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Practice Buying the Dip on Paper, Against Live Prices

A dip-buy bot watches the price around the clock. When it falls a percent you choose below its starting point, the bot buys with paper money. Prices come live from WOO X, Binance, Bitfinex or Bitkub. No real order is ever placed. It is free, and you need no exchange account.

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// DIP DETECTION

Buy-the-dip practice, without watching charts all day

Set a drop percent and an order size. The bot watches live prices and places paper buys around the clock.

Configurable drop threshold

// THRESHOLD

Choose how far the price has to fall below the bot's baseline before it buys. The baseline can re-anchor after a timeout you set.

CONFIGURABLE ARMED

A paper balance up to $1,000,000

// PAPER

Choose a starting balance of $10k, $50k, $100k or $1M. It is simulated money, and you can reset it any time.

UP TO $1,000,000 PAPER

Backtest against past dips

// BACKTEST

Replay your settings on up to 90 days of past prices to see how often the rule would have bought. It is not a forecast.

BACKTEST READY

Live prices from 4 exchanges

// PRICES

Run paper dip-buy bots on live prices from WOO X, Binance, Bitfinex or Bitkub. Up to 3 can run at once.

4 VENUES LIVE PRICES
// EXECUTION WORKFLOW

How the dip-buy bot works

From first click to your first paper dip buy, in three steps.

1

Set your drop threshold

Pick a pair, how far the price must fall below the baseline (say, 3%), and how much to buy each time.

2

Backtest it on past prices

Replay the same settings on up to 90 days of history. You see what the rule would have done on those prices.

3

Run it on paper, live

Start the bot on your paper balance and watch it buy against live prices. No exchange account or API key is involved.

// DIP-BUY MECHANICS

The hard part of buying dips is deciding what counts as one

A threshold is only half a definition. The other half is what the drop is measured from, and when that reference is allowed to move.

The drop is measured from an anchor, and the anchor is the real setting

The bot holds a reference price and buys when price falls the configured percentage below it. That much is obvious. What decides whether the bot fires once a week or fifteen times a day is when that anchor resets.

A 5% drop from last week's high is a market event. A 5% drop from a reference set four minutes ago is noise. The re-anchor timeout is the control that separates the two, and it is the setting worth spending backtests on.

Re-anchoring on a timeout, not on every tick

Leave the timeout unset and the anchor stays where it is until a buy fires, so a long grind down produces one entry rather than a staircase of them.

Set it, and the anchor resets to the current price after that many quiet minutes, which turns the same bot into a shorter-horizon dip buyer that judges each stretch of market on its own terms. Neither setting is a sensible default to assume on your behalf, and the difference between them shows up clearly in a backtest over a period you remember.

A triggered buy fills at the price seen, which can be below your threshold

When price crosses the threshold, the bot buys on paper at the live price it sees at that moment, charged as a taker order on that exchange. Prices arrive as a stream of updates. If price drops past the threshold between two of them, the buy fills at the lower price that was actually seen, not at the threshold itself.

When too little paper cash is left for the next purchase and its fee, the bot sits in a paused state and names the reason instead of overdrawing the account. It picks up again by itself once the cash is there. The order and capital caps bound how much it may spend in total. Neither is protection against a market that keeps falling.

Every entry keeps its own exit

When a take-profit percentage is set, each fill gets its own resting sell placed against that fill's price, not against a blended average of the position.

A bot that bought three separate dips therefore has three take-profits resting at three different prices. Each one sells at its own level once the market trades up to it, closing only the lot it belongs to. Selling the whole position through the bot cancels only as many of its own take-profits as the sale needs, oldest first, and never touches an order you placed by hand on the same coin.

// DIP-BUY PARAMETERS

Every dip-buy setting on the start form

Four of these decide how often the bot fires. Read them together, not one at a time.

Setting What it controls Value
drop_pct How far below the anchor price counts as a dip worth buying. percent
order_size How much each triggered buy spends or accumulates. number
order_size_unit Fixed money per buy, or fixed quantity of the asset per buy. quote | base
reanchor_timeout_minutes Minutes without a trigger before the reference price resets to spot. Unset means it never does. optional
max_orders Ends the run after this many triggered buys. optional
max_total_capital Ends the run once this much has been committed. optional
take_profit_pct Rests a sell this far above each individual fill's price. optional

Up to 3 dip-buy bots can run at once on any account. The count is separate from the other bot types, so a dip-buy bot never competes with a grid or DCA bot for a slot. A bulk start arms the same settings on many pairs in one step. Arming a pair buys nothing: the first purchase waits for the drop.

