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Scalping ladder bot
The Scalping ladder keeps a tight ladder of limit orders just below and above the price.
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Each fill below is sold one step higher and each fill above is bought back one step lower, and the ladder follows the price.
When to use it
On liquid coins in calm, choppy markets, where the price wiggles back and forth by small amounts many times a day.
Settings
Every bot trades in your own Hyperliquid account. In the setup you pick the market, the amount and the leverage; Safe, Balanced and Aggressive fill in the rest from the coin's own volatility, and Customize settings opens every setting below. Rivemont's fee is from 0.1% per fill, lower with your 30-day volume, plus Hyperliquid's own trading fee.
- Gap
- The distance between two orders in % (up to 10%). Keep it above twice the fees: a wider gap earns more per trade but fills less often.
- Each side
- How many orders below and above the price (1 to 50). More orders cover a larger move but spread the amount thinner.
- Follow the price
- On: when the price leaves the ladder it closes and starts again around the new price. Off: leaving the ladder stops the bot.
- SL
- Optional: closes everything once the ladder has lost this share of its amount.
- Amount and Leverage
- The money the ladder uses, split across its orders, and the leverage.
Example
SOL at $200, gap 0.3%, 5 orders each side, $1,000. Orders sit at about $199.40, $198.80 … and $200.60, $201.20 …, each about $100. A dip to $199.40 buys; a return to $200 sells it: about $0.30 before fees.
What can go wrong
Fees decide it.
With a gap under twice the fees, each round trip loses money.A trend fills one side only.
Following the price then closes the ladder at a loss each time it moves.