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DCA Safety Orders Calculator 2026

Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) is a trading strategy where the trader divides the total amount of trades across periodic purchases of a target asset.

Traders deploy this strategy to reduce the impact of volatility on their overall purchase, and the DCA Bot is the main attraction of the 3Commas software.

  • The Problem

    To find out how safe your DCA settings are and how many funds are required for each safety trade.

  • The Solution

    I have programmed a DCA Safety Orders Calculator for 2025.

To get all the data calculated for you, replace the numbers in the orange fields of the table with your desired DCA Bot settings:

AI Trading Bot Performance: Complete Backtesting and Metrics Analysis

A comprehensive analysis of AI trading bot performance, covering key metrics, backtesting insights, real-world case studies, and best practices for optimization.

Automated trading using AI crypto trading bots has become commonplace among experienced traders and retail investors because of the increased dependency of the bots in today's crypto driven market. With them, even high-frequency scalping strategies or complex portfolio management strategies can be handled with precision.

  • The Problem

    How can a trader gauge the validity of their bots?

  • The Solution

    This is where 'performance analysis', 'backtesting,' and 'continuous optimization' comes in handy. 3Commas automated trading software provides the means with which a trader can design, AI bots can be tested and monitored across several exchanges, and actionable data-based decisions can be made by the traders.

Understanding AI Trading Bot Performance

What Defines Performance in an AI Trading Bot?

Performance goes beyond just profitable trades. Successful traders analyze:

  • Profitability: This measures the net gains generated by a trading bot over a specified period. It accounts for gross profits, losses, trading fees, and slippage. Profitability should not be viewed in isolation; it must be analyzed relative to capital invested and market conditions. A profitable trade doesn’t always mean a high-performing bot, especially if risk exposure was excessive.
  • Risk Metrics: These include measures like maximum drawdown, volatility, and exposure. Evaluating risk metrics is essential for assessing how a bot manages losses and preserves capital. Proper risk management strategies help ensure that one large loss doesn’t eliminate the gains of many successful trades.
  • Consistency: Consistency evaluates how frequently the bot performs within expected parameters across different market regimes—bullish, bearish, and sideways. A consistent bot can adapt to changing market trends and deliver stable returns, which is particularly crucial for portfolio management and long-term crypto investment strategies.
  • Trade Automation Efficiency: This pertains to how a bot performs trades, concerning timestamping, execution speed, and the rate of mistakes made. Such bots ensure that slippage and missed opportunities do not take place. This is crucial in the rapidly changing cryptocurrency market where time is of the essence.

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Reduce Setup Time for DCA Bots with the New Crypto Screener on 3Commas

AI-powered DCA bot templates help you launch strategies faster in 2025.

Introducing the TradingView Crypto Screener for DCA bots

We're excited to announce a new feature that will revolutionize how you set up your DCA bots on 3Commas: the TradingView Crypto Screener! This powerful tool simplifies and optimizes pair selection, helping you create smarter and more effective trading strategies.

  • Customizable Pair Selection

    Filter trading pairs based on various criteria: timeframe preferences, TradingView's Buy/Sell recommendations, RSI indicators, top assets by market capitalization, and more.

  • Multi-Selection Capability

    Choose multiple pairs or a single pair for your bots. The screener dynamically updates based on your criteria, making it quick and easy to refine your trading strategy. Note that the Crypto Screener cannot dynamically update a bot once it’s running. It will need to be stopped and edited if you want to add or subtract pairs.

  • Enhanced Sorting Options

    Sort assets in ways that align with your strategy, ensuring you’re always targeting potentially high-performing pairs.

Whether you’re building a single-pair bot or a multi-pair bot, this feature allows you to handpick the best assets for your trading goals.

Who/What It’s For

This feature is perfect for traders who want to:

  • Save time by filtering assets more efficiently.
  • Enhance their strategies with TradingView’s insights, including Buy/Sell signals and RSI data.
  • Identify top-performing assets tailored to specific timeframes and market cap rankings.

Whether you’re a seasoned trader or just starting your DCA journey, the TradingView Crypto Screener helps you make smarter, data-driven decisions.

What’s Next

We’re constantly innovating to make bot trading even more intuitive and rewarding. In the coming updates, expect enhanced screener options and expanded compatibility with TradingView tools.

Start using this feature by going to the Market Data Insight tab and get more efficiency from your DCA Bot operations! For a detailed walkthrough, check out our YouTube video.

What do you think of this update? Let us know in the YouTube comments! 

3Commas Launches Full Integration with Perpetual Futures on Coinbase

Professionals Now Have a Comprehensive Trade Automation Solution For Coinbase. 3Commas is announcing the completion of our full integration with Coinbase today. 

