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0:04 Welcome to Wick Hunter Unleashed. This lesson walks through every Hedge Bot setting with a concrete example, then shows how the settings work as one system. The Hedge Bot does not predict or open the main direction. The main position may be opened manually or by another Wick Hunter bot. The Hedge Bot then builds a smaller position in the opposite direction. For example, if another Wick Hunter bot opens a one-hundred-unit long main, the Hedge Bot might open a twenty-unit short hedge after price moves against it. That hedge can slow the drawdown, protect profit with stops, and contribute to a combined exit. Every number in this video is an educational example, not a recommendation or promise of profit. The exchange account must use Hedge Mode, because the main and hedge need to exist as separate legs.
0:59 For example, another Wick Hunter bot can open a long position of zero point one zero Bitcoin, then the Hedge Bot can manage a short hedge of zero point zero three Bitcoin at the same time. In one-way mode, that same short order may simply reduce the long from zero point one zero to zero point zero seven instead of creating protection. Check the exchange position mode before enabling the bot. This tutorial is about the Hedge Bot's protective leg; a manual trade or another Wick Hunter bot can create the eligible main position. The Hedge Bot selector chooses which saved bot you are editing. New Hedge Bot creates another independent configuration. For example, you could keep one bot named Majors for Bitcoin and Ethereum, then create a second bot named Altcoins for Solana and other selected markets.
1:55 Switching the selector changes the settings form to that bot; it does not move an attached position from one bot to another. Use multiple bots only when the rules truly need to differ, because each extra configuration adds another place to audit. Bot enabled is the master gate for new attachments. Disabling it does not abandon positions that are already attached; those positions remain managed. For example, suppose Bitcoin is already attached and protected, then you disable the bot. The Bitcoin hedge continues to be managed, but a new Ethereum position will not attach. Turn the bot back on, and future eligible positions may attach again according to the remaining scope rules. Use this switch to pause expansion safely, not as an emergency close button.
2:51 Auto-attach decides how eligible main positions enter management. Auto watches every eligible position in the bot's pair scope. Manual only waits for you to attach one explicitly. For example, with Auto selected, a new Solana main position can attach as soon as Wick Hunter sees it. With Manual only selected, that same Solana position remains untouched until you press Attach. Auto is convenient for consistent rules; Manual only gives you a deliberate checkpoint when different positions need different treatment. Pairs controls the bot's market scope. All pairs considers every supported pair. Pair list considers only the symbols you enter. Never attach to is a blacklist applied on top. For example, a pair list containing Bitcoin and Ethereum ignores Solana.
3:47 Another example: with All pairs selected and Dogecoin in Never attach to, Dogecoin is still excluded. Two Hedge Bots cannot claim the same pair, so if a Majors bot already owns Bitcoin, an Altcoins bot cannot also claim Bitcoin. This prevents two managers from competing over the same position. Templates populate the numeric fields with a starting pattern; they do not lock the settings and they do not change attachment or side modes. For example, Slow begins at a ten percent adverse move and uses a thirty percent global uncovered cap. Moderate begins at eight percent with a thirty-five percent cap. Aggressive begins at five percent with a fifty percent cap. Applying Moderate, then changing its first rung from eight to seven percent, is allowed.
4:41 Think of a template as a draft that you must review, not a risk label that guarantees suitability. Settings mode controls whether long-main and short-main positions share rules. One config applies the same full setup to both directions. Split by main side stores two independent configurations. For example, One config could use a thirty-five percent uncovered cap and four percent activation for every main position. In Split mode, you might leave long mains at thirty-five and four, while short mains use a twenty percent cap and three percent activation. Remember the mapping: a long main uses a short hedge, while a short main uses a long hedge. Each ladder distance is measured from the main position's current blended average entry. For example, a long main with a one-hundred-dollar average reaches an eight percent adverse rung at ninety-two dollars.
5:38 If dollar-cost averaging lowers the blended average to ninety-five dollars, the same eight percent rung reanchors to eighty-seven dollars and forty cents. For a short main, adverse direction is upward: an eight percent rung from one hundred dollars is one hundred eight dollars. Reanchoring keeps the ladder tied to the position you actually hold, rather than its original entry. Ladder size is target total hedge coverage as a percentage of the current main position. It is not the size of the next order. For example, with a one-hundred-unit main, the first Moderate rung targets twenty percent, so the bot opens twenty hedge units. At the next rung, the target becomes forty percent. Because twenty are already open, the bot adds only twenty more. If you remove that second rung, the forty percent target disappears.
6:32 If you add a new rung targeting seventy percent, the bot later adds only enough to move from the existing coverage to seventy. Max without stop limits hedge exposure that is still active without an armed protective stop. It gates new openings; it does not force-close an existing hedge. A ladder row can override the global cap. For example, a first row capped at twenty percent overrides a global cap of thirty-five percent while that row is active. Now compare lower and higher global caps. With a one-hundred-unit main, twenty units already unprotected, and a forty-unit target, a twenty-five percent cap leaves five units of headroom. The engine clips the desired twenty-unit top-up to five. If Minimum tranche is ten percent, five is too small, so the top-up waits.
