A stop-market order fills when price hits the trigger, sometimes well below the stop. A stop-limit caps the price and can be skipped entirely. How each behaves in a fast market, which one bots use, and how trailing stops change the exit.
One bot at +300% can make a hundred bots look three times better than they were. Why the average misleads, what the median shows, real H1 2026 data where the gap reached 14x, and seven questions to ask any bot results report.
A grid bot that cycles all month can leave hundreds of disposals on your tax report. How bot trades are counted, worked examples for GRID, DCA and COMBO, what 1099-DA and CARF change for 2026 trades, how to export the history, and how step size affects the paperwork.
Editing a bot changes its rules and keeps it running. Stopping it cancels its orders, and the closing option you pick decides whether you keep coins, sell them or hold a futures position. Here's what each choice does, bot by bot.
The quote currency is what your bot counts profit in and holds between trades. USDT, USDC and BTC each carry a different risk, and in a stablecoin depeg a grid bot reads the drop as a rally. Here's how to choose, with a worked depeg example.
A new listing gives a bot a thin order book, wide spreads and no price history to set a range from. Here's what each bot type does in that first week, why futures bots are the riskiest choice, and a checklist to run before launching on a fresh pair.
Deleting an API key cuts off a bot instantly, on every exchange. Here's why that's enough — and what to double-check before you assume it worked.
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