Top Grid Bots

Imagine a fence around the price: a lowest price and a highest price. Inside the fence the robot builds a ladder of small orders — buy orders on the steps below the current price, sell orders on the steps above it.

Every time the price drops one step, the robot buys a little. Every time it climbs one step, the robot sells what it bought one step lower. Buy low, sell a bit higher, pocket the difference — again and again, day and night. Each finished buy-then-sell is called a closed pair, and its profit is added to your balance immediately. The robot does not predict anything. It just reacts — that is its whole trick.

This is not an always-win game. Here is the honest picture:

• The bot wins when the price wobbles up and down inside your fence. Sideways, choppy markets are its favourite weather.
• The bot waits when the price leaves the fence. Below the fence it sits holding the coins it bought (worth less on paper for now). Above the fence it has sold everything and holds your profit — but it misses any further ride up.
• You can lose. If the price crashes far below your fence and never comes back, the coins the bot bought are worth less than it paid. That paper loss becomes a real loss if you sell.

Every trade the bot makes pays your normal trading fee (0.2% for most accounts, less with fee tiers). A closed pair is two trades — one buy, one sell — so a full round trip costs about 0.40%. Every profit number you see already includes fees.

That means the steps of your ladder must be further apart than 0.40%, or every single pair would lose money on fees. The create form checks this for you and simply refuses a grid that cannot pay for itself — the live preview always shows your step size next to that break-even line.

On any market with the Grid Bot tab, choose Simple mode, type how much you want to invest (in the quote currency, e.g. USDT), and press Create. That is genuinely all.

The exchange picks the fence and the ladder for you: a wide, patient setup built around the current price. Wide on purpose — a beginner's bot should survive a big swing, not die in its first week. Expect fewer fills than an aggressive setup, and expect it to keep quietly working through storms.

Easy bots wear a small EASY tag everywhere. You can add a stop-loss or take-profit to one later with Edit — Easy only keeps the first form simple.

Price mode. Arithmetic means equal spacing: every step is the same amount apart (e.g. every 500 USDT). Simple and right for most fences. Geometric means equal percentage: every step is the same percent apart (e.g. every 1.5%), so near the bottom of a wide fence the steps sit closer together and near the top further apart — every step "feels" the same size to the market. Rule of thumb: fence narrower than about ±10%? Arithmetic. Much wider? Consider geometric.

Lower price & Upper price — the fence. The lowest and highest price your robot works inside. Below the lower price it stops buying (out of steps); above the upper price it has sold everything it bought. A wide fence survives big moves, but steps are further apart, so fewer fills. A narrow fence fills often, but the price escapes it more easily. Put the current price roughly in the middle unless you have a strong opinion about direction. Not sure where to put it? The Last 7 days / Last 30 days buttons under the two price fields fill the fence with the lowest and highest price the market actually traded in that window — a starting point read off the real chart, not a guess. Adjust it afterwards as you like.

Number of grids — the steps of the ladder. How many steps the fence is cut into. Your step size is the fence width divided by this number — it is the single most important number of your bot. More grids: smaller steps, more fills, smaller profit per fill. Fewer grids: bigger steps, rarer fills, bigger profit per fill. Steps must stay above the ~0.40% round-trip fee floor — the preview shows exactly where you stand.

Investment — what actually happens to your money. You invest in the quote currency (e.g. USDT). Part is reserved for the buy orders waiting on the lower steps. Part is spent immediately on the starting inventory — the coins the sell steps above the price need. The robot buys those once when it starts (the short arming phase). Everything sits as ordinary open orders in your own account — nothing is held in escrow, and stopping the bot releases it all back to you.

Trigger price — start later, not now. Optional. "Do not start until the price reaches X." The bot sits in Pending, holding no orders and no funds, and springs to life when the price touches your trigger. Whether that means "on the way up" or "on the way down" is decided automatically from where the price is when you create the bot. While a bot is still Pending you can change the trigger with Edit. Once it fires, it is spent — it cannot be changed afterwards.

