How Trade Leopard works.
Four settings decide everything the engine does. This page explains each one in plain language, shows you the part of the dashboard it lives on, and says exactly what the engine does with it. No jargon you haven't been given first.
Four settings, and two of them are optional.
Everything below is one of these. If you only ever set the first two, the engine buys your fund on a schedule and never sells anything.
Your assets, and the share each one gets.
A weight is the slice of the fund you want an asset to be. Give XRP 28% and you are saying "just over a quarter of this portfolio should be XRP" — and every buy the engine makes is split along those lines.
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The figure on the right is drift — see below. The weights must add up to 100%, and the total goes red until they do.
What the number actually does
Nothing on its own. A weight is only a fraction: it decides how a buy is divided, not how much is spent. 12% of a $1,000 budget is $120, and $120 is the most that asset can be given in that period. Change the budget and every slice changes with it; change a weight and only that asset's slice moves.
Drift, and why it is in points
Drift is how far a holding has wandered from the share you gave it. A target of 12% that has grown to 14% of the portfolio is +2 points of drift — not "up 2%". It moves on its own as prices move, without you buying or selling anything, and it is the figure both rebalances read.
Anything within ±1 point of its target is treated as on target. That dead zone is what stops a rebalance churning your account over a few dollars of noise.
The scheduled trim does not read it. Drift is relative, so when the whole fund rises together nothing looks overweight — which would have been exactly the moment there was profit to take.
Adding, removing, pausing
Add an asset from the + Add asset tile — the list is every pair your exchange will actually settle in your account's currency, so anything you can pick, you can buy.
Setting a weight to 0% takes an asset out of the fund: the scheduled buy stops considering it entirely. Pausing is the gentler version — the asset keeps its weight and its place in the portfolio, but sits out the next buy, and its share is spent on the others instead. Pause is on the asset's own popup.
How much, and how often.
One amount and one cadence. The amount is per period, so the two multiply: $250 every 3 days is a great deal more money than $250 a month, and the dashboard shows you the monthly figure as you drag the slider so that can't take you by surprise.
The two figures at the top are this period's state: what has been placed, and what is still available to place. The slider icon on the second one lets you hold some of it back.
Nothing is wasted — the carry
If a period ends with money unspent — because half your assets never reached their gate — that money is not lost. It rolls into the next period and is added to the new contribution. That is the "$120 from last period" line, and it is how the engine builds dry powder for the next dip instead of forcing buys it doesn't like.
Holding some of it back
The slider icon on left to invest lets you lower the figure for this period — useful when the pot has grown larger than you want deployed at once. You can never take it below this period's own contribution minus what it has already spent; to go lower than that, change the amount per period.
If the cash isn't there
Orders are sized against the spendable cash on that exchange, with about 1% left over for the trading fee. If the pot has outgrown the balance, the engine buys what fits and carries the rest — it does not place a half-funded basket, because that would fill in arbitrary order and quietly skew your weights. The panel says so on the figure itself rather than letting the number climb in silence.
Changing the pace
Anything from 1 to 30 days. Saving a new cadence starts a fresh period straight away: every asset re-arms, and anything unspent carries over. The buy and the trim keep separate cadences — buy every three days and take profit monthly, if that is the shape you want.
It waits for weakness.
This is the part that makes it more than a standing order. When a period comes round, the engine does not simply buy — it checks each asset first, and spends its share only if that asset is genuinely beaten down right now.
RSI, without the jargon
RSI is a number between 0 and 100 that says how one-sided recent trading has been. Around 50 is neutral. A low number means an asset has been sold hard lately and is stretched to the downside — "oversold". A high number means it has been bought hard and is stretched the other way — "overbought". That is the whole of it. It says nothing about whether an asset is good; it says something about whether right now is an unusually cheap moment relative to the last few days of trading.
Trade Leopard reads it on four clocks at once — the last hour, two hours, four hours and one day. A dip that only the 1h can see is noise; one that the 1d can see is a real move. Watching all four is what lets you say how deep a dip has to be before your money goes in.
Pick which clocks get a vote, then say how many of them have to agree. Fewer votes or a higher level means more buys, shallower. More votes or a lower level means fewer buys, deeper.
Two of the four are under 30, and the gate asks for two — so the bar is full and this asset's share will be spent on the next cycle. The pills and the bar are both red for the same reason: they are both describing a fall. The bar is a distance, not a promise: full means "at the gate", and only a filled order fills the tile.
Once per asset, per period
An asset that buys is latched for the rest of the period, and the latch survives a restart. A coin that slides all week cannot drain the whole budget on the way down — it gets one slice, then waits for the next period like everything else.
The engine checks constantly
It looks every couple of minutes, not once a week. The period decides how much money is available and how many times an asset may buy; the gate decides the moment. So a Tuesday-night flush is caught even though the period began on Monday.
Minimums are handled
Every exchange enforces a different minimum order size on every pair. A slice too small to place is redistributed or skipped — never silently rejected by the venue.
The arrow on a tile
A small arrow appears when all four clocks agree — all under the oversold line, or all over the overbought one. It is stricter than your gate on purpose, and it only tells you: it arms nothing and buys nothing.
Taking profit on the way up.
The same idea, run in reverse — and the only thing in the product that ever sells without you pressing something. It ships switched off, and turning it on is a deliberate act.
- In profit +18.2%✓
- Overbought 2 of 4needs 4
Waiting on the RSI. The profit floor is already cleared.
Tap any asset and this is what opens. Both schedules are on it — the buy with its own switch, the trim with each condition and what it still needs — so you can always see which one an asset is failing rather than guessing why nothing happened.
