WebSocket vs REST APIs on Crypto Exchanges: What's the Difference
If you are wiring a strategy up to an exchange, one of the first technical forks you hit is WebSocket vs REST APIs on a crypto exchange. Both let your code talk...
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How to Handle Partial Fills in Automated Crypto Orders
You send an order to buy one Bitcoin, and the exchange fills 0.4 of it. The rest sits open, or gets cancelled, or fills seconds later at a worse price. If your...
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Iceberg Orders Explained: How Large Orders Hide in the Order Book
Watch a crypto order book long enough and you will see something odd. A price level shows only a modest amount of size, you send orders into it, and yet the le...
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How to Automate a DCA Strategy From TradingView Webhook Alerts
If you run a DCA strategy, TradingView webhook alerts can execute it for you so you are not logging in to place the same buy over and over. Dollar-cost averagi...
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What Is a Liquidation Price and How Automated Futures Traders Track It
If you trade crypto futures, one number decides how much room a position has before the exchange steps in and closes it for you: the liquidation price. When yo...
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How to Automate Trailing Stops From TradingView Alerts
A trailing stop is one of the most requested features in TradingView webhook automation, and also one of the easiest to get wrong. The idea is simple: as price...
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Cross Margin vs Isolated Margin in Crypto Futures (and What It Means for Automation)
If you automate futures trades, the choice of cross margin vs isolated margin in crypto futures is one setting that quietly shapes how much of your account is...
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How to Cancel an Open Order Using a TradingView Webhook
Most automation guides focus on how to open a trade. Far fewer explain how to cancel an open order using a TradingView webhook, and that gap causes real proble...
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How to Flip a Position From Long to Short With One TradingView Alert
When your strategy reverses, you rarely want to just close a trade. You want to flip a position from long to short with one TradingView alert, exiting the old...
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