Which strategy fits your view of the market

The nine strategies in three market views — ranging, trend, accumulation — how to pick one, then check it with Discover and a backtest.

The steps, in words

1. Nine strategies, one catalogue
   Under Strategies › Catalog there are nine: Spot Grid, Martingale DCA, Smart DCA, RSI Reversion, Anti-Martingale, EMA Cross, Donchian Breakout, Bollinger Reversion and ROC Momentum. The tag on each card says which market it is built for.
2. Ranging: back and forth in a range
   The first kind is ranging. The price swings up and down inside a range with no clear direction, but it keeps moving. Spot Grid, RSI Reversion and Bollinger Reversion earn from that back and forth.
3. Spot Grid: buy a step down, sell a step up
   You set a price range and it is cut into steps. Each step down buys a slice, each step up sells it back, over and over. It does not guess direction; it trades as long as the price moves inside the range.
4. RSI Reversion: only on the side the long average allows
   It buys when RSI reads extremely oversold and shorts when it reads extremely overbought. But it checks the long moving average first: above it, longs only; below it, shorts only.
5. Bollinger Reversion: stretched, then back
   When the price drops below the lower band, it has fallen unusually far, and the bot buys. When it snaps back to the middle band, the average, it sells.
6. Trend: a move has started
   The second kind is trend. The market has started moving one way and you want to ride it. Anti-Martingale, EMA Cross, Donchian Breakout and ROC Momentum are built for this.
7. Anti-Martingale: adds only while winning
   The mirror of the martingale: it adds only while the trade is winning, a slice each time the price climbs another step. When the price falls back from the peak to its trailing stop, it sells everything.
8. EMA Cross: fast over slow
   Two moving averages, one fast and one slow. When the fast one crosses above the slow one, it goes long; when it crosses back below, it steps out. The classic trend follower.
9. Donchian Breakout: follow the new high
   It watches the highest high of the last N bars. When the price breaks above it, it buys, and it exits when the price breaks below the lowest low of the last M bars. Turtle style.
10. ROC Momentum: in while it is moving
    Rate of change is how far the price has come over a look-back. Once it clears the entry line, the bot stays long; when momentum fades below a lower exit line, it goes flat and waits.
11. Accumulation: rise over the long run
    The third kind is accumulation. You think it rises over the long run, and you would rather buy in slices and wait than guess the bottom. Martingale DCA and Smart DCA work this way.
12. Martingale DCA: bigger slices on the dips
    Each dip buys a bigger slice than the last, so the average cost comes down. When the price climbs back over the take-profit above that average, the whole position is sold together.
13. Smart DCA: on a schedule, sized by value
    It buys on a fixed schedule, but the size changes: below the long average it buys more, above it less or nothing. An optional target sells the lot once it clears its average cost by that much.
14. How to choose: start from your view
    Ask yourself what you think the market will do. On the Catalog page, tap the answer that matches and the list narrows to that tag: a move one way shows the four trend strategies.
15. Not sure? Look at Discover
    Discover shows what the nightly sweep found working lately: which strategy, on which symbol, against simply holding. These are in-sample backtests, a hint, not a promise.
16. A reference, then your own backtest
    Each strategy page shows where it has worked. Those figures are a reference only. Run your own backtest on your own symbol before you start a bot, and keep the first bot small.
17. Your view, your strategy
    Ranging, trend or accumulation: pick the one that matches what you think. Not sure? Start with Discover. Then backtest, and start small.