Cryptohopper blog

DCA Bot: The Neutral Comparison Vendor Pages Won't Publish

A DCA bot automates dollar-cost averaging. It places a series of buy orders - often on dips - and exits once your weighted average position is up by a set percentage. It doesn't predict anything. Here's the cross-platform comparison, plus our own Binance data on when averaging actually matters.

How to Automate Trading: The Three Real Paths Compared

Aug 1, 2026 • 10 min read

Mean Reversion vs Momentum: Detecting the Regime Switch

Jul 8, 2026 • 11 min read

How to Secure API Keys Before You Connect a Bot to Your Crypto Exchange

Jul 8, 2026 • 11 min read

Whale Wallet Tracking: Signal vs. Noise in On-Chain Data

Jul 8, 2026 • 11 min read

Filter by topic

Reading a BTC Dominance Chart: A Gauge of Altcoin Risk Appetite

A BTC dominance chart is a risk-appetite gauge that some traders and analysts watch, not a crystal ball. As sources like Changelly and CoinStats frame it, dominance is a ratio: Bitcoin's market cap divided by the total crypto market cap. That means the reading moves for reasons that have little to do with sentiment - new coin issuance, growth in stablecoin supply, or a large-cap altcoin rally all shift the number even when underlying risk appetite hasn't changed. Rising dominance often coincides with a rotation toward Bitcoin, but stablecoin supply growth inflates it too, and it misleads if stablecoins aren't excluded from the total.

Jul 8, 2026 • 9 min read