The 'Sleep-Well' Configuration: My Exact 3Commas DCA Settings for BTC
2025-12-25
Most traders treat crypto like a casino. They want to turn $1,000 into $100,000 overnight. They use 50x leverage. They stare at 1-minute charts. They lose everything.
An Architect treats crypto like a farm. We don't care about "catching the top." We care about Yield. We want to plant seeds (orders) and harvest crops (profit) while we sleep.
This is the exact DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) configuration I run on 3Commas. It is not designed to make you rich quick. It is designed to let you sleep 8 hours a night.
The Philosophy: Martingale with a Safety Net
The core logic is simple: We buy more as the price drops. But we don't just buy linearly. We use a Martingale multiplier to ensure that a small bounce is enough to exit the entire position in profit.
The "Sleep-Well" Settings (BTC/USDT)
Copy these settings into your 3Commas DCA Bot setup.
1. Main Settings
- Pair: USDT_BTC
- Strategy: Long
- Target Profit: 1.5% (Take Profit)
- Deal Start Condition: TradingView Custom Signal (Recommended) or RSI < 30 (Simple)
2. Order Size (The 1:2 Rule)
- Base Order Size: $20 (Initial entry)
- Safety Order Size: $40 (The rescue orders)
- Why? By making the safety order double the base order, we drastically lower our average entry price with just one dip.
3. Safety Orders (The Safety Net)
- Max Safety Orders: 5
- Max Active Safety Orders: 1
- Price Deviation to Open Safety Order: 2.0%
- Meaning: The price must drop 2% before we buy more.
4. The Secret Sauce (Scales)
This is where most people fail. They use static scales. We use dynamic ones.
- Safety Order Volume Scale: 1.5
- What it does: Each subsequent buy is 1.5x larger than the previous one. (e.g., $40 -> $60 -> $90). This aggressively pulls your "Breakeven Price" down closer to the current price.
- Safety Order Step Scale: 1.2
- What it does: The distance between orders gets wider. (e.g., -2% -> -4.4% -> -7.28%).
- Why? This prevents your bot from using up all its ammo too early in a crash. It forces the bot to "catch the falling knife" only when it's deep.
Risk Management
This configuration covers a price drop of approximately 20-25%. If Bitcoin crashes 50% in a day? You have two choices:
- The Hard Stop: Set a Stop Loss at -30% (Accept the loss).
- The Investor Mindset: You are now a long-term holder. Wait for the recovery.
Because we trade Spot (or very low leverage Futures), liquidation is not a threat. We are simply holding an asset that is temporarily on sale.
Conclusion
This strategy is boring. It doesn't give you the dopamine hit of a sniper entry. But it works. It churns out 1.5% profit deals over and over again, regardless of whether the market is chopping or trending.
While the gamblers are sweating over a 5-minute candle, you are building a machine that harvests volatility.
(Need to connect this bot to your TradingView strategy? Read our guide on The Synapse Protocol.)