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00:00I've been using bots to trade crypto since 2019, and I've learned a ton about what bots
00:06are great, what strategies are great, and my guess is that a lot of you have heard of
00:10these things called gridbots.
00:12Whether it's through Pionex, which you get free access to using gridbots, or it's the
00:17three commas, or even using an exchange like Bybit.
00:20Gridbots are an interesting way to take advantage of sideways price action, but are they worth
00:25it?
00:25Are they effective?
00:27Is it worth using futures with a gridbot?
00:29I'm going to be sharing all of my thoughts and my experiences using gridbots in today's
00:33video, and if you've never ever seen my face before, hold up, hit the subscribe button,
00:39buckle up, we're going to get into it.
00:40My name is Aaron Dishner from The Better Traders, and you are watching Coin Bureau Trading.
00:44Subscribe to join me and Dan, and also Gabby, who's our newest addition, who's doing live
00:49streaming on this channel.
00:51So we're actually going to go over here to Pionex, because I want to use this as a visual
00:56explanation of how it works.
00:58Essentially, when we get consolidation, which is when the price is moving sideways, the
01:03price is going to go up and down, up and down, all over the place.
01:07And when we see these different levels of buy and sell orders being triggered, the bot's
01:12going to buy as it falls, and it's going to sell as it bounces.
01:14Now, this sounds insanely stupidly easy.
01:18Why wouldn't everyone want to do this?
01:20Well, the reality is that gridbots work really well in very specific market conditions, and
01:26that's sideways markets.
01:28They don't work so well in trending markets.
01:30They don't work so well in bearish markets, but they work really well in a sideways market.
01:35And there are specific times to run these as well.
01:38So the one thing I will say about gridbots, one of the big reasons why I personally don't
01:44use them, even though I tested them out and I've tried, I've literally tried my best to
01:49use gridbots, but one of the reasons why I don't use them is because most gridbots don't
01:54have an effective exit strategy.
01:56And what I mean by that is when we have a rectangular zone that the gridbot is running in, eventually
02:01the price is going to break to the upside or to the downside.
02:04And if you're using a gridbot that's in a static range, it's not going to be moving
02:08and the price falls lower, you're buying, buying, buying, buying, and then you're just
02:12holding, holding, holding, holding as the hand just keeps going down through the floor
02:15all the way to the center of the earth, because that's what a lot of crypto charts do.
02:20Let's invert that.
02:21We have a rectangular zone, and then all of a sudden we get all these bullish rockets
02:26firing on our timeline.
02:27Charts are pumping higher and higher and higher, and that means the gridbot leaves our zone.
02:33And now all the trading that we've been taking advantage of in a sideways range is now not
02:37being used.
02:38So if we decide to follow it up, cool, cool, that's great.
02:41And eventually we're going to hit a top zone, and then it's going to fall.
02:44The problem with a lot of gridbots, in my experience, is that they don't have really
02:48good mechanisms for taking profit or trailing, except for one platform.
02:54And it's not Pyonex, it's not three commas, it's not Bybit either, it's all trading.
03:01One of the two great things that I like about all traders gridbots are their ability for
03:07taking profit and using stop losses, so that way if the price goes out of that rectangular
03:13grid, you can decide to sell everything when the price dumps, so that way you're preserving
03:17and protecting your portfolio.
03:18Or you can decide to take profit, and you can buy when it exits the grid, so that way you
03:23don't miss out on the big move.
03:26Another thing that's really great is that they have the ability to trail up and down.
03:30Now this is dangerous, because if the chart is trailing down, and it's just going lower
03:35and lower and lower, yes, it will buy more as the price goes down, and it will sell on
03:39the bounces, but you run the risk of it trailing down to zero, potentially, depending on the
03:44chart.
03:44Trailing to the upside works really well, but I've already explained that there can be
03:48some difficulties about reaching a top zone, and then the price losing 70-80% of its value.
03:54Now, what about futures gridbots?
