
High frequency bots
The market prices of cryptocurrencies often change very quickly. The value can increase or decrease per second. The trick is to grab the moment in that millisecond when you make a profit.
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Becoming a bot creator: follow these 10 easy steps
Welcome to the world of BOTS, a platform where anyone can create and use bots for automated trading.
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BOTS Shorting Summarized
The Shorting Feature was released last month (October 2022) on the BOTS platform to allow bot creators to create and users to utilize shorting bots.
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Introducing our new fee structure for bot creators
Bot creators can earn revenue by placing their trading strategies on the BOTS platform. The fee structure for each trading strategy depends on several factors. This article explain all.
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BOTS API V3: BNF API
We are proud to announce our third generation bot creation API developed and maintained by BOTS. Using this API, you can develop trading strategies on the BOTS platform.
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Risk Exposure & The BOTS app
In finance, risk refers to the chance that an investment's actual return will be different from its expected return. It includes the possibility of losing some or all of the original investment.
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Slippage and the BOTS app
Slippage is the difference between the fill price of your buy or sell order and the price you anticipated when you submitted your order.
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How to write a great bot description
Users will be more likely to choose your bot if you have a well-written description because it allows them to get to know your bot better and figure out if it's right for them.
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Desirable Performance Behaviour - The BOTS app
The objective of this document is to share with you what kinds of behaviors can differentiate desirable from undesirable performance.
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BOTSLab on GitHub
We have integrations for a variety of programming languages. A bot creator may connect his bots to our platform by using the instructions found on GitHub.
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Becoming a bot creator: The KYC
Every bot creator has to complete three forms (New Bot Form, New Private/Corporate Bot Creators, KYC Private/Corporate) before their bot goes live.
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The BOTS BEM API
The BEM API is a REST API designed to give your bots access to the Bots platform. This allows you to create, manage, and delete bot properties as well as send messages.
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Using Discord when becoming a bot creator
Discord is designed to address difficulties with chatting, verbal communication, and organizing people to complete tasks. BOTS and the bot creators are both active on Discord.
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Shiba Inu (SHIB)
Shiba Inu is an altcoin that many of us have come across due to its vast popularity and funny logo containing the meme-worthy Shiba dog.
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Bot Creator Newsletter - June 2022
We have some exciting news to share: the most requested feature is almost there: shorts! Furthermore in this newsletter we want to share some tips on backtesting and more.
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USD Coin (USDC)
This stablecoin was launched by Centre, a consortium founded by the popular American crypto exchange Coinbase and fintech company Circle.
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Cosmos (ATOM)
Cosmos is a proof-of-stake network founded in 2014 by Jae Kwon and Ethan Buchman. The network is built up out of several different parts.
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Trading Multiple Assets and Marketcaps
Quick heads up to our bot creators when selecting trading assets for their bots. To maximize the AUM of a strategy, it is important that you select assets that have similar liquidity!
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ApeCoin
ApeCoin is a new kid in the cryptocurrency block introduced to investors in 2022. The coin created a big fuss early on, as it is connected to the extremely popular Bored Ape NFT collection.
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Bot creator spotlight: Fluctus
Today, the spotlight is on the bot-creator team Fluctus. Team Fluctus have been active on the BOTS app for almost one year now and currently hold 13 bots in the app: Apollo, Taurus and a lot more.
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Backtesting Tips & Risks
The majority of retail traders suffer losses. The cause for this is that they do not build their methods on verified data, but rather on feelings, advice from friends, and so on.
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AI Use in Trading
Artificial Intelligence has altered numerous sectors, and the world of trading is no exception. However, it is still more of a helper to traders.
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Popular Trading Strategies
There are many different types of trading strategies that can be used in the financial markets. Some of the most popular strategies will be discussed in this article.
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Paper trading vs Live trading
This article is going to discuss the pros and cons of paper trading vs live trading. The best way to decide which one is right for you is to consider your goals, experience, and risk tolerance.
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Bot Creator Newsletter - May 2022
Last week we shared with you the sad news that Arthur was leaving the BOTS team but joining the bot creators. Today we are happy to inform you of the people daring enough to take over the wheel.
