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DCA Entry spread

DCA stands for dollar-cost averaging. Instead of buying everything at once, the bot buys more in steps while the price falls. Each step lowers the average price — so the recovery does not have to reach the first entry, only the average.

How the bot thinksDiagram

How it works

The first entry
The bot opens with part of the capital. The rest stays in reserve.
The follow-up buys
If the price falls by a set distance, it buys more. With a size factor each level can be larger than the previous one — that lowers the average faster but also uses up the reserve faster.
The exit
As soon as the price rises above the average price plus target, the whole position is closed. Then the bot starts over.

What you set

SettingMeaning
Number of levelsHow often it may buy more
Spacing per levelHow far the price has to fall before the next level kicks in
Size factorBy what factor each level is larger than the previous one
TargetHow far above the average price it closes

Everything through forms — no code. Backtest and the Top 50 optimizer run at the push of a button.

What it is built for

  • Pullbacks within a higher uptrend
  • Markets that overshoot downwards and recover again
  • If you believe in the asset and just do not want to have to hit the entry point

When it does not work

  • Persistent downtrend. Anyone who keeps buying more ties up more and more capital in a position that keeps falling. That is the most dangerous property of this method.
  • Size factor too large. With factor 2 the fifth level needs sixteen times the first. The reserve runs out faster than most people expect.
  • Assets without recovery. For a coin that keeps losing value, a lower average improves nothing at all.
No bot always wins. Each of the eight has market phases in which it loses — that is why the box on the right is on this page at all. That is exactly what the demo account is for: let it run until you have seen a bad phase, not just a good one.
Step by step

How to set it up

Real recordings from the bot setup — beginner, demo account. Logged in, you see the detailed version with every field and tips.

  1. 1Choose a bot

    DCA bot — buying more in steps

    Click the robot button at the top, then pick this bot in the bot window.

  2. 2Question 1 · What to trade?

    Coin and direction

    Pick a coin, plus long or short.

  3. 3Question 2 · How much?

    Entry per level

    Own margin, leverage, extra margin — below it the setup calculates volume, liquidation and committed money.

  4. 4Question 3 · How to trade?

    The ladder

    Four presets: Safe, Balanced, Active, Scalp.

  5. 5Question 4 · When to get out?

    Cycle target

    When the cycle closes — and when no more buying happens.

  6. 6Question 5 · Test first

    One click runs all the numbers

    Pick a period, then one button calculates fact sheet, backtest and basket — with costs as measured live.

  7. 7The verdict

    One sentence that tells you where things stand

    At the top one sentence: does the setting hold or not. Below it the fact sheet with all the numbers.

  8. 8The basket

    The same setting on twelve coins

    If it only works on one market, you will see it here — before real money is involved.

  9. 9Question 6 · Start

    You start exactly what was tested

    As a demo bot with play money — or live through your own exchange keys, with confirmation, emergency stop and limits.

Detailed guide

Try DCA

Create an account, configure the bot, test it against the past, let it run in demo mode. No real money, no payment details.