Knowledge
Knowledge
The ideas behind the bots, in plain words
What is a tokenized stock?A token that follows a US share's price and trades around the clock against USDT. What you get, what you don't, and the differences that matter when a bot trades one.MarketsWhat A9 is, and isn'tTrading bots that run on your own exchange account. Where your money sits, what A9 can and cannot do with your key, and how the plans work.ProductsAPI keys, explainedHow a bot reaches your exchange account without your password: what an API key is, which permissions A9 asks for and which it refuses, why the IP list matters, and how to cut access in one step.ProductsHow a grid bot makes moneyA grid predicts nothing. It splits a price range into steps, buys on the way down, sells one step up, and earns from a market that moves without going anywhere.StrategiesDrawdown, APR and why both matterHow the backtest page works out return, APR, drawdown and win rate, what each one can and cannot tell you, and where a backtest stops being a guide.Risk & metricsPosition sizing: what one bot can commitWhy live bots on A9 trade a fixed number of USDT per entry, how a ladder turns a small entry into a large commitment, and a plain way to choose the amount from a loss you could sit through.Risk & metricsTrend following vs mean reversionTwo families of strategy make opposite bets about what a price will do next. Knowing which one you are running tells you what kind of market will hurt it.Risk & metricsMartingale: why it wins often and when it hurtsA buying ladder that adds more on every dip and sells once the price clears its average cost. It closes most cycles in profit; the one that does not is the one to plan for.StrategiesSmart DCA: a schedule that buys more when it's cheaperDollar-cost averaging buys a fixed amount on a fixed day. Smart DCA keeps the day and lets the amount move with the price's distance from its 30-day average. How each buy is sized, when it sells, and what it commits.StrategiesAnti-martingale: adding to a winnerThe mirror image of the martingale: it adds only while a trade is going its way and leaves on a trailing stop. Many small losses, an occasional large win, and why fees matter more here than almost anywhere.StrategiesRSI and Bollinger: two ways to buy a stretched priceBoth strategies bet that a price pulled far from its usual level will come back. How A9's RSI reversion and Bollinger reversion measure the stretch, their default settings, and the one filter that changes everything.StrategiesBreakouts, crosses and momentum: three trend followersDonchian breakout, EMA cross and rate-of-change momentum all try to join a move once it has started. How each one decides, A9's default settings, and why a low win rate can still be a good run.StrategiesWhat a backtest can't tell youOverfitting, in-sample and out-of-sample results, where the daily bar is cut, and what the simulation leaves out. How A9's backtests and Auto-tune guard against each, and where they still can't.Risk & metricsFees, spreads and slippage: the cost of a round tripEvery trade pays the exchange, crosses a spread and sometimes fills worse than the screen showed. How maker and taker fees work, why thin tokenized stocks cost more to trade, and the arithmetic that decides whether a small edge survives.Risk & metricsMarket regimes: efficiency ratio, Fear & Greed and VIXEvery strategy suits some markets and suffers in others. The readings A9 uses to tell a trend from a range, how the grid's direction gate works, what the sentiment gauges say, and why the VIX gate was removed.Risk & metricsPerpetual swaps: leverage, funding and liquidationA perpetual lets a bot short a coin or a stock without borrowing it. What the contract is, how A9 uses it for strategies that short, and the three things that make it different from spot: leverage, funding and liquidation.MarketsMarket hours: a 24/7 token on a 9-to-4 stockTokenized stocks trade every hour of every day, but the share behind them trades for six and a half hours on weekdays. What happens to the token's price in between, at the open and over weekends, and how each kind of A9 bot treats those hours.MarketsStablecoins and transfers: USDT, USDC and the networkA dollar token exists on many blockchains at once, and a transfer only arrives on the one it was sent on. What USDT and USDC are, why the network matters, and how A9's exact-figure payments work.MarketsDual Investment, explainedOKX's Dual Investment pays a fixed yield for agreeing to buy lower or sell higher at a set price. How the products work, what you get on each outcome, and what the A9 Flywheel automates.Markets
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