Crypto
Grid Trading
A ladder of buy and sell orders sits on the chart, and the bot fills whichever rung price touches next. It never has to be right about direction, it just needs price to keep coming back.
Watch the bot work the ladder
Set the grid spacing and range, then watch orders fire automatically as price moves through them. Every completed buy-then-sell pair banks the grid spacing as profit. Flip to a trending market to see what happens when price stops coming back.
How it works
- The grid is a ladder of price levels spaced evenly through a range. A buy order sits at every rung below the current price, a sell order at every rung above it, all placed in advance rather than reacted to.
- Filling a buy immediately arms a sell one rung higher. When price ticks down and fills a buy at a given level, the bot doesn't wait for a fresh decision, it automatically places a sell order at the next level up for that specific unit.
- Profit per round trip equals the grid spacing, not the size of any single move. A wide overall price swing means nothing to the bot directly, what matters is how many times price oscillates back and forth across individual rungs, since each crossing pair is a separate small, mechanical profit.
- Tighter spacing means more trades and smaller profit per trade. Wider spacing means fewer trades and larger profit per trade. Neither is automatically better, tighter grids need more back-and-forth chop to pay off, wider grids need bigger swings that still stay inside the range.
Where this breaks
A sustained trend fills every buy and no sells
Grid trading assumes price oscillates through the range. When a market trends persistently in one direction instead, a downtrend fills buy order after buy order on the way down with no corresponding sells ever triggering, because price never comes back up to the rungs above where those units were bought. The bot ends up holding a growing pile of inventory purchased at progressively worse prices, with a mounting unrealized loss that has nothing to do with the grid spacing that looked so reliable during ranging conditions. Flip the toggle above to "Trending" and watch exactly that happen.