03:57Maybe you've heard of them, maybe you've seen some wild gains, maybe you've actually seen
04:01other videos of people here on YouTube talking about how they're making a gajillion dollars
04:05using futures gridbots.
04:07I want to help you understand something about them first.
04:10The gridbot is designed to buy and to sell.
04:13So, the moment you introduce leverage, you introduce the risk of being liquidated.
04:18Think about it.
04:18If your bot is buying, as the price goes down, and you're using 10x long, well, your gridbot
04:24can really only stomach about 10% drawdown until one of those positions gets liquidated.
04:30And if you're buying more and more and more as the price goes down, unable to reduce your
04:34position by selling on the upside, then you're basically in risk of liquidation.
04:39Whether it's a long gridbot or a short gridbot, you are going to risk liquidation.
04:43Yes, you can use a smaller amount of your portfolio, less risk, and okay, if it gets liquidated,
04:49oh well, but there's problems of huge gains.
04:51I get it.
04:51It sounds amazing.
04:52But leverage is really best left to swing trading or scalping, where you have a fixed
04:57entry, a fixed exit, whether it's a take profit target or a stop loss.
05:02This is my opinion.
05:03This is my experience.
05:04Other people might have a really cool, fancy schmancy idea of how to use these futures gridbots,
05:09but every single time I've looked at them and I've tried them, it's just burned me.
05:12So that's just my honest opinion.
05:14I know it's going to ruffle a lot of feathers as well, because every one of you has your
05:18own opinion, but some of you have had a good experience with it.
05:21Good for you.
05:22But for most people that don't understand leverage, it may look amazing because the percentages
05:26that are promised look incredible.
05:29Just take a deep breath there, because there is a lot of inherent risk.
05:34Now, we need to talk about how to set up a gridbot.
05:38And we're going to go over here to Alltrading, because we can actually set up a gridbot really
05:44easily with all their 13 supported exchanges, whether it's on spot or futures.
05:48So all of you that love trading futures with gridbots, you can still do it, even though I
05:53don't recommend it personally.
05:54So I'm going to go ahead and choose my paper trading account.
05:57I'm going to choose BTC USDT, just because it's a nice, easy chart that a lot of us are
06:02familiar with.
06:03And one of the cool things is that right away, this bot is going to plot out a level at
06:09which
06:10to start.
06:11So it's basically picking here, and we have a top zone here of, what is this all the way
06:17here, $139,000, and then a low just below the low that we saw back over here in April.
06:25Now, remember what I said that there's a good time to start a gridbot and a not so great
06:28time?
06:30Personally, I would never want to start a gridbot up here for Bitcoin.
06:33It's at the top of its range.
06:34We're nearing the end of this bull market.
06:36This is a risky time.
06:37If I really had to pick and choose a time and someone had a gun to my head and said,
06:41you need to run a gridbot, I would really like to wait until we've reached a market
06:46bottom.
06:47So if we have some sort of range like this, and I think this would be a reasonable range,
06:54and this is all green because it's all buys because it's below the current price.
06:58But think of it this way.
06:59If I'm starting a gridbot down here at the bottom of the range, yes, the price could just
07:04as easily go below my range, and I can choose to get stopped out, or I could just let it
07:09run.
07:09But the reality is that when we've hit a market low, for Bitcoin specifically, we could run
07:15a gridbot to take advantage of all the sideways price action.
07:18And we don't really know when the bear market will end.
07:20We might have some good ideas.
07:22We might see some signals.
07:23But the reality is that running a gridbot during this time means that we're actually
07:27doing really well.
07:27The gridbot will be running, let's say, for approximately 488 days, almost 500 days, which
07:35is great.
07:36A year and a half, a year and a quarter is a good amount of time to be running a
07:39gridbot.
07:39But how much money can you actually feasibly make with a gridbot?
07:44Well, let's actually look at that right now.
07:48We're going to go over here, and we're going to reset this, especially the upper price.
07:54We're going to choose 20% above the current price, 20% below the current price as our
07:59grid.
08:00And I want you to see how things are laid out here.
