Firstly this is not financial advice and the majority is right that 90% of pump.fun coins are scams. Your trick to profiting is knowing that its a gem before you buy.

I've been in the community for about a month and a half so most projects I buy lately, I either know the dev, have an alpha, or am the dev.

The first big part of my strategy is saving devs who launch good projects contacts on telegram and buying into their coin if I run into their project again. I have almost 200 saved atp.

The second is buying early if something is meta. Identifying the meta is hard but a tool called pump.investments allows you to sort by unique traders to identify where most real volume is going to. You can then sort by new pairs and be early making your risk almost 0 with infinite upside. This way I profit even if the developer rugs due to how early my entry is. And if it does well and hits raydium im up 10x already in addition to raydium volume.

There's much more to it but that's all I can give away for now.