Create lots of bots and set a limit on the number of simultaneous trades. This option will allow you to run only a limited number of bots at the same time, so that they all have enough supporting margin.
Attention! Bots without filters ignore these locks – they do not occupy a slot, and they can enter beyond the set limit.
Go to your account settings by clicking on the e-mail in the upper right corner. On the page you will find “Locks“.
Press “Add new lock” on the page.
Then select the desired Binding to the API key (in the example below, the binding “Bybit Subacс3” is specified), and configure the locks that will act specifically for this binding.
Blocks by Position
There can be only one position for the coin and direction on the same Futures trading account.
That is, one Long position for Ethereum, and one Short position for Ethereum, for example.
If you have three Futures bots for Ethereum in Long, then you may see three active deals in your Veles cabinet (if all three bots get their signals and open the deals), but on the exchange everything the bots do (increase or reduce the position) will be applied to the same position, and the bots “don’t know” about it – every bot considers itself being the only one on the account. And bots will change the PnL of this position unpredictably for each other – which can lead to losses. That means, it may be that bots show deals with profit – and there will be an actual loss on the exchange.
The configured Block by Position will allow you to have only one active deal for the trading pair and the algorithm on the selected Binding to the API key. That is, if one bot is already working on the Ethereum in Long, the second and third will not be able to enter until the first one completes its deal and closes the position completely.
Blocks by bots (by the number of open deals)
This feature will be useful when you have many bots configured for different assets, but these bots receive rare signals. Thus, you can create and launch 100 bots, for example, but allow only 10 of them to enter into a deal – if you know that the supporting margin will be enough to work safely for exactly so many simultaneous deals.
Lock by Long and Lock by Short
You can additionally set limits on the number of simultaneously running bots for each trading direction – Long or Short. For example, out of 10 allowed bots in general, you can allow to run no more than 2 bots in Short.
Attention! If you have several bindings pointing to the same trading account (this may be the case if you created several API keys on one exchange account on purpose or by mistake, for example), then it is the user’s responsibility to check ther resulting combination. Otherwise, you can set up locks for each binding, but still get a situation where bots on the same coin and direction enter one Futures exchange account.