Stop-loss — the emergency exit below. Optional. A price below your fence. If the market falls that far, the robot stops itself: it cancels all its orders, and — if you ticked the "Sell my … back when the bot stops" box — also sells the coins it is holding back to quote at the market price, so the damage stops there. It must sit below the fence and below the current price — inside the fence it would fire on a perfectly normal step. The form checks this for you.

Take-profit — the finish line above. Optional. A price above your fence. If the market climbs that far, the robot declares victory and stops, with all its profit banked. Must sit above the fence and above the current price.

The live preview. While you type, the server shows the exact ladder your plan would build: every price level, the step size against the 0.40% break-even, how much cash your steps reserve and how much starting inventory the bot buys. If the preview refuses your plan, the Create button would refuse it too — it is the same judge. Read it before you press Create.

Normally, when the price climbs out the top of your fence, the bot has sold everything it bought and simply waits — nothing fills until the price comes back. Trailing up (a checkbox under Advanced when you create a bot, and in Edit afterwards) changes that: each time the price breaks above the top of the fence, the fence moves up one step to follow it. The lowest step is dropped, one new step is added above the top, and the ladder stays exactly the same size.

Only the two edge steps change hands: the buy waiting at the dropped bottom step is cancelled, and a new buy is placed on the step just vacated under the new top. Every other order stays exactly where it was — the bot never tears its ladder down to move it. The new buy is paid for out of the profit the climb just banked; if you have withdrawn that money, the bot simply keeps trying that one step on later passes until it can afford it.

The optional trailing cap is a ceiling: the fence never follows above that price — it parks there and behaves like a normal fixed fence. The cap does not stop the bot (that is what take-profit is for; a take-profit always outranks the trail). Two honest warnings: the fence only trails up, never back down — after a rally-then-crash the price can be left below the moved fence, holding coins bought on the way; and each step up buys slightly higher than the last, so trailing works best in a market you expect to grind upward, not spike and collapse.

• Fills — how many closed pairs the bot has completed.
• Grid Profit (booked) — money already yours, sitting in your balance. Nobody can take it back.
• Unrealized — the paper value of the coins the bot is currently holding, at the last traded price. It moves with the market and only becomes real when those coins are sold.
• Total PnL = booked + unrealized. This is the honest number: it CAN be red while booked is green — that means the market moved against the coins the bot holds, and the bot is waiting.

What the statuses mean:

• Pending — waiting for your trigger price. Holds nothing yet.
• Arming — buying its starting coins. Takes moments.
• Running — the ladder is live and trading.
• Paused — orders withdrawn, funds released, settings kept. Resume any time.
• Stopping — winding down on your command.
• Stopped / Failed — finished. The row keeps its history; hover it to see the reason.

Every button, explained:

• Pause — withdraw the orders, free the funds, keep the settings. Resume rebuilds the ladder.
• Edit — change the stop-loss and take-profit of a live bot, the trigger while it is still Pending, whether an automatic stop (a stop-loss or take-profit firing) sells the held coins back or keeps them, and the Trailing up switch and its cap. Changing the fence or the steps themselves needs a fresh ladder — the Change grid… link inside Edit stops this bot (your coins stay yours) and reopens the create form pre-filled with its settings for you to adjust.
• Stop · keep — cancel every order; whatever coins the bot holds stay in your wallet exactly as they are.
• Sell all — cancel every order AND sell the bot's holdings back to quote at the market price, right away. Turns paper PnL into real PnL. Cannot be undone.
• Details — open this bot's own page: its numbers, the orders resting on the book right now, its fill history, and the grid ladder with every level and where the price sits in it. Available for finished bots too.
• Trade — jump to the bot's market page.
• Running filter and Show Stopped — filter your list. Export CSV — download all your bots and their numbers as a spreadsheet.

"Sit back and wait" — the patient setup. A wide fence (about ±10–15% around the price) with moderate steps (1–1.5% apart). This is what Easy Mode builds for you. Fills come slowly — sometimes days apart in quiet markets. Big swings stay inside the fence, so the bot rarely needs your attention. Perfect if you want to check in once a week and let the market chop away.

