Pair Model account options: flip, trades per coin, trailing, stop past the pile, max leverage, late trailing — Knowledge base

Where to find them

Trading → pick the account → Settings → the algorithm card. Choose Pair Model in the algorithm menu; the card then shows Signal engine: Pair model and the options below. Every change is saved at once and applies to the next call (and, where stated, to open trades). Each account keeps its own options, so you can compare settings on two demo accounts.

The Pair Model itself - what it scores and how it picks a trade - is explained in Pair Model and the model picker. Every Pair Model trade comes with its own take-profit, stop-loss and leverage and enters with a maker limit order.

All results quoted below are from 12-month hypothetical backtests of the Pair Model's calls. They show the direction of each trade-off, not what you will earn. Read the risk disclosure.

Always on: late trailing after 12 hours

A Pair Model trade is not closed by time. When an open trade reaches its 12-hour mark, its stop is moved half way from where it is toward the current price (never looser) and from then on it trails the best price at that distance. The Time stop column counts down to the mark and then shows trailing; the management log records the move.

In the 12-month backtest this earned more than closing at market at 12 hours, in both half-years. A trade that you run without a stop-loss has nothing to tighten and is not affected.

The options

flip to a stronger opposite call

Off by default. When the Pair Model calls the other direction on a coin where the account holds a trade, and the new call is stronger than the one the trade was opened on, the open trade is closed (in profit or in loss) and the new call is taken.

Works on every exchange.
Trade-off: a flip can close a trade that would still have recovered. In the 12-month backtest the account earned more with flips than without, with a slightly smaller drawdown.

trades per coin

1 (off) by default; choose 2, 3, 5 or 10, and then max open (50, 100, 150, 200 or 300) as the cap on open trades across the account.

With 2 or more the account takes every Pair Model call, also on a coin it already holds (on either side), up to that many per coin and the total cap. The coin's daily loss budget still stops it for the day, and Max margin / trade applies to each trade separately (three trades on a coin use up to 3x).

Trade-off: profit and risk grow together. In the 12-month backtest more trades per coin made more in total, but the biggest drawdown grew roughly in step.
Live accounts: on MEXC, Bybit and Binance. The app switches the exchange to its hedge position mode (long and short held apart); the exchange allows that switch only while nothing is open there, so close any open positions and orders on that exchange once before the first stacked trade. Each trade then keeps its own stop and take-profit on the exchange for its own size, and closing one trade never touches the others on the coin. All trades on a coin share the leverage of the first one and the exchange's liquidation price for that side. On other exchanges the account keeps one trade per coin.

hedge mode (long + short per coin)

A long and a short on the same coin may be open together: when the Pair Model calls the other side of a coin you already hold, the account takes that call too (never two on the same side). Demo and paper accounts, and live accounts on MEXC, Bybit and Binance (hedge position mode, as described under trades per coin). On other exchanges the option is not shown.

EV size (bigger margin on stronger calls)

Off by default. Each trade's margin is scaled by how strong the call is compared with an average call: a weak call gets less than the coin's Max margin / trade, a strong one more; on average the margin stays the same.

Trade-off: in the 12-month backtest the strongest calls earned clearly more per trade and the total was higher, but a single trade could lose about twice as much and the worst day was worse.

re-check: push stop out

off, 50 % or 100 %. Every 30 minutes the Pair Model re-scores the coins. When an open trade is in loss and the new score still clearly backs its side, the stop is pushed further out once, by 50 % or 100 % of its distance, so a dip the model expects to recover does not stop the trade out. The stop is never moved past the liquidation price.

Trade-off: in the 12-month backtest both settings made more in both half-years, but a single trade could lose about twice as much of its margin and the worst day was worse.
The same check is available by hand on one trade with Re-analyse; see Re-analyse an open trade.

stop past the liquidation pile

Off by default. Checked before every entry, in a second or two: the coin's live liquidation map is read, and when the biggest stop / liquidation pile on the trade's losing side sits just beyond the signal's stop, the stop is placed just past that pile instead. The leverage is then re-sized to the wider stop, so the risk at the stop stays about the same and the liquidation price stays well beyond it. The trade log says what was done.

Trade-off: in the 12-month backtest fewer trades were stopped out and the drawdown was a little smaller, with about the same total.
For an open trade use the SL past pile button; see Liquidation map, Stop piles and SL past pile.

trailing stop from

off, 50 % to TP or 70 % to TP. Once the price has come that far toward the take-profit, the stop moves into profit (entry plus half of the best move so far) and then only follows the price, never back.

Trade-off: it locks profit on trades that turn before the target, but some of those would have reached it. In the 12-month backtest it made less in total (more so from 50 % than from 70 %), with a steadier curve.

max leverage

off, 5x, 10x, 15x or 20x. The leverage still comes from the signal, the coin or what you typed, but never above this cap. The stop distance does not change, so the position is simply smaller and the liquidation price further away.

Trade-off: smaller positions mean smaller results both ways. In the 12-month backtest a 10x cap made noticeably less in total with a smaller drawdown.

Choosing a setup

Start on the demo with the defaults and watch a few days.
Change one option at a time, ideally on a second demo account, so you can see what it does.
Before going live, remember the live-only limits above (trades per coin and hedge mode work live on MEXC, Bybit and Binance only, and the exchange must have nothing open when they are first used) and that live fills can be worse than paper ones.