> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.everstrike.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AI Strategies: Automate Your Trading with Natural Language

> Write plain-English prompts, configure markets and confidence thresholds, and let Everstrike's AI evaluate markets and execute trades automatically.

Strategies are the core of Everstrike's vibetrading system. Each strategy uses a plain-English prompt to instruct an AI model on how to evaluate markets, when to enter or exit positions, and how to manage risk. Active strategies evaluate every selected market at your chosen frequency, produce a detailed [event](https://docs.everstrike.io/ai/events.md) for every evaluation, and can submit orders automatically when the AI's confidence exceeds your minimum threshold.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Start with one market and a low **Max Trade Quantity**. Review the events your strategy generates before increasing exposure, adding more markets, or raising the evaluation frequency.

![One strategy check, from data and prompt to an order or no order](https://mintcdn.com/everstrike-50e7a7f9/zD8Yl4qdQhHNoMT1/images/help/strategy-loop.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=zD8Yl4qdQhHNoMT1\&q=85\&s=168f6b209c34534bec77fd3a84d3abf8)

What happens at each check.

## Strategy Configuration

Every strategy you create has the following configurable properties:

| Property | Description |
| - | - |
| **Nickname** | Display name chosen when you create the strategy. |
| **Markets** | Markets the strategy evaluates. Unselected markets are ignored. Each additional selected market increases credit use. |
| **Max Trade Quantity** | Maximum USD value for each order. Start low, then increase as you validate the strategy's performance. |
| **Timeframe** | Data horizon used for the strategy's decisions. |
| **Evaluation Frequency** | How often the strategy evaluates each selected market. More frequent evaluations create more events and cost more credits. |
| **Min. Confidence** | Confidence level required before the AI submits a `BUY`, `SELL`, or `CLOSE` order. |
| **Prompt** | Instructions that define the strategy. Supports natural language up to 5,000 characters. English produces the best results. |
| **Status** | `ACTIVE` strategies evaluate markets and may place trades. `PAUSED` strategies do neither and consume no credits. |
| **Creation Time** | Time when you created the strategy. |
| **Model** | AI model used for evaluations. The default is **GPT-6 Luna**. See [Models](https://docs.everstrike.io/ai/models.md) for available options and costs. |
| **Temperature** | Temperature setting passed to the AI model during evaluation. |
| **Discretion** | Whether the strategy allows the AI to apply discretion beyond the literal prompt. |
| **Cost Savings Mode** | Reduces token consumption by up to 30%. Disabled by default. Reasoning output is minimal for events created in this mode. |
| **Lookback Period** | Number of historical bars considered during each evaluation. Defaults to 5. Higher values increase token consumption. Does not apply to extra data sources, which send their latest value only. |
| **Input Data** | The data sent to the AI on each evaluation. All default inputs are sent unless you limit them, which lowers the cost per evaluation. [Extra data sources](https://docs.everstrike.io/ai/supported-data.md#extra-data-sources) are only sent when you add them here. |
| **Trigger Strategy** | Triggers another strategy instead of trading directly. Use this to chain strategies or build market screeners. Disabled by default. |
| **Max Slippage** | Maximum slippage the strategy accepts when submitting orders. |

## Key Controls

### Prompt

The prompt is the most important part of your strategy. It tells the AI what to evaluate and how to act. Prompts can reference any [supported data](https://docs.everstrike.io/ai/supported-data.md) available to the AI, including the opt-in [extra data sources](https://docs.everstrike.io/ai/supported-data.md#extra-data-sources) (macro, Bitcoin network, DeFi liquidity and the Fear & Greed Index) once they are added to the strategy's input data.

Write prompts that are specific about:

* Which markets or market conditions to evaluate
* Entry, exit, and position-management rules
* When the strategy should hold rather than trade

Prompts support plain English and allow up to **5,000 characters**. Being specific and unambiguous produces the most consistent results.

### Timeframe

The timeframe sets the data horizon used during each evaluation. A shorter timeframe (such as `1m`) focuses the AI on recent price action, while a longer timeframe (such as `4h` or `24h`) gives it a broader view of market structure.

