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# AI Trading FAQ: Strategies, Costs, and Limits Explained

> Answers to common AI strategy questions: confidence thresholds, order sizing, risk controls, credit costs, frequency limits, and prompt best practices.

Find answers to the most common questions about setting up and running AI strategies on Everstrike. If you're new to strategies, start with [Strategies](/ai/strategies) and [Credits](/ai/credits) for full context.

## Setup & Risk

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  <Accordion title="Which confidence threshold should I use?">
    Start at a **90% minimum confidence**. Lower thresholds — such as 85% or 80% — can produce more frequent trades but may also increase the rate of incorrect decisions.

    See [Strategies](/ai/strategies#min-confidence) for a breakdown of common confidence settings and their trade-offs.
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  <Accordion title="Which order quantity should I use?">
    Start with a low order quantity, such as **\$10**, or test your strategy on Everstrike Testnet first. Validate that the strategy's events look correct before increasing the quantity.
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  <Accordion title="Which timeframe should I use?">
    Choose a timeframe that matches your intended trading horizon. Lower timeframes generally produce more frequent trades and shorter holding periods; higher timeframes produce fewer, longer-duration positions.
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  <Accordion title="How can I manage risk with strategies?">
    Add a maximum position size directly to your strategy prompt. The AI respects position limits you provide.

    For example:

    > Buy the dip on BTC. Maximum position size: \$3,000.

    Also start with a low order quantity while you validate the strategy's behavior on live markets before scaling up.
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  <Accordion title="Can the AI close my position?">
    Yes. Describe the conditions for closing the position in your prompt and the AI will act on them.

    For example:

    > Buy the dip on BTC. Close the position when the dip is over.

    You can also instruct the AI to maintain a specific target position size, automatically reducing or increasing the position as the market moves.
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## Strategy Limits & Behavior

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  <Accordion title="How many strategies can I run simultaneously?">
    You can run up to **10 strategies** at the same time.
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  <Accordion title="How many markets can my strategies watch?">
    Each strategy can monitor up to **10 markets**. With 10 active strategies running in parallel, the AI can watch up to **100 markets** simultaneously.
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  <Accordion title="Does the strategy nickname affect trading?">
    No. The nickname is for display purposes only and for associating events with the correct strategy in the UI. It has no effect on how the AI evaluates markets or places orders.
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  <Accordion title="When does a strategy start producing events?">
    Every strategy — regardless of the model or evaluation frequency you choose — produces its first event within **20 seconds** of creation. If the event's confidence score exceeds your minimum threshold, it can lead to a trade immediately.

    Track events in real time through the frontend or through the API.
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  <Accordion title="Why has my strategy stopped producing events?">
    If an active strategy misses an evaluation cycle, the model may not be processing your prompt quickly enough to keep up with the selected evaluation frequency. Try choosing a more powerful model or simplifying the strategy prompt to reduce processing time.
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  <Accordion title="Can the AI maintain a grid of limit orders?">
    Yes. The AI can manage up to **10 limit orders per strategy**, including for grid trading setups where orders are spread across price levels.
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## Prompts & AI Limits

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  <Accordion title="What data can I reference in a prompt?">
    See [Supported Data](/ai/supported-data) for the full list of inputs available to your strategy. The AI cannot access data outside that list and cannot perform visual chart analysis on price charts.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Which languages can I use?">
    You can write prompts in any commonly used natural language, including English, Spanish, Norwegian, and others. English generally produces the best results.
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  <Accordion title="Can I receive reasoning in my native language?">
    Yes. Specify your preferred language in the strategy prompt and the AI will produce its reasoning output in that language. The default reasoning language is English.
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  <Accordion title="How can I minimize AI errors?">
    Use a minimum confidence of at least **90%**, set temperature to **0**, and disable discretion. With these settings, the hallucination rate is significantly below **0.1%** — meaning the AI makes incorrect decisions on fewer than 1 in 1,000 evaluations.
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## Costs & Credits

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  <Accordion title="How much does a strategy cost?">
    The default GPT-4.1-mini model costs **\$0.00015 per event**.

    At a one-second evaluation frequency, one market generates 3,600 events per hour — a cost of **\$0.54 per hour**. Costs scale linearly with every additional market your strategy watches.

    See [strategy costs](/ai/strategies#strategy-costs) for a full comparison across models and evaluation frequencies.
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  <Accordion title="Do paused strategies consume credits?">
    No. Paused strategies do not generate events, place trades, or consume any credits. Pause a strategy at any time to stop all credit consumption immediately.
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  <Accordion title="How can I add more AI credits?">
    Fund your account with at least **\$5** (or the equivalent in USDC or USDT). Once that threshold is met, strategy expenses are deducted directly from your USD balance.

    See [Credits](/ai/credits) for details on free grants, daily replenishment, and funding options.
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## Frequency

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  <Accordion title="Is the AI suitable for high-frequency trading?">
    No. The fastest available evaluation frequency is **one second**, which supports low- and mid-frequency strategies but not high-frequency trading.

    Future releases may add shorter evaluation frequencies such as 100 ms and 10 ms.
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