What are Presets?

A preset is a ready-made bot. We pre-select a configuration set up for effective trading in a specific direction, with a clear aggression level and predictable risk – so you don’t have to deal with the settings. You pick a preset – and launch the bot in one click, right in the app.

Why do we update presets?

The market never stands still, and every inefficiency you can profit from has its own lifespan. That’s why a preset is not a permanent set of parameters: we research the market deeply and regularly, and release presets built on current inefficiencies. As soon as a preset’s numbers start to get worse – we remove it from rotation. This way you always choose from presets tuned to the current market. More details in Our approach.

How do we make presets?

Behind every preset stands a huge amount of computing work, impossible to do by hand: 0.5 to 1.5 million years of honest backtest time at one-second resolution – every second of real market history is replayed hundreds of thousands of times. Tests of this scale are possible thanks to our unique analytics platform.

First we prepare tens of thousands of candidate configurations. Each one goes through an offset test: hundreds of copies of a bot with that configuration are launched at different moments in time, to see how it behaves no matter when it starts. Then we analyze the results of all candidates and keep one – the optimal one. That one becomes the preset.

🎯 Optimal ≠ most profitable

A configuration with record profit in a test is almost certainly the result of a fixed start moment: move the launch by just a few minutes and, as a rule, the numbers come out completely different – and on another exchange the same pair behaves in a totally different way. This is one of the most common problems of trading-bot testing – it’s a big part of why people usually don’t trust pretty backtest numbers. To avoid exactly this scenario, we test every market separately, and evaluate each candidate across its entire series of shifted launches: how evenly it earns, how deep its drawdowns go, how it behaves at the worst start points – and many other criteria. The winner is the optimal configuration – the most predictable, stable and safe of all tested.

What does the data show?

A preset’s chances of reaching 100% profit (the winrate) are, on average, very strong. You may notice that the winrate drops as the aggression level grows, but that’s an honest trade-off and a flexible tool, not a flaw. Aggressive presets earn faster but need some attention to choosing the direction and the start moment. A Moderate can be launched at practically any moment without watching the market, while for an Aggressive it may be enough to check the news about the trend for the week. For a Kamikaze it’s enough to check the outlook for the day – or use it to catch sudden pumps, dumps and corrections. On top of that, Kamikaze presets are built for small deposits: the cost of a mistake is low, and with a little monitoring the earning potential is very high.

Note that everything above was about the chances of reaching 100% profit – that is, doubling the deposit. When starting a bot, you can pick a smaller target profit – this significantly raises the chances of success. In fact, the target profit is the only setting there is, besides the deposit amount.

In short

Moderate – launch it at almost any time; no need to watch the market. (starting deposit from 200 USDT) Aggressive – a weekly look at trend news should be enough. (starting deposit from 50 USDT) Kamikaze – for sudden pumps, dumps and corrections, and intraday news; built for small deposits, so even a failed run costs only a small amount. (starting deposit from 10 USDT)

Where to see the results and how to read them?

Every preset’s description includes an interactive chart of its testing – detailed down to individual launches. These are the same hundreds of shifted starts we talked about above. We publish the full picture of a preset’s behavior, and no special knowledge is needed to understand it: a couple of minutes – and you have objective expectations instead of promises. For more on how to read this chart, see How to read a preset chart?.

A quick guide to reading the chart

Each bar is one test launch, and its height is the profit reached: higher – better. Dark-green bars are launches that doubled the deposit (100% and more): the more of them, the better. Red bars are liquidations; but look at the tall red ones: even there the bot earned quite a lot before liquidation, which means it would have finished successfully with a smaller target profit. And the simplest rule of all – look at the total area of the bars: more area and fewer reds – a stronger preset.

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