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MetaTrader Integration - TradeDevs
Besides the TradeManager bridge from Stash Trading we can now offer another bridge to connect your bot to the BOTS platform using MetaTrader thanks to TradeDevs.
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DeFi Introduction
The goal of DeFi is to get rid of third parties that are involved in all financial transactions. It leverages the power of cryptography, decentralisation & blockchain to build a new financial system.
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PancakeSwap
PancakeSwap is a serious player in the field of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sector, as this blockchain-based project is the most popular DEX (decentralized exchange) on the Binance Smart Chain.
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Bot creator spotlight: Kronos
Today, the spotlight is on the bot-creator team Kronos: currently holding over 10 bots in the BOTS app since January 2022, including Eros, Hermes and Alcmene.
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Bot Creator Newsletter - April 2022
We are very happy to announce some big news on the DNB registration! We would also like to invite you to one of our upcoming digital MeetUps and share our experience at the Bitcoin 2022 in Miami.
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Bot creator spotlight: Tempus Logic
Today, the spotlight is on the bot-creator team Tempus Logic from Australia: the first bot creator to bring their strategies to the BOTS app usingTradeManager from Stash Trading.
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BOTS styles - What different styles of bots can be added to the BOTS app
What different styles of bots can be added to the BOTS app and how do they work? All types will be discussed in this article.
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Sending Orders - TradingView Integration
It is possible to seamlessly send buy/sell orders from TradingView to BOTS. This can be done by using the Webhook URL option in your TradingView alert box.
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Monero: an innovative privacy coin
Monero is an open-source blockchain-based decentralized cryptocurrency focusing on privacy. Monero enables blockchain-based trading in a highly opaque and anonymous way.
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Tether: a stable cryptocurrency
Tether (USDT) is a cryptocurrency designed to maintain the value of 1 United States dollar. This makes Tether a stablecoin enabling smooth and global crypto trading.
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Zcash: a coin for private transactions
Zcash is a blockchain project and cryptocurrency concerned with the issue of privacy. The project stems from a Bitcoin background.
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Bot Creator Onboarding Guide
To help people get the best possible and clearest image of your bot, we created this onboarding guide. When you upload your bot to this platform, we want all parties to benefit as much as possible!
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Bot Creator Newsletter - March 2022
It has been one busy month for the bot creator team. Organized events, attended events, the merge of Discord and of course BOTSpedia.
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Bot Creator Meetup - Utrecht - March 2022
A glance at our first bot creator meetup in Utrecht in March 2022 with almost 50 attending bot creators.
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Using the orderbook to determine entries
It is important to understand what an order book is and how its market depth chart can help you in determining entries for your trades.
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What to do when crypto is crashing
It can be a scary time for investors when the crypto market crashes. But it is important to remember that this is not the end of the world.
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Effect of timeframes on a strategy
When it comes to creating a trading bot, the first thing you need to decide is what time frame your bot will operate on. Each time frame has its benefits and drawbacks.
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Layering orders and their legality
Layering, also known as spoofing, is a form of market manipulation in which traders submit orders at particular price levels to influence the price of an underlying asset.
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Chiliz: a blockchain for sports fans
Chiliz is a blockchain solution for the sports sector enabling unique experiences for sports fans through direct engagement between the fanatics and their favorite teams.
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Ethereum – the crypto giant with big plans
Ethereum is a well-known decentralized open-source blockchain known for being the number one rival for Bitcoin. However, Ethereum is not exactly a direct competition to Bitcoin,.
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Bot Creator Meetup - March 2022
We are getting ready for our first BC Meetup this year and we are happy to inform you that we can already welcome 40 bot creators! You can still sign up if you haven't already, and you want to join!
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Renko Charts explained
Renko charts are concerned with price movement and time is of lesser importance; it is only noted when a new brick is created.
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Arithmetic vs. Logarithmic Scale
Scales are rarely addressed, yet they may make a significant difference in trendline analysis and interpretation.
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Point and Figure Charts explained
A point-and-figure chart is a graphical representation of price movements that ignore the passage of time.
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Candlestick Charts explained
A Candlestick chart is a type of chart that is used to display data in order to make it easier for traders and analysts to interpret the information.
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Bar Charts explained
Bar charts are a popular way of displaying data for traders. They can be used to display the price action on any stock, currency pair, or index.
