Buy-and-Hold Accumulation (signal-gated / scheduled DCA)¶
What it does: Buys a fixed amount on daily dips and holds for the long term; never sells. This buys a fixed amount each time daily RSI climbs back above 30 after a sell-off, and never sells. RSI is a 0-100 gauge of recent buying versus selling; below 30 means heavy selling.
Style: Accumulation · Difficulty: Beginner · Risk: low · Ready: 1 of 2 variants
When people use it: It suits long-term holders who want to buy dips gradually instead of all at once.
Markets it was written for: BTC, ETH (spot only). Timeframes: 1d.
Open it in the Strategy Library (on the Strategies page), pick a variant, adjust the settings and press Add to my strategies. It becomes your own strategy: edit, backtest or trade it like any other.
Signal-gated accumulation¶
Buys a fixed amount on daily dips and holds for the long term; never sells.
Labels: Accumulation, Long, Spot, Beginner, Slow
- Direction: Buy (long) · Market: spot
- Trigger: On candle close · Main timeframe: Auto (1d)
Entry
- IF RSI(14) crosses above 30 (1d)
Exit: Buy and Hold
- No exit: positions are held; each new entry signal buys one more position size (spot only).
- Loss controls: none (no stop-loss)
Settings
| Setting | Default | Editable | What changing it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amount per buy | 50 | No: trade setting, set it when you create a trade | How much (in your quote currency, for example USDT) each buy spends. Higher builds the position faster but spends your budget faster; lower spreads purchases out. The number of buys depends on how often the signal happens, not on this setting. |
How it works (as shown in the app)
- This buys a fixed amount each time daily RSI climbs back above 30 after a sell-off, and never sells. RSI is a 0-100 gauge of recent buying versus selling; below 30 means heavy selling.
- Every new signal buys again, so your position grows over time. There is no exit and no stop-loss: it is built for long-term holding.
- It suits long-term holders who want to buy dips gradually instead of all at once.
- In long bear markets it keeps buying while the price falls, and it has no exit, so losses can stay open for a long time.
- There is no total budget cap yet. Check how much you are willing to spend in total and watch your balance.
- Spot only: no leverage.
Scheduled weekly buy¶
Buys a fixed amount every week on a schedule and holds for the long term; never sells.
Labels: Accumulation, Long, Spot, Beginner, Slow
Coming later
This needs scheduled buys (every few days or weeks), a feature that's coming. You can read how it will work, but you can't add it to your strategies yet.
Settings
| Setting | Default | Editable | What changing it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amount per buy | 50 | No: coming later | How much (in your quote currency, for example USDT) each weekly buy spends. Higher builds the position faster and spends more each week; lower spreads it out. It buys once a week whatever the price does, so the total you spend is this amount times the number of weeks it runs. |
How it works (as shown in the app)
- This buys a fixed amount on a fixed weekly schedule (every Monday at 00:00 UTC) and never sells. It does not wait for a signal: it buys at whatever the price is that week.
- Each week buys again, so your position grows steadily over time. There is no exit and no stop-loss: it is built for long-term holding.
- It suits long-term holders who want to spread their buying evenly over time instead of trying to pick the moment.
- In long bear markets it keeps buying while the price falls, and it has no exit, so losses can stay open for a long time.
- There is no total budget cap yet. The total you spend is the amount per buy times the number of weeks it runs, so check that against your balance.
- Spot only: no leverage.
- Coming later: this version needs scheduled (time-based) buys, which Apathia doesn't have yet, so it can't be imported or run today.
Warnings¶
- Once added, the strategy's conditions get the usual condition checks. Messages show under each condition on the entry / exit conditions screen; setting errors start with the indicator's short name (for example "MACD: Fast must be between 1 and 1000") and block saving, while the other warnings never block saving and repeat in the strategy's Entry or Exit section. See the indicator pages below for each one.
- "You already have this strategy with these settings (…). Change a setting to add another copy.": shown on the variant's page in the Strategy Library when you already added this variant with the same settings.
Good to know¶
- After you add it, the strategy keeps the library's trigger and an Auto main timeframe; you can change both in the builder. Nothing links it back to the library, except that the builder still shows the library's explanations in the info bubbles.
- Changing a setting before adding it also changes the saved name, so you can tell copies apart.
- Past results don't predict future ones. Try it in a backtest and on paper before using real money.
- Indicators used: RSI.