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Market Making

2026-10-11 08:37:19

From market making to gamma scalping: inventory management is the common thread

WuBlockchain republished a lengthy article by @Boywus arguing that a wide range of trading strategies, from fixed-distance market making to gamma scalping and even grid trading, can be reduced to the same practical question: once price moves, how much inventory should a trader hold? The piece strips away the usual aura around both disciplines. Market making is often associated with low-latency infrastructure, order book microstructure and firms such as HRT, Jump and Citadel Securities. Gamma scalping, by contrast, is usually framed through option pricing models, volatility surfaces, dynamic delta hedging and Greek-letter risk management. Yet the article says that, at the execution layer, both often translate into a familiar pattern: buy more as price falls and sell more as price rises. It also stresses that similar trading paths do not imply identical profit sources. A simple market maker earns spread while taking inventory risk and adverse selection risk. A long-gamma trader pays upfront for convexity, then tries to monetize realized price swings through repeated delta hedging. The article extends that logic to so-called “synthetic” or manually written gamma-like rules, including grid strategies, and ends with a “sugar cane and cola” analogy to explain how options market makers package linear instruments into nonlinear payoff products.

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HTX

2026-10-08 15:00:13

HTX to list NMR for spot and grid trading on Oct. 8

HTX said it will open NMR/USDT spot trading and grid trading at 21:30 UTC+8 on Oct. 8, according to an official announcement cited by BlockBeats. The exchange has already enabled deposits for NMR, while withdrawals are scheduled to open at 21:30 UTC+8 on Oct. 9. The notice also outlined the project behind the token. Numerai is described as a decentralized data science competition platform focused on stock market prediction. It provides encrypted and obfuscated financial data that data scientists use to build machine learning models aimed at forecasting future stock performance. The listing schedule and service rollout were disclosed in the exchange announcement.

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Aster

2026-09-28 14:37:19

Aster launches Perpetual Grid 2.0 and rolls out a four-week liquidity mining campaign

Aster said on Sept. 28 that it has launched Perpetual Grid 2.0 alongside a four-week liquidity mining campaign with a maximum reward pool of 140,000 ASTER. The program runs from Sept. 28 to Oct. 25 (UTC) and is open to users running Perpetual Grid strategies on designated trading pairs, with no registration required. Rewards will be distributed hourly based on each grid strategy’s share of valid trading volume. The base reward pool is 10,000 ASTER per period, with the possibility of additional incentives depending on market conditions and trading activity on the platform. In the first week, the designated pairs are OURA/USD1, POLYMARKET/USD1, and META/USD1. Aster also said Perpetual Grid 2.0 separates automated grid strategies from regular perpetual futures trading through a dedicated Grid Bot sub-account, supports both cross and isolated margin, and allows up to 50 independent grid strategies per account in isolated mode. The company also introduced Grid Marketplace, where users can review strategy data including PnL, ROI, runtime, price range, leverage, and trading volume, and choose to copy or invert strategies.

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HTX

2026-09-28 06:41:49

HTX to List JPYC With Spot and Grid Trading on Sept. 28

HTX said it will open spot trading and grid trading for the JPYC/USDT pair at 21:00 (UTC+8) on Sept. 28, according to an official announcement. Deposits for JPYC are scheduled to open earlier the same day at 15:00, while withdrawals will become available at 21:00 (UTC+8) on Sept. 29. JPYC, or JPY Coin, is a Japanese yen stablecoin issued by JPYC Inc. in Japan. The token is regulated under Japan’s Payment Services Act and is classified as an electronic payment instrument. It is pegged 1:1 to the yen, with reserves held in bank deposits and Japanese government bonds. Users can mint or redeem the token through the JPYC EX platform after completing KYC. The asset can also be used on blockchains including Ethereum and Polygon for payments, transfers, and DeFi-related use cases. JPYC is designed as a compliant and transparent digital yen solution.

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Bitget

2026-09-02 03:50:21

Bitget adds AI Smart Grid to GetAgent Playbook with automated coin selection and portfolio rotation

Bitget said it has launched AI Smart Grid on GetAgent Playbook, adding an automated multi-asset trading strategy designed for range-bound crypto markets. The feature uses AI to scan assets, set grid parameters, monitor market conditions, and rotate across different cryptocurrencies as conditions change. Users only need to choose a trading type, strategy style, and investment amount, while GetAgent handles the remaining setup and monitoring tasks. According to Bitget, the strategy reassesses market conditions every four hours, adjusts portfolio exposure as needed, and turns specific grids on or off based on those changes. The system also runs a risk check every 15 minutes during operation. CEO Gracy Chen said AI can help narrow part of the gap between professional traders and retail users by assisting with market interpretation, strategy building, and trade execution. Bitget said the product builds on GetAgent Playbook, which launched in June as an AI strategy library covering crypto, futures, and stock screening use cases. The company previously said more than 1 million users had completed AI-driven trades through GetAgent and GetClaw, with cumulative volume above $1.2 billion. Bitget also used the announcement to highlight its broader agent-native trading push and provided updated background on its exchange, wallet, partnerships, and user protection fund.

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BTC

2026-09-01 09:02:17

What Nearly 100 Portfolio Plans Reveal About Allocating $1 Million in Crypto

An OKX Chinese campaign asking users how they would allocate a hypothetical $1 million in crypto over the next month produced nearly 100 responses, and a pattern quickly emerged. Most participants assumed Bitcoin would stay range-bound with a bullish tilt after returning to $80,000, then built similar mixes around spot exposure, dollar-cost averaging, grid trading, low-leverage futures, options protection, and cash reserves. But Odaily’s review suggests the more useful divide was not the exact percentage split. It was whether contributors defined loss limits in dollar terms, wrote down invalidation conditions, and assigned each product a specific job inside the portfolio. Several submissions argued that larger capital should increase error tolerance rather than leverage, while others treated cash itself as a position because it preserves the ability to wait, add, rotate, or admit a mistake. The exercise also exposed a broader issue: many plans were designed for a wide BTC trading range, which could become a crowded setup if the market breaks decisively in either direction. In that sense, the question was less about how much BTC to buy and more about what to do if the market rises, falls, stalls, or proves the thesis wrong.

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HTX

2026-08-27 10:53:23

HTX to List TAO (Bittensor) for Spot and Grid Trading on Aug. 27

HTX said it will open spot and grid trading for the TAO/USDT pair at 21:00 on Aug. 27 (UTC+8), according to an official announcement cited by BlockBeats. The exchange has already opened deposits for TAO, while withdrawals are scheduled to go live at 21:00 on Aug. 28. TAO is the native token of Bittensor, an open-source protocol designed to support a decentralized, blockchain-based machine learning network. According to the project description included in the announcement, Bittensor uses a "proof of intelligence" mechanism and dedicated subnet architecture to enable collaborative training and sharing of AI models. Contributors to the network are rewarded in TAO, forming what the project describes as a globally distributed machine learning marketplace.

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crypto tradin

2026-07-24 10:15:15

2026 Crypto Trading Bot Guide: Grid and DCA Dominate, Only 37.5% Show Consistent Profit

CryptoComLearn's comprehensive 2026 guide reveals that only 3 out of 8 trading bots generated consistent profit over six months. Grid and DCA bots dominate retail, with backtesting and risk management highlighted as non-negotiable.

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