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DCA Bot — Overview

DCA Bot — Overview

DCA

Dollar-cost averaging in cycles: enter, average in on adverse moves, exit the whole position on one take-profit, repeat.

One cycle, end to end

  1. 1
    1 — Base order
    A market order opens the cycle at the current price. That price is the base every is measured from.
  2. 2
    2 — Safety orders
    Limit orders rest against the move (below for long, above for short). Only the configured number of active safety orders sit on the book at once; when one , the next is placed.
  3. 3
    3 — Average + take-profit
    Every fill updates the average entry. The engine cancels and re-places ONE reduce-only take-profit order for the entire position.
  4. 4
    4 — Close
    When the take-profit (or the fires), resting safety orders are cancelled and the cycle’s profit is booked.
  5. 5
    5 — Next cycle
    After the cooldown — and if is not reached — a new opens at the then-current price. Signal waits for the next signal instead.

What runs it

The bot runs server-side on the C++ DCA engine — the same family as the . Orders go out through the shared broker adapters (Zerodha, Shoonya, AliceBlue, Flattrade, Delta Exchange), every order carries a that encodes the , cycle and step, and the auditor reconciles the local book against the broker's orders, and positions.

See also

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