Grid bot
Set a price range, let the bot buy low and sell high on every oscillation — marketed as steady income from sideways markets.
What it actually does
Places a ladder of limit orders between a lower and upper bound; each filled buy creates a sell one step higher, collecting the step spread minus two fees.
Where it exists
Offered by:
Before running it anywhere, compare what the round-trips will cost on the fees page — on thin edges the fee tier decides the outcome.
Our out-of-sample verdict: OOS: negative
We swept 324 grid configurations on real exchange data. Every configuration that looked profitable in-sample fell apart out-of-sample: the 'sideways market' assumption breaks exactly when it costs the most, and two fees per round-trip eat the step profit. Not one configuration survived honest testing.
How we test: the honest funnel →Test strategies with $0 at risk → Our testing method
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