Say BTC has been moving sideways for weeks. Futures Grid keeps four buy orders 1% apart below the price on BTCUSDT and four closing sells above it. Each dip that fills a buy adds to the long; each bounce that fills a sell closes part of it at a small gain. Because the sells are reduce-only, the grid never ends up short.
What it costs
This strategy is open on every plan. What it trades is fixed by its design, so every plan runs the same scope; Standard is free.
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How it works
The grid places buy orders below the current price, 4 by default and 1% apart, and closing sell orders above it. A filled buy opens or adds to a long position; a filled sell is sent as reduce-only, so it can only close what was bought. The grid budget is shared between its orders. When the price leaves your range, the leverage reads above your setting or the price comes too close to liquidation, it cancels its orders and keeps the position as it is. It does not trade while the contract holds a short, and it does not change the contract's leverage, so set that on the exchange.
Key Features
Strategy profile
A snapshot of how this strategy behaves and who it suits, not a forecast of returns.
These are our assessments of strategy character, not user-specific performance figures.
A grid makes money on swings and loses on trends. In a steady fall every buy fills and the long keeps growing while its value drops, and leverage makes that drawdown larger. When the price leaves the range the grid stops, but it keeps the position it holds, so a breakdown can leave you with a losing long to manage. Funding is paid on the long while longs pay shorts, and each order's share of the budget must clear the exchange's smallest order.
All figures on this page are simulated or historical backtest results, shown for information and education only. They are not real customer results, they do not include your specific fees and slippage, and past performance does not guarantee future returns. Your capital is at risk.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick glossary
Definitions for the trading terms used on this page.
- Backtest
- A simulation of how a strategy would have performed on historical price data. Past results never guarantee future returns - markets change.
- Slippage
- The difference between the price you expect and the price you actually get when an order fills. Worse on illiquid pairs and during fast markets.
- Spread
- The gap between the best buy price (bid) and the best sell price (ask). Tight spreads = liquid market, wider spreads = more cost per round trip.
- Stop-loss
- An automatic exit order that closes a losing position when price hits a chosen threshold. Caps how much one bad trade can hurt you.
- Take-profit
- An automatic exit order that closes a winning position once price reaches a chosen target. Locks in gains without relying on you to watch the chart.
- Volatility
- How sharply price moves. High volatility = bigger swings in both directions, which means more opportunity but also more drawdown risk.
Range-bound market, perpetual account?
Every new Futures Grid starts in paper trading: its orders are kept on paper and listed on the strategy page, and a paper run stops by itself after an hour.
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