Major macroeconomic announcements like FOMC meetings, CPI releases, or corporate earnings often spark massive market volatility. During these high-impact events, predicting the exact market direction can be risky.
The Gap Trend Following strategy under Futures Grid eliminates the need to guess market direction. By automatically deploying bidirectional grid triggers prior to major news, it captures strong trend breakouts while protecting you from wrong-way exposure.
What is Gap Trend Following?
Gap Trend Following is an advanced strategy designed for continuous trading markets. It allows you to place conditional long and short grid orders simultaneously ahead of expected volatility events.
Once the market gaps or breaks out in either direction, the strategy automatically commits to the winning trend while canceling the opposite position to eliminate unnecessary exposure.
Note: This strategy only applies to gap tracking in continuous markets (such as crypto and perpetual futures), not to opening price gaps after a traditional market close.
Key Features & How It Works
Scheduled or Immediate Launch
You can set the bot to launch Immediately or Scheduled for a precise start time right before an upcoming market event (e.g., minutes before an FOMC statement).
Custom Trigger Buffer
The bot sets trigger orders above and below the spot market price at launch by a customizable percentage (e.g., ±1%, ±2%, or ±3%).
Automatic One-Side Cancellation
Once the price triggers either direction (Long or Short), the bot instantly cancels all grid orders on the opposite side to prevent wrong-way exposure.
Dynamic Price Range Adjustments
Upon activation, the price range automatically recalculates relative to the trigger price (e.g.,
Trigger Market Price × 0.8 ~ Trigger Market Price × 1.2), allowing the grid to dynamically follow the one-way momentum.Dynamic Liquidation Recalculation
Estimated liquidation prices are dynamically recalculated as soon as one side is triggered. You can also add Extra Margin at launch to enhance risk management.
Platform Availability & Supported Markets
Supported Platforms: Currently available on Mobile App only (Web version is not supported at this time).
Release Status: Now available on the latest iOS TestFlight version. The official App Store version will be released soon.
Available Markets: Currently limited to select news-sensitive perpetual contracts, including XAU/USDT Perp (Gold) and XAG/USDT Perp (Silver).
Requesting New Trading Pairs: If you would like to trade this strategy on other token pairs, please submit your feedback to our support team. We will evaluate and enable new trading pairs based on demand.
How to Set Up Gap Trend Following (Step-by-Step)
Open the app and navigate to Create a bot $\rightarrow$ Futures Grid.
Select Copy strategy and tap the Advanced tab.
Select Gap Trend Following (choose a preset strategy like Conservative 5x or Balanced 10x).
Configure your setup:
Set Start Time: Choose Immediately or Scheduled (set a specific start time).
Set Trigger Condition: Enter the percentage distance from the current price (e.g., 1%, 2%, 3%).
Input Investment: Set your investment amount and optional Extra Margin.
Tap Create to activate your bot.