3Commas completes full integration with Coinbase

The integration also features Coinbase’s perpetual futures, allowing 3Commas to offer comprehensive bot automation, empowering users to trade both spot and perpetual futures with advanced automated strategies. 

  • Comprehensive Bot Options

    Utilize the full range of 3Commas bots—including DCA, Grid, and Signal Bots—optimized for both spot and perpetual futures on Coinbase.

  • Enhanced Risk Management

    Employ Signal Bots with multiple take-profit, stop-loss, and breakeven settings, allowing traders to stay in the market longer and exit with precision.

  • Coinbase Advanced Perpetual Futures Trading

    Explore the potential of perpetual futures, testing predictive skills and creating opportunities for returns.

Through this integration, 3Commas users can seamlessly deploy sophisticated trading strategies directly on Coinbase, combining high-liquidity access with the strategic advantages of 3Commas’ market-leading DCA, Grid, and Signal Bots.

“This integration with Coinbase through their Advanced Trade API is another highlight of our collaboration with Coinbase. We're especially proud of the addition of perpetual futures, with 3Commas being one of the first and only automated solutions integrating this,” said Yuriy Sorokin, CEO of 3Commas. “With the new perpetual futures functionality, our users have the flexibility to create sophisticated, data-driven strategies that adapt to market shifts, whether they’re trading spot or perpetual futures. This expands the possibilities for traders to incorporate more comprehensive trading plans that can take advantage of a wider variety of opportunities while managing their risk with greater precision.”

With this integration, 3Commas aims to provide professional traders, asset managers, hedge funds, and other operators of actively traded crypto assets, with streamlined, smarter trading solutions on a high-liquidity platform. This integration solidifies 3Commas’ commitment to delivering innovative trading tools that empower users to optimize strategies and operate confidently in all market types.

Start automating your trading strategies on Coinbase today.

*Perpetual futures trading through Coinbase Advanced is only available to non-US customers in select jurisdictions. Crypto derivatives are not available to retail clients in the United Kingdom. In order to create a Coinbase Advanced trading account, customers will need to pass through our standard assessment checks to determine their eligibility for this product. The information provided is for educational purposes only. All trading and investment strategies involve risk, including risk of loss, and thus may not be suitable for everyone.

3Commas Weekly Crypto Industry Updates October 18th, 2024

Kraken kBTC on OP and Ethereum Mainnet, Bitcoin investment tax in Italy.

Let's discuss what has happened in the crypto industry in the third week of October, 2024.

Kraken crypto exchange launches own Wrapped Bitcoin token

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has launched its own tokenized version of Bitcoin representing BTC holdings stored by the exchange and audited by Trail of Bits, a security auditing firm that has worked on projects like Worldcoin.

  • Announcement

    The new kBTC was introduced on Oct 17, and launched across interoperable networks including Ethereum and OP Mainnet (formerly Optimism). The wrapped Bitcoin — kBTC is backed 1:1 by an equivalent amount of Bitcoin in the custody of Kraken Financial, a Wyoming-chartered special purpose depository institution.

  • Why does it matter?

    Bitcoin as the base currency of the cryptocurrency market has made it convenient to have it across DApps — Decentralized Applications. The new kBTC will be reportedly available for the decentralized market, providing the market with more deep liquidity.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs reach $20B in net flows.

The spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States has achieved a significant record in net flows, just as Bitcoin nears previous all-time high again.

US-based spot Bitcoin ETFs crossed $20B in total net flows on Oct. 17. It only took spot Bitcoin ETFs 10 months to achieve $20B net flow while it took Gold ETFs roughly five years to record the same net flows.

Why does it matter?

The adoption of cryptocurrency is inevitable, it is also obvious that institutional and traditional investors appear to choose investing in Bitcoin to gold because of its scarcity and limited supply, where only 21M Bitcoin will exist.

3Commas Weekly Crypto Industry Updates October 11th, 2024

Uniswap Unichain, crypto marital case, Samsung Pay.

Let's discuss what has happened in the crypto industry in the second week of October, 2024.

Uniswap launches its own layer-2 blockchain, Unichain

Uniswap Labs announced that Uniswap, the largest decentralized exchange (DEX), has launched its own application-specific layer-2 blockchain network, dubbed Unichain.

  • Announcement

    Following the announcement, the app chain testnet is already available and has promised to deliver faster and cheaper transactions and enhanced interoperability across blockchain networks.

    Unichain is part of Optimism’s Superchain, an interoperable network of layer-2 scaling solutions built using Optimism’s technology stack. Other layer-2 chains like Base, Mode etc are built with the Optimism stack.

