Gunbot Gain (EMA-spread dip buy)¶
What it does: Buys when price dips a set % below two averages and sells at a small fixed gain. This buys when the 15-minute price is at least 0.6% below both its 8- and 16-candle averages, then waits for a small bounce.
Style: Bot classics · Difficulty: Beginner · Risk: medium · Ready: 1 of 1 variants
When people use it: It tends to work in sideways or gently rising markets.
Where it struggles: It struggles in downtrends. Gunbot has no stop by default; Apathia adds an optional 8% stop and skips buys below the 4-hour 200-candle average.
Markets it was written for: BTC, ETH, majors (spot). Timeframes: 15m.
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.
Long¶
Buys when price dips a set % below two averages and sells at a small fixed gain.
Labels: Mean Reversion, Long, Spot, Beginner, Fast
- Direction: Buy (long) · Market: spot
- Trigger: On candle close · Main timeframe: Auto (15m)
Entry
- IF PCTD(EMA,8) ≤ -0.6 (15m) and PCTD(EMA,16) ≤ -0.6 (15m)
- UNLESS Price < EMA(200) (4h)
- Trailing entry %: 0.3%
Exit: Standard Exit
- Trailing take-profit: activation 1%, trail 0.3%
- Loss controls: Stop-loss % 8%
Settings
| Setting | Default | Editable | What changing it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buy % below averages | -0.6 | Yes (sets 2 fields) | How far below both averages the price must be to buy. Smaller buys more often on mild dips; larger waits for deeper dips, so fewer trades. Changes both average checks together. |
| Slow average | 16 | Yes | The slower of the two averages. Longer makes dips below it rarer and deeper; shorter makes them more frequent. |
| Fast average | 8 | Yes | The faster of the two averages. Shorter reacts faster; longer is smoother. |
| Trailing start gain % | 1 | Yes | The profit at which the trailing take-profit switches on. Higher aims for bigger wins but holds longer and closes fewer trades; lower takes profits sooner, with fees taking a bigger share. |
How it works (as shown in the app)
- This buys when the 15-minute price is at least 0.6% below both its 8- and 16-candle averages, then waits for a small bounce.
- Once the trade is 1% up, a trailing take-profit follows the price and sells on a 0.3% pullback. Up to 3 positions can be open, with limit orders.
- It tends to work in sideways or gently rising markets.
- It struggles in downtrends. Gunbot has no stop by default; Apathia adds an optional 8% stop and skips buys below the 4-hour 200-candle average.
- Frequent small trades on 15-minute candles: fees take a large share of a 1% target.
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: EMA, PCTD.