08:02So despite this being not the optimal time, I want to explain quickly the mechanics of
08:07running a gridbot and why this works.
08:09But before I do, I want to recommend something to you first before we get into the nitty gritty
08:14into the weeds.
08:15There are fantastic links that you can sign up for.
08:18Now, if you do want to sign up for Bybit to use their free built-in ones, which they do
08:23have a spot gridbot over here that you can use on the exchange, we actually have links
08:27for you to sign up for Bybit, for 2-bit, for CoinCatch.
08:31Both of these are non-KYC requiring exchanges.
08:34CoinCatch doesn't have a gridbot.
08:35Last time I checked, 2-bit I believe does, but I believe it's futures only.
08:40Bybit, you have spot and futures.
08:41So if you sign up, you get these extra bonuses.
08:43Plus, there are more deals available when you click this button right here.
08:47It takes you to the CoinBureau website.
08:49Of course, you should join the CoinBureau club.
08:51It is a great community where Dan, my co-host, is posting as well as Nick and Guy on the
08:56MainCoinBureau channel.
08:58Lots of alpha, lots of information.
08:59There are other exchanges to sign up for.
09:01But of course, there is 10% off of our course at TheBetterTraders.com, 15 Minutes to Financial
09:07Freedom, which comes with one-on-one coaching.
09:09It comes with automated and it comes with active trading strategies focusing on the all-trading
09:16platform.
09:16No, I don't teach gridbot in this course, and you'll understand why in a minute.
09:22So we're going to go back over here to all-trading to talk about this idea of how a gridbot
09:27really
09:28works when it works well.
09:30When we're running and setting up a gridbot, one thing that we want to take advantage of
09:36is a sideways range.
09:37And if we're choosing or electing to start a gridbot right here, again, I wouldn't really
09:42want to run one right here.
09:44But a couple of things we need to consider are how many grids we're using, which it says
09:49number of placed orders, and the profit per step.
09:52This is really important.
09:55Think about it this way.
09:56Every single buy and sell that you make for your exchange, you're charged a trading fee.
10:02That trading fee is going to vary between, you know, 0.1% to maybe like 0.15 or 0
10:08.2% depending
10:09on the exchange.
10:10Now, there are some markets that will give you better deals depending on your exchange.
10:14Sure, I get it.
10:15And of course, if you're using futures, you could leverage that so that you're using less
10:19and you're not being charged as much, possibly maybe.
10:21But you do have to take into account trading fees.
10:24Every time you have this profit per step, you should subtract about 0.1%.
10:28So really, the potential profit per step could be 0.54 to 0.95.
10:35Now, why is the profit per step different?
10:38Why is it showing that it's 0.64 to 1.05?
10:43Well, that's because as the price of Bitcoin goes higher, the amount of, well, the space
10:49here in this grid right here is only about 0.64.
10:53And it's measuring as 0.8 because it's not exact on the nose.
10:56But if I were to measure this lowest one to the next grid, it's going to be closer to
11:031.5%.
11:05And it looks like they're actually padding this on purpose.
11:08Good for them.
11:09So this is actually going to be realized profit per step.
11:12Good job, Altruiting.
11:15The other thing to consider as well is the number of placed orders.
11:19And that's going to determine how active or how busy your bot is.
11:23If I want to put in 80 orders, yeah, your grid bot is going to be on fire.
11:28It's going to go crazy.
11:29And you know what?
11:30If I want to focus on a super tight range, like 10% and 10%, oh yeah, this thing's going
11:35to be on fire.
11:36But look at my profit per step, only 0.03% to 0.08.
11:41You're actually going to be losing money running a bot with a really tight grid.
11:44It's going to look really cool.
11:45You're going to get lots of notifications, but it's not going to be a very profitable
11:49bot because it's in an extremely tight zone and it's going to be ineffective.
11:54And actually we can backtest the difference.
11:57So we're going to go here to the backtest function right here, and we are going to choose
12:02this same thing.
12:03We're going to use a test investment size of $1,000 and we're going to run it right here.
