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Paper Trading a Crypto Bot: A 4-Week Protocol for Going Live

Paper Trading a Crypto Bot: A 4-Week Protocol for Going Live

Four weeks of paper trading only helps if each week has a job. Run a bot in simulation, watch the P&L climb, flip it live - and fees, slippage, and untested errors wreck you. Here's a week-by-week protocol built to catch those issues.

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DCA Bot: The Neutral Comparison Vendor Pages Won't Publish
DCA Bot: The Neutral Comparison Vendor Pages Won't Publish

A DCA bot automates dollar-cost averaging. It places a series of buy orders - often on dips - and exits once your weighted average position is up by a set percentage. It doesn't predict anything. Here's the cross-platform comparison, plus our own Binance data on when averaging actually matters.

Aug 1, 20269 min read

Reading a BTC Dominance Chart: A Gauge of Altcoin Risk Appetite
Reading a BTC Dominance Chart: A Gauge of Altcoin Risk Appetite

A BTC dominance chart is a risk-appetite gauge that some traders and analysts watch, not a crystal ball. As sources like Changelly and CoinStats frame it, dominance is a ratio: Bitcoin's market cap divided by the total crypto market cap. That means the reading moves for reasons that have little to do with sentiment - new coin issuance, growth in stablecoin supply, or a large-cap altcoin rally all shift the number even when underlying risk appetite hasn't changed. Rising dominance often coincides with a rotation toward Bitcoin, but stablecoin supply growth inflates it too, and it misleads if stablecoins aren't excluded from the total.

Jul 8, 20269 min read