When you configure a DCA bot, the Summary box at the bottom of the creation form is your final sanity-check before you click Create Bot. In three numbers it tells you how much of a price crash the bot can keep buying into, where your average entry will sit if that happens, and how much money the bot needs to do it.

This article explains each figure, the formula behind it, and — most importantly — how to read them together.

(Values above are from the example configuration shown in the form.)

Throughout this article:

Definition. How far the price can fall below your initial entry before the bot runs out of safety orders. It is the price deviation of the deepest (last) safety order from the initial price.

Formula. Safety orders are spaced below the entry by a price step. If the first step is p (%) and each subsequent step is multiplied by a price-deviation step scale c, the cumulative deviation of safety order k is:

Max price drop covered = deviation(n), where n is the total number of safety orders.

Plain English. This is your drawdown buffer — the survival range of the grid. In the example, the bot keeps buying all the way down to ~80% below your first entry. If the price falls further than this, the bot has spent all its safety orders and simply holds the position; it can no longer improve your average.

Definition. The capital-weighted average price of every order in the grid (base + all safety orders), expressed as a percentage below your initial entry price. In other words: if the market drops far enough to fill the entire grid, this is roughly where your average entry ends up.

Formula. With each order's value in USDT (V) and its fill price (P):

Each order's price is weighted by how much money that order deploys, so larger, lower orders pull the average down harder.

Plain English. This is your fully-averaged break-even, approximately. In the example, filling the whole grid leaves your average entry 28.25% below your first buy. To get back to break-even, the price then only has to recover to that -28.25% level — not all the way back to your first entry.

Note on precision. Because the value is weighted by USDT spent (not by coins bought), this figure is a capital-weighted average of the price levels. Your exact break-even (weighted by coins) sits marginally lower — i.e. the true deviation is slightly deeper than shown. The difference is small and this figure is more than accurate enough for planning.

Definition. The total capital the bot will commit if every order in the grid fills — the sum of the base order and all safety orders.

Formula.

If safety orders grow by a volume scale m (each SO is m x the previous one):

Available is simply the balance you have to fund the bot.

Plain English. This is the maximum the bot can spend on this deal. It must be less than or equal to Available, ideally with a comfortable buffer. If you run several bots or pairs from the same balance, each one reserves its own Required amount — so add them up; they compete for the same funds.

Each figure answers a different question, and the value of the box is in reading them together.

1. Coverage — "Can I survive the crash?"
​ Max price drop covered is your survival range. It should comfortably exceed the largest realistic drawdown for that asset. Crypto routinely falls 50–80%+; a grid that only covers 10–15% will exhaust its safety orders in a genuine downturn and leave you holding an un-averaged bag. Wider coverage = more resilience.

2. Break-even — "How well does averaging actually help?"
​ Max averaging order price deviation is your recovery target once fully averaged. A small number means capital is concentrated near the top of the grid, so averaging barely lowers your cost. A number closer to the coverage figure means capital is concentrated lower down — your break-even improves a lot, but more of your money is committed only in a deep dump.

3. Capital — "Can I afford it?"
​ Required vs. Available is the hard constraint. Never let Required exceed Available, and leave headroom for fees, slippage, and any other bots drawing on the same balance.

4. The shape of your grid — the ratio of the two percentages.
Divide the average deviation by the max drop covered:

This tells you the capital-weighted centre of your ladder sits about 1/3 of the way down the range — your money is weighted toward the earlier, higher-priced orders. Increase the volume scale and that centre of gravity moves lower (better break-even), at the cost of higher Required capital.

How each setting moves the three figures:

(↑ = increases, — = little or no effect. Deviation figures are price-based, so changing order sizes alone doesn't move them.)