DCA (or Dollar Cost Averaging) is a technique that’s used to average your buying price or is used as the “Martingale technique”, which you use when a position is in a deep loss. The assumption is that a crypto price will rise eventually, so if you keep doubling your investment, your average buy price will be lower, and you will make a profit sooner when the price rises again. You do need deep pockets for this technique, as you will need to keep doubling down on your investment.
Beginners can also use DCA to invest over a longer period gradually. E.g., you invest $1,000 in every 30 days for five months. If prices at the end of each month were $100, $90, $80, $70, and $95, your average asset price would be $85.5. If you invested the full amount initially, you would’ve paid $100 per coin.
Manual DCA
Manual DCA orders can be created by using either the bulk actions from the dashboard or by clicking the “view” button on a position and then click “DCA”. This also gives information about any DCA settings/history a position has.
DCA Settings
The most important thing you want to configure when setting up DCA, is when it should create a new order and how much/often it should buy. To configure your DCA, go to your Config -> Baseconfig -> DCA.
Tip: you can also find an explanation when you click on the question mark next to the setting in your account. The settings that you'll find there are:
DCA after X time open
Do you want to buy after a specific time automatically? Select the timeframe after you want DCA orders for positions to be created. This comes in handy if you're going to buy a certain asset over a longer time gradually. As described in the example for beginners.
DCA max retries
When you use DCA to cover up for losses, how often are you going to let it try? The count is reset after every successful sale of a position that you've used DCA for.
DCA set percentage
The most basic configuration if you're going to use DCA for positions in a loss. Configure the percentage, after which you want the DCA feature to place a new order. When the average price falls this percentage, your bot will place a DCA order for the position that's in a loss. Enter a positive number, for example 4.5 (%)
DCA buy immediately
Select if you want to trigger the buy immediately when the configured percentage loss hits or just let the DCA feature buy it when your strategy signals a buy for the coin. Watch out; when this is enabled, the bot will buy without using any strategy and could buy at an unfavorable time.
Troubleshooting
Are you experiencing any problems with DCA? Here’s a checklist that can help you find the most common mistakes.
Go to the Config -> Basecongif -> Coins & Amounts. Is the Maximum ..(BTC/USDT/Etc.) amount allocated enough to double or triple up?
Is the bot enabled? Is buying enabled?
Has the configured time passed? If so, is the percentage (%) loss hit?
Do you have a config pool enabled? Maybe you have different settings in your config pool.
Do you have triggers that disable buying?
If not buying immediately, was there a signal from your strategy for the currency?
Normally when you have multiple positions for the same coin, the DCA will merge them all and continue using the default settings of your base config. If you only have one open position for a specific coin, then it will continue to use the settings of the signaler.
DCA in your output
The DCA tool can give certain messages in your output, such as:
Checking DCA for coin - checks if DCA is allowed to happen.
Enabling DCA for coin - allows for DCA trades to happen.
Checking with percentage - Checks if the percentage difference has been met.
Percentage trigger not met - The percentage drop indicated has not been met, so DCA won't activate.
Percentage difference is X - checks the current price percentage and sees if this will allow for a DCA trade.