...chained orders...
I have been experimenting with JJG (and jbreher)s chained order strategy on the BTC/ETH pair.
Perhaps I am being dense...but I am just not getting it.
It goes down, I am buying ETH every 0.001, ok fine, then it goes back up and I am selling ETH at the exact same prices...it looks like a total wash to me.
Did I miss something in the explanation?
I haven't tried it myself, but I thought you were supposed to sell higher than you bought.
If you buy at 30, 25, 20 and 15 on the way down I guess you are supposed to sell the 15 buy when it hits 20 on the way up and the 25 at 30 and so on.
Yep, Arriemoller. What you are outlining is a good foundation for an incrementalist approach to stacking your bets and hopefully profiting either direction while providing yourself with insurance, and you can tweak it to your own tolerance and sometimes you can skip one (for example selling the 15 at 25) or go in the middle (selling the 15 at 22.5) or some other variation that might be lopsided in one direction because you consider it to more closely to assist you in reaching your various goals, so you do not have to stick to any strict formula in the event that you find some structuring that works better for your ability to eek out greater profits, better insurance, or more conformity with your own personal circumstances (finances, risk tolerance, views of bitcoin, timeline, available spare time, etc).
One thing is that sometimes if you structure your orders too close together then there might not be enough sense of profits (like you are spinning your wheels for nothing - as mentioned earlier by Jojo), or if you set your orders too far apart, then they don't tend to fill and you lose profit opportunities.
Sometimes, I like to structure my orders in a very uniformed way in order to more easily remember each increment, even though there may be ways of structuring the orders that are more likely to be more profitable, but I give some value to the ease of remembering my orders. Other times, I add a bit more complexity into my setting up orders for a short period of time because even though I am causing some possible confusion for myself, I consider that the short term more complicated practice is going to allow me to engage in a bit of rebalancing in one direction or another that helps to line up my sense of how allocated I want to be in one direction or another. For example, I keep a spreadsheet tabulation that shows approximately how much allocated I am in one direction or another, and I recall that in 2016, there were price drops that caused my BTC/dollar allocation to approach 98% bitcoin and 2% dollars, and part of that was due to my newness in trading, and another part towards my tendency to easily become higher allocated in the direction of bitcoin, and another part was that my overall portfolio was not as highly in the profitable area (sometimes even in the negative in terms of profits).
More recently, even though I continue to gravitate towards being bitcoin bullish and even having beliefs that we have not yet reached the last run-up in this particular bubble (or run up), so therefore, I have continued to maintain a decently high level of allocation that has been skewed in the bitcoin direction, so even when BTC prices approached $20k, my allocation of BTC to dollars still maintained at nearly an 88% BTC to 12% fiat level. Currently, my tweaking of my plan continues to be based on my own refusal to go anywhere near 100% allocation towards bitcoin (to attempt to always maintain a cushioning of dollars), even if BTC prices were to drop to below $1k, I am still projected to have some dollars... yet as I type, I feel like I bought a lot of BTC on the way down from $20k to $6k, and at one point, I had used up nearly 66% of the previous amount of my fiat; however, when I look at my current allocation, it is still floating at about 92.7% bitcoin and 7.3% dollars.. So, simultaneously there is a certain level of attempted maintenance and another attempt at tweaking when I feel some need to prepare further one way or another.