If you trade on Solana, you've almost certainly used Birdeye — or you should be. Birdeye is the most comprehensive charting and analytics platform for Solana tokens, combining TradingView-grade charts with on-chain data that you can't find anywhere else.
But most people use maybe 20% of what Birdeye offers. They check a chart, glance at the price, and move on. Meanwhile, the platform has wallet tracking, holder analysis, liquidity maps, trending feeds, portfolio dashboards, and API access that can meaningfully improve your trading.
This guide covers everything Birdeye can do — from basic chart reading for beginners to advanced on-chain analytics for experienced traders.
Getting Started
Connecting Your Wallet
Birdeye works without a wallet connection, but connecting unlocks several features:
- Go to birdeye.so
- Click the wallet icon in the top-right corner
- Connect Phantom or your preferred Solana wallet
- Your portfolio and watchlists will now be personalized
What connecting enables:
- Portfolio tracking with real-time PnL
- Personalized watchlists
- Trade history tied to your wallet
- Alerts and notifications
The Interface
Birdeye's home screen shows:
- Top bar: Search (paste any token address or name), chain selector (Solana, Ethereum, etc.), wallet connection
- Left sidebar: Navigation — Trending, New Pairs, Gainers/Losers, Portfolio, Watchlist
- Main area: Token charts, data tables, or portfolio view depending on what you've selected
Token Charts
This is Birdeye's core feature and what most people use it for.
Reading the Chart
When you open a token page, you see:
Price Chart: TradingView-powered candlestick chart showing price action over time. You can switch between:
- Candlestick, line, area, or bar charts
- Time intervals: 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h, 1D, 1W
- Drawing tools: trendlines, support/resistance, Fibonacci retracement
Volume Bars: Below the price chart, colored bars show trading volume per time period. Green = net buying pressure, red = net selling pressure. If candlesticks and volume bars are unfamiliar, our beginner walkthrough on how to read a Solana token chart explains what each element is telling you.
Key Metrics Panel: To the right of the chart:
- Current price in USD and SOL
- 24h price change (%)
- 24h volume
- Market cap
- Fully diluted valuation (FDV)
- Liquidity (total across all pools)
- Number of holders
- Number of transactions (24h)
Chart Technical Analysis Tools
Click the drawing tools icon to access:
- Trendlines: Draw support and resistance lines across price highs and lows
- Horizontal lines: Mark specific price levels
- Fibonacci retracement: Overlay Fibonacci levels between a high and low point to identify potential reversal zones
- Rectangles and circles: Highlight chart areas for annotation
- Text labels: Add notes directly on the chart
If you're not yet confident interpreting these overlays, our beginner's guide to reading Solana token charts walks through the technical-analysis basics first.
Indicators: Click the indicators icon to add technical analysis overlays:
- Moving Averages (SMA, EMA)
- RSI (Relative Strength Index)
- MACD
- Bollinger Bands
- Volume profiles
- And dozens more from TradingView's library
Time Interval Tips
- 1m / 5m: For active day trading and scalping. Shows every micro-move but generates lots of noise
- 15m / 1h: Best for intraday swing trades. Filters noise while showing meaningful trends
- 4h / 1D: For position trading and identifying macro trends. Use these to find support/resistance levels
- 1W: For long-term analysis. Shows the big picture of a token's price history
Token Overview Page
Below the chart, Birdeye provides a wealth of on-chain data:
Transactions Tab
Shows every swap involving this token in real-time:
- Wallet address (click to view their full history)
- Buy or sell
- Amount in tokens and USD
- Price at execution
- DEX used (Raydium, Jupiter, Meteora, etc.)
- Transaction timestamp and signature
How to use it: Watch the transaction feed during volatile moments. Large buys from new wallets can signal incoming momentum. A series of large sells from top holders is a warning sign.
Top Traders Tab
Ranks wallets by profit/loss on this specific token:
- Total bought vs. total sold (in USD)
- Realized PnL
- Current holdings
- Number of trades
- First and last trade time
How to use it: Identify the most profitable wallets for a specific token, then check their other trades to see what else they're buying. This is one of the best ways to find alpha — profitable traders often discover tokens before they trend.
Holders Tab
Shows the distribution of token holders:
- Top holders with their percentage of supply
- Holder count over time (growing or shrinking)
- Distribution breakdown (how many wallets hold X% of supply)
What to look for:
- If the top 10 holders own 80%+ of supply, the token is heavily concentrated and vulnerable to dumps
- A steadily growing holder count suggests organic adoption
- Sudden drops in holder count can indicate sell-offs or wallet consolidation
Liquidity Tab
Displays all liquidity pools for this token:
- Pool platform (Raydium, Orca, Meteora, etc.)
- Total liquidity in the pool
- 24h volume per pool
- Fee tier
- Pool creation date
How to use it: More liquidity = safer trading. Check that there's enough liquidity to support your position size. If total liquidity is $50K and you're trying to trade $10K, slippage will be brutal.
Trending and Discovery
Trending Tokens
Birdeye's trending page shows tokens gaining the most attention:
- Sorted by volume, price change, or transaction count
- Filterable by time period (1h, 6h, 24h)
- Filterable by market cap range
How to use it: The 1h trending list catches tokens early in a move. By the time something hits the 24h trending list, the initial pump has often already happened. Check the 1h list every few hours for early signals.
New Pairs
Shows newly created liquidity pools:
- Token name and pair
- Initial liquidity
- Time since creation
- Early transaction count
How to use it: This is where new tokens appear first. Filter by minimum liquidity (>$5K) to avoid dust tokens and scams. Cross-reference with MadeOnSol's Deployer Hunter to check if the deployer has a track record.
Gainers and Losers
Simple but effective: tokens sorted by price change percentage.
- Gainers: Tokens with the biggest price increases in the selected time period
- Losers: Tokens that have dropped the most
How to use it: Look for tokens in the gainers list that still have room to run (not yet on major trending lists, reasonable market cap). Losers can be interesting for contrarian plays if the sell-off is overdone — but be careful with low-cap losers, which often keep losing.
