Trailing improves UP/down#537
About trailing improves
I’m not saying that Trailing Up “cannot move” with the price. I understand that the range can follow a strong move and that it has no built-in distance limit.
What I’m trying to explain is that, from a risk and strategy perspective, allowing the buy grid to trail 100% or more with the price completely changes the behavior of the bot.
A grid is supposed to exploit mean reversion inside a controlled price range. If Trailing Up keeps shifting the whole buy grid indefinitely, then instead of buying “low” and selling “high” inside a designed band, the bot starts chasing the price upward. The same risk exists with Trailing Down moving the whole range too far.
What I am suggesting is the option to add constraints to Trailing, for example:
- A parameter like “Max Trailing Range Shift (%)”, e.g. 5–8% of the original grid range.
– The grid can move, but only within a limited distance from the initial range.
– This protects the strategy logic and avoids the bot abandoning its statistical edge.
- A “Trailing Deadzone (%)”:
– The grid should not be repositioned for every small move.
– Only if the price moves more than e.g. 5% beyond the current range, then Trailing adjusts.
This way, Trailing Up and Trailing Down still exist, but they respect a maximum displacement and a minimum move threshold. That is much more useful for people who run grid bots based on backtested ranges instead of pure price following.
Another point: I can send a TradingView signal to Binance, open a position there, and I would like to use that same entry as the anchor for a Bitsgap grid bot (start the bot around that entry price automatically).
If you forward this to your product/quant team, they will understand the idea very easily:
– I’m not asking you to remove Trailing Up/Down.
– I’m asking for parameters that limit how far and how often the range can be shifted.
This would make the feature much safer and more useful for advanced users who care about grid statistics and not just about following the market.