The aggressive setup — many fills, more babysitting. A narrow fence (±1–3%) with steps close to the fee floor (0.5–0.8%). Advanced Mode only. Fills can come many times a day — each one small, but they add up in chop. The flip side: the price escapes a narrow fence easily, and when it does the bot just waits. Have a plan ready: move the fence (Edit → Change grid…), stop and keep, or sell all. An aggressive bot deserves a stop-loss.

• Patient (what Easy Mode builds) — fence ±10–15%, steps 1–1.5%, fills every few days. Survives storms, minimal effort.
• Middle — fence ±5%, steps 0.7–1%, fills most days. Balanced.
• Aggressive — fence ±1–3%, steps 0.5–0.8%, fills many per day. Needs watching and a stop-loss.

It happens to every grid bot eventually: the market walks out of the fence, and the remaining orders simply cannot fill until the price comes back. The bot is not broken — it is waiting. Which side the price left on decides how that feels:

• Above the top. The bot sold its coins on the way up — each sale in profit — and now sits fully in your quote currency. Nothing is losing money; every fill it made is already banked. You are only missing the ride beyond the fence.
• Below the bottom. The bot bought on the way down and now holds those coins at a paper loss, waiting for the way back. Your booked profit stays yours; the held coins only become a real loss if they are sold.

Your three options, from patient to decisive:

1. Wait. Markets return to old ranges more often than headlines suggest, and the moment the price re-enters the fence the bot resumes on its own — there is nothing to press. The cost is time: your money idles while it waits.
2. Move the fence. Open Edit → Change grid… on the bot: it is stopped (your coins stay exactly where they are) and the create form opens pre-filled — set a new range around today's price and re-create. This is the "follow the market" move for when you believe the move is real.
3. Take the money elsewhere. Stop · keep releases everything as it is; Sell all also converts the held coins back to quote at the market price, right away.

Two tips. If you expect the price to come back to a certain area, create the new bot with a trigger price — it arms itself only when the market returns, and until then it holds nothing. And if your fence is far wider than you meant (say 7,100 – 74,000 when you meant 71,000), a missing digit is the usual culprit — the create preview's Grid spacing is the tell: a spacing ten times bigger than expected means the range is too.

Straight answers:

• The price crashes below your fence and stays there. The bot holds coins it bought on the way down, now worth less. Your booked profit stays yours, but the held coins are a paper loss that becomes a real loss if you sell (or your stop-loss sells for you). This is the main way grid bots lose money.
• The price rockets above the fence. You do not lose money — every pair closed in profit — but the bot sold all its coins on the way up, so you miss the ride beyond the fence.
• Steps too tight would lose on every fill — the create form refuses these outright, so this one cannot happen here.
• A dead market fills nothing. No loss, but no profit either — your money just sits reserved while it could work elsewhere.

And the serious part — please actually read it:

• Crypto prices are volatile and unpredictable. A grid bot reacts; it does not foresee.
• Past fills say nothing about tomorrow. Leaderboards are reference, not advice.
• There is no warranty in crypto. No refunds, no guarantees, no insurance on trading outcomes.
• Nothing here is financial advice. Decide with money you can afford to lose, and stay the pilot: pausing, stopping and selling are always one click away and always your call.

• The Grid Bot tab on any enabled market's trade page — create and manage bots for that market.
• Your Grid Bots (Account → Grid Bots) — every bot you own, your totals, best performer, and how much is free to invest.
• Top Bots — the public leaderboard of the best-earning running bots (10+ closed pairs and positive booked profit to enter). Owners appear under random aliases like "Quiet Falcon #27" — nobody can tell who is who. Rankings are reference, never a promise of future returns.
• A bot's own page — the Details link on any row of Your Grid Bots. One bot in full: its numbers, the orders it has resting right now, its fill history, and the ladder itself with every price level and where the market sits in it. Stopped bots keep their page, so the history stays readable after the bot has finished.

Copy settings. Every row on Top Bots carries a Copy settings link. It opens that pair's market with the create form pre-filled with the bot's shape — price mode, range and grid count — and nothing else: not the owner's investment, not their balance, not their identity. You choose your own amount and press Create; it is your money and your bot from that moment. Copying a shape does not copy its results.

Grid bots are available on markets carrying the Grid Bot tab. Trading fees follow your account's normal fee tier. Up to 10 live bots per account.