GridTradingMode

GridTradingMode Activated

Places a fixed amount of buy and sell orders at fixed intervals to profit from any market move. When an order is filled, a mirror order is instantly created and generates profit when completed.

To know more, checkout the full Grid trading mode guide.

Default configuration

When left unspecified for a trading pair, the grid will be initialized with a spread of 1.5% of the current price and an increment of 0.5% and a maximum of 20 buy and sell orders.

When enough funds are available, the default configuration will result in:

Up to 20 buy order covering 99.25% to 89.5% of the current price
Up to 20 sell orders covering 100.75% to 110.5% of the current price

Trading pair configuration

You can customize the grid for each trading pair. To configure a pair, enter:

The name of the pair
The interval between buy and sell (spread)
The interval between each order (increment)
The amount of initial buy and sell orders to create

Trailing options

A grid can only operate within its price range. However, when trailing options are enabled, the whole grid can be automatically cancelled and recreated when the traded asset's price moves beyond the grid range. In this case, a market order can be executed in order to have the necessary funds to create the grid buy and sell orders.

Profits

Profits will be made from price movements within the covered price area.
It never "sells at a loss", but always at a profit, therefore OctoBot never cancels any orders when using the Grid Trading Mode.

To apply changes to the Grid Trading Mode settings, you will have to manually cancel orders and restart your OctoBot.
This trading mode instantly places opposite side orders when an order is filled.

This trading mode has been made possible thanks to the support of PKBO & Calusari.

This trading mode supports PNL history.

Configuration

GridTradingMode inputs

Configuration for each traded pairs.

Pair configuration 1

Name of the traded pair.

Spread: price difference between the closest buy and sell orders in the quote currency (USDT for BTC/USDT).

Increment: price difference between two orders of the same side in the quote currency (USDT for BTC/USDT). WARNING: this should be lower than the Spread value: profitability is close to Spread-Increment.

Buy orders count: number of initial buy orders to create. Make sure to have enough funds to create that many orders.

Sell orders count: Number of initial sell orders to create. Make sure to have enough funds to create that many orders.

[Optional] Total buy funds: total funds to use for buy orders creation (in quote currency: USDT for BTC/USDT). Set 0 to use all available funds in portfolio. Allows to use the same currency simultaneously in multiple traded pairs.

[Optional] Total sell funds: total funds to use for sell orders creation (in base currency: BTC for BTC/USDT). Set 0 to use all available funds in portfolio. Allows to use the same currency simultaneously in multiple traded pairs.

[Optional] Starting price: price to compute initial orders from. Set 0 to use current exchange price during initial grid orders creation.

[Optional] Buy orders volume: volume of each buy order in base currency. Set 0 to use all available funds in portfolio (or total buy funds if set) to create orders with constant total order cost (price * volume).

[Optional] Sell orders volume: volume of each sell order in base currency. Set 0 to use all available funds in portfolio (or total sell funds if set) to create orders with constant total order cost (price * volume).

Ignore exchange fees: when checked, exchange fees won't be considered when creating mirror orders. When unchecked, a part of the total volume will be reduced to take exchange fees into account.

[Optional] Mirror order delay: Seconds to wait for before creating a mirror order when an order is filled. This can generate extra profits on quick market moves.

Fixed volume on mirror orders: when checked, sell and buy orders volume settings will be used for mirror orders. WARNING: incompatible with 'Ignore exchange fees'.

Use existing orders only: when checked, new orders will only be created upon pre-existing orders fill. OctoBot won't create orders at startup: it will use the ones already on exchange instead. This mode allows grid orders to operate on user created orders. Can't work on trading simulator.

Trailing up: when checked, the whole grid will be cancelled and recreated when price goes above the highest selling price. This might require the grid to perform a buy market order to be able to recreate the grid new sell orders at the updated price.

Trailing down: when checked, the whole grid will be cancelled and recreated when price goes bellow the lowest buying price. This might require the grid to perform a sell market order to be able to recreate the grid new buy orders at the updated price. Warning: when trailing down, the sell order required to recreate the buying side of the grid might generate a loss.

Auto-dispatch new funds: when checked, new available funds will be dispatched into existing orders when additional funds become available. Funds redispatch check happens once a day around your OctoBot start time.

Auto-dispatch interval: hours between each funds redispatch check.

Commands

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