How to Handle Partial Fills in Automated Crypto Orders
You send an order to buy one Bitcoin, and the exchange fills 0.4 of it. The rest sits open, or gets cancelled, or fills seconds later at a worse price. If your...
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Iceberg Orders Explained: How Large Orders Hide in the Order Book
Watch a crypto order book long enough and you will see something odd. A price level shows only a modest amount of size, you send orders into it, and yet the le...
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How to Close Part of a Position With a TradingView Webhook Alert
Your strategy is up on the trade, and you want to bank some of it without walking away from the rest. By hand this is easy: you eyeball the position and sell a...
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How Perpetual Funding Rates Affect Automated Futures Orders
If you automate crypto trades on perpetual contracts, a recurring cost sits quietly underneath every position you hold: the funding payment. Perpetual funding...
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How to Prevent Duplicate TradingView Alerts From Firing
If you automate crypto trades, few things are more unsettling than watching one signal turn into two orders. You set up a clean strategy, the alert fires, and...
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Time-in-Force Explained: GTC, IOC, and FOK for Automated Orders
If you automate crypto trades, one small setting quietly decides whether your order rests on the book, fills instantly, or disappears the moment it is sent. Th...
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Record-Keeping for Bot-Executed Crypto Trades (Not Tax Advice)
When you automate your trading, orders stop being things you remember and start being things that simply happen. A webhook fires, an order lands on the exchange...
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Retries and Timeouts: Making Automated Orders Resilient
Your strategy fires a signal. A single network hiccup swallows the request, and the exchange order never lands. No fill, no error you noticed, just a trade that...
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How to Handle Failed and Rejected Orders in a Trading Bot
An automated strategy can be flawless on the chart and still lose the trade at the last step, when the exchange refuses the order. Learning to handle failed or...
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How to Reduce Slippage in Automated Crypto Trading
Slippage is the gap between the price your strategy expected and the price your order actually filled at. In manual trading it is an occasional annoyance. In a...
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