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Guides to automated crypto trading

How DCA, Grid, Signal and Smart Trade bots work, how much money they need, and how to test them safely.

Smart Trade

Smart Trade step by step: entry, split take-profit, trailing stop and risk/reward

A step-by-step walkthrough of the Smart Trade form: entry types, split take-profit targets, trailing stop-loss, breakeven and the risk/reward check.

DCA

How a DCA bot works: base order, safety orders and take profit

A plain-English guide to DCA bots: how the base order, safety-order ladder, step and volume multipliers, take profit and stop loss fit together.

DCA

How much capital does a DCA bot need?

Work out the worst-case funds a DCA bot can use: one full safety-order ladder multiplied by the number of concurrent deals. Includes a worked example.

Grid

Grid bots explained: how they earn and what the fees do to them

How a grid bot profits from price swings, why the step must be larger than round-trip fees, and how arithmetic vs geometric spacing and long vs neutral grids differ.

Smart Trade

Smart Trade: planning a single trade with entry, targets and a stop

How to use a Smart Trade to plan one position: entry price, take profit, stop loss and the questions to answer before you place it.

Signal

Connecting TradingView alerts to a Signal bot

How a Signal bot receives TradingView alerts through its webhook URL, what to paste in the alert message, and how to keep the URL safe.

Basics

Demo vs Real: how to test a bot before it touches real funds

What Demo mode does, how it differs from Real, and a sensible path from simulation to live trading with small amounts.