Arithmetic Grid Trading for BTC Perpetual Futures

Summary

This BTC grid strategy alternates between long and short futures positions at configurable price thresholds. When flat, it opens a base position in the direction associated with the current price region: long below a lower threshold or short above an upper threshold. While a position is open, it places a grid order to reduce the position at a favorable price and another to add to it at an adverse price. After an order fills, the grid levels shift by a fixed price interval. Reaching the opposite threshold closes the position and allows the strategy to reverse.

The parameters include leverage, base position size, order size, grid spacing, and upper and lower price levels. Published backtest settings use BTC/USDT futures on one-minute data from 2021, but no performance results are reported. The method’s repeated additions can increase exposure as price moves against the position, and the document gives no explicit cap on accumulated risk or drawdown. Its broad promotional claims are unsupported by evidence in the text.

Key ideas

• The strategy opens an initial long or short position according to upper and lower BTC price thresholds.
• It places grid orders to reduce exposure after favorable moves and add exposure after adverse moves.
• After an order fills, both grid prices shift by a fixed interval in the direction of the fill.
• Crossing the opposing threshold closes the position and permits a reversal.
• The published one-minute futures backtest settings include no reported performance results or explicit exposure cap.

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