Money management

Money management (capital management) is the set of rules that help you preserve your deposit and grow it, rather than drain it on a single bad trade. On leveraged futures a sizing mistake is the most expensive one: the market doesn’t owe you a move in your direction, and liquidation closes the position by force and at a loss.

Keep leverage small

High leverage multiplies both profit and loss and pushes the liquidation price closer to your entry. For systematic trading and bots keep leverage small — 5–10×. That leaves the market room to breathe and prevents ordinary volatility from knocking you out.

How leverage works and what the liquidation price depends on — see the Futures terminal.

Margin below the deposit

The margin used (including leverage) across all open deals must not exceed your deposit. If the whole deposit is committed to leveraged positions, you have no buffer for a drawdown — the first correction leads to liquidation.

Reserve for averaging (DCA)

Crazy bots average the position with safety orders (DCA) to bring the average entry closer to the market. For averaging to work, the money for it must exist:

keep at least 50% (preferably more) of your funds free for averaging;
the more aggressive the grid and the volume multiplier (martingale), the larger the reserve you need;
plan the grid to cover a realistic drawdown depth, not just a couple of percent.

Grid parameters and volumes are set on the averaging step — see Creating a bot.

Take profit and step — by volatility

Set the profit target (Take Profit) and the grid step to the pair’s volatility, not by guesswork. For most liquid pairs a working target is around 0.5–1%: calm pairs — smaller and more often, volatile ones — larger and rarer. A take profit that’s too small and ignores fees can close deals at a loss.

Long is usually safer than Short

An asset’s price can fall by at most 100%, but rise by 1000% or more. That’s why a short carries fundamentally higher risk: unlimited upside works against you. Trade shorts only with a clear read of the market and tight risk control; for a start, long strategies are generally more robust.

Multiple bots — count the total margin

The “margin below the deposit” rule applies to the whole account, not to each bot separately. If several bots are running, add up the margin of all active deals — it’s easy to quietly exceed the deposit when every bot “looks small on its own”.

To keep the load under control:

Active deals — what’s open right now and how much is tied up;
Deal limits — caps on a bot’s volume and number of deals.

Stop-loss — deliberately

A stop-loss caps a deal’s loss at a level you set in advance. It’s configured on the Stop-Loss step when creating a bot (in percent or in PnL). The stop protects your deposit when the market has moved far and the averaging grid is exhausted — better to lock in a limited loss than to wait for liquidation.

Diversification

Don’t put the whole deposit into one pair or one strategy. Spreading across several uncorrelated pairs lowers the risk that a single sharp move wipes out the account.

Pre-launch checklist

Leverage 5–10×, not the maximum.
Total margin (across all bots) below the deposit.
≥ 50% of funds left free for averaging.
Take profit and grid step matched to the pair’s volatility.
Grid depth sized for a realistic drawdown.
A stop-loss defined for when the grid is exhausted.
Risk spread across several pairs.