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Line Charts explained
A line chart visualizes historical price action by drawing straight lines between consecutive closing prices.
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Tezos: smarter smart contracts
Tezos is an open-source, decentralized blockchain to create “smarter smart contracts.” This could mean that the project aims to offer seamless and improved blockchain adaptation to real applications.
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IOTA: Focussing on the Internet of Things
IOTA is a free spirit in the world of blockchain delivering an open-source distributed ledger and cryptocurrency for the use of the Internet of Things (IoT).
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NEO: a player in the smart economy sector
NEO network is a crypto project creating a “smart economy” to manage digitized assets based on smart contracts.
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The differences between high and low-frequency trading bots
Trading algorithms are computer programs that execute a trading strategy automatically. This article will discuss the differences between high, medium, and low-frequency trading.
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Bot Creator Newsletter - February 2022
A brief update this month from us as we will hopefully be seeing all of you next month in 'de Jaarbeurs' in Utrecht.
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Pilot by day, Bot Creator by night! Let’s meet Joris
What do soup, flying a plane and deep learning have to do with the BOTS? Well, let’s meet this unique bot-creator Joris.
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Boosting Alpha bot-creator Roy about his successful company
Simplicity and diversity, those are Roy’s mottos when it comes to his successful bots of Boosting Alpha.
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To the MAX with bot-creator Alex of Team Ryfen
In this episode we meet bot-creator Alex van Hasselt of Team Ryfen, who created 8 successful bots in the BOTS app.
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BOT creator Freek reveals his cryptocurrency trading strategies
Freek Wiekmeijer is a software engineer by day but by night, he turns into a creator of trading strategies for the BOTS-app. On the app, he and his team go by the name of 'Rave Before the Machine"
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Mother Earth BOTS-creators David and Luc about their passion for crypto
Meet students David and Luc from Team Atmos. With an interest in trading since high school these bot creators tell all about their successful bot Mother Earth.
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BOTS-creator Oscar reveals how he started and won the BOTS-League!
Bot-creator Oscar started as a BOTS user. In this video, he reveals why he started creating new bots with his Team to the Moon.
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How BOTS-creator Demian enables everyone to make BOTS
Trading can be an intense day job, especially if you do it all by yourself. As a trader, Demian Voorhagen figured there must be an easier way.
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19 year old Yannick about his BOTS development adventure!
19-year old Bot-creator Yannick tells about his BOTS story, how he started to develop bots with the Pump it up inc. team. With his background in programming, he created the bot Buy the bear.
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Bot creator spotlight: Boosting Alpha B.V.
Today, the spotlight is on the bot-creator team Boosting Alpha B.V.: responsible for a number of different brands in the BOTS-app, amongst which “Boosting Alpha”, “Noogieman”, “Dagobert Buck” and more
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Bot creator spotlight: Dembots
Today, the spotlight is on bot-creator Demian Voorhagen: responsible for several brands in the BOTS-app, amongst which not only Dembots but also DemaTrading.ai.
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Bot creator spotlight: Rave Before the Machine
Today, the spotlight is on bot-creator Freek Wiekmeijer: the man, the legend behind Rave Before the Machine.
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Bot creator spotlight: BEY Trading
Today, the spotlight is on bot-creator Baris: the man behind BEY Trading, which published Global 5, Global 10 and Ethereum 3 to the BOTS app; currently all in profit at around 40–60%.
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Bot creator spotlight: RYFEN
Today, the spotlight is on bot-creator Alexander van Hasselt, known in the BOTS app as RYFEN: responsible for several bots in the BOTS app, including a.o. Bitcoin vs Ethereum, Ethereum Max, and others
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Bot Creator Newsletter - January 2022
Happy new year! Let’s toast to the new year and look forward to all the great things that will be happening in 2022.
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Bot Creator Referral Program
BOTS is growing at warp speed! More and more users are finding their way to automated trading every day. That’s why we’re currently looking for more ambitious bot creators that want to help us grow.
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Bot creator spotlight: Laika
Today, the spotlight is on the bot-creator team Laika: responsible for 16 (!) bots in the BOTS-app, and an additional 7 new bots going through their quarantine period.
