Imagine being a tiny exchange yourself. You post a slightly-higher sell and a slightly-lower buy on every trade, then collect the gap when someone trades against you. That is BidAsk Fighter. Works on liquid pairs, is fee-sensitive, earns small steady profits - until volatility spikes.
How it works
The bot continuously posts a buy limit order slightly below the mid-price and a sell limit order slightly above it. When the market trades against your quotes, you capture the difference - the spread. The trick is keeping both sides quoted, managing inventory when one side fills more, and pulling quotes when conditions get hostile (volatility spikes, thin liquidity, exchange lag).
Key Features
Strategy profile
A snapshot of how this strategy behaves and who it suits, not a forecast of returns.
These are designer assessments of strategy character, not user-specific performance figures.
Market making is what pro firms do at massive scale. As retail you compete with their infrastructure. Works on tier-1 pairs with healthy spreads, but fee tiers below VIP eat most of your edge. Run a backtest with your actual fees first - that is where most strategies look great until you do the real math.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick glossary
Definitions for the trading terms used on this page.
- Backtest
- A simulation of how a strategy would have performed on historical price data. Past results never guarantee future returns - markets change.
- Slippage
- The difference between the price you expect and the price you actually get when an order fills. Worse on illiquid pairs and during fast markets.
- Spread
- The gap between the best buy price (bid) and the best sell price (ask). Tight spreads = liquid market, wider spreads = more cost per round trip.
- Stop-loss
- An automatic exit order that closes a losing position when price hits a chosen threshold. Caps how much one bad trade can hurt you.
- Take-profit
- An automatic exit order that closes a winning position once price reaches a chosen target. Locks in gains without relying on you to watch the chart.
- Volatility
- How sharply price moves. High volatility = bigger swings in both directions, which means more opportunity but also more drawdown risk.
Ready to fight the spread?
Spin up a market-making session on the platform. Backtest with your actual fees first - that single check makes or breaks the math.
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