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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.
'Crypto Bots Print Money While You Sleep' and 4 Other Myths That Cost Beginners Real Cash
Aug 1, 2026 • 9 min read
How to Choose a Crypto Exchange for Trading Bots: A Framework (as of April 2026)
Aug 1, 2026 • 10 min read
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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, 2026 • 9 min read
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Bot Trading 101 | The 9 Best Trading Bot Tips
Dec 17, 2019 • 7 min read
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, 2026 • 9 min read