  • Why does it matter?

    Just after the launch announcement, the token price surged by 25%. The new chain launch might provide more utility for the token economy in the future. 

Report: Global crypto adoption to hit 8% by 2025

Global cryptocurrency adoption is on track to hit a significant milestone, with 7.51% of the world’s population now using digital currencies, according to a report by MatrixPort.

The report projects this figure to exceed 8% by 2025 which will make cryptocurrency a mainstream sector of the financial market.

Why does it matter?

The increasing adoption can be attributed to the rise in institutional interest following the recent asset exposure offered by Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs—Exchange Traded-Fund. Also, the report notes that institutional interest is a key factor to the growth in adoption. 

3Commas Weekly Crypto Industry Updates October 4th, 2024

HBO shows Satoshi identity,Will HBO documentary expose Satoshi? 

Kraken futures trading, Binance Argentina

Let's discuss what has happened in the crypto industry in this last week of October 2024.

Director who identified QAnon authors says HBO doc will expose Satoshi

Documentary filmmaker Cullen Hoback and HBO recently announced the release of their upcoming film “Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery,” along with hints that the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto may finally be revealed.

Cullen Hoback is known for his HBO miniseries “Q: Into the Storm” wherein he claims to have identified several of the authors of the QAnon conspiracy theory. 

Following the upcoming releases, polymarket bettors believe Satoshi could be unveiled as the cryptographer Len Sassaman, as he holds the highest rank on the betting board, with 54% odds of him being the Bitcoin founder.

Why does it matter?

Many people believe that the uncertain  identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is one of the key reasons behind Bitcoin supremacy in the crypto world. The idea or the existence of someone incharge might affect the market due to fears of government involvement in the technicalities of the Bitcoin software.

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3Commas Weekly Crypto Industry Updates September 27th, 2024

CZ early release. Ethena stablecoins UStb. Ethereum ETF Options

Let's discuss what has happened in the crypto industry in this last week of September 2024.

$1.1B TIA Token Release to Push October’s Crypto Unlocks to Almost $2B

Almost $2B in tokens from major projects will be unlocked in October, with 175.75M Celestia tokens worth $1.1B in current market prices accounting for over 50% of the unlocks. 

Also, a Web3 social network project called Cheelee, is scheduled to unlock $300M in vested crypto tokens on Oct. 10. Other unlocks include; Aptos APT, Arbitrum ARB, Axie Infinity AXS, ImmutableX IMX, GateToken (GT), Starknet STRK, Internet Computer ICP and Ethena Labs ENA. These projects are scheduled to unlock almost $600M in tokens for open-market trading.

Why does it matter?

The current market trend is bullish and many people are already over optimistic and excited about October and looking to have a higher uptrend in October. The current unlocks may also signal an incoming downtrend if the market has more investment opportunities than investment capital. It's left for the trader to decide what to do at this time.

3Commas Weekly Crypto Industry Updates September 20th, 2024

MicroStrategy buys more Bitcoin, Bybit gets UAE provisional license

Let's discuss what has happened in the crypto industry in the third week of September 2024.

Bitcoin miner wallets move for the first time in over 15 years — Is this Satoshi?

In recent on-chain transaction data, wallets belonging to early Bitcoin miners who got coins as rewards just after the blockchain’s launch by its pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, have recently been observed moving their Bitcoin.

On Sept. 20, five miner wallets that received 50 Bitcoin each as block rewards in 2009 started to move their funds. Blockchain data shows that one wallet received the mining reward on Jan. 29, 2009, while three others got block rewards on Jan. 31, 2009. The last wallet received a block reward on Feb. 2, 2009.

Why does it matter?

This might signal to traders that the crypto market could be gearing up to experience the biggest bull run ever. It can also be interpreted as a signal to some traders that a significant dump may be coming up. 

3Commas Weekly Crypto Industry Updates September 13th, 2024

MicroStrategy holds Bitcoin. Coinbase cbBTC on Ethereum and Base

Let's discuss what has happened in the crypto industry in the second week of September 2024.

MicroStrategy now holds $14.14B worth of BTC

MicroStrategy, a publicly traded business intelligence and software company, has announced they acquired approximately 18,300 Bitcoin worth $1.1B between Aug. 6 and Sept. 12, 2024.

The $1.11B bitcoin buy was made at an average price of $60,408 per Bitcoin including expenses and fees, this purchase was possible after MicroStrategy sold eight million company shares through a sales agreement.

MicroStrategy now holds a total of 226,500 BTC worth close to $14B according to Bitcoin Treasuries data.

Why does it matter?

It’s a strong signal of institutional trust in the continuing growth of Bitcoin as a good asset for storing wealth.

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