A long grid earns when the price dips and bounces. A short grid earns when it rallies and pulls back. Running both on Binance Futures lets you capture moves in either direction — here is how it works, and what to watch out for.
A long grid buys a fixed amount every time the price drops one grid step, and sells each entry one step higher. A short grid does the mirror image: it sells every time the price rises one step and buys each entry back one step lower. Each closed entry locks in one grid step of profit.
In a sideways, choppy market the price keeps swinging up and down. A long grid catches the dips, a short grid catches the rallies, so both sides can close entries in the same day. When the market trends, one side keeps closing entries while the other side builds up a position against the trend — which is where the risk sits (see below).
By default Binance Futures uses One-way Mode: one position per symbol, either long or short. To hold a long and a short position on the same symbol at the same time, the account must be in Hedge Mode, where Binance keeps a separate LONG and SHORT position for each symbol. You can switch it in the Futures preferences (Position Mode) while you have no open positions.
DualGridBot has two independent panels. Each panel trades its own symbol and direction, with its own grid size, entry size, leverage and maximum number of entries. That gives you several ways to set it up:
Running both sides is not a hedge that removes risk. In a strong trend, the side trading against the trend keeps adding entries, and its open loss grows faster than the other side's closed profits. With leverage this can end in liquidation. Three things decide how much room you have:
DualGridBot shows, for each panel, how far the price could move against a full grid before liquidation, and rates it from Excellent to Very Risky. For short grids there is no upper limit to how far the price can rise, so the bot never rates a short grid better than “Risky”.
Paper mode runs both panels with a virtual balance and live prices, so you can see how a long and a short grid behave together before using real funds.