Systematic spottrading, automated.
Spot Grid automates structured buy-and-sell activity across a defined price range, helping you manage repeated spot trades without placing every order manually.
- Range
- Upper and lower bound you set
- Levels
- The range divided into steps
- Orders
- Buys below price, sells above
- Outcome
- Realised spread, minus fees
Easy to explain.Worth understandingproperly.
Divide a price range into levels. Buy at each level as price falls, sell at each level as price rises, repeat.
The mechanic takes a sentence. The consequences take rather longer, and they are where most of the value of understanding a grid sits.
Nothing about a grid predicts direction. It is a mechanism for converting oscillation into completed trades, and it performs best in a market that moves within a range and does so repeatedly. What happens when price leaves that range is the whole exercise.
Down through buys,up through sells.
Each filled buy places a paired sell one level higher. When that sell fills, the pair is complete and the spread between the two levels — minus fees — is realised.
Price falls
Buy orders sitting below price fill, one level at a time.
Sells are placed
Each filled buy places a paired sell one level higher.
Price returns
The paired sells fill and the spread, minus fees, is realised.
Two parameters domost of the work.
Everything else about a grid is downstream of how wide the range is and how many levels divide it.
Width decides survival
- A wide range survives more movement before price escapes it.
- But levels sit far apart, so fills are infrequent and capital sits idle.
Set the bounds from observed behaviour over a period comparable to how long you intend to run the grid.
Count decides frequency
- More levels mean smaller spreads captured more often.
- But every pair is two fee events, and tight spacing can hand the spread to the exchange.
Check the level spread against the round-trip exchange fee before activating.
Set it once,then watch it work.
A grid is configured from the same surface as any other bot — market, bounds, level count, allocation — and remains editable while it runs.
- MarketThe spot pair the grid trades.
- BoundsUpper and lower price for the range.
- LevelsHow many steps divide the range.
- AllocationCapital available to the grid, sized for the lower half filling.
Nothing executes until you activate. Review every parameter first.
A grid is nota yield product.
Used with its failure modes understood, a grid is a clean way to systematise repetitive spot activity. Used as a savings account, it eventually surprises the person running it.
Spot Grid does not guarantee returns and is not risk-free. Automated execution does not remove market risk.
Every buy level has filled and no sells remain to be triggered. The grid is fully allocated into an asset that is still declining, and it holds that inventory until price returns into range. This is a normal consequence of the design rather than a malfunction — but the loss is real, and it can be large. Allocate on the assumption that the entire lower half of the grid fills.
A grid runningthrough a range.
Thirteen levels between a lower and upper bound. Filled buys and sells are marked where price crossed each level.
Put a gridon a range.
Set the bounds, size for the case where price leaves them, and let the orders be placed for you.
Trading carries risk and you may lose capital. Automation does not remove market risk. Nothing here is investment advice.