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Bot creator spotlight: Dutch Quant Collective
Today, the spotlight is on the bot-creator team Dutch Quant Collective: responsible for several brands in the BOTS-app, including a.o. Back2TheFutures, Dynamic Rebalance, King of the future and more.
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EOS: a competitive dApp building tool
EOS.IO is a blockchain protocol engineered to step up the decentralized application (dApp) game many blockchains are involved with.
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Chainlink: linking blockchain data with the real world
As the name of this cryptocurrency project might suggest, Chainlink is a network of oracles linking internal blockchain data with external data.
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Bitcoin Cash - the everyday Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a crypto project born from the alleged shortcomings of the world-renowned mother of all cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin.
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Polkadot - innovator of interoperability
Polkadot (DOT) is a commonly traded cryptocurrency with many possible applications aiming to disrupt internet monopolies to distribute the power back to individual users.
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VeChain - the blockchain solution for business
VeChain is a blockchain development project offering a proof of authority (PoA) blockchain for various businesses to use.
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Qtum: Combining the best of big crypto
Qtum is a blockchain solution combining the perks of Ethereum and Bitcoin; this currency blends the smart contract functionality of Ethereum and the UTXO transaction output model of Bitcoin.
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TRON - the blockchain rival of the media giants
TRON is a blockchain-based platform best known for its native cryptocurrency TRX. If you are interested in knowing the gist of TRON's vision for a more decentralized internet, read on.
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Dogecoin: one of the crown jewels of the internet
“Much wow,” the Shiba Inu dog must’ve thought when she realized her face is the official logo of a cryptocurrency worth billions of dollars.
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Stellar (XLM): Sending any currency to the other side of the world, lightning-fast and dirt cheap
XLM is one of those cryptocurrencies that has been on the market since the early days of crypto. The network offers fast and cheap transactions, which is a common use case within the crypto industry.
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BNB: the native cryptocurrency of the Binance ecosystem
Cryptocurrencies can be traded on many platforms. One of the most popular exchanges globally is Binance, the exchange founded in 2017 and quickly branched out into all corners of the crypto-sphere.
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Ripple: how it works, and why it is different than other crypto
Ripple is one of the oldest crypto companies and is working on faster, cheaper, and overall better remittances around the globe!
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Cardano, an “Ethereum killer?”
Cardano (ADA) is a crypto project that bears many similarities with Ethereum (ETH). It even shares the same co-founder, Charles Hoskinson.
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Litecoin (LTC), the silver of the crypto world
Litecoin (LTC) is one of the oldest cryptocurrencies on the market. It was launched in 2011 by former Coinbase employee Charlie Lee. The altcoin shares many similarities Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Bitcoin (BTC) gained popularity over the years due to being the first decentralized peer-to-peer cash system based on blockchain technology.
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Portfolio distribution: what does it mean for your Bots?
Let's look at portfolio distribution, what it can do for your bot and how to keep the volatility low.
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5 tips to get in the spotlight as Bot Creator
So you've spent hours and hours working on your bot and are finally live. A great accomplishment! But how do you make sure that both your bot and your bot creator team stay in the spotlight?
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What is a good Bot description?
Let's take a look at the bot description. How do you write it, where do you get your inspiration, and how do you choose the perfect name?
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What are trading fees?
Let's take a look at the trading fees. How are trading fees, management fees, performance fees calculated, and maybe most importantly: how do you as a bot creator get paid?
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Everything you need to know about the API Key
Let's look at what you need to do to get started with your bot right away. How do you make an API key in the BOTS app?
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Base Assets explained
One of the first things you have to do when creating an API key for the BOTS platform is select a base asset. But how do you pick the right base asset for your strategy, and why is this so important?
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Trading bot testing phase
Let's take a look at the testing of the trading bots in the BOTS app. What is the Bots Test category, and why do we have another testing phase?
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Your trading bot in quarantine
What is this quarantine, why is it there, what can you do to make it a success, and when do you get out of it?
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Market Caps: everything you need to know
Every trading bot in the BOTS app has a limited market cap. This means that there is only a certain amount of space for investments from BOTS users. How does it work?
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The BOTS liquidity model
BOTS applies the so-called liquidity model to maximize the growth potential and minimize risks. What is this, and why is it important?
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