12:09We're going to use this setup and we are going to backtest it.
12:13Oh, and we need to start, sorry, from May 21st.
12:17That's the furthest back that we can go.
12:19So we're going to run a backtest.
12:20And after this backtest is done, we're going to see all these really cool arrows that are
12:25showing us, wow, there's so many buys, so many sells.
12:28And the further back you go, of course, the longer it's going to take for it to generate
12:31all the information.
12:34So after it's done, then we can actually see how profitable is this?
12:38Well, the net profit of running a grid bot on BTCUSDT with a super tight grid of 80 placed
12:46orders with basically no wiggle room whatsoever, you're eking out 2%.
12:51So if your goal is to take advantage of really, really crazy tight price action in sideways
12:59markets, then yeah, okay, you might get out all right.
13:02But again, it's taken you how many trades and think of all of the fees as well.
13:09So when we're looking at this one specifically, we want to open this guy right here.
13:14It's going to actually show us all of this buy and sell action.
13:18It looks cool.
13:19Trust me.
13:20But let's actually go down into the data right here because this is going to be much more
13:25revealing.
13:26Now, the main thing we have to understand running this bot, we do have a realized P&L
13:31of 2.5%.
13:32It's a little bit small.
13:34Actually, let me go ahead.
13:35This thing is like so thick, it's like my computer chugged down.
13:41But there's also an unrealized profit, meaning that we're holding on to some coins that haven't
13:45yet sold.
13:46We can see that we've invested $9,742 and we've recovered $9,613.
13:54So the remaining amount is $128.
13:56We've generated so much in trading fees with this strategy that it's not that great.
14:01But we can also see from this initial one too, that even a really tight grid, it's not
14:07going to work out so well.
14:08So let's go back to the idea of having 40 placed orders or even actually a lot less.
14:13Let's even do like just 25.
14:16Now we're seeing a much tighter range.
14:18We're going to still use 10 and 10 just to see a comparison of this.
14:22We're going to use the same amount, same starting time.
14:25We're going to go back to the earliest possible date of May 21st and we're going to see which
14:30one is actually going to be more profitable.
14:33And what's ridiculous, here we go.
14:35This is our most final one.
14:37We actually make more with less.
14:40Gasp.
14:40Now we're going to see far less when it comes to all of the candles up here once it updates
14:48the information.
14:51And we basically just have a wash right now of all this stuff.
14:54But we can see here that we've made less total trades and we have a little bit more profit
14:59to show for it.
15:00We've used a lot less money, which means less trading fees.
15:03So we're doing okay.
15:05So using this as a tool to guesstimate what might be a really good market, what might
15:12be a really good range, it really helps us to be able to backtest performance.
15:17Now there's one more thing I want to share with you.
15:19I want to X out of this to explain one more concept that's really important to consider
15:24when you're running a grid bot.
15:27Now when you're running a grid bot like this, and this is the crazy one with 80 orders, let's
15:32reduce it just because it's hurting my head right now.
15:34Let's just do 25.
15:36One thing you have to consider is that in order to sell for a grid bot like this, you have
15:41to buy.
15:42So if you decide to start a grid bot right now, and you're going to buy Bitcoin at $104,276
15:51bucks, buying it here means you are having to wait until the price shoots up about 1%
15:57to sell or fall about 0.42% to buy more.
16:02But the thing to consider is that this is going to be your breakeven price right here.
16:08So that means as the price goes up and down, and let me zoom out for a four hour time
16:13frame,
16:13if we're buying here and we're buying more and more and more as the price goes down, then
16:18obviously we are buying more, but that means that our initial investment is down 10%.
16:24Eventually, as the price goes sideways and chops, yes, you'll be able to inch your breakeven
16:29a little bit lower, but really it's going to stay around here.
16:31It's not going to function the same way as a DCA bot will at all.
16:35You'll be able to take advantage of all these dips and these rips, which could be good, especially
16:40if you have a really wide grid like this.
