Give Every Crypto Bot Its Own Budget, and a Hard Limit
Allocate $200 of a $10,000 balance and that automation trades with $200. It sizes every trade from its budget, and stops before it can lose more than you gave it.
Most trading bots are pointed at an exchange account and told to trade. They see the whole balance, size trades from it, and the only thing standing between a bad week and your savings is a percentage in a settings field. TradeFIQ starts from the other end: you decide how much an automation may use, and that's all it can ever touch.
How a capital budget works
- You allocate capital when you create or start an automation. It's required, so no automation ever runs without a limit.
- Trades are sized from that budget, never from your whole balance. Your risk profile's position sizing works inside it.
- Each open trade reserves part of it. What's free for new trades is the budget minus what open trades hold.
- Every trade gets a capital stop: a price at which it's closed so it can't lose more than its budget allows.
- Results flow back in. A win grows what remains; a loss shrinks it. If it runs out, the automation stops and tells you.
Starting capital and what remains, side by side
Every automation shows the capital you gave it, what it's worth now, how much is in open trades, and what's free. Each closed trade in your history shows the automation's remaining capital before and after it, so you can trace exactly where the money went. It's all kept in a ledger, so the numbers survive restarts and can always be rebuilt.
Why it matters more than a stop-loss
A stop-loss protects one trade. A budget protects your account from the strategy. Run a careful BTC automation with $2,000 and an experimental altcoin one with $150 on the same exchange account, and the experiment can never spend the careful one's money, however badly it goes. Budgets are reserved per automation, so they can't overlap.
Fewer surprises from the exchange, too
Balance checks are expensive in exchange rate limits, so TradeFIQ doesn't poll your balance every few seconds. It checks when an automation starts and only when it has to. If the exchange ever reports insufficient funds (you withdrew, or traded by hand), the automation stops with a clear reason instead of failing quietly on every run.
Budgets work the same on every supported exchange, and on paper trading, so you can practise sizing before real money is involved.
Frequently asked questions
What happens when an automation uses up its budget?
It stops and tells you why. It never reaches into the rest of your balance to keep going.
Can two automations share the same money?
No. Each budget is reserved for its automation, so the total you have allocated can never be more than you set aside, and one automation can never spend another’s capital.
Does a winning automation get a bigger budget?
Yes. Profits are added to what remains of its budget and losses are taken off, so it sizes future trades from what it actually has, and you can see both the starting capital and what remains.
Can I give a budget to a trade I opened by hand?
Yes. When you automate an existing trade you set the most it is allowed to lose, and TradeFIQ closes it before it loses more.
Does TradeFIQ check my exchange balance constantly?
No. The balance is checked when an automation starts, and only again when it is actually needed. If the exchange ever reports insufficient funds, the automation stops and tells you, instead of retrying blindly.
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