Trade Leopard next to the other bots

The four shapes

Nearly every retail bot on the market is one of these: a DCA bot that opens a position and defends its entry price with safety orders; a grid bot that trades a price range back and forth; a rebalancer that holds a basket at target weights by selling whatever has grown past its share; or an accumulator that buys on a schedule and mostly never sells. The right question is not which product is best — it is which of the four jobs you actually want done.

What a 3Commas-style DCA bot does

3Commas is the best-known of the deal-based bots, and its DCA bot is built around a deal: a base order opens a position, and if the price falls, safety orders buy more at set percentages below the entry — each one commonly scaled larger than the last — to pull the average price down until a take-profit target closes the deal. Signal bots and grid bots sit alongside it, and pricing at the time of writing runs from a free tier to roughly $37–$59 a month for the paid ones.

That machine is for a trader: someone opening and closing positions who wants losing entries repaired and winning ones closed. It is genuinely good at that job. The trade-off is the shape of the risk — the position grows precisely as the trade goes worse, which works until the one time it does not. We wrote a whole piece on that mechanism in What a DCA bot actually does.

What a grid bot does

A grid bot lays a ladder of buy and sell orders across a price range and profits from the market crossing the rungs. Sideways chop is its best weather; a strong trend in either direction is its worst, because the grid either sells out of a rally early or buys all the way down through its range. Pionex is the common entry point here — an exchange with grid and other bots built in at no extra subscription, which also means it holds your coins the way any exchange does.

What a Shrimpy-style rebalancer does

Shrimpy popularised the index approach: set target weights across a basket — 50% BTC, 30% ETH, 20% SOL — and let the tool periodically restore those weights, selling what drifted above its target to buy what drifted below, across your own exchange accounts by API key. Bitcoin IRA acquired it in 2022, and development and community activity have visibly slowed since. If that is the tool you are replacing, If you used Shrimpy is the longer version.

The mechanism is sound, and it is the closest neighbour to what Trade Leopard does. The difference is the sells: threshold rebalancing trims winners on a timer, which realises taxable gains and repeatedly cuts the positions that are working.

Where Trade Leopard sits

Trade Leopard is an accumulator with two additions. The weights are Shrimpy-shaped: you set targets across a basket and every buy is split along them, with new money steered to whatever is furthest below target — so rebalancing happens with buys, and nothing is sold to correct drift. The schedule is DCA-shaped, with one change: each asset's share is spent only when that asset clears an RSI gate you configure, and money that does not qualify carries into the next period.

There is no entry price anywhere in it, no safety orders, no grid, no leverage, no shorting, no signals and no copy trading. The one automatic sell is the optional trim, which ships switched off and, when on, sells only a holding's profit — never the principal, never at a loss. Trimmed proceeds stay as cash and join the next period's buying power, so profit taken on the way up re-enters only through the gate, on the next dip. The principal keeps riding; the profit rotates. It connects to your own Kraken, OKX or Coinbase account through an API key without withdrawal permission, and costs $15 a month.

How to choose

If you open and close positions and want them managed, a deal-based bot like 3Commas is built for you and Trade Leopard is not. If you want to farm a sideways range, that is a grid bot, and Trade Leopard does not have one. If you want a basket held at target weights and are comfortable with the tool selling your winners to do it, a threshold rebalancer does that. Trade Leopard is for the remaining case: accumulating a basket for the long term, buying weakness by rule instead of by mood, and selling almost never.

Trade Leopard publishes no backtests and makes no claim to outperform any of the tools above — or a plain unconditional schedule. The claim is narrower: the rule is yours, it is visible, and it is the same every period.