What matters to know about the risks
The bot trades with real money on your account. Before turning on auto-trade it is worth understanding what can go wrong and who is responsible for what.
What the bot does not guarantee
Before the first launch of a Grid or DCA bot with real money the bot shows a warning and requires you to press ✅ I accept the risks (the consent is asked once per account):
⚠️ TRADING RISK NOTICE • Leveraged trading can lead to total loss of your deposit. • Automated strategies do not guarantee profit. • Exchange or server downtime may cause losses. • You are fully responsible for your decisions.
This applies to signals to the same extent:
- Signals belong to the channel traders. Sync only repeats them on your account with your settings. The quality of the signals, their timeliness and the result are the responsibility of the channel author and your own choice of whom to trust.
- Your result is not equal to the channel's result. You have your own entry price, your own fees, leverage and settings. The channel's notifications about a take-profit being reached are theoretical: the price touched the level, but your order may not have been filled.
- The Grid and DCA strategies work with your parameters. A grid does not earn outside its range, averaging in a long fall freezes your funds.
Leverage and liquidation
Leverage multiplies both the profit and the loss. The bot counts it this way: a 1 % price move against you eats roughly as many percent of the margin as the leverage is (at 10x — about 10 %). Hence its own reference points:
| Leverage | Liquidation is possible on a move against you of |
|---|---|
| 25x | about 4 % |
| 50x | about 2 % |
| 100x | about 1 % |
On liquidation the exchange forcibly closes the position, and the margin on it is lost. The bot warns in advance: with high leverage from a signal “⚠️ HIGH RISK: the trade is opened with 25x leverage…” arrives, with extreme leverage — “⚠️⚠️ EXTREME RISK…”. To stop the bot from taking the leverage from the signal, set your own: Trading settings → “Margin & leverage” → Custom (Leverage).
Example with a calculation
Margin 100 USDT, leverage 10x — a position of 1,000 USDT.
| The price moved against you | Loss | Share of the margin |
|---|---|---|
| −1 % | 1,000 × 0.01 = 10 USDT | 10 % |
| −5 % | 1,000 × 0.05 = 50 USDT | 50 % |
| about −10 % | about 100 USDT | liquidation (fees not counted) |
The same calculation at 2x leverage: −5 % of the price is −10 USDT, a tenth of the margin. That is exactly why 1–3x leverage is sensible for a start.
What protects you
- Keys without withdrawal permission. The bot places and cancels orders, but cannot withdraw or transfer funds (Security).
- Stop-loss. For futures signals without a stop there is the "no SL in signal" policy — a default stop or skipping the signal. If the bot does trade without a stop, it says so honestly: “Warning: the signal trade was opened WITHOUT a stop-loss (bot is configured to trade without SL). Liquidation risk — monitor the position manually.”
- Kill switch. If the total balance on the exchange falls by a set percentage from the snapshot (from 1.00 to 99.99 %), all Grid and DCA bots are paused. It does not turn Signal bots off — auto-trade is removed by hand in the bot card (Kill switch).
- Grid and DCA protections: leaving the range, approaching liquidation, a series of stops — Grid, DCA.
- A warning about CROSS without a stop: “⚠️ Warning: Cross margin without Stop-Loss. If the position goes deep into the negative, liquidation will affect the entire account (including balances of other bots)…”
A sensible start
- Amounts — minimal; on spot the exchange minimum order is around 5 USDT.
- Pairs — liquid ones: BTCUSDT, ETHUSDT. They have less slippage and fewer wicks.
- Leverage on futures — 1–3x.
- Do not touch the bot's orders on the exchange by hand and do not trade with the same keys in parallel.
- Turn on 🛡️ Kill switch with a limit of, for example, 20 %.
- Make your first trade with the notification bot connected and watch it from entry to exit (First trade).
Common errors and what the bot says
- “💥 Warning: the exchange is forcibly closing the position. The price reached the liquidation level (or the auto-deleveraging ADL mechanism triggered)…” — the outcome arrives in the next message; see What to do on a liquidation.
- “⚠️ SL automatically clamped closer to entry (liquidation protection)” — the stop from the signal was beyond the liquidation level, so the bot moved it.
- “🚨 KILL SWITCH TRIGGERED” — the balance fell by the set percentage; check the positions, then 🔄 Reset trigger or 🔒 Disable kill switch.