Grid bots
Grid trading: creation, settings, protections, editing, trailing, Infinity
16 articles
How grid trading worksA Grid bot places a grid of orders inside a price range and earns on every swing: it buys at a lower level and sells at a higher oneCreating a Grid bot step by stepA six-step wizard: exchange bot, trading pair, direction, range with levels and amount, grid mode, confirmation — and what the bot checks before the startRange, levels and amount per levelHow to fill in the line 'lower upper level_count amount_per_level', how the bot computes the grid step, the total and the required balance, and which values it rejectsArithmetic and Geometric modesThe difference between an even step in money and an even step in percent, and which mode to pick for a narrow and for a wide rangeConservative, Balanced and Aggressive profilesA profile sets leverage, margin type and trailing of a futures Grid bot in one tap; what each profile fills in and how to correct the values by hand afterwardsLeverage and margin on futuresHow leverage and the CROSS or ISOLATED margin type affect the required balance, the liquidation price and the risk for the whole account of a Grid bot on Bybit FuturesDelayed start by priceA trigger postpones the start of a Grid bot until the price you need: how to set it, how the bot picks the direction, what the status 'Waiting trigger' and the 'Activate now' button meanTrailing and Trailing-DownHow a futures Grid bot extends the grid upward when the upper bound is broken and downward on a drop, what pump protection is and why an extension can be skippedInfinity GridA grid without an upper bound for a spot Long: the bot adds levels upward by itself as the price grows; the grid step, the extension limit and what the bot sendsActive windowHow many levels closest to the price a Grid bot keeps on the exchange, why it matters for a large grid and the 500-order limit, how to choose the window size and change it on a running botStop-Loss of a Grid botThe price at which a Grid bot stops itself and closes the position: where to set it, why the SL must be outside the range, the Mark / Last / Index trigger type and what arrives when it firesThe Grid bot card: PnL and fillsWhat the Grid bot card shows: status, grid parameters, Realized and Unrealized P&L, Funding, the Buy/Sell fill counter, which buttons are available in which status and how to export the level historyPause, hard pause, stop and “cancel orders only”How the four ways to stop a Grid bot differ: what happens to the orders and the position, when work can be resumed and what the bot sendsEditing a running bot and recreating the gridHow to change the bounds, the level count, the order size and the active window of a running Grid bot without stopping it, how that differs from recreating the grid and which edits the bot blocksProtections: out of range, crash, margin, liquidationWhich checks a Grid bot runs by itself: a pause when the price leaves the range and the automatic return, crash protection, a forced close on margin overload and closeness to liquidation, position control and restoring exit ordersWhat a Grid bot sendsAll notifications of a Grid bot: the start, level fills, the daily summary, pauses and closes with a reason, trailing and Infinity, grid edits; which arrive immediately and which go into the digest