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98 documents
This short description covers an indicator that displays the current spread on a trading chart. It says users can adjust the displayed font, text color, and font size, and choose where the spread label appears. Four chart corners are available through a…
This guide explains how to connect OctoBot’s GPT interface to a language model for trading evaluations. For OpenAI, it describes adding an API key in the interface configuration, enabling the GPTEvaluator, and choosing a model through evaluator settings. It…
Grid trading places a series of buy and sell orders at set price intervals. As the market moves through those levels, orders can buy at lower prices and sell at higher ones. The approach seeks to collect gains from price fluctuations without relying on a…
This release note describes changes in OctoBot 1.0.2. ChatGPT strategy profiles can now be backtested for some settings using prompts precomputed from historical exchange-pair data downloaded by the service. The ChatGPT profile also shifts from daily trading…
The guide explains how to authorize OctoBot Cloud to trade through a Coinbase account using API credentials. The setup involves creating a key in Coinbase, choosing the intended wallet, enabling trading permission, adding OctoBot’s IP addresses to the key’s…
This guide explains how to run trading strategies against historical market data in OctoBot. The workflow is to select a profile, download data for the desired pairs and timeframes, run the backtest, and review the report. It describes how starting funds and…
This product guide explains a redesigned strategy interface with two parts: a viewer for examining and comparing strategies, and a creator for configuring new tests. The viewer presents performance metrics, behavior over time, and individual trade details.…
This guide explains a dollar-cost averaging trading mode for placing repeat entries and managing the resulting positions. Entries can be triggered on a schedule or when an evaluator produces a new maximum signal, defined as a value of -1 or 1. The guide says…
This guide describes connecting TradingView alerts to OctoBot so alerts can trigger orders on a chosen exchange. It covers alerts based on price thresholds, indicator values, and Pine Script strategies. The setup involves adding the TradingView interface to…
This FAQ explains how OctoBot Cloud users can evaluate strategies and crypto baskets through paper trading with virtual funds, and says strategy performance is assessed periodically through historical backtesting. It notes that results vary with market…
The document introduces spot trading as buying or selling cryptocurrency at the current market price, where the trader transacts in the asset rather than a futures or options contract. It outlines basic setup: choose an exchange that lists the desired pair,…
This guide explains how to create market, limit, stop-loss, and trailing-market orders with OctoBot Script. It describes order sizing for spot and futures trading, including fixed asset amounts, percentages of portfolio value, and percentages of available…
This document explains OctoBot’s evaluator layer, which computes trading signals and routes them to strategies and trading modes. It distinguishes evaluators triggered by closed candles, forming candles, external social feeds, user scripts, and strategy…
This guide explains what happens when an OctoBot cloud strategy is stopped and how to restart it. Stopping cancels the bot’s outstanding buy and sell orders and prevents it from placing new orders. If the corresponding option is selected, the bot also sells…
The document introduces spot trading as buying or selling cryptocurrency at the current market price with the asset intended for immediate delivery. It contrasts this with futures and options, which involve contracts tied to later transactions or specified…
The document explains how to launch a selected strategy or crypto basket with real funds through OctoBot Cloud. The user chooses real trading, connects an exchange account using an API key, and starts the bot. OctoBot may first rebalance USD-linked assets…
This release note describes new features and fixes in OctoBot 1.0.4. Users can download strategies from OctoBot Cloud into a self-hosted bot, then configure them for different exchanges or assets and use the platform’s backtesting or strategy design tools to…
This guide explains how to launch an OctoBot Cloud strategy or crypto basket with real exchange funds. The user selects a strategy, chooses live trading, links an exchange API key, and starts the bot. OctoBot checks that the account has enough funds before…
This guide explains grid trading as a method of placing buy and sell orders at preset price intervals. As price moves through the levels, the orders aim to capture the difference between purchases and sales without requiring a forecast of the overall…
This overview explains trading bots as programs that use market data and predefined rules to analyze conditions and place orders. Bots can run strategies such as dollar cost averaging or grid trading, and may connect technical indicators with risk management…
The article explains how an OctoBot user can subscribe to a community strategy, import its profile, and configure a bot to follow the strategy’s trading signals. Followers receive signals when the source bot creates or cancels orders, and their order amounts…
This guide explains how OctoBot users can subscribe to a community strategy, import its profile, and have their bot follow the strategy’s trading activity. The imported setup uses remote trading signals: it sends a signal when the strategy creates or cancels…
The guide explains how to operate several automated trading strategies or crypto baskets at once through OctoBot Cloud. It presents diversification across strategy types, asset baskets, and exchanges as a way to spread exposure and reduce dependence on one…
This short guide explains how to display a technical indicator and its associated signals in a strategy execution report using OctoBot Script. It describes a plotting function that takes a chart label, x-axis values, y-axis values, and optionally the x-axis…