Position {
+        Asset { Symbol }
+        Position { EntryPrice Size }
+        MarkPrice
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Rows with `Size: 0` are markets they've fully closed — drop them and the rest is the
+live book, with entry prices.
+
+### Who is worth copying — the report card
+
+Realized PnL, close count, win rate and liquidation count per trader, in one
+aggregation:
+
+```graphql
+query {
+  Solana {
+    PerpetualPositions(
+      limit: { count: 20 }
+      orderBy: { descendingByField: "realized" }
+      where: { Position: { TraderIsAmm: false, Closed: true } }
+    ) {
+      Position { Trader }
+      realized: sum(of: Position_RealizedPnl)
+      closes: count
+      wins: count(if: { Position: { RealizedPnl: { gt: 0 } } })
+      losses: count(if: { Position: { RealizedPnl: { lt: 0 } } })
+      liquidated: count(if: { Position: { Liquidation: true } })
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Win rate is `wins / closes`; a high `realized` with `liquidated > 0` tells you how
+they treat risk. Add a `Block: { Time: { since: … } }` filter to score a recent window
+instead of all time.
+
+## Positions & PnL
+
+### Top unrealized positions and traders
+
+Unrealized PnL is `(mark − entry) × size` over each trader's latest open position.
+One request returns both the position snapshot and fresh marks:
+
+```graphql
+query {
+  Solana {
+    openPositions: PerpetualPositions(
+      limitBy: { by: [Position_Trader, Position_Asset_Id], count: 1 }
+      orderBy: { descending: Block_Time }
+      limit: { count: 3000 }
+      where: { Position: { TraderIsAmm: false } }
+    ) {
+      Block { Time }
+      Position {
+        Trader
+        Asset { Id Symbol }
+        Position { EntryPrice Size }
+        MarkPrice
+      }
+    }
+    marks: PerpetualPrices(
+      limitBy: { by: Price_Asset_Id, count: 1 }
+      orderBy: { descending: Block_Time }
+      limit: { count: 200 }
+    ) {
+      Price { Asset { Id Symbol } Mark }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Then a few lines client-side:
+
+```python
+marks = {m["Price"]["Asset"]["Id"]: m["Price"]["Mark"] for m in d["marks"]}
+open_pos = []
+for r in d["openPositions"]:
+    p = r["Position"]; size = p["Position"]["Size"]
+    if size == 0:
+        continue  # flat = closed
+    mark = marks.get(p["Asset"]["Id"]) or p["MarkPrice"]
+    upnl = (mark - p["Position"]["EntryPrice"]) * size  # signed Size handles shorts
+    open_pos.append((p["Trader"], p["Asset"]["Symbol"], size, upnl))
+
+top_positions = sorted(open_pos, key=lambda x: x[3], reverse=True)
+```
+
+Sum per `Trader` for a whale-exposure leaderboard. Prefer the `marks` alias over the
+position row's own `MarkPrice` — the latter is denormalized and can be `0`.
+
+### Funding a trader has paid or received
+
+Funding settlements are their own rows — `Funding` non-zero, size unchanged:
+
+```graphql
+query {
+  Solana {
+    PerpetualPositions(
+      limit: { count: 100 }
+      orderBy: { descending: Block_Time }
+      where: {
+        Position: {
+          Trader: { is: "DUGirckBgoaW3zoEPhTVVo68pZpXrTKuJrsLBLWcZQo2" }
+          Funding: { ne: 0 }
+        }
+      }
+    ) {
+      Block { Time }
+      Position { Asset { Symbol } Funding }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Positive = received, negative = paid. Replace the field list with
+`total: sum(of: Position_Funding)` for the net carry cost of holding their positions.
