Risk & Safety

The 2x is fixed, and you shouldn't change it yourself. It's set at 2x on purpose: at 2x, liquidation is far away (about a 50% move), which leaves the strategy's buy-the-dip ladder plenty of room. At higher leverage that safety gap shrinks fast, and an ordinary dip could reach liquidation before the recovery the strategy waits for. Your exchange screen will technically let you change the leverage — but don't: it throws off the stop-loss math, and the platform will just reset it. If 2x is more risk than you want, the answer isn't a lower leverage number — it's Alpha 1x, the same strategy on spot with no leverage and no liquidation. The two can even run side by side.

It depends on where the reserve sits — and this is an important setup choice. On a shared-collateral account, every coin switched ON as collateral backs all your trades at once. So if your 'reserve' BTC is switched on, it isn't really a backup — it's live margin, and in a severe crash the exchange could sell it to cover losses. If instead it's switched OFF (or kept in a separate wallet), it's safe from the strategy — but it also doesn't cushion your trades until you move it in. One more thing: BTC's own price can fall in a crash, so even a perfectly separated reserve loses dollar value — that's market risk you took by holding BTC, not something the strategy did. Decide whether the BTC is working collateral or a true reserve, and set it up with the team.

At the level of each trade, yes — every $1 of margin controls about $2 of market exposure, so that trade's gains and losses are doubled compared with the price move, and its stop-loss is reached at a smaller move. It also makes liquidation possible (unlike spot Alpha 1x). But 2x does NOT mean your whole account is doubled into the market. Trades are built from the bottom up — small orders, scaled by your settings, and capped (one trade uses at most about half its budget, one coin at most a slice of the shared pool, and a cash reserve is always kept). So how much of your account is 'in the market' depends on how many trades are open and how deep they are — not a blanket 'balance times two'.

Yes — on the leveraged Alpha 2x, the stop-loss is one of several automatic exit rules. Each coin has its own stop-loss level, fitted to that coin and placed below its whole buy-the-dip ladder — so it fires only when the trend has genuinely broken, not during normal dip-buying. It watches live prices and acts within seconds of a real breach, capping the loss on a losing trade (it limits losses, it doesn't prevent them). The spot Alpha 1x can't be liquidated at all (no leverage), and some Alpha 1x setups run without a stop-loss — holding and waiting for the price to recover instead; which one applies is set by the team.

Partly — and it's worth being clear about which risk it covers. Spreading across seven coins really does protect you against a single coin's trouble: if one gets stuck in a dip, the other six keep cycling. But in a market-