The Money Node

I've started building a custom spot grid trading bot from scratch, and I wanted to share the ride here.
A few early insights that surprised me:
Pair selection is the easy part. Everyone obsesses over "which coin", but the real edge is in the boring plumbing: reliable fill detection, adaptive range construction, and knowing what the bot does when price exits your range. A grid that keeps buying into a breakdown isn't a strategy, it's a slow bleed.
Your range shouldn't be static. I build my grid bounds from a recent price window rather than fixing them once, a bot with a stale center is trading a market that no longer exists.
The scariest failure isn't a bad trade, it's silence. The worst moment so far was the bot quietly not trading for hours due to an exchange-side hiccup. If your bot can't scream when something breaks, you're flying blind.
Still early days, but I'm learning a ton.
If you've run grid bots, DCA, spot, or futures, I'd love to hear: 👇
- How do you handle range exits?
- Static vs. adaptive ranges?
- What broke for you that you didn't see coming?
Drop your experience and advice below. 🙏
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