Time based expiration / Entry Order Expiration

The Time based expiration can only be added when creating an Entry Order. It's purpose is to automatically cancel your Entry Order (and position) after a specified period of time has elapsed. The time is calculated from when you submit your Entry Order.

This can be useful when trading a market that is moving quickly: if your entry has not filled within a period of time, and you believe it is unlikely to fill.

The Time based expiration can be used with all Entry Order types: Market, Limit, Stop Order, Trailing Stop and Ladder. And with long or short positions. Where your Entry includes multiple orders (e.g. a Ladder Order), all related Entry Orders will be cancelled when the Expiry time has elapsed.

Using time based expiration with an entry or smart order

How to Set the Entry Order Expiration

Create your Entry Order as usual
Open the Smart Orders
Switch on Entry Order Expiration
Choose whether you wish to specify Minutes, Hours or Days
To specify the amount of time (marked in blue above) either:

select the number in the box and overtype it. To select the number either click with a mouse, or use Shift + arrow key
move the slider on the right

Valid settings are:

1 to 60 minutes
1 to 24 hours
1 to 30 days

Once the order is placed

During the timer period, if the entry is filled or partl

Question 2

Smart Orders: Trailing Stop Loss: Average Entry and Follow Take Profit

Accepted Answer

The smart Trailing Stop Loss orders: Average Entry and Follow Take Profit are very similar. Both offer protection for the remainder of your position once the first Take Profit order has been reached.

Description

Once TP1 is filled, the Stop Loss moves to the Average Entry Price.
On some platforms this is called “move stop loss to breakeven”.
Both types are suitable when two or more Take Profit orders are included in the smart order. When there is only one TP order, the Stop Loss will never move to the Average entry price, and will stay at its initial price throughout the trade.

Comparison between TSL: Average Entry Price and TSL: Follow Take Profit

The following table shows how the Stop Loss moves as each TP is reached, for both the Average Entry Price and Follow Take Profit TSLs.

Changes to Stop Loss price as each Take Profit is reached, for TSL:AEP and TSL:FTP | TP Target reached | TSL:Average Entry Price | TS

Question 3

Paper Trading on Altrady

Accepted Answer

Altrady’s Paper Trading facility allows traders to practise trading, test and compare strategies, explore exchanges, run bots and place all types of orders on all of the spot exchanges Altrady supports.

Paper Trading is available from V4.0, which can be accessed here or download and install the latest version of the app under Settings>Check for Updates.

See also: Managing Multiple Accounts on the same exchange

| A Paper Trading Account is associated with a specific exchange, in the same way as a Live Trading Account. You can create multiple paper trading accounts, for the same or different exchanges.

Unlike Copy Trading, using a Signal Bot is not a completely hands-off process. While the average win rate for CBS signals is very high (90-97% on average) it is not 100%. Every trader will need to decide what to do when a bot position does not return to profit in a reasonable amount of time. Alternatives are:

manually intervene (add more DCAs. See CryptoTradingDev's YouTube channel for videos on how to do this.)
wait, possibly for a very long time
use a Stop Loss. There is no "perfect" stop loss value. We offer a suggestion here, but the market will change over time and the trader's tolerance of risk is also very important when choosing a value for SL.
manually intervene in most cases, and use a Stop Loss to catch markets with big dumps due to coin delistings, for example.

|| CBS Signals generally provide good returns over the long term. Some months will have drawdowns while others will have high profits.

Suggested Settings

| Entry Field | Suggested Value | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | | Quote Currency | BTC or a Stable coin | Check the CBS Monthly Reports to ensure that there are enough signals for your exchange and quote currency | | Algorithm | Day Trading |

Question 5

How to add an IP whitelist to your API keys

Accepted Answer

In V4.0 Altrady introduced IP binding, for even greater security of your API keys.

Each of your API keys has been allocated a set of 20 Altrady IP addresses. Altrady will only use those 20 IP addresses when sending API requests to the exchange for the specific API key. This means that no third party can use your API key to trade on the exchange, since Altrady owns the IP addresses.

You can find the IP addresses allocated to each of your API keys by Editing your Trading account on the page: Settings>Exchange API Keys

Edit your Trading Account (API key) in Altrady to locate the set of IP addresses for the API key

Here you can see the list of allocated IP addresses for this API key. If you can't see IP addresses on your API keys, you can upgrade to the latest version of the app here or under Settings>Check for Updates. This will download the latest major version using a browser, ready for installation.

||| These IP addresses are linked to the key in Altrady. This list of IP addresses will not work with any of your other API keys.

The following instructions apply to most exchanges, with the exceptions of Bybit, Bittrex and Kraken.

See below to Add IP addresses for Bittrex and Kraken See below to Add IP addresses for Bybit including Futures

Question 6

Grid Bot Backtesting in Altrady

Accepted Answer

Grid Bot Backtesting allows traders to compare grid bot settings, strategies and markets using real historical price data for a period of up to one month. It simulates trades and reports the PnL for the tested scenario, providing an invaluable tool for refining your grid bot trading edge.

Grid Bot Backtesting is available from V4.0, which can be accessed here or download and install the latest version of the app under Settings>Check for Updates.

Fees Results
PnL Breakdown
Investments Backtesting History Simulated Trades How to use the Grid Bot Backtest How does backtesting differ from live grid bot trading?
The impact of your initial investment currency/s and purchases
Stop Loss and Take Profit
Backtesting is conducted in an artificial environment

How to access the Grid Bot Backtester

Choose the Bots option on the left side menu. Then either:

Click Create Bot> Grid Bot, or
Open an existing grid bot, and cho

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