Re: BTCUSD trading
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2026 6:32 am
Sizing is the part of a BTC scalp that trips people coming from FX. A stop counted in pips means little on a coin priced in tens of thousands, so working from percent and then dollars is cleaner.
Say BTC trades at 60,000 and the scalp stop is 0.4 percent away, which is 240 dollars per coin. Risking 50 dollars then means 50 divided by 240, about 0.21 coin.
The broker's contract size decides what that is in lots. One lot is one coin at some brokers and 0.01 coin at others, so the same 0.21 coin can be 0.21 lots on one platform and 21 lots on another.
On the weekend fade, it is worth checking whether the broker actually stops quoting. Plenty of CFD brokers quote BTC right through the weekend, and then there is no Friday to Sunday gap at all, only a drift that traded at every price on the way.
A true gap only exists where the feed pauses, often for a maintenance window. Those reopen prints can be wide, which is one more reason to keep the tiny size LondonScalper suggested.
Say BTC trades at 60,000 and the scalp stop is 0.4 percent away, which is 240 dollars per coin. Risking 50 dollars then means 50 divided by 240, about 0.21 coin.
The broker's contract size decides what that is in lots. One lot is one coin at some brokers and 0.01 coin at others, so the same 0.21 coin can be 0.21 lots on one platform and 21 lots on another.
On the weekend fade, it is worth checking whether the broker actually stops quoting. Plenty of CFD brokers quote BTC right through the weekend, and then there is no Friday to Sunday gap at all, only a drift that traded at every price on the way.
A true gap only exists where the feed pauses, often for a maintenance window. Those reopen prints can be wide, which is one more reason to keep the tiny size LondonScalper suggested.