Both, or nothing
An asset is trimmed only when it is overbought on as many clocks as you asked for and up by at least the percentage you set — 5% unless you change it, measured against what the holding cost you. Miss either and nothing happens.
It sells the profit, and keeps the stake
What gets sold is the gain — nothing else. Sell the profit out of a holding and what is left is worth what you paid for it: the gain becomes cash and your original money stays in the market. That is the whole idea. It can never sell your stake, and it can never close a position, however far one has run.
Weight has nothing to do with it. An asset can be under its target and still have its profit taken — which matters, because when the whole fund rises together nothing looks overweight, and that is exactly when there is profit to take.
Never at a loss
A holding under water is never touched, however overbought it gets. The money from a trim stays as cash rather than being pushed straight back into whatever happens to be cheap that week — it becomes part of the next period's buying power instead.
Its own switch and its own clock
The trim is independent of the buy: pausing buying does not stop it, and arming it does not start buying. One trim per asset per period, on a cadence you set separately.
Money held back for a bad day.
A separate pot, with a separate trigger. It ignores the schedule, ignores the RSI gate, and fires only when something in your fund falls hard and fast.
The switch arms it. The gauge shows the worst drawdown in your fund right now against the level you set, so you can see how close it is without opening anything.
Its own money
Red Dawn never spends the scheduled budget or the carry, and the scheduled buy never spends Red Dawn's. They are two pots with two triggers.
What it buys
An asset that falls past the trigger buys its weighted share of the Red Dawn amount — a 20% weight takes 20% of it. Every asset that qualifies gets its share, so a market-wide flush deploys more of the pot than one coin having a bad afternoon.
"24h high" means the level it held
Not the single highest print of the day. A one-hour spike that falls straight back leaves you exactly where you started, and reading that as a crash would fire the trigger on nothing.
Its own switch, and only its own
Red Dawn has a switch of its own, so you can disarm it without losing the amount and the trigger you set — turn it back on and it picks up where it was.
Nothing else stops it. Pausing the scheduled buy leaves Red Dawn armed, which is the point: you can decide to make no regular contributions for a while and still have money waiting for a sell-off. One buy per asset per 24 hours, so a long slide can't re-buy on every cycle.
Nothing here is on a timer.
Everything above runs on its own. Everything below happens because you pressed something — and every one of them shows you the exact orders, asset by asset and dollar by dollar, before a single one is placed.
Invest a lump sum
A one-off buy goes to whatever sits furthest below its target, so adding money corrects the shape of your fund without selling anything.
Hard rebalance
Sells everything above target and buys everything below it, in one pass, back to the weights you set. No new money needed. It sells losers as readily as winners — which is why it is manual only.
Positive rebalance
The same sells, with two limits: only holdings in profit, and the proceeds stop at cash instead of buying anything back. This one still works in target weights — the scheduled trim does not.
Single orders
Buy or sell one asset at market, or leave a limit order. Right-click anywhere on the chart to place a limit at that price; shift-drag measures a move with the retracement levels drawn in.
Sell a percentage, or all
Take a share of one holding off the table, or close it out. Both preview first, and both are yours alone — the engine has no path to either.
Zone alerts
The same two RSI levels that drive the gates also send buy- and sell-zone alerts to your phone, so you know an asset reached its zone even if you weren't looking.
One week, start to finish.
Seven assets, $1,000 a week, a gate of 2 of 4 under 30, and the trim switched off. Here is every decision the engine makes.
Monday — the period opens
$1,000 goes into the pot, plus $120 that last week never spent: $1,120 available. Every asset re-arms. Each one's share is its weight of that pot — XRP at 28% may take up to $313.60, CC at 12% up to $134.40.
Monday to Sunday — it watches
Every couple of minutes it reads four RSIs per asset. Nothing is bought simply because it is Monday. On Wednesday CC drops far enough that its 1h and 2h both fall under 30 — two of four, which is what the gate asks — and $134.40 of CC is bought. CC is now latched for the rest of the week.
Thursday — a second one goes
LINK clears the gate on a broad market dip and takes its $134.40. Two assets bought, $268.80 spent, $851.20 still available. The other five never reach the gate — nothing is bought on their behalf, and nothing is forced.
Sunday — the period closes
The $851.20 that wasn't spent carries into next week and sits on top of the new $1,000. Your fund now holds slightly more CC and LINK than its targets — the tiles show that as drift — and next week's buys, weighted as always, start pulling it back towards shape.
What it will never do.
Trade Leopard connects to your account at Kraken, OKX or Coinbase through an API key you create and can revoke in seconds. We never hold your funds and we cannot withdraw them, because you create the key without that permission. The walkthrough in Settings shows you the exact boxes to tick on each exchange.
Out of the box the engine only buys. The one thing it can ever sell on its own is the scheduled trim, which is off until you switch it on, only ever sells a holding's profit — never the money that bought it — and never sells at a loss. Every other sell in the product is a button you press, behind a preview and a confirmation.
You can also lock the key to us. All three exchanges let you restrict an API key to one IP address, and every order Trade Leopard places leaves from a single fixed address of ours. Set that restriction and a stolen copy of your key is refused everywhere else. The walkthrough in Settings gives you the address to paste in.
✓ Query funds
✓ Query open & closed orders
✓ Create & modify orders
✕ Withdraw funds
✕ Transfer to other accounts
✕ Staking / earn
Optionally restricted to our IP address, so the key works from nowhere else. Keys are encrypted before storage and never returned to the browser.
Every term on the dashboard.
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