Gate Future Grid: Long Grid vs Short Grid vs Neutral Grid

1. What Is Future Grid?

The Future Grid strategy is an automated strategy that buys low and sells high in a specific price range to trade futures. Users only need to set the highest price and lowest price in the range, determine the number of grids to be subdivided, and start running the strategy; if necessary, trigger conditions can also be set in advance, and the strategy will automatically start running when the market conditions meet the trigger conditions. The strategy will calculate the price of buying low and selling high for each small grid, automatically place orders, and continuously buy low and sell high or sell high and buy low to earn income from fluctuations as the market changes.

2. How to Use Future Grid?

To create a future grid, follow these steps: access navigation bar - click on "Bots-Bot Pool" - select "Create a Bot" - "Recommend-Futures Grid" - click on "Create a Bot" - select "Trade Pairs" - "Configure Parameters" - Click on "Create", as shown in the following figure:

3. When to Use Future Grid?

The core of the future grid is "earning from fluctuations," so it is a suitable strategy when judging that there will be a long period of a volatile market. At the same time, future grid can also have a certain long-short tendency, that is, the long grid will only open long and close long, which is suitable for the market that fluctuates upwards, and the short grid will only open short and close short, which is suitable for a market that fluctuates downwards. The neutral grid is to "open short/close short" above the market price or "open long/close long" below the market price when the strategy runs. Users can choose an appropriate grid according to their judgment of the specific market.

4. Types of Future Grid

Currently, Gate Future Grid includes three categories: long grid, short grid and neutral grid.



Long Grid vs Short Grid vs Neutral Grid

5. Conclusion

The long, short, and neutral grid provides users with a wider choice space and more flexible profits. Users with experience and mature trading skills can predict the direction of the market through subjective judgments. If they predict a rise, they can choose to go long, otherwise, they can choose to go short. Those who are relatively inexperienced or have difficulty in market forecasting and judgment can choose a neutral grid. In this way, no matter whether the subsequent price rises or falls, profit is possible.



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