The caps per tier
- Conservative: max 33% of deployed capital per position, max three concurrent positions.
- Moderate: max 25% per position, max five concurrent.
- Multi-X: max 20% per position, max eight concurrent.
What 'deployed capital' means
Deployed capital is your total spot wallet balance allocated to the strategy — typically the sum of your USDT, USDC, and the market value of every open bot position. The bot evaluates this number at every decision window and sizes the next trade against it. Idle capital outside the bot scope (other coins you hold manually) is not counted.
Why size matters more than entry
A common amateur mistake is obsessing over entry timing while ignoring size. In practice, your loss on a stopped-out trade is position_size × stop_distance. A great entry on a 50% position is much riskier than a mediocre entry on a 20% position. The bot's tier caps make this trade-off explicit and consistent across every trade.
The math that drives the caps
The product position_size × stop_distance defines the worst-case loss per trade. Multiplied by the maximum number of concurrent positions, that gives you the maximum drawdown the bot can incur in a single bad regime:
- Conservative: 33% × 5% × 3 = 4.95% theoretical max single-window drawdown.
- Moderate: 25% × 7% × 5 = 8.75%.
- Multi-X: 20% × 8% × 8 = 12.8%.
These are theoretical floors — actual realised drawdown can be worse during gaps and correlated moves, which is why we recommend each tier only for the matching risk profile.