+
+## Market signals
+
+### Whale fills
+
+Every fill above a notional threshold — as history or a live tape:
+
+```graphql
+subscription {
+  Solana {
+    PerpetualFills(where: { Fill: { Amount: { Quote: { gt: 5000 } } } }) {
+      Block { Time }
+      Fill {
+        Asset { Symbol }
+        Side
+        ExecutionPrice
+        Amount { Filled Quote }
+        Trader
+        Liquidation
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+As a `query`, add `orderBy: { descending: Block_Time }` and a `limit` for the recent
+whale prints.
+
+### OHLC candles from the mark price
+
+Strategy builders and backtesters: bucket `PerpetualPrices` into intervals and take
+argMin/argMax aggregates —
+
+```graphql
+query {
+  Solana {
+    PerpetualPrices(
+      where: { Price: { Asset: { Symbol: { is: "BTC" } } } }
+      orderBy: { ascendingByField: "Block_Time" }
+      limit: { count: 96 }
+    ) {
+      Block { Time(interval: { in: minutes, count: 15 }) }
+      Price {
+        open: Mark(minimum: Block_Time)
+        high: Mark(maximum: Price_Mark)
+        low: Mark(minimum: Price_Mark)
+        close: Mark(maximum: Block_Time)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`Mark(minimum: Block_Time)` reads "the Mark at the earliest time in the bucket" —
+open; `Mark(maximum: Price_Mark)` is the bucket's high. Price rows are emitted on
+trading activity, so an interval with no trades produces no candle (no
+zero-filled bars).
+
+### Open interest, basis and fee revenue over time
+
+One query per market gives an OI series, the perp-vs-spot basis, and — because
+`TakerFees`/`MakerFees` are cumulative counters — per-bucket fee revenue as
+end-minus-start:
+
+```graphql
+query {
+  Solana {
+    PerpetualMarketSummaries(
+      where: { MarketSummary: { Asset: { Symbol: { is: "SOL" } } } }
+      orderBy: { ascendingByField: "Block_Time" }
+      limit: { count: 168 }
+    ) {
+      Block { Time(interval: { in: hours, count: 1 }) }
+      MarketSummary {
+        oi: OpenInterest(maximum: Block_Time)
+        mark: Mark(maximum: Block_Time)
+        spot: SpotIndex(maximum: Block_Time)
+        takerFeesEnd: TakerFees(maximum: Block_Time)
+        takerFeesStart: TakerFees(minimum: Block_Time)
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Basis = `mark − spot`; hourly taker fees = `takerFeesEnd − takerFeesStart`. Rising OI
+with a widening basis is the classic crowded-longs signal.
+
+### Order-flow pressure — taker buys vs sells
+
+Conditional sums split taker volume by side per bucket:
+
+```graphql
+query {
+  Solana {
+    PerpetualFills(
+      where: { Fill: { Asset: { Symbol: { is: "SOL" } } } }
+      orderBy: { ascendingByField: "Block_Time" }
+      limit: { count: 168 }
+    ) {
+      Block { Time(interval: { in: hours, count: 1 }) }
+      buyVol: sum(of: Fill_Amount_Quote, if: { Fill: { Side: { is: "bid" } } })
+      sellVol: sum(of: Fill_Amount_Quote, if: { Fill: { Side: { is: "ask" } } })
+      trades: count
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`(buyVol − sellVol) / (buyVol + sellVol)` is a ready order-flow-imbalance series.
+
+## Risk
+
+### Biggest liquidations
+
+Rank forced closes by what they took:
+
+```graphql
+query {
+  Solana {
+    PerpetualPositions(
+      limit: { count: 20 }
+      orderBy: { descendingByField: "lost" }
+      where: { Position: { Type: { is: "Liquidation" } } }
+    ) {
+      Position { Trader Asset { Symbol } }
+      lost: sum(of: Position_LiquidatedQuote)
+      events: count
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+For the live feed version and the multi-row anatomy of a liquidation, see the
+[liquidation section](/docs/perpetuals/solana/phoenix-perpetuals-api#positions-pnl--liquidations--perpetualpositions)
+of the Phoenix page.
