
What Is a BTD Bot? Buying the Dip, Automated
Buy the dip, automated: a BTD bot layers buy orders as price falls and sells into the recovery. The mechanics, a worked example, and how it differs from DCA and QFL.

Buy the dip, automated: a BTD bot layers buy orders as price falls and sells into the recovery. The mechanics, a worked example, and how it differs from DCA and QFL.

Five bots can still be one bet if they all lean the same direction. A core-satellite-reserve framework for allocating capital, setting ceilings, and rebalancing on triggers instead of feelings.

Bitsgap pulled its own H1 2026 numbers: 81,456 bot launches, a 90/10 CEX-to-DEX split, and which bot types traders actually run live versus in demo. No estimates, just platform data.

BTC has been pinned inside a narrow band for weeks — exactly the condition Grid bots are built for. This playbook walks through reading the current range, placing realistic boundaries, sizing the grid, and knowing when the setup is about to break, using today's market as the working example.

Aster is a non-custodial perpetuals DEX — no KYC, funds stay in your wallet, and you connect through a trade-only API key. Here's the full walkthrough for setting up a DCA Futures bot on Aster with Bitsgap: connect, configure pair/margin/leverage, backtest, and launch.

A QFL bot (Quickfingers Luc) is a long-only spot strategy that buys when price cracks below a support base and sells as it bounces back. Here's how the pattern works, how it differs from GRID and DCA, and when it fits your market — and when it doesn't.

Skip the settings menu. Connect your Bitsgap API key to Claude or ChatGPT and describe your strategy — these 10 prompts cover pair selection, risk sizing, settings, and checking your work before you go live.

A spot bot trades assets you actually own — no leverage, no liquidation. A futures bot trades with borrowed size, which multiplies both gains and the risk of forced closure. Here's how to pick the right starting point.
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