A Long-Only Contract Strategy for Scaling into Price Declines

Summary

The article outlines a long-only strategy for crypto contracts that attempts to buy during declines using a grid-like sequence of limit orders. Starting from a reference price, it places further buys at progressively lower intervals, with order size increased by a ratio. When a long position exists, it places a closing order above the position price by a specified profit spread. After the position closes, the process restarts using the current market price as its reference.

The author motivates the design by contrasting the bounded downside of a coin falling to zero with its potentially unbounded upside, and suggests testing long-only bottom fishing against bilateral grid or Martingale approaches. The article shows a brief implementation and refers to backtest charts, but gives no readable performance figures, test settings, or risk analysis. The code is presented for study, and the strategy’s growing order sizes and continued buying during declines make position exposure and drawdown important unanswered concerns.

Key ideas

• The strategy trades long only and does not open short positions.
• It places additional buy orders at lower prices as the market declines from a starting reference.
• Order size increases by a configurable ratio as the sequence continues.
• A closing order is placed above the long position’s price by a target profit spread.
• The article references backtests but provides no detailed performance figures or drawdown analysis.

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