Grid Bot Processing
Altrady's Grid Bot allows the trader to generate automated profits on any market that is trading in a range.
Trailing Up and Trailing Down can be used to follow the price to a new range.
You can set the bot to stop processing once it reaches a specific price, using a Take Profit trigger above the grid, or a Stop Loss trigger below the grid.
The distance between the upper and lower prices is divided by the number of orders to get the grid size/spacing between grids. e.g. upper = 80, lower = 70, grids = 10, then the grid size is 1.
You might notice that you would actually need 11 grids from 70 to 80 in steps of 1. However, one of the gaps between grids is double-sized: the trade-free zone.
It moves up and down with the current price. So when the grid bot starts you will have X buy orders spaced at intervals of 1 from the lower price to just below the current price.
The remaining (10 - X ) orders will be sell orders starting from the upper price and spaced according to the grid going down.
So if the current price is 77.2, There would be Buy orders at 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77. And Sell Orders at 79 and 80.
That's 10 orders on the grid, with a double gap around the current price for the trade-free zone.
If the investment amount is 500USDT, then the amount of base currency for the grid is calculated using the investment amount divided by the (current price + 1%).
In this case the total amount of base ccy would be 6.4125, with 0.64125 bought or sold at each grid level.
Depending on whether QUOTE or BOTH currencies are used, the bot is using Quote currency only, the bot might need to buy or sell some base currency to fund the orders.
So in this case, 1.2825 of base currency is bought immediately. Then the remaining orders are all placed: 8 buys and 2 sells.
If the price goes down to 77, that buy order will be filled and a new Sell order is placed at 78.
You will not receive Push Notifications or email notifications of grid bot trades, since these would soon overwhelm your Inbox.
You will receive notifications of grid bot errors. Check these to see if your bot needs any attention
You can define what's used initially--QUOTE or BOTH currencies (both base and quote currency).
When BOTH is used, if you have enough base currency, it would be used to cover the initial sell orders. But some quote currency is also needed for the buy orders. So either you can provide that, or some base ccy will be sold to cover those orders. After the bot has started, only the coins already allocated are used, with profits going to quote currency.
It is possible for the bot to need more funds than the initial position size if Trailing Up is activated. If the bot has made profits, these will be accessed. Otherwise, if other funds are available in the account, those will be used.
Trailing Up is triggered when the current price reaches one grid level above the upper price.
The bottom Buy order is cancelled and and a new Buy is placed place a step above the grid to get some funds for the next Sell.
The Buy is placed at the grid Upper price (which would have been empty).
If the price reverses enough to fill that sell order, then a Sell order is placed one step above.
If the Buy order doesn't fill and the price moves up another step, then the current bottom Buy order is cancelled and a new Buy is placed above the last one.
So effectively the whole grid is being moved up.
The danger with trailing up is:
If your initial entry involved Selling base currency and Buying Quote currency, then when the price increases your initial buy is losing value, which creates negative floating PnL.
Orders above the grid will be more expensive than those in the grid. For TU, the lowest buy order is cancelled and funds used to create a buy order at the top of the grid--the orders will become more expensive as the grid trails up! Beware running out of quote currency. If the order size becomes greater than your available funds, you will continue to receive error messages about not being able to place Buy orders. The best thing to do at this point is to re-grid your bot, i.e. edit it, change the price range (if you think a new range is appropriate), make your orders smaller, and/or leave some quote currency available for the larger order sizes.
The best use for Trailing Up is for following the rising price and moving your Grid to a new, stable range. With Trailing Up, you don't have to manually move your grid when the price moves up.
Trailing is generally not a profitable mode for a grid bot, so it's best to only use it for this purpose.
Trailing Up is generally not recommended for markets that spike up and then return to the original range. In this case, it is more profitable to include the price spikes in the grid range rather than Trailing Up and Down with the spikes.
Trailing down is triggered when the current price reaches one grid level below the lower price.
The top sell order is cancelled and a new sell is placed at the bottom of the grid to sell some coins in order to have funds for the next buy order.
The sell is placed at the grid lower price (which would have been empty).
If the price reverses enough to fill that sell order, then a Buy order is placed one grid below it.
If the sell order doesn't fill and the price moves down another grid level, then the current top sell order is cancelled and a new sell is placed one step below the last one.
Effectively the whole grid is being moved down. No extra funds are used or needed for trailing down.
The 2 dangers with trailing down are:
Order sizes will get smaller due to lower prices. If an order size is less than the minimum for the exchange, the exchange will reject it with an error message. The bot will keep trying to place the order, but will fail. The solution is to either pause the bot, edit it to increase the order size, or wait until the price moves up again.