Available timeframes:

| Timeframe | Description |
| - | - |
| `1m` | 1 minute |
| `3m` | 3 minutes |
| `5m` | 5 minutes |
| `15m` | 15 minutes |
| `30m` | 30 minutes |
| `1h` | 1 hour |
| `2h` | 2 hours |
| `4h` | 4 hours |
| `6h` | 6 hours |
| `24h` | 1 day |

Choose a timeframe that matches your intended trading horizon. A scalping strategy pairs naturally with `1m` or `5m`, while a swing strategy benefits from `4h` or `24h`.

### Min. Confidence

The minimum confidence threshold controls how certain the AI must be before it submits an order. The default is **90%**. Lowering this threshold can generate more trades, but may also increase incorrect decisions.

| Min. Confidence | Description |
| - | - |
| **95%** | Very conservative. Use when decisions require very high certainty. |
| **90%** | Default. Suitable for most strategies. |
| **85%** | Aggressive. The AI may trade more often and make more incorrect decisions. |
| **80%** | Very aggressive. Use only when frequent trades justify a higher error rate. |

## Strategy Costs

Strategies consume AI credits for every event they generate. The estimates below apply per market; adding more markets multiplies these costs proportionally. Frequencies of 15 seconds or less can only use GPT-4.1-nano, so those rows use its price; 30 seconds and slower use **GPT-6 Luna**, the default model.

| Evaluation Frequency | Model | Events per Market per Day | Est. Credits per Market per Hour |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1s | GPT-4.1-nano | 86,400 | \$0.72 |
| 5s | GPT-4.1-nano | 17,280 | \$0.144 |
| 15s | GPT-4.1-nano | 5,760 | \$0.048 |
| 30s | GPT-6 Luna | 2,880 | \$0.06 |
| 1m | GPT-6 Luna | 1,440 | \$0.03 |
| 3m | GPT-6 Luna | 480 | \$0.01 |
| 5m | GPT-6 Luna | 288 | \$0.006 |
| 15m | GPT-6 Luna | 96 | \$0.002 |
| 30m | GPT-6 Luna | 48 | \$0.001 |
| 1h | GPT-6 Luna | 24 | \$0.0005 |

Each check also costs the model's price once for the strategy itself, on top of the per-market figures above: a one-market strategy costs twice the figure shown, a two-market strategy three times its per-market figure.

Pausing a strategy immediately stops event generation, trading, and credit consumption. You can resume a paused strategy at any time.

Your strategies run while your AI credit balance covers one evaluation of every running strategy. The [AI credits page](https://app.everstrike.io/app/ai-credits) shows what each strategy used and how long your balance lasts. See [AI credits](https://docs.everstrike.io/ai/credits.md) for details.

## Notifications

Everstrike notifies you about your strategies on every page of the app:

* **Orders:** whenever a strategy places an order, with the signal, market and confidence and a short explanation of the order.
* **Decisions:** for strategies that check every 4 hours or less often, and for evaluations you start yourself with **Evaluate now**.

Tap a notification to open the strategy. When the Everstrike tab is not in focus, you also get a browser or device notification, if you have allowed them. Turn notifications off in **Settings › Preferences**.

## Deleting Several Strategies

In the strategy list, choose **Select** above the list, tick the strategies you want to remove, and choose **Delete**. You confirm once for all of them. Any that can't be deleted stay selected so you can try again. To delete a single strategy, open it and use **Delete strategy** in its menu.

## Mainnet Requirement

To create a strategy on Everstrike Mainnet, your account needs a **verified email** or a **first deposit**. If neither is in place, Everstrike explains what to do and offers to resend the verification email. Strategies on Testnet have no such requirement.

## Limits

Everstrike enforces the following limits per account:

* **Maximum strategies:** 10
* **Maximum markets per strategy:** 10
* **Maximum total market-strategy pairs:** 100 (10 strategies × 10 markets each)


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