Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
28 documents
Staggered Orders is a grid-like trading mode intended for sideways markets. A trader sets upper and lower price bounds, along with a spread and increment; the system then calculates the buy and sell orders needed to cover that range and uses available funds.…
This article explains SAFU, short for Secure Asset Fund for Users, as an emergency fund established by Binance to help protect customer assets in extreme situations. It says the exchange created the fund in 2018 and allocated a portion of trading fees to it.…
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…
The document explains stablecoins as crypto tokens designed to hold value relative to an asset or asset basket, commonly a fiat currency. It outlines three broad designs: fiat-backed tokens supported by reserves, crypto-backed tokens that generally use…
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…
Dollar cost averaging (DCA) invests a fixed amount at regular intervals regardless of the current price. Because each contribution is the same size, it buys more units when prices are lower and fewer when they are higher. The article presents this schedule…
OctoBot profiles determine which strategies and evaluators run, which cryptocurrencies and trading pairs are considered, which exchanges are enabled, and whether trading uses spot or futures. The guide explains how to edit strategy settings through the…
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…
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…
This document explains an index trading mode that maintains a portfolio across a configured set of cryptocurrencies. When the bot starts, it checks which assets are held and their portfolio weights. If an asset is missing or its weight differs from the…
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…
HODL is a crypto term for keeping an asset through market swings, commonly expanded as “hold on for dear life.” The document traces the spelling to a Bitcoin forum post from December 2013, written during a price decline, and explains how the word grew into a…
This guide describes a flexible grid trading mode for spot markets. Instead of starting from a chosen number of open orders, the trader specifies upper and lower price bounds along with grid spacing and increments. The system then determines the required buy…
Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) invests a fixed amount at regular intervals regardless of market price. The approach buys more units when prices are lower and fewer when they are higher, spreading entry points over time. The document presents it as a way to…
The document explains HODL as a cryptocurrency-community term for retaining an asset through price fluctuations, in contrast with frequent short-term trading. It traces the term to a misspelling in a Bitcoin forum post during a market decline and describes…
This guide explains how an exchange API key lets trading software interact with a cryptocurrency account without using the account’s email address or login password. In the OctoBot example, the key is used to read wallet balances and to view, place, and…
This guide explains how to obtain exchange history for OctoBot Script backtests and how to reuse previously downloaded data. The fetch request is configured with a trading pair and candle interval, with optional settings for the starting timestamp, exchange,…
This educational overview explains stablecoins as crypto tokens designed to track the value of an asset or basket, often a fiat currency. It distinguishes fiat-collateralized tokens, backed by reserves; crypto-collateralized tokens, generally requiring…
This document outlines a grid trading mode designed for relatively stable markets. It maintains buy and sell orders at configured intervals, aiming to capture small price movements. The grid can use fixed spacing and increments, be initialized from a chosen…
This guide explains how a dollar-cost averaging trading mode can place entries on a schedule or in response to evaluator signals. Evaluator-triggered entries require a maximum signal value of -1 or 1; other values are ignored. Entry orders may be market or…
The article explains SAFU as Binance’s emergency fund intended to help protect users’ assets in extreme situations. It says the exchange established the fund in 2018 and allocated a portion of trading fees to it. The described holdings include BNB, Bitcoin,…
Dip Analyser is a trading mode for buying during local price dips and selling positions through multiple take-profit orders. It is presented as an advanced form of dollar-cost averaging that combines several evaluators. The mode supports spot and futures…
OctoBot’s Dip Analyser trading mode is designed to enter near local bottoms and exit through multiple take profit orders. The document describes it as similar to an evaluator-driven dollar-cost averaging mode, with support for spot and futures markets.…