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What do you want to do?
Neutral Grid Bot
Neutral Grid places a balanced ladder around the current price. It is designed for range rotation: the bot can work both sides of the range while keeping one-way position accounting and strict exposure limits.
What the bot is trying to do
You define a lower price, upper price and current/reference price. The bot builds levels across that range and sizes orders from a total quote budget. It does not use a permanent long/short bias like a directional grid; it tries to capture movement around the reference price while respecting max exposure.
Step-by-step: creating a Neutral Grid bot
Select connection and market
Choose an active connection on a supported exchange (see Supported exchanges), then select the market. Hedge mode is not supported: on Aster, set the market to One-way with Update in the form before starting.
Define the range
Set Lower price, Upper price and confirm the current/reference price. Upper must be above lower, and the reference price is required because the ladder is anchored around it.
Choose spacing and levels
Arithmetic spacing uses equal dollar steps; geometric spacing uses equal percentage steps. More levels create denser orders but require enough per-order notional to satisfy the exchange minimum.
Set investment and multiplier, then start
Investment is the margin distributed across the initial orders. Size multiplier increases size farther away from the anchor; 1.0 keeps levels equal, higher values weight distant levels more and can grow exposure quickly in trends. Check Planned exposure and the preview, then press Start Neutral Grid.
Field reference
| Field | What it does | BTC example |
|---|---|---|
| Lower / Upper price | Defines the active price range for the grid. | $92,000 / $102,000 |
| Current/reference price | Anchor used to split and size levels around the market. | $97,000 |
| Grid levels | Total number of price levels. Must be at least 3 and can be dense if notional allows it. | 25 |
| Total investment | Total quote margin allocated to the ladder. | $250 |
| Size multiplier | Weights levels farther from the anchor. 1.0 = equal sizes. | 1.2 |
Neutral Grid requires Aster One-way mode for the selected market. If Aster rejects a mode change because positions/orders exist, close or cancel them before changing the setting.