Futures Grid

A grid like strategy with dynamic trading targets and integrated trailing for both buying and selling.

The idea of this strategy is to always be in a position, use market orders only, average down when prices goes down, take profit when price exceeds break even. And do so with an absolute minimum number of settings.

This strategy is basically the same as "spotGrid", it's just made for futures and additionally offers the option to trade shorts.

This strategy is a bit different than all other Gunbot strategies: there are just a handful configurable options and it's "always in position": instead of waiting for the perfect entry it is always looking for chances to average down. If you want to customize settings a lot, this strategy is not for you.

Trading behavior

When you run futuresGrid on a pair in an uptrend, this is the kind of trading behavior to expect:

Let's break down what actually happens:

  • When the strategy first runs and there is no balance to sell, it immediately places a market buy order

  • If price goes down and it exceeds the futuresGrid line in the chart, buy trailing is activated. As soon as trailing finishes, a buy order is placed. The break even price is now lower.

  • If price reaches the Sell target on the chart, sell trailing is activated and the complete position is sold at profit when trailing finishes.

  • After having sold, the strategy immediately starts buy trailing. If price goes up it will quickly open a new position, if price goes down it will place a buy order below the last sell rate.

You will see that the first few buy orders happen fairly quickly when price starts going down. After a few trades, the price distance between buy orders gets much bigger. All targets are set automatically.

When the market goes down, the strategy starts to accumulate units at ever lower prices:

The bot will continue to accumulate until max buy count is hit, or when it run out of available funds. Every new buy order will lower the break even price. As soon as price hits the sell target and finishes trailing above break even, a sell order is placed.

Balance management is very important, make sure you can afford the planned number of buy orders.

The next trading targets are always visible on the chart.

Keep in mind the targets lines are moving over time, they represent the current targets.

How to create a futuresGrid strategy

  • Using the advanced strategy editor: create a new strategy and select futuresGrid as buy and sell method

Essential settings

To use futuresGrid, there are just three essential settings:

There are a few more settings that can optionally be used with this strategy, described below

Additional settings

There are a few additional settings you can use with this strategy.

Other parameters

Buy and Sell enabled options can be set as pair overrides. Watch mode is respected.

Besides settings mentioned on this page, no other strategy setting has any effect on futuresGrid.

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