If your initial order was to Buy base currency, then when the price decreases your initial buy is losing value, which creates negative floating and unrealised PnL.
Similarly to Trailing Up, the best use for Trailing Down is for following the falling price and moving your Grid to a new, stable range. With Trailing Down, you don't have to manually move your grid when the price moves down.
Trailing is generally not a profitable mode for a grid bot, so it's best to only use it for this purpose.
Trailing Down is generally not recommended for markets that spike down and then return to the original range. In this case, it is more profitable to include the price spikes in the grid range rather than Trailing Up and Down with the spikes.
The Take Profit price is static--it does not move up if your bot trails up, or down if your bot trails down. When the price reaches your Take Profit price, the bot will Stop, and all orders will be cancelled. If you have selected one of the options: Convert to Base currency or Convert to Quote currency, then that instruction will be applied to the funds released from your orders, but not your profits or any coins set aside for fees.
When your bot reaches the top of the grid (and your Take Profit price), all orders in the grid will be Buy orders, and all order funds will be in Quote currency. So if you select the option to Convert to Quote, no additional action will be taken by the bot
As for the Take Profit, the Stop Loss price is static--it does not move up if your bot trails up, or down if your bot trails down. When the price reaches your Stop Loss, it will Stop, all orders will be cancelled, f you have selected one of the options: Convert to Base currency or Convert to Quote currency, then that instruction will be applied to the funds released from your orders, but not your profits or any coins set aside for fees.
When your bot reaches the bottom of the grid (and your Stop Loss price), all orders in the grid will be Sell orders, and all order funds will be in Base currency. If you have selected the option to convert to base currency, then no additional action will be taken by the bot.
When you edit a grid bot, if there are existing orders, the value of those is counted in the balance for the account.
When you edit a grid bot that has been running, the currency option will default to BOTH (i.e. use both your Base and Quote currencies to fund the bot). It will add together the funds already in your account with the funds that will be available once the current orders have been cancelled.
Grid Bot Settings
Grid Bot Error Messages
Grid Bot Analytics
Grid Bot Backtesting in Altrady
If you have further questions, please contact Customer Support, liked at the bottom of this page.
Trailing Up and Trailing Down can be used to follow the price to a new range.
You can set the bot to stop processing once it reaches a specific price, using a Take Profit trigger above the grid, or a Stop Loss trigger below the grid.
Bot set up (example)
The distance between the upper and lower prices is divided by the number of orders to get the grid size/spacing between grids. e.g. upper = 80, lower = 70, grids = 10, then the grid size is 1.
You might notice that you would actually need 11 grids from 70 to 80 in steps of 1. However, one of the gaps between grids is double-sized: the trade-free zone.
It moves up and down with the current price. So when the grid bot starts you will have X buy orders spaced at intervals of 1 from the lower price to just below the current price.
The remaining (10 - X ) orders will be sell orders starting from the upper price and spaced according to the grid going down.
So if the current price is 77.2, There would be Buy orders at 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77. And Sell Orders at 79 and 80.
That's 10 orders on the grid, with a double gap around the current price for the trade-free zone.
If the investment amount is 500USDT, then the amount of base currency for the grid is calculated using the investment amount divided by the (current price + 1%).
In this case the total amount of base ccy would be 6.4125, with 0.64125 bought or sold at each grid level.
Depending on whether QUOTE or BOTH currencies are used, the bot is using Quote currency only, the bot might need to buy or sell some base currency to fund the orders.
So in this case, 1.2825 of base currency is bought immediately. Then the remaining orders are all placed: 8 buys and 2 sells.
If the price goes down to 77, that buy order will be filled and a new Sell order is placed at 78.
Notifications
You will not receive Push Notifications or email notifications of grid bot trades, since these would soon overwhelm your Inbox.
You will receive notifications of grid bot errors. Check these to see if your bot needs any attention
Investment currency/s
You can define what's used initially--QUOTE or BOTH currencies (both base and quote currency).
When BOTH is used, if you have enough base currency, it would be used to cover the initial sell orders. But some quote currency is also needed for the buy orders. So either you can provide that, or some base ccy will be sold to cover those orders. After the bot has started, only the coins already allocated are used, with profits going to quote currency.
It is possible for the bot to need more funds than the initial position size if Trailing Up is activated. If the bot has made profits, these will be accessed. Otherwise, if other funds are available in the account, those will be used.
Trailing Up
Trailing Up is triggered when the current price reaches one grid level above the upper price.
