Add To Position
Scaling into a position you already hold, within the risk it was allowed.
Add To Position puts more size into a trade that is already open. It is not a second trade - it is another leg of the same one, and it is held to the risk budget the original entry was sized against.
Where to find it
Main menu โ ๐ Positions โ โ Add To Position
You get a list of open positions first. Pick one, and the form opens. The panel below is the real one: fill in either field and it redraws exactly as the bot would redraw it.
BTCUSDT
Stop Loss: โ
Remaining Budget Available: $52.30 / $120.00
Remaining Qty Available: 0.018
Quantity: Max available
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Usage History
โข Leg 1: 0.002 (initial)
Used: 0.002 / 0.02 ceiling
Always submitted as a market order at the current price. Leave Quantity unset to take the maximum the ceiling/risk budget allows.
๐ How this panel works9:35 PMIt opens with no stop loss set - the dash - and ๐ Preview and ๐ Send say so if you tap them, in the bot's own words. Past that point they stop at a notice, as do the two buttons above them: nothing on this page reaches an exchange.
Legs, and why the trade has a budget
When the bot opens a trade it records the ceiling that trade may ever reach - derived from your Max Risk Per Trade at the moment of entry. Every fill against that trade is a leg, and each leg consumes part of the ceiling.
That is what keeps scaling honest. Without it, three adds to a 2% trade would be a 6% trade wearing the original's name.
| Line | What it is |
|---|---|
| Remaining Budget Available | Dollars of risk left, against the trade's total dollar budget. $52.30 / $120.00 means $52.30 of the $120.00 the trade was allowed remains. |
| Remaining Qty Available | How much size you can actually add right now. |
| Used: 0.002 / 0.02 ceiling | Quantity consumed so far against the trade's quantity ceiling. |
The budget line is not always there
It only appears when Dollar Risk Cap was enabled for that trade. Without it there is no dollar budget to report and the quantity ceiling is the only limit.
Remaining Qty depends on the stop loss
Until you set a Stop Loss, Remaining Qty Available shows ceiling room only - the bot cannot price the dollar budget in quantity terms without knowing what a unit of this add would cost you if it went wrong.
Once a stop is set on a trade that was placed with a dollar budget, the figure becomes the smaller of the two limits, rounded down to the symbol's lot step - what Send would place at the prices the panel was drawn from. Treat it as accurate, not exact: Send re-prices both caps against the live price, so if price has moved since the panel was drawn, what actually goes on can differ in either direction. Only the budget cap moves - it buys fewer units when the distance to your stop has widened, more when it has narrowed - and the ceiling room, which does not move with price, is the limit it can never pass.
A closed leg does not give its size back
Quantity used is the sum of every leg ever opened, including ones whose stop already fired. A leg that lost real money must not free its allowance for another add - that would let the trade's total risk exceed the ceiling it was given.
The one thing that does free room is a breakeven mark: a leg that can no longer lose is no longer spending risk.
The fields
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| ๐ Stop Loss | The stop for this new leg. Until it is set, Remaining Qty Available reports ceiling room alone; setting it is what lets the bot price the dollar budget in quantity terms as well. |
| ๐ข Quantity | How much to add. Leave it as Max available to take everything the ceiling and budget allow. |
The buttons
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| ๐ Mark Legs Breakeven | Move a leg's stop to its own entry. See Mark Legs Breakeven. |
| ๐ Send Position Update | Posts a fresh summary of the whole trade as its own message - every leg's stop, leverage and risk, plus the blended average entry and the net profit and loss at the current targets. Only offered once the trade actually has legs to report on. |
| ๐ Preview | Runs the full calculation without placing anything. |
| ๐ Send | Places the add. |
Adds are always market orders
There is no order type to choose. An add fills at the current price, because the point of scaling in is to act on where price is now - a resting limit add would sit unfilled while the position it was meant to reinforce moves away.
Why an add can be rejected
Send re-checks both caps against live prices before placing anything, so an add can be refused even when the panel showed room a moment earlier - the figures are computed from the price at the time the panel was drawn.
| Rejection | What it means |
|---|---|
| Add risk budget exceeded | There is no room left in the budget or the ceiling, or what is left sizes below the symbol's minimum order. A request larger than what fits is reduced, not refused. |
| No open position to add to | The position closed between opening this panel and sending. |
| Liquidation too close | After the add, liquidation would sit too close to the furthest stop any leg holds, so a stop might not fire before liquidation. |
| Order quantity too small | The add rounds below the symbol's minimum order on the exchange. |
| Insufficient margin | Not enough free margin for the added size. |
| Not linked, paused, or outside your plan | The same plan checks a new trade faces, except the daily trade cap - adding is never counted. |