16:42So what's to stop us from supposing that, well, I think Bitcoin is going to go up to
16:49a lot higher.
16:50Let's say, and let's just use my estimated target of $173k.
16:54Well, what about using a grid bot to basically buy the dip as the price falls down?
17:01Let's say that I think that the price of Bitcoin is going to bottom next year at about
17:08$50k or around there.
17:09So I could actually run a grid bot just like this.
17:13I could say, well, I think the price is going to be going up here and I'm going to be
17:18able
17:18to sell on the way up buying here and selling.
17:21That's fine.
17:21That could kind of work, but understand that the greater the grids and where you start
17:27it, your profit's going to be very slow going.
17:30It will automatically buy and sell for you, whether it's dipping or ripping, which could be
17:35kind of attractive, but understand that there also runs the risk of this being the top right
17:40here.
17:40There's no guarantee.
17:41And again, if we have the price of Bitcoin shooting up, where is my price range?
17:47If we have the price of Bitcoin only going up here to $133k and it starts buying at $128k,
17:54then that means all the Bitcoin that you're buying on the pullback, you're going to keep
17:58buying as the price falls down 60% or more.
18:01If you're a long-term Bitcoin, then it shouldn't really matter.
18:04But if you're a short-term trader, that's going to sting because you're buying all this
18:08Bitcoin way up here and you're holding it.
18:10Maybe you'll be able to sell some, but remember, you're buying and selling over and over.
18:16The other thing to consider about this too is what pairs you select, or as Altradd likes
18:22to say it, what markets you want to select.
18:25Not every coin is great for running a grid bot.
18:28You need to exercise caution.
18:30And on the off chance that the price actually goes above here and you just want to cancel
18:37all of your orders or you want to convert it into USDT or you want to convert it into
18:42Bitcoin, you can do that here when you're using Altradd, which is awesome.
18:46So basically I can have my take profit target, boom.
18:49And I can also have a stop loss.
18:51In case the price falls below this range, I just want to stop this.
18:56I want to cancel all orders.
18:57It has to be below the lowest price, of course.
18:59But in case things get really nasty, I just want to sell everything.
19:03I want to convert everything into stable coins because I don't want to run the bot.
19:07So this is what I'm talking about, having an exit strategy in mind.
19:11This is really where Altradd shines.
19:14I really hope that I've done my best to summarize how a grid bot works.
19:18And again, they thrive the best in sideways markets.
19:21And we all know crypto rarely stays sideways for a long period of time.
19:27But for those of you that are still interested in using a grid bot, consider first where you're
19:33starting the bot.
19:34You might be anxious and excited to start one right now, but zoom out to the weekly timeframe.
19:38Where is the price compared to where it was before?
19:40If it's near the bottom of its range, can you stomach for it to go lower and wait for
19:45it to go up?
19:45You could still make some good money, but you need to pay attention where you're starting
19:49it.
19:50And again, consider using spot instead of futures.
19:55You could make more money with futures, but you run a massive risk, especially starting
20:00a long futures bot at the very top of the range.
20:03You could do a short futures bot, but that also runs a risk of getting liquidated too if
20:07charts all of a sudden pump out of nowhere.
20:10Whereas with spot, you have a lot more flexibility.
20:12You can weather the drawdown, especially if you have long-term vision for your bots.
20:17Now, this video is not meant to answer every single question you have.
20:21So that's what the comment section is for down below.
20:24Let me know what your burning questions are from this video.
20:26Let me know what you think about this.
20:28And if you feel like I've left out some information, go ahead and share it down below as well as
20:32your
20:32experiences using a grid bot.
20:33But in my opinion, Altradie has the best grid bots because you can backtest, you can set
20:39an exit strategy, and you can trail if you want to keep running that grid bot going up
20:43or down.
20:44And you can use Bybit with Altradie's grid bots.
20:47But again, let me know what you think down below.
20:49And until the next time, you know what to do.
20:50Stay awesome and stay in the green.
20:52Peace.
20:52Peace.
20:53Peace.
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