7:24 With a fifty percent cap, thirty units of headroom remain, so the full twenty-unit top-up opens and forty units are unprotected. Lower limits reversal and uncovered risk but may delay defense. Higher builds defense faster but uses more margin and exposes more hedge until stops arm. Once a tranche arms, it no longer consumes this cap, freeing budget for another entry. Safe zone is a re-entry buffer after a profitable hedge tranche stops out. It prevents the bot from rebuilding immediately on market noise. For example, with a zero point four percent safe zone, the next price tick does not instantly recreate the stopped tranche; price must move back through the reset boundary first. Minimum tranche filters tiny top-ups. For example, on a one-hundred-unit main with a ten percent minimum, an eight-unit top-up is skipped, while a twelve-unit top-up is large enough to open, assuming exchange minimums are also satisfied.
8:23 Together, these settings reduce churn, fees, and wasted stop slots. Take-profit activation tells each hedge tranche when it has gained enough to arm a stop. Take-profit offset places that stop on the profitable side of the tranche entry. Offset must be strictly smaller than activation. For example, a short hedge entered at ninety-two dollars with four percent activation arms near eighty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents. A one percent offset places protection near ninety-one dollars and eight cents, before fees and exchange rounding. Another example: activation of four and offset of four is invalid because no profitable room remains. Every tranche tracks its own entry, activation, and stop. An exchange can limit the number of conditional stops on one position; Bybit commonly exposes ten slots.
9:19 Wick Hunter gives the nearest stops priority at the venue and can track overflow as memory stops. For example, if twelve tranches are armed, the nearest ten may have exchange-resident stops while two are labeled Memory. Those two still react while Wick Hunter is running, but they are not stored at the exchange. If a venue slot opens, Retry exchange stops can attempt to promote eligible memory protection. The practical lesson is simple: memory protection depends on the app staying online. Liquidation tiers can raise the uncovered cap as the main approaches its exchange liquidation price. They can never lower the normal cap, and the effective ceiling is one hundred percent. For example, start with a normal cap of thirty-five percent. A tier named Near could raise it to seventy percent within ten percent of liquidation.
10:13 A deeper tier could raise it to ninety percent within five percent. At four percent distance, both rows match, so the deepest matching tier wins: the five percent row. Leave the table empty to disable tiers. This can permit faster defense near liquidation, but it does not remove liquidation risk. Paired take profit evaluates the main position, open hedge, and realized hedge profit as one package. When any hedge is open, it owns the exit and the ordinary main take profit is pulled. For example, main profit and loss of negative three hundred twenty dollars, open hedge profit of two hundred sixty, and realized hedge profit of one hundred ten produces combined profit of fifty dollars. The basis controls the target dollars. At zero point seven percent, fourteen thousand dollars of combined notional needs ninety-eight dollars, while ten thousand dollars of main notional needs seventy.
11:18 Combined basis grows with the hedge; main-only usually fires sooner. Zero is not off. Zero requests the most aggressive break-even combined exit. When the last hedge closes, normal main-exit ownership returns. Trail protected hedge stops controls whether an already armed stop can ratchet toward market price. Gap to stop measures the distance from current price to the stop, not profit from entry. Advance per step sets each ratchet amount, and Cooldown limits how often it can happen. For example, suppose a short hedge has a protected stop at ninety-one dollars and eight cents. When the price-to-stop gap reaches ten percent, a two percent advance moves the stop to about eighty-nine dollars and twenty-six cents. With a sixty-minute cooldown, that tranche cannot advance again until the hour passes.
12:14 Another tranche may still move because each one is evaluated independently. Turning trail off leaves the original protected stop in place. Per-pair overrides replace one scalar value for one market while every unspecified value inherits from the global configuration. For example, if global Max without stop is thirty-five percent and Bitcoin has an override of fifty, Bitcoin uses fifty while Ethereum still inherits thirty-five. Another example: a global trail gap of ten percent can remain unchanged for most pairs while Solana receives a fifteen percent gap. The panel supports the cap, safe zone, paired-profit fields, activation, offset, minimum tranche, and trail controls. Ladder and liquidation-tier arrays may exist through the API and can be shown or cleared here, but this scalar editor does not author those arrays.
13:10 The active hedge panel shows the effective system in real time: distance, total hedge, unprotected hedge, safe-zone state, average entry, liquidation distance, paired target, realized hedge profit, and combined profit and loss. For example, total hedge can read forty percent while unprotected reads fifteen percent; the difference is coverage that already has protection. Close hedge legs exits the hedge but leaves the main position open. Retry exchange stops attempts to move eligible memory stops to the venue. Detach tells this bot to stop managing the position, so inspect any remaining orders and risk before confirming it. Here is the complete chain. Ladder distance decides when protection is needed. Target size decides total coverage. Row and global caps limit unprotected exposure.
14:08 Activation and offset protect profitable tranches. Safe zone controls rebuilding, trailing can ratchet stops, and paired take profit decides the package exit. For example, during a steady decline, a twenty-unit short hedge may reduce the main drawdown and later stop out profitably. During a sharp V-shaped recovery, that same short hedge can lose while the main rebounds. This is not a stop loss, and it cannot prevent liquidation. Hedges use margin, fees, and funding. Monitor the active panel, begin with conservative settings, and choose every value for your own risk.