How I improved my crypto trading bots exit strategy

This is a milestone that Im quite proud of and Im excited to share this with you all.

Ive been working on an algo trading platform alongside a small team of developers for about 3 years now. Between us weve put together the foundation for what we believe to be the future of investment and wealth management.

Its a big vision and theres a lot of work ahead of us, but weve recently pushed an update that gives users a lot more control over their exit strategy.

An exit strategy is how and when youre planning to exit the market. An exit strategy should limit your losses and be able to cash out at a profit hence the good old Stop Loss and Take Profit. These are invaluable, but pretty basic.

We wanted to give people more control over when assets are being sold in order to keep the liquidity moving and re-allocate to new opportunities.

Most traders have some sort of plan. A Stop Loss, a Take Profit, or a Trailing Stop. But what happens when the market doesnt move according to your plan? Or even worse, doesnt move at all?

All that juicy liquidity is now stuck in an asset that just wont move. The issue becomes even more relevant when you consider algorithmic trading. That is using trading bots that work on a pre-defined series of rules in order to manage your portfolio.

Unless the bot has an infinite budget, in which case you probably dont need to bother reading this article, a good strategy ensures that the bot has consistent liquidity available to keep opening new positions. That means, closing old positions, ideally at a profit, and freeing up liquidity to continue executing the same strategy consistently.

Here is our solution to managing bot liquidity:

Stale Asset Selloff

The first feature weve added is simply called Stale Asset Selloff. It allows you select a time limit that when reached, the trading bot will automatically sell stale assets.

Weve added the stale asset selloff to the Advanced Exit, meaning that it will work in combination with your Trailing Stop Loss and Trailing Take Profit.

Some strategies are only effective if the asset moves in the predicted direction within a certain time window. For instance, trading based on the Golden Cross pattern assumes that the chart will continue to move up.

If the 50 day SMA goes back down below the 200 day SMA, the setup has lost its efficiency and you probably want to close the position.

Stale asset selloff allows you to do just that.

Stop Loss and Take Profit Decay

Another way to close down underperforming positions is what we call Stop Loss and Take Profit Decay. This lets you gradually reduce your TP and SL in time, so that it becomes tighter, and thus more likely to close.

For instance, if youve set your TP and SL to 20% and you have a Decay of 50% every day, youll basically reduce your TP and SL in half every day.

Decay is useful when an asset just isnt really moving at the rate that youre expecting so automatically decaying your TP and SL, will help that order to close, and free up liquidity so the bot may place other orders.

I personally found these features to be incredibly useful especially when running multiple bots. Being part of a small and agile team means that I get the opportunity to really connect with users and crypto enthusiasts in general. It also means that we often have long conversations with out users running through any feedback they have and figuring out how to improve Aesir.

Thats all I have for today. If you want to take Aesir for a spin, just sign up at https://app.aesircrypto.com and Join the discord to talk algotrading.

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