The bottom Buy order is cancelled and and a new Buy is placed place a step above the grid to get some funds for the next Sell.
The Buy is placed at the grid Upper price (which would have been empty).
If the price reverses enough to fill that sell order, then a Sell order is placed one step above.
If the Buy order doesn't fill and the price moves up another step, then the current bottom Buy order is cancelled and a new Buy is placed above the last one.
So effectively the whole grid is being moved up.
The danger with trailing up is:
If your initial entry involved Selling base currency and Buying Quote currency, then when the price increases your initial buy is losing value, which creates negative floating PnL.
Orders above the grid will be more expensive than those in the grid. For TU, the lowest buy order is cancelled and funds used to create a buy order at the top of the grid--the orders will become more expensive as the grid trails up! Beware running out of quote currency. If the order size becomes greater than your available funds, you will continue to receive error messages about not being able to place Buy orders. The best thing to do at this point is to re-grid your bot, i.e. edit it, change the price range (if you think a new range is appropriate), make your orders smaller, and/or leave some quote currency available for the larger order sizes.
When to use Trailing Up
The best use for Trailing Up is for following the rising price and moving your Grid to a new, stable range. With Trailing Up, you don't have to manually move your grid when the price moves up.
Trailing is generally not a profitable mode for a grid bot, so it's best to only use it for this purpose.
Trailing Up is generally not recommended for markets that spike up and then return to the original range. In this case, it is more profitable to include the price spikes in the grid range rather than Trailing Up and Down with the spikes.
Trailing Down
Trailing down is triggered when the current price reaches one grid level below the lower price.
The top sell order is cancelled and a new sell is placed at the bottom of the grid to sell some coins in order to have funds for the next buy order.
The sell is placed at the grid lower price (which would have been empty).
If the price reverses enough to fill that sell order, then a Buy order is placed one grid below it.
If the sell order doesn't fill and the price moves down another grid level, then the current top sell order is cancelled and a new sell is placed one step below the last one.
Effectively the whole grid is being moved down. No extra funds are used or needed for trailing down.
The 2 dangers with trailing down are:
Order sizes will get smaller due to lower prices. If an order size is less than the minimum for the exchange, the exchange will reject it with an error message. The bot will keep trying to place the order, but will fail. The solution is to either pause the bot, edit it to increase the order size, or wait until the price moves up again.
If your initial order was to Buy base currency, then when the price decreases your initial buy is losing value, which creates negative floating and unrealised PnL.
When to use Trailing Down
Similarly to Trailing Up, the best use for Trailing Down is for following the falling price and moving your Grid to a new, stable range. With Trailing Down, you don't have to manually move your grid when the price moves down.
Trailing is generally not a profitable mode for a grid bot, so it's best to only use it for this purpose.
Trailing Down is generally not recommended for markets that spike down and then return to the original range. In this case, it is more profitable to include the price spikes in the grid range rather than Trailing Up and Down with the spikes.
Take Profit
The Take Profit price is static--it does not move up if your bot trails up, or down if your bot trails down. When the price reaches your Take Profit price, the bot will Stop, and all orders will be cancelled. If you have selected one of the options: Convert to Base currency or Convert to Quote currency, then that instruction will be applied to the funds released from your orders, but not your profits or any coins set aside for fees.
When your bot reaches the top of the grid (and your Take Profit price), all orders in the grid will be Buy orders, and all order funds will be in Quote currency. So if you select the option to Convert to Quote, no additional action will be taken by the bot
Stop Loss
As for the Take Profit, the Stop Loss price is static--it does not move up if your bot trails up, or down if your bot trails down. When the price reaches your Stop Loss, it will Stop, all orders will be cancelled, f you have selected one of the options: Convert to Base currency or Convert to Quote currency, then that instruction will be applied to the funds released from your orders, but not your profits or any coins set aside for fees.
When your bot reaches the bottom of the grid (and your Stop Loss price), all orders in the grid will be Sell orders, and all order funds will be in Base currency. If you have selected the option to convert to base currency, then no additional action will be taken by the bot.
Editing a Grid Bot
When you edit a grid bot, if there are existing orders, the value of those is counted in the balance for the account.
When you edit a grid bot that has been running, the currency option will default to BOTH (i.e. use both your Base and Quote currencies to fund the bot). It will add together the funds already in your account with the funds that will be available once the current orders have been cancelled.
Related Articles:
Grid Bot Settings
Grid Bot Error Messages
Grid Bot Analytics
Grid Bot Backtesting in Altrady
If you have further questions, please contact Customer Support, liked at the bottom of this page.
Updated on: 30/01/2024
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