Liquid Edge · Automated trading

How to automate crypto trading

Automating a strategy is four decisions: the venue, the rules, the test, and the permission you grant. Liquid Edge covers all four in one place, and the strategy you backtest is the exact one that goes live.

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How to automate crypto trading

The four decisions

Four decisions, then the machine handles the rest.

Automating comes down to four choices: the venue you trade on, the rules, the testing, and the permission you grant. Three of them people make quickly, because they are obvious. The one that gets skipped is the testing, and it is the only one that tells you what the rules do on a bad day. A strategy that has never been through a drawdown will still go through one. The only question is whether you watched it happen in a backtest or on your balance.

Liquid Edge puts all four steps in one place, in that order.

  • Test before anything is liveReplay the rules against real market history and read how they behaved. Nothing connects and nothing trades until you have seen it.
  • Deploy the exact thing you testedThe strategy you backtest is the strategy that runs. There is no rewriting it into a different tool between testing and going live.
  • We never get withdrawal rights. Anywhere.On a perp DEX your funds sit in an isolated onchain vault only you can withdraw from. On a centralized exchange the exchange custodies them and we connect with API permissions limited to trading. Neither route lets Liquid Edge move your capital.

Want to get started? Walk through setup, covering everything from connecting an exchange to launching your first bot. Or read How to Automate Crypto Trading With Control for more on this.

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Frequently asked questions

Do you support options trading?

Not today, and saying otherwise would be inaccurate. Volatility is central to what the platform measures, and options positioning matters as context for anyone trading perps, but no options strategy runs on our infrastructure yet. Automating options through brokers that support them is on the roadmap.

What happens if performance degrades over time?

Performance can fluctuate as market conditions change. When degradation is detected, Liquid Edge's proprietary engines engage to reassess strategy alignment, adjust parameters, and reweight or reduce exposure within an adaptive allocation framework.

What are strategy templates?

Fifteen ready-made strategies covering trend following, mean reversion, breakouts, momentum, scalping and indicator crossovers. Each one is documented, editable and can be deployed in paper mode first, so a template is a starting point rather than a black box.

What is the Crypto Dashboard?

The on-chain side of the platform: trading yield vaults, positions held through your own wallet, and the Liquid Edge dApp. Vault logic lives in published smart contracts you can read, rather than in an account you have to trust. It is deliberately separate from the main dashboard, which covers exchange accounts and bot performance.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. Strategy Studio builds rules in plain language: you stack conditions like "if funding is above this and price closes below that, then do this". Templates go further and give you a working strategy to start from. Coding is only relevant if you want to send signals in from your own scripts.