How Much Capital Does Your Bot Need? (Funding Your Strategy)

#How Much Capital Does Your Bot Need? (Funding Your Strategy)

The most common reason a bot stalls mid-deal is simple: it ran out of money to place its next order. This guide is about funding — how to size your bot in the app, read its real capital requirement, and keep it funded. (For the theory of position sizing, see How Much Capital for Bot Trading and Advanced Safety Order Strategies; this article is the Freya-specific, practical side.)

---

#Your Trading Amount Is the Whole-Grid Budget

When you set a trading amount, that's the budget for the entire grid, not the size of the first order. Each order in the grid takes a Volume % of that amount, and your orders' volumes total 100%. So if price falls through your whole grid and every averaging order fills, the bot can commit up to your full trading amount.

The practical takeaway: don't size your amount for just the entry — size it for all the orders filling. (How the grid itself is built is covered in Entry Orders & the Grid.)

#Read the Real Requirement in the Orders Preview

You don't have to do the math by hand. As you build a DCA bot, the summary sidebar offers an Orders preview (and a PnL simulation). The Orders table shows:

• Total Investment — what the deal costs if the whole grid fills.
• Average entry — your blended entry price across all orders.
• Each order's price and size — so you can see how capital is distributed across the grid.

Open it before you launch: it turns "how much do I need?" into a number you can read directly.

#Where the Money Comes From

The capital is drawn from your connected exchange account, not a Freya wallet. What you need depends on the trade:

• Spot long (Buy) — the quote coin you're spending (e.g. USDT).
• Spot short (Sell) — the base coin you're selling (you must already hold it — see Long vs Short).
• Futures — margin in the quote coin.

The builder checks your amount against your available balance, and the platform checks again at trade time. If the balance isn't there, the order doesn't go through.

#Leverage Stretches Futures Margin (With a Catch)

On futures, leverage means the same position size requires less cash as margin — for example, higher leverage lets a given position be opened with a fraction of the notional. But leverage is not free capital: it proportionally raises your liquidation risk. Use it deliberately, not as a way to "afford" a bigger bot than your account can really support.

#The Insufficient-Balance Stall

Here's the scenario to avoid: your bot opens fine and runs, but partway into a dip a deeper averaging order should fill — and there isn't enough balance for it. The exchange rejects that order, and your bot can't average down at the very moment it would have helped most. That's the "insufficient balance / insufficient margin" stall (see Why Did My Bot Pause or Stop?).

The fix is the rule above: fund the whole grid. Make sure your exchange account can cover every order in the grid if price runs through all of them.

#A Note on Minimums

There's no Freya-imposed minimum trading amount — but your exchange enforces a minimum order size (a minimum notional value) per order. Because your trading amount is split across the grid by Volume %, a very small amount spread over many orders can push the smallest orders below the exchange's minimum, and the bot won't launch. If that happens, raise your amount or use fewer orders. (Minimums vary by exchange and market.)

#Frequently Asked Questions

#How much does my bot actually need?

Open the Orders preview while building it — the Total Investment figure is exactly what the deal costs if the whole grid fills. That's the amount to have available, since your trading amount is the budget for all the orders, not just the entry.

#Does the money come from Freya or my exchange?

From your connected exchange account. Freya places the orders, but the capital and the position live on your exchange.

#What balance do I need for spot vs futures?

Spot long needs the quote coin you're spending (e.g. USDT); spot short needs the base coin you're selling (you must already own it); futures needs margin in the quote coin.

#Does leverage reduce how much I need?

On futures, yes — leverage lowers the margin required for a given position. But it raises liquidation risk proportionally, so it's not free capital. Use it carefully.

#My bot stopped with "insufficient balance" mid-deal — why?

A deeper averaging order needed funds that weren't in your exchange account, so the exchange rejected it. Fund the whole grid — enough to cover every order if price runs through all of them — and it won't stall.

#Is there a minimum amount I can trade?

Freya doesn't impose one, but your exchange has a minimum order size per order. If your amount split across many grid orders makes the smallest ones too small, the bot won't launch — increase the amount or reduce the number of orders. The exact minimum depends on your exchange and pair.