How to Use Bitsgap AI Assistant: Set Up Your First AI-Powered Bot Portfolio

Bitsgap's AI Assistant doesn't trade on its own judgment — it analyzes your balance, market conditions, and historical volatility to recommend and configure a diversified portfolio of GRID and other rule-based bots, then manages them as one unit. You choose an exchange, an investment amount, and a duration profile; the Assistant handles pair selection, diversification, and bot setup. Execution still runs on deterministic bot logic, not an autonomous agent making live calls. Setup takes about five minutes.

• Go to Bots → Start new bot → AI Assistant, pick an exchange, set your investment amount, and choose a duration profile.
• Three duration profiles: Short-term (Aggressive) runs bots for 1–5 days, Mid-term (Moderate) for 2–4 weeks, Long-term (Conservative) for 2+ months.
• The Assistant proposes trading pairs across assets like BTC, ETH, and USDT to spread risk, rather than concentrating the full investment in one pair.
• Check the Backtest Chart before launching — it shows how the proposed configuration would have performed over recent history, not a guarantee of future results.
• Pro users get Portfolio mode (all AI bots share one Take Profit target and status) and automated Take Profit management across the whole portfolio.
• The AI Assistant configures and diversifies; it does not remove market risk or override the stop-loss and exposure limits you'd apply to any bot.

What the AI Assistant Actually Does

It's worth being precise about this, because "AI trading bot" gets used loosely across the industry. The AI Assistant is a configuration and portfolio layer, not a discretionary trading agent. It reads your account balance, the market conditions on your chosen exchange, and historical volatility data, then proposes a set of bots — typically GRID-based — sized and paired to diversify exposure rather than concentrate it in a single asset. Once launched, those bots execute using the same deterministic rule-based logic any Bitsgap bot uses: fixed price levels, fixed order sizes, fixed exit conditions. The AI layer decides what to configure; it doesn't improvise trades mid-cycle the way an autonomous agent would. That distinction matters for risk control — a rule-based bot's behavior is inspectable and testable before you commit capital, which is harder to say for a system making live discretionary calls.

Step-by-Step Setup

1. Open the Bots page and start a new bot. From your Bitsgap dashboard, go to Bots → Start new bot, then select AI Assistant from the bot type menu.
2. Choose your exchange. Select which connected exchange the AI-managed bots will run on. The Assistant works across Bitsgap's supported exchanges, so pick the one holding the balance you want to deploy.
3. Set your investment value. Enter either a fixed amount or a percentage of your available balance. This is the total capital the Assistant will allocate across the bot portfolio it proposes — size it the way you would size any bot allocation, not as a separate "AI budget" with different risk rules.
4. Pick a duration profile. Short-term (Aggressive) targets 1–5 day bot cycles, Mid-term (Moderate) targets 2–4 weeks, and Long-term (Conservative) targets 2+ months. This setting shapes how aggressively the Assistant configures grid spacing and pair selection, not just how long the bots run.
5. Review the Backtest Chart. Before launching, check how the proposed configuration would have performed against recent price history for the selected pairs. Treat this as a sanity check on the setup's logic, not as a forecast — a backtest window that looked favorable can be followed by a very different one.
6. Review the full settings. Confirm exchange, investment amount, the specific trading pairs proposed, and bot count before launching. This is the point to catch a pair or allocation you don't actually want, since the Assistant proposes the portfolio but you approve it.
7. Pro users: configure Take Profit. On the Pro plan, you can set a Total PNL % target for automatic portfolio-wide closure once reached, and enable Portfolio mode, which combines the selected AI bots into a single unit sharing one Take Profit level and status. Once Portfolio mode is on, individual bots inside it can't be edited separately.
8. Launch. Click Start bots. Active bots appear in the Active Bots tab tagged with an AI icon, and can be paused, edited (outside Portfolio mode), or closed at any time from the dashboard.

By default, bots started through the AI Assistant launch with Trailing Up and Pump Protection enabled — both adjustable after launch, not settings you need to configure manually on step one.

Where This Fits Against Manual Bot Setup

The AI Assistant exists for a specific gap: deciding which bots to run and how to split capital across pairs is its own skill, separate from understanding how any individual bot type works. A trader who already has a clear market view on one pair is usually better served picking a bot directly — GRID for a range-bound market, DCA for a gradual entry, COMBO for leveraged futures, or LOOP for spot compounding. The Assistant is built for the trader who wants diversified exposure across several pairs and bot configurations without manually researching and setting each one — the tradeoff is less control over the specific pair selection in exchange for faster, more diversified deployment.

It's also a different tool from an autonomous AI trading agent, a category that has its own tradeoffs and risks worth understanding on its own terms — see how AI trading agents differ from rule-based bots if you're evaluating that category specifically.

Risk Notes

The AI Assistant diversifies allocation and automates configuration — it doesn't eliminate market risk. A backtest reflects a specific historical window and isn't a guarantee the same conditions repeat. Portfolio mode's shared Take Profit means all bots inside it close together once the target is hit, which can mean exiting a still-performing bot early alongside weaker ones in the same portfolio. As with any bot, an aggressive duration profile in a volatile market carries different risk than a conservative one in a calm market, and the setting should match your actual risk tolerance rather than the shortest cycle available.

FAQ

Does the AI Assistant trade using artificial intelligence, or is it a rule-based bot with an AI-configured setup? The trading itself runs on deterministic bot logic — fixed price levels, order sizes, and exit rules, the same mechanics any Bitsgap bot uses. The AI Assistant's role is analyzing your balance and market data to configure and diversify that bot portfolio, not making live discretionary trading decisions.

What's the difference between the three duration profiles? Short-term (Aggressive) targets 1–5 day cycles, Mid-term (Moderate) targets 2–4 weeks, and Long-term (Conservative) targets 2+ months. The profile affects how the Assistant configures grid spacing and pair selection, not just the intended holding period.

Can I edit individual bots after the AI Assistant launches them? Yes, unless you've enabled Portfolio mode (Pro only), which combines selected AI bots into a single unit with shared Take Profit and status — while Portfolio mode is active, bots inside it can't be edited individually.

Is the AI Assistant available on the free trial? The AI Assistant is accessible during Bitsgap's trial period; Take Profit management and Portfolio mode are Pro-plan features. Confirm current plan-tier availability on the pricing page before assuming a specific feature is included.

How is this different from an AI trading agent? An AI trading agent interprets information and can decide its own next action, which makes it harder to backtest or audit. The AI Assistant configures a portfolio of rule-based bots whose execution logic is fixed and inspectable before you launch — the AI layer sits in setup, not in live trade decisions.

Launch your first AI-powered bot portfolio

Connect an exchange, set your investment and duration, and let the AI Assistant propose a diversified bot portfolio — review it before anything goes live. Try Bitsgap free →

The AI Assistant's job is diversified setup in a few clicks. Whether the configuration fits your risk tolerance is still a call worth making deliberately, not skipping.