How much money a grid bot needs
A grid has no “deposit” as a setting of its own. It has rungs, each with its own amount. What the bot will tie up is the sum of all of them, and it should be counted for the worst day.
Count every rung at once
While the price stands still the bot holds a rung or two, and it seems little money is needed. But a grid is built for a fall: when the price has gone through it to the bottom, every rung will have bought. The bot needs the sum of all the rungs, not of those bought so far.
Ten rungs of 20 USDT is 200 USDT. If the lower rungs are larger than the upper ones, count each.
Depth is the second number
A grid’s depth is how many percent below the price it measures its levels from the last rung stands. A plain grid 10% deep will be bought whole on a 10% fall. After that the bot waits: it does not buy below its last rung and does not sell at a loss.
The same 200 USDT can be laid out over 10% down or over 40%. Those are two different bots: the first trades more often and runs out of money sooner, the second lasts longer through a fall and trades less.
Averaging and DCA count differently
- Average Grid: one step’s amount times each row’s multiplier, all added together. With multipliers the total grows fast: five steps that double cost thirty-one first steps.
- DCA: the amount of one purchase times the number of purchases in a cycle.
What the app shows
- Under the chosen pair — the minimum per position on that exchange.
- For a bot on real funds — what the grid would commit and what is free on the exchange. If it is not enough, the app says so.
- If other bots run on the same key, what they may still spend is counted too.
Why bots share the money
A bot does not freeze USDT for purchases to come: an order goes to the exchange at the moment the price reaches a level. So the free balance in the account is shared by all your bots and by you.
Spend it on something else and the exchange will refuse the rungs there is no money for, and the bot will stop buying.
Paper will not show this
A paper bot’s account is notional and deliberately large: on paper the money rarely runs out. Paper mode shows how much is tied up at each depth — whether your real money covers it is for you to count.
A margin
- Do not give the bot your whole balance: keep a margin above the grid’s total.
- Make a rung’s amount clearly larger than the exchange’s minimum, not just above it.
- Decide beforehand what you will do once every rung has bought: wait, add money or get out. The bot will not decide that for you.
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