Bots
Manual Bot
Let the app manage trades you open yourself with a DCA ladder, take profit and stop loss.
Manual Bot Overview | Wick Hunter Course 65:12 · Watch on YouTube ↗
Manual Bot: Every Setting Explained | Wick Hunter9:12 · Watch on YouTube ↗You open a trade yourself on the exchange. The Manual Bot notices it, takes it over ("picks it up") and manages it like any other deal: a DCA ladder, a take profit, and a stop loss if you switch one on. There is one Manual Bot per market.
- It never opens a trade and never changes leverage.
- It only picks up positions inside its direction and pair scope that no other bot manages.
- With the Manual Bot off or paused, your hand-opened trades are left completely alone.
- Pairs: All pairs or Only these. "All pairs" genuinely means all, including ones the exchange lists next month.
- Direction and Pairs set the scope: they decide only what the bot takes on. Neither of these can abandon a position it already manages.
Recommended starter configuration
A suggestion, not a default. New forms start blank.
| Setting | Starter value |
|---|---|
| Direction | The one side you plan to trade |
| Pairs | Only these, with one pair |
| DCA orders | 0 (type 0) |
| Take profit | Fixed %, about 1% |
| Stop loss | On, Offset from Initial entry price |
Picked up is not protected
Pickup normally takes about a second, and never more than about 15 seconds. You then get two messages:
- "picked up … it is placing the DCA ladder, take profit and stop loss now" (an attempt).
- "is now managing …" once the app has read back the orders the exchange accepted.
If no take profit lands within about half a minute, an UNPROTECTED alarm names the cause. Check the exchange.
The take profit and the stop loss rest on the exchange as reduce-only orders where the exchange accepts them. A position below the exchange minimum gets an app-watched exit instead, which only works while the app runs.
Pausing and deleting
- ⏸ Pause stops new pickups. Deals it already manages keep their ladder, take profit and stop through to the exit.
- Delete is refused while it still manages a position.
- If positions are already open when you connect an account, a banner offers Turn on the Manual Bot & manage them or Leave them alone.
Why hasn't it picked up my trade?
Check in this order:
- The bot is not created, or is paused (My Bots).
- The trade is on a different account or market than the bot.
- Your direction or pair scope excludes it. Activity says "Left alone — …".
- Another bot already owns that pair, or has an unfinished order on it.
- Both sides of the pair are open and neither is tracked. Close one leg.
- It is not a perpetual position (spot balance, dated future).