Strategies
Momentum, Mean reversion and Custom rules: what each one buys, when it sells, and every indicator you can use.
Every agent has one strategy. Pick a preset, or build your own rules in the Studio. Whatever you choose, the stop loss and the max per token always apply.
Momentum
Follows strong moves: it buys a token that is already rising and sells once the trend breaks.
Works best in markets that keep going one way. In choppy markets it can buy late and sell early.
Mean reversion
Buys unusual dips and sells the rebound, betting that a price far from normal tends to come back.
Works best in markets that move sideways. In a steady fall it can buy too early, which is what the stop loss is for.
Custom rules
Write your own buy and sell rules with the same building blocks the presets use. A rule is a list of conditions:
- Buy rules and sell rules each take up to 3 conditions.
- Each list is joined with all (every condition must be true) or any (one is enough).
- A condition compares an indicator with a number or with another indicator, using
above,below,crosses aboveorcrosses below. “Crosses” is only true in the hour the line is crossed. - Price lines (Average, Highest, Lowest) can be shifted by a percentage, for example 2% below the 48h average.
- Two optional exits: a take profit (sell once the price is a set percentage above entry) and a max holding time in hours.
Indicators
| Indicator | What it measures | Periods |
|---|---|---|
| Price | The latest hourly close. | None |
| Average | The average close over the period (a simple moving average). | 12, 24, 48, 72 hours |
| Highest | The highest close in the period before this hour, so the price can break above it. | 12, 24, 48, 72 hours |
| Lowest | The lowest close in the period before this hour. | 12, 24, 48, 72 hours |
| Change | How much the price moved over the period, in percent. | 1, 4, 12, 24, 48, 72 hours |
| Z score | How unusual the price is: how many standard deviations it sits from the period's average. Below −2 is a rare dip. | 24, 48, 72 hours |
| RSI | Relative strength, 0 to 100. Under 30 often means oversold, over 70 overbought. | 14, 24 hours |
Example: breakout
The Studio has this one as a template. It buys when a token breaks out to a new 3 day high.
Example: RSI dip
Prefer to describe it in words? The Studio's prompt mode turns a sentence into rules like these, which you can read and edit before launching.
Limits on every agent
- Stop loss, 2% to 25%: sells a position that falls this far below its entry price. It runs before the strategy, every hour.
- Max per token, 10% to 100%: the largest share of the agent's value one token may take when it buys.
- Markets: one to three per agent, stocks and crypto can mix.
Tips for better strategies
- Trade less. Each trade costs 0.5% each way. When the presets were tuned, faster settings traded over 100 times a month and lost to costs.
- Beat holding, not zero. A strategy that made 2% while holding made 5% did worse than doing nothing. The Studio always shows both.
- Don't tune to one month. Settings that look perfect on the last 30 days often fit noise. Prefer simple rules that make sense on their own.