Hey-Traders Blog
Hey-Traders turns plain-English strategy ideas into live orders. Guides on algorithmic trading, crypto, and backtesting — and our latest: bringing stop-loss, take-profit and grid orders to Polymarket.
Algorithmic trading uses pre-defined rules to place and manage orders automatically. Here's how algo trading works, its pros and cons, and how to start without code.
A plain-English guide to grid trading: laddered buy and sell orders across a price range, why grids thrive in ranging markets, their trend risks, and how bots automate the process.
A trailing stop loss follows price in your favor and triggers only after a set pullback, helping you protect profits without capping upside. Here is how it works.
Natural language trading turns a plain-English strategy description into executable code, a backtest, and live signals — no coding required. Here is how it works.
How AI trading works end to end: from a plain-English idea to AI-generated strategy, backtest, and live signals — plus what AI can and cannot do, and the risks.
A no-code trading bot lets you automate a strategy by describing it in plain English. Here is what you can automate, the conceptual flow, and how to stay safe.
A plain-English guide to crypto trading bots: what they are, the main types, how to use one safely, and how no-code natural-language bots turn a plain idea into an executable strategy.
A plain-English overview of five common Bitcoin trading strategies, when each one fits market conditions, and how to backtest them before risking capital.
A beginner-friendly guide to crypto perpetual futures: funding rate, leverage, liquidation, going long vs short, and how stop losses help manage risk.
A step-by-step guide to backtesting a trading strategy: the data you need, how to avoid overfitting and look-ahead bias, reading key metrics, and forward testing.
A plain-English guide to Sharpe ratio, maximum drawdown, and win rate—what each metric means, why win rate alone misleads, and how to read them together.
A practical tour of five reusable trading strategy templates (RSI, MA crossover, breakout, grid, DCA), the logic behind each, and how to adapt and backtest them.
Polymarket only supports limit and market orders natively. Here's how a stop loss actually works and how to attach one to a Polymarket position with Hey-Traders.
Polymarket has no native take profit order. Here's how take profit market vs limit works, how triggers and Reduce Only behave, and how to automate exits with Hey-Traders.
Polymarket doesn't offer trailing stops natively. Here's how activation price and trailing delta work, and how to add a trailing stop with an automation tool like Hey-Traders.