Benefits of Grid Trading on Binance Futures

2022-08-22

Key Takeaways:

  • Grid trading is a strategic tool that automates buying and selling futures contracts at preset intervals around a present price range.

  • It can help traders profit from small price fluctuations, especially in raging markets. 

  • The auto parameters function allows anyone to create a grid trading strategy with just one click.

Binance Futures has created a user-friendly tool that allows you to automate buy and sell orders. With only a few clicks, anyone can profit from the volatility that cryptocurrencies go through on a daily basis.  

Grid trading is one of the latest features that Binance Futures has introduced to help you make the most out of the cryptocurrency market. It is designed to work autonomously under a few preset parameters, allowing you to profit even from small price fluctuations. 

Our newest strategic trading instrument performs best in volatile and sideways markets. So in the following article, we’ll explain how you can set up a grid trading strategy and how it could help you improve your crypto trading game!

All Things Grid Trading

Grid trading essentially automates buying and selling crypto derivatives contracts in Binance Futures. It systematically executes limit orders at preset intervals within a preset price range, constructing a trading grid that gives you the opportunity to make capitalize on small price changes. 

The longer a cryptocurrency remains stagnant, trading within a price pocket, the higher the chances of unlocking the true power of grid trading. 

You can choose from two predefined modes, arithmetic and geometric. The former constructs each grid with an equal price difference, while the latter creates each grid with an equal price ratio difference. 

When the price of a given crypto drops, a buy order is executed, and a sell order is placed immediately at a higher price. Conversely, when the price of a given crypto rises, a buy order is placed immediately at a lower price as soon as a sell order is executed.

With a grid trading strategy, you can significantly increase your chances to buy low and sell high to benefit from volatile market conditions.

Making the Most Out of Crypto

One of the main benefits of grid trading is that it allows you to trade systematically without the need to forecast the direction of a trend. Instead of constantly monitoring real-time market movements, you can set up your grid trading strategy and let it do the hard work for you.  

Even in trending markets, prices tend to consolidate on the lower time frames. This is where you can also capitalize on small price changes. Still, determining a reasonable price range in any time frame is the key to ensuring the profitability of your grid trading strategy. 

You must be highly selective with the market conditions suitable for your strategy to avoid being on the wrong side of a trending market. So you must employ proper risk management measures, understand how much leverage you can use, and set conservative take-profit and stop-loss orders.

Suppose you expect BTC to hover in a price range between $40,000 to $50,000 in the next 24-hours. You could set up a grid trading strategy within this predetermined price range.

As the price of BTC drops towards $45,000, the grid trading system will set up buy orders on the way down at a lower price than the market. When prices start to recover, the grid trading system will place sell orders on the way up at a higher price than the market, attempting to make you profit from price fluctuations.

Put It Into Practice

If you are an advanced trader, you can go to Binance Futures’ Strategy Trading to put into practice your grid trading strategy. Here, you will be able to manually customize and set grid parameters on your own that will help you profit from a predefined price range in any of the available derivatives contracts.

And those of you who don’t know how to set parameters to build your own grid trading strategy, don’t worry! We got you covered. 

Binance Futures has built a set of recommended parameters to reduce the learning curve. These include lower price limit, upper price limit, and grid count. With the auto parameters function, you will be able to create a grid trading strategy with just one click.

Grid trading is great for anyone who wants to trade systematically. So don't miss the opportunity to make market volatility work in your favor. Set up your grid trading strategy today!

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Disclaimer: Crypto assets are volatile products with a high risk of losing money quickly. Prices can fluctuate significantly on any given day. Due to these price fluctuations, your holdings may significantly increase or decrease in value at any given moment, which can result in a loss of all the capital you have invested in a transaction.

Therefore, you should not trade or invest money you cannot afford to lose. It is crucial that you fully understand the risks involved before deciding to trade with us in light of your financial resources, level of experience, and risk appetite. If required, you should seek advice from an independent financial advisor. The actual returns and losses experienced by you will vary depending on many factors, including, but not limited to, market behavior, market movement, and your trade size. Past performance is not a guide to future performance. The value of your investments may go up or down. Learn more here.