+
+---
+
+Every `query` above becomes a live stream by switching to `subscription` and removing
+`limit`/`orderBy`/`limitBy` — except the snapshot and interval recipes, which are
+inherently query-shaped. Run them over Kafka instead with the
+[`solana.perpetual.proto` topic](/docs/streams/protobuf/chains/Solana-perpetual-protobuf)
+when you need the full firehose.
+
+<FAQ
+  items={[
+    { q: "How do I copy-trade a Solana perps wallet with an API?", a: "Subscribe to PerpetualFills filtered to that wallet's Trader address over wss://streaming.bitquery.io/graphql. Each fill arrives with side, execution price, size and the trader's resulting position, which is the signal feed a copy-trading bot acts on. Pair it with a PerpetualPositions snapshot to know their current open book before you start mirroring." },
+    { q: "How do I find profitable perp traders to follow?", a: "Aggregate closed PerpetualPositions per trader: sum RealizedPnl for total profit, count closes, and use conditional counts for wins, losses and liquidations. Sorting by the summed PnL gives a leaderboard, and wins divided by closes gives each trader's win rate — all in a single GraphQL query." },
+    { q: "How do I calculate unrealized PnL for open positions?", a: "Take each trader's latest position state per market using limitBy on trader and asset, drop rows whose size is zero, then compute mark minus entry times signed size. Fetch fresh mark prices in the same request with a second aliased query on PerpetualPrices. The signed size makes the same formula work for longs and shorts." },
+    { q: "Can I build OHLC candles for perpetual markets?", a: "Yes. Bucket PerpetualPrices with a Block Time interval and use argMin/argMax aggregates: Mark at the earliest time is the open, Mark at the latest time is the close, and the maximum and minimum of Mark are the high and low. Intervals with no trading produce no candle because price rows are only emitted on trading activity." },
+    { q: "How do I track whale trades on Solana perps?", a: "Filter PerpetualFills on Amount Quote above your notional threshold. As a query with descending Block Time it returns recent large prints; as a subscription it becomes a live whale tape including whether each fill was a liquidation." },
+    { q: "How do I measure buy and sell pressure on a perp market?", a: "Aggregate PerpetualFills per time bucket with two conditional sums of Amount Quote, one where the taker side is bid and one where it is ask. The difference over the total is a ready order-flow-imbalance series for the market." },
+  ]}
+/>
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@@ -508,6 +508,10 @@ subscription {
 
 ## Ideas to build
 
+Worked, runnable versions of the recipes below — copy-trade feeds, trader report
+cards, unrealized-PnL rankings, OHLC candles, OI/basis series, order-flow pressure —
+live in the [Perps Trader Cookbook](/docs/perpetuals/solana/perps-trader-cookbook).
+
 - **Liquidation alerts** — the subscription above, pushed to Telegram/Discord.
 - **PnL leaderboard** — aggregate `RealizedPnl` by `Trader` over `PerpetualPositions`,
   excluding `TraderIsAmm: true`.
diff --git a/docs/streams/protobuf/chains/Solana-perpetual-protobuf.md b/docs/streams/protobuf/chains/Solana-perpetual-protobuf.md
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 title: "Solana Perpetuals Kafka Stream — solana.perpetual.proto"
 sidebar_label: "Solana Perpetuals Stream"
-description: "Consume Solana perpetual futures data over Kafka: orders, fills, positions, PnL, liquidations, prices and open interest as protobuf messages on solana.perpetual.proto."
+description: "Solana perpetual futures over Kafka: orders, fills, positions, PnL, liquidations, prices and open interest as protobuf on the solana.perpetual.proto topic."
 keywords:
   - solana perpetuals kafka
   - solana.perpetual.proto
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         type: "doc",
         id: "perpetuals/index",
       },
-      items: ["perpetuals/solana/phoenix-perpetuals-api"],
+      items: [
+        "perpetuals/solana/phoenix-perpetuals-api",
+        "perpetuals/solana/perps-trader-cookbook",
+      ],
     },
     {
       type: "category",