Why three bots, not one
Most trading bots on most platforms are variations on a single idea dressed up with different names. Quantex ships three, and they’re actually different tools for actually different situations.
Grid: for a market that isn’t going anywhere
A grid bot picks a price range and places a ladder of buy and sell orders across it. When the price dips into a lower rung, it buys. When it climbs back up, it sells. It repeats that for as long as the price keeps bouncing inside the range.
This is the strategy for a market that’s choppy but not trending, the kind of price action that would drive a manual trader crazy trying to time. A grid bot doesn’t try to guess direction at all. It just works the range.
DCA: for when you don’t trust your own timing
Dollar-cost averaging buys on a fixed schedule regardless of what the price is doing that day. It’s the opposite of trying to find the perfect entry, and that’s the point. A single bad entry can’t sink a position that was never staked on one moment in the first place.
DCA is slow by design. It’s the strategy for building a position over weeks or months, not the one for a market you expect to move fast.
Momentum: for when something is actually happening
Momentum bots do the one thing grid and DCA deliberately avoid: they take a directional bet. Once a trend is confirmed, a momentum bot sizes into it, and it steps aside the moment that trend stalls out. It’s built for the market phases the other two strategies are built to ignore.
Why this matters
A grid bot let loose on a strongly trending market will keep selling into strength and buying into weakness, exactly backwards. A momentum bot let loose on a flat, choppy market will get chopped up by false signals. The strategies aren’t interchangeable, and treating them like they are is how a good tool ends up producing a bad result.
That’s why Quantex asks which one you want, instead of picking for you.