// PRICE SOURCES

Watching for dips on four exchanges' live prices

A paper dip-buy bot can watch pairs listed on Bitkub, Bitfinex, Binance or WOO X. It reads the public price stream each exchange publishes to everyone, so you need no account there and nothing is ever sent to it.

How often a threshold fires depends on how a pair moves on that particular exchange. The same coin can be quoted against USDT, USD or Thai baht depending on where you look, and a thinly traded pair moves in bigger jumps between trades. Backtesting the exact pair and exchange you plan to watch shows how often your drop percentage would have fired there.

ANCHOR-BASED TRIGGERS PER-FILL TAKE-PROFIT LIVE PRICES 4 EXCHANGES
// RELATED

Related to threshold buying

DCA bot Scheduled accumulation on an interval you set in hours. Trailing stop-loss How a stop that follows the high works, practiced on paper buys. Free trading bot Every bot type on paper, with the same limits for every account.

Prefer buying on a fixed schedule instead of a price trigger? See our DCA bot or grid trading bot pages.

// DIP-BUY FAQ

Dip-buy bot — FAQ

01 // MECHANICS What is a dip-buy bot?

A dip-buy bot watches live prices for a drop of a size you set, for example 3% below its baseline price. When the price reaches that level, it places a buy without you watching the chart. On Vectixs that buy is a paper order made with simulated money.

02 // NO EXCHANGE ACCOUNT Do I need an exchange account or an API key?

No. Vectixs is paper trading only. Your dip-buy bot trades a simulated balance against live public prices. No real order is ever placed, so there is no exchange account to connect, no API key to paste and no deposit to make.

03 // RISK MANAGEMENT What if the price keeps falling after it buys?

A dip-buy bot buys on the way down by design. In a long downtrend it can buy several times at lower and lower prices, and nothing guarantees a bounce. A limit on the number of buys or on total capital caps how far it goes. Paper trading lets you see that behavior with no money at stake.

04 // VENUE CONNECTIVITY Which exchanges' prices can a paper dip-buy bot use?

Live public prices from WOO X, Binance, Bitfinex and Bitkub. Fees are simulated at each exchange's published rates. Paper orders fill at the observed price, with no partial fills and no slippage beyond the fee model, so paper results can differ from live trading.

05 // COST Is the dip-buy bot free?

Yes. Vectixs is free and there is nothing to buy. Every account gets the same limits: up to 3 dip-buy bots running at once and backtests on up to 90 days of history. Paper bots on an account nobody has signed into for 14 days are stopped automatically, and an email warns you at day 11.

06 // ANCHOR What is the dip measured against?

A reference price the bot holds, not the last trade. Without a re-anchor timeout that reference stays put until a buy fires, so a long decline produces one entry. With a timeout it refreshes to spot after that many quiet minutes, which makes the same threshold fire far more often.

07 // REPEAT DIPS Will it buy the same dip twice?

Only if the anchor has moved. After a fill the reference is taken from the new state, so a further leg down has to clear the threshold again from there. The order and capital caps are what bound the total number of entries.

08 // THRESHOLD What drop percentage should I use?

There is no number this page can honestly give you, because it depends entirely on how that particular pair behaves and on your re-anchor setting. Backtesting the pair you intend to watch, over a period you remember, is the only answer that means anything, and it costs nothing.

09 // FALLING MARKET What stops the bot buying all the way down?

The order count and total capital caps, and running out of paper cash, which pauses it. This bot type has no stop-loss. That is a deliberate limit, not an oversight: a dip-buy bot's premise is that a drop is an opportunity, and bolting a stop onto it would be a second, contradictory signal inside one bot.

10 // DIP VS DCA How is this different from a DCA bot?

A DCA bot buys on a clock and ignores price. A dip-buy bot buys on price and ignores the clock. Running both on one pair is a common combination, and each has its own independent concurrency cap, so one never consumes the other's slot.