The Best Crypto Trading Bot for Beginners!

No programming skills needed, just a mobile device.

C.W.Morton

Mar 10, 2025

Source: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Crypto Trading Bots, Art Created by Author with AI Assistance

Do you want to get into automated crypto trading but don’t know where to start?

I have a few vital tips for you….

I was once you.

I had no idea where to start.

This was back in 2020.

I have been using crypto trading bots for about 4 years now. After much trial and error, I am in a good place — trading profitably and consistently, and wanted to help others learn, hence this Medium account and various videos.

Grid Bots are the best bots to learn with. They are like training wheels.

But…. before we jump in, you need to know a few things.

Etch these things into stone, or carve them into your skin with a knife.

Ok, maybe don’t do the last one.

But definitely, heed the following and take it seriously.

Lifesaving VITAL Tips:

1. Trusted Apps and Platforms Only

If you want to get started without stress, it is best to download a free and trustable bot platform like Pionex, or KuCoin, available through Google Play and the Apple App Store. Pionex.US is the platform for USA users. Easiest to use, with lowest barrier to entry.

Telegram, Discord, newer mobile apps without a history, etc, and other “bot” platforms FULL of scammers. With Pionex or KuCoin, your personal account is yours — there is no social media component.

If an app is new or doesn’t have many reviews, avoid them until they do.

Pionex has been around since 2019, and it’s got a 4.6 rating in the Apple App Store.

It is my personal recommendation for the best beginner app, and I still happen to use it as my primary app.

2. ALWAYS set up ALL security features with any app you use.

2FA, Google Authenticator, and Biometric authentication, everything possible. The more secure, the better.

Even though it may seem like a hassle to type in 3 separate 6 digit codes from your email, phone, and Google Authenticator, you won’t regret it. It is fairly hard for thieves to break past such heavy security.

3. Don’t forget to BACKUP your 2FA and other authentication methods.

Simple to do, and usually each app has a way to do it. This might vary on each device, but you need to make sure it is done. If anything happens to your phone, you need a way to recover your access to your apps!

4. Start Small!

Never invest large amounts too quickly. No one should read an article or a book, assume they understand it all, and then just stick their life savings into the pot. I hope you wouldn’t do that, but I just wanted to reinforce this. Start small. No more than $100. Test and see what happens, then as you gain CONFIDENCE, start to increase what you invest.

The first app I ever downloaded was Pionex, and that is still the primary app I am using today.

I was using KuCoin for a while, only because I liked the user interface a bit more, but they have eventually pulled away from the United States, so I have moved to using Pionex, which is approved and licensed in the United States.

KuCoin offers many different services, and developing an app/platform only for the limitations of the United States makes many crypto platform developers just pull away.

Hopefully that changes, but for now, if you are in the United States, Pionex.US may be the only easily-accessible option.

Pionex; A Club For Bots Only. #Botlife

C.W.Morton

August 20, 2024

I have been concerned lately due to a lawsuit on KuCoin exchange by the United States.

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Pionex is FREE.

No In-App Purchases.

No Monthly Fees.

Pionex.US is a bot-centered platform for USA users, and they make their profit taking a small percentage of every bot’s profits. You are never charged, it comes out of your crypto profits as the bots are trading. They also have very low minimum thresholds for using bots.

This makes the barrier to entry low-to-non existent.

Grid Bots are the Best Beginner Bots

Grid Bots can start as low as $30 USD invested, and I have been running this one for example sake, for 130 days so far.

This little bot has remained in the green (profitable), the entire time. Regardless of the wild price fluctuations we have had recently.

So far, this bot has earned about 5% realized gains, and has about 10% unrealized.

Grid Bots are incredibly forgiving, and rarely will you loose money.

Even when Bitcoin has been incredibly volatile recently and my other bots were in the red, sitting at loss until the price recovered, this little bot was plugging on, staying in the green the entire time.

It is,…. the safer bot…… for those testing the waters.

You might not make a boat-load of profit, as these bots are typically not high-yield, but you will typically earn something better than most savings accounts in the United States.

If you deploy them using the “AI settings”, which are system generated to balance risk/profit, you can usually expect anywhere from 3%-30% profit per year.

Grid Bots are the most basic kind of trading bot there is, and for that reason, are the perfect bot for the newbie wanting to jump in!

Sometimes they are referred to as Spot Bots, or Spot Grids, depending on the platform you use.

Buy low, sell high.

That is all they do.

They are made to divide up your investment into multiple trade orders, which are called Grids. Each grid is a limit order buy, and a corresponding limit sell order.

Here is a basic grid bot configuration:

Grid Bots are pretty easy to understand.

The above bot configuration expects around 12% yearly returns, based on a 30 day (30D) backtesting profile. You can also select 7 days (7D) if you want to base your activity on that.

The MOON tab is a special bot configuration with a wide price range, and fewer grids that are all spread apart more. You don’t control this, the system does.

“Moon” is a reference in crypto land to making big gains — “mooning”, if you aren’t familiar. This particular bot is for the patient, and is best in strong bull markets.

Some people run their grid bots for a few days, a few weeks, or months, then alter the settings, others let them run for month without stopping them.

If you look above configuration example, look at the line that says “Profit Per Grid”, then scan over to the far right, and you can see in parentheses it says “(44 Grids)”.

What does this mean?

Well, lets say you invest $100.

The bot is going to divide your investment up into 44 automated buy/sell orders.

44 Buys, and 44 Sells.

This means each “grid” has an average of $2.72 of your investment.

Each time the bot executes a sell, it will earn around $0.33 or so.

The price range was automatically generated by the system when using “AI Settings”, and this bot is operating from $57,000, to $74,000. You can imagine —if you are running this particular bot configuration and BTC surges above $100k, your bot wont be active anymore.

Your bot will miss out on that entire range of activity.

My operating grid bot in my first screenshot — was set very wide.

$40,000 all the way to $120,000, so it has been active the entire time while Bitcoin was surging above $100,000. I had a feeling that was going to happen, so I configured the bot that way over 4 months ago.

I expect this little bot to earn around 6%-8% or so, based on previous experience using highly wide spreads on Grid Bots.

You can manually configure your grid bot as well, and you can learn more about that in my beginner’s guide.

There is no perfect bot configuration.

There is only you, and the market, dancing together forever, with a little automation and help from the modern world where bots can trade for you, instead of sitting at your desk waiting to enter and exit.

Grid Bots on Free Apps represent the ultimate gateway to your automated trading adventure.

What’s holding you up?

Automated trading has never been more accessible!