Creating a Grid bot step by step

A Grid bot is created by a six-step wizard. The extra settings — leverage, margin, trigger, Stop-Loss and so on — are gathered on the last screen, the confirmation.

What you need beforehand

• An exchange bot with API keys: Bybit Spot or Bybit Futures. Spot and futures need two different key pairs and two different exchange bots — see Exchange bot and API keys.
• On futures — One-Way position mode on the exchange.
• A free slot in your plan: every bot takes a slot, including the exchange bot itself. By default you can keep 2 Grid bots at a time; a paused bot also takes a slot.
• A connected notification bot — otherwise you will not see a single event.

Where it is in the bot

Main menu → 🪜 Grid Bots → ➕ Create Grid Bot. The first time you open the section there are five onboarding screens (➡️ Next / ⏭️ Skip).

How to set it up

Step	Screen	What to enter
1	“Create Grid Bot — Step 1/6. Choose an API bot for trading”	Tap the exchange bot you need
2	“Step 2/6. Enter the trading pair”	Text like BTCUSDT: Latin letters and digits only, 2–20 characters; the pair must exist on the exchange. On futures — perpetual contracts only
3	“Step 3/6. Choose the grid direction”	🟢 Long / 🔴 Short / ↔️ Neutral. On spot there are also three buttons, but only Long is accepted — the refusal arrives at the confirmation
4	“Step 4/6. Enter range”	On a single line: lower_price upper_price level_count [amount_per_level], for example 60000 70000 20 6. Without the fourth number — 10 USDT per level. The separator is a space, the decimal separator is a dot
5	“Step 5/6. Choose mode and enter parameters”	Buttons 📐 Arithmetic (uniform) / 📈 Geometric (percentage). The hint shows the current amount per level and leverage; you can correct them with the text amount_per_level [leverage], for example 6 2
6	“Create Grid Bot — Confirmation”	The summary, the profit calculator, the setting buttons and ✅ Confirm creation

Step four is covered in detail in Range, levels and amount per level.

The confirmation screen

Setting buttons on step 6:

• 🎯 Set trigger — a delayed start by price;
• 🛑 Stop-Loss — a stop by price;
• 🎯 Active window: all levels — how many levels to keep on the exchange;
• ♾️ Infinity Grid: OFF — Spot + Long only, a grid without an upper bound;
• 🛠️ Profile: Custom, ⚡ Leverage: x1, ⚖️ Margin: CROSS, 🔄 Trailing: OFF, ⚙️ SL trigger: Mark — futures only; on spot these buttons are absent.

Before your first Grid or DCA bot the bot shows a risk notice and asks you to tap ✅ I accept the risks — once per account. The ❌ Cancel button aborts the creation and clears the wizard: you will have to start from the first step.

After the confirmation

1. “✅ Grid bot created and activated! It will appear in your Grid bot list.”
2. In the notification bot: “⏳ Grid BTC grid. Placing 20 orders on the exchange… It may take a few seconds up to a minute.” With a large number of orders — “Placed 10 of 20 orders…”.
3. “✅ Grid BTC grid. Done! 20 of 20 orders placed. Bot is active and trading.” — the status in the card is “Active”.

For Long, buy orders appear on the exchange only at the levels not above the current price; sells appear as the buys get filled. If a trigger is set, the bot goes to the status “Waiting trigger” and places no orders yet.

Limits and allowed values

Parameter	Value
Pair	Latin letters and digits, 2–20 characters; futures — perpetual contracts only
Levels	2–200
Amount per level	greater than zero and not below the exchange minimum order; 10 USDT by default
Leverage	1–20, futures only; on spot x1
Grid bots at a time	2 by default (paused bots count)
Balance	amount per level × levels (on futures ÷ leverage) with a 10 % buffer

Common mistakes and what the bot says

• “❌ Invalid symbol. Use only letters and digits (e.g. BTCUSDT).” — the name contains a hyphen, a space or non-Latin letters; contracts with a date such as BTCUSDT-27MAR26 are rejected the same way.
• “❌ Symbol BTCUSD not found. Check spelling (e.g. BTCUSDT, ETHUSDT).”
• “❌ Invalid format. Enter: lower_price upper_price levels” — most often a comma instead of a dot in the price.
• “❌ Invalid input. Send amount_per_level [leverage], e.g. 6 or 6 2. Amount is in USDT per level, leverage is an integer from 1 to 20.”
• “Limit reached: 2 Grid bots. Stop an existing bot or contact support.”, “🔒 Plan limit reached: 3 bots (3 in use)…” — free a slot: stop a bot, a pause does not free the slot.
• “Symbol BTCUSDT is already used by Grid bot "BTC grid". Stop it or use a different API key.” — the same applies to a DCA bot and to a signal trade; bots of another exchange bot with the same keys count too.
• “Grid bot requires One-Way position mode. Current mode on exchange for BTCUSDT: Hedge. Switch mode in exchange settings or use different API keys.”
• “Insufficient balance for the Grid. Required: ~132 USDT (with 10% safety buffer for fees and slippage) for the whole grid, available: 100 USDT…” — top up the account or reduce the amount per level or the number of levels.
• “Bot creation cancelled. Real-money trading requires accepting risks.” — you tapped ❌ Cancel.

The checks of the range, the step and the amount are described in Range, levels and amount per level.