Bear Short BTC
A short grid for a declining market: adds on rallies, takes profit on drops, trailing take-profit and hedge protection.
What it is designed for
Designed for a bear / downtrend in BTC. A sharp short squeeze is the primary risk; hedge and SL cap it.
How this system is built
The exact configuration you get when you take it into the builder — nothing hidden behind registration.
| Market type (Spot / Futures) | Futures |
| Trade direction (Long / Short) | Short |
| Leverage | 3× |
| Deposit | $500 |
| Number of grid orders | 12 |
| Step / indent between orders | 1% |
| Martingale | 50% |
| First order volume | 4% |
| Active orders in the book | 3 |
| Take-profit | 1.8% |
| Take-profit mode | Trailing |
| Trailing take-profit | 0.5% |
| Stop-loss, % | 15% |
| Enable hedge | Enabled |
| Hedge direction | Automatic |
| Hedge trigger (%) | 4% |
| Hedge size ratio (%) | 60% |
| Hedge leverage | 3× |
Futures · 3× leverage — liquidation risk. Test in demo/paper first.
The physics of this system
Numbers below are derived from this configuration by the same modules the live engine uses — grid geometry, the fee model and the engine-specific economics. Nothing here is an estimate of profit: these are the distances, sizes and thresholds the system will actually work with.
| Reference deposit | $500 |
| Market | Futures |
| Leverage | 3× |
| Notional at full leverage | $1,500 |
A $500 deposit at 3× leverage opens up to $1,500 of notional on futures.
Economics of one cycle
| Round-trip feeentry counted as taker · exit counted as taker | 0.20 % |
| Take-profit per cycle | 1.80 % |
| Target covers the fee | 9.0× the round trip |
One round trip costs 0.200 % of turnover, and the cycle aims at 1.800 % — 9.0× the fee it has to pay.
A template has no exchange account attached, so rates are the platform fallback — the worst account measured across supported exchanges. A real account is usually cheaper, which moves every ratio below in your favour.
The ladder this system places
Every level is expressed as a distance from the first order, so the numbers hold at any price. Exchange minimums and lot steps are applied at deployment against the live instrument.
| Level | From entry | Order | In position | Average moves to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | +0.00 % | $20.00 | $20.00 | +0.00 % |
| 2 | +1.00 % | $30.00 | $50.00 | +0.60 % |
| 3 | +2.00 % | $45.00 | $95.00 | +1.26 % |
| 4 | +3.00 % | $67.50 | $162.50 | +1.97 % |
| 5 | +4.00 % | $101.25 | $263.75 | +2.74 % |
| 6 | +5.00 % | $151.88 | $415.63 | +3.56 % |
| 7 | +6.00 % | $227.81 | $643.44 | +4.41 % |
| 8 | +7.00 % | $341.72 | $985.16 | +5.29 % |
| 9 | +8.00 % | $512.58 | $1,497.73 | +6.20 % |
| 10 | +9.00 % | $768.87 | $2,266.60 | +7.14 % |
| 11 | +10.00 % | $1,153.30 | $3,419.90 | +8.09 % |
| 12 | +11.00 % | $1,729.95 | $5,149.85 | +9.05 % |
| Ladder span | 12.00 % |
| Average at full fill | +9.05 % |
| Take-profit from average | −1.80 % |
| Stop from average | +15.00 % |
| Liquidation from entry | +32.83 % |
The ladder of 12 levels reaches 12.00 % away from the first order. Filled completely it moves the average by 9.05 %, and the take-profit then sits 1.80 % from that average.
Liquidation lies 32.83 % from entry — 2.7× further than the ladder reaches, so the grid can fill completely before margin is at risk.
What proves it
This system runs on a real backtest over historical candles: open the catalogue to run it, or take the system and validate it in the Test Lab before any real money.
All metrics are a backtest on real 30-day candles. Past performance does not guarantee future results — start small and in demo.
The strategy, explained
The same engine, described from the mechanics up — before you commit capital to it.
Grid strategy: the basicsA grid places a ladder of buy/sell orders and profits from oscillation inside a range. Best in sideways markets.Other systems for this market regime
Take it, then prove it yourself.
The configuration transfers into the builder in one click. Paper trading is free and needs no card.