Newbie here. I am not good with backtesting so maybe some good soul can give me starting advise. My capital is 3500USDT I am using exchange with 0.1% fee and like to start the bot for BTC-USDT pair. I plan to use about 70k-200k spread so bot will run longer maybe a year or two.
My question is what grid spacing is the best for me? I am thinking about 1% so my profit per 1% BTC move will be 1% - 2x0.1% = 0.8 percent. I hope i will make few such trades per day. What I am really looking for is should i go lower to 0.5% or higher to 2%?
Any advice from experienced colleges will make me happy 
Based on my experience, the sweet spot for BTC typically falls between 0.8-1.2% price intervals. So 1% is a good choice I would say.
Here is a backtest with the settings I would recommend. As you can see the performance is great, but always take backtests with a pinch of salt. Still, logically I think it’s a good setup, I am doing something similar myself.
https://app.gainium.io/grid/backtests?a=2&aid=share-backtest&backtestShare=c75b8bd5-d086-4f58-aafa-b81676312cef
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Hi Ares. Did you manage to have a grid-bot running for 153 days without readjusting the positioning of the grid? My experience with grid-bots is that they can be very profitable if the grid is narrow but then you will have to move it frequently to follow the current price level.
BTC doesn’t give much profit in grid bots. If we start the grid at the bottom, like your backtest, when BTC is at 68K, we buy BTC to sell btc on all upper grid levels.
The backtest shows the profits we sell them at higher levels, which includes profit from the price increase too.
If we backtest from December when BTC reached $105K, that’s the real result we can only make around 0.05%-0.09% daily with BTC grid bots.
But it’s safer than running grids on other coins, even though the ROI is low.
