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Five bots running at once can still be one position in disguise. A framework for sizing capital per bot, per asset, and per direction — before correlation turns a diversified setup into a single concentrated risk.
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A House-passed bill sits one Senate vote away from deciding whether the CFTC or the SEC regulates most of the crypto market. Here's the split it would create, what's governing crypto in the meantime, and why the vote keeps slipping.
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A bot's backtest shows one price. Live execution shows another. Here's what sits between them, why liquidity and order size decide the gap, and how to stop it from quietly eating a strategy's edge.
Every perp screen shows three prices, and only one of them closes your position. How mark, index and last price are calculated on Binance, Bybit, Aster, EVEDEX and Hyperliquid, why a wick on the chart may not liquidate you, and how to check the gap before launching a futures bot.
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Bitcoin is down 28% on the year and the Fear index reads 27. One trader ran four bots through it: three COMBO Shorts at 10x and one unleveraged spot DCA, +$8,678 on $7,581 committed. Here's the setup, bot by bot, and where it would have failed.
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EVEDEX ships its own AI bots, which most perp DEXs don't. They run one strategy family on four pairs. Everything outside that — grid, DCA, several venues at once — arrives through a trade-only API key or your own code. Here is the full 2026 landscape.
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Aster's headline commission is 0% maker and 0.04% taker on USDT perpetuals, and for most traders it is the smallest number on the bill. Execution mode and funding both cost more. Here is the full price list, from Aster's own documentation, with the arithmetic worked through.
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Aster's own Pro Mode already has native grid trading — what it lacks is DCA, COMBO-style strategies, and multi-venue management. Here's exactly which platforms fill that gap in 2026, verified rather than assumed.
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