Why Range Selection Matters
Your price range determines where the bot trades. Pick it well, and the bot captures profits from price swings. Pick it poorly, and the price may leave your range entirely — stopping all trading.
It also matters more than most settings because it is the one you can't take back: the range and the level count are written into the vault when it is created and there is no way to edit them afterwards. Risk limits stay adjustable; the grid does not. Trading a different range means withdrawing and creating a second vault.
Too Narrow
Price leaves quickly. Few trades before bot stops. But higher profit per trade.
Too Wide
Price stays in range, but profit per trade is smaller. More capital spread thin.
How to Choose Your Range
Look at Historical Price Action
Check recent price charts. Where has the token been trading? Look for support and resistance levels — prices tend to bounce between these.
Consider Your Time Horizon
Short-term grid (days/weeks)? Use a tighter range based on recent swings. Long-term (months)? Use a wider range to accommodate bigger moves.
Factor in Volatility
High volatility tokens need wider ranges. Stablecoins or blue chips can use tighter ranges.
Set Realistic Expectations
There's no perfect range, and this is a one-time decision: the range is fixed for the life of the vault. Pick one you'd still be comfortable holding if the market surprises you.
Example Ranges
SOL/USDC
$150 - $25010-15 levelsSOL has swung between ~$150-$250 recently. This captures most of the range while leaving room for breakouts.
JUP/USDC
$0.80 - $1.508-12 levelsJUP tends to range around $1. This gives room for both direction without being too wide.
Volatile Memecoin
50% below to 100% above current15-20 levelsHigh volatility needs wide range. Accept that you may miss some moves, but capture the oscillations.
Treat those level counts as shapes, not targets — what you can actually use depends on how much you are depositing. Your deposit is divided across the levels, and each order has to clear a minimum order size, so the counts above only work on a deposit large enough to back them. The create form does the arithmetic for you: it refuses to continue while the per-order size falls short, and the message names the live minimum, the shortfall, and how many levels that deposit would support. Read the number off the form rather than planning around one from here.
Common Mistakes
Setting range based on hopes, not history
Fix: Use actual price data. If SOL has never hit $500, don't set that as your upper bound.
Range too tight during news events
Fix: Major events cause price swings, and you can't widen the range later — so leave headroom when you set it. You can always pause the bot through a high-impact announcement.
Planning to fix the range later
Fix: There is no later. The range and level count are locked when the vault is created; moving to a new range means withdrawing and creating a second vault, creation fee included.
Using the same range for all tokens
Fix: Different tokens have different volatility profiles. A memecoin needs a wider range than a stablecoin.
What Happens Outside Your Range?
Price Drops Below Range
Bot stops trading. You hold mainly the base token (e.g., SOL). Waiting for price to recover into range.
Price Rises Above Range
Bot stops trading. You hold mainly the quote token (e.g., USDC). You captured profits on the way up, but miss further gains.
Pro Tips
- •Because the range can't be tuned later, favour one that survives a surprise over one that's perfect for today's chart.
- •Use ~20% buffer on each side of the expected range to catch overshoots.
- •Check your vault weekly. If the token has settled into a different band, the move is a fresh vault at the new range — not an edit to this one.
- •When in doubt, go wider. A wider range with fewer levels is often better than tight with many.