Trading settings
Amount, leverage, margin, entries, stop-loss, trailing — one article per setting with an example
18 articles
Trading settings: where they are and how they are appliedWhat the trading settings of a Signal bot are, which screens they consist of and in what order the bot applies them to a signalTrade amount and percentage of balanceFour ways to calculate the entry amount: percentage of balance, fixed amount and two calculations from the acceptable lossLeverageWhere the bot takes the leverage for a futures trade — from the signal or from your settings, the input format and the risk warningsMargin type: CROSS and ISOLATEDHow isolated margin differs from cross margin, why the setting applies to the whole account and what the bot warns aboutEntry distributionHow the bot splits the amount between several entries: ready-made strategies, a manual percentage map, Entry Zone and the first-entry shiftTarget distributionHow the bot splits the position between take-profits: the percentage map, the default 5×20 % layout and what happens when one target is cancelledThe “no SL in signal” policyWhat the bot does with a futures signal that has no stop-loss: skip it, substitute its own stop or open without protectionStop-Loss: settings and trigger typeA stop from the signal or your own percentage, the SL % modes by price and by margin, liquidation protection and which price triggers the stopTrailing EntryA deferred market entry: the bot waits for the price to reverse by a set percentage from the extreme and only then opens the positionTrailing Take-ProfitA take-profit that follows the price at a set offset from the peak and fires only on a pullbackTrailing Stop-Loss and its strategiesFive ways to move the stop on signal trades: Breakout %, Breakeven (target), Moving 1, Moving 2 and what the TP trigger number meansBreakevenHow the bot moves the stop to the entry price — by a target taken or by a percentage of price movement — and where exactly the stop lands with several entriesPartial closesHow a position is closed in parts: take-profit shares, a manual partial close from the trade card and what the bot does with the remainderOpen trade limitsHow many trades the bot runs at once: the Simultaneous open trades setting, the one-signal-per-pair rule and external limitsDefault protective settingsWhat a new Signal bot starts with, why those values are safe and how to bring them back with the Apply default settings buttonBot settings and account-wide settingsWhat is configured separately for each Signal bot, what applies to the whole exchange account and what is common to the whole Sync accountSummary table of allowed valuesAll the ranges of a Signal bot's trading settings in one table: amounts, leverage, entries, targets, stop, trailing and limitsWorked examples: amount, leverage, stopFour end-to-end examples with numbers: amount and leverage, sizing from the acceptable loss, target shares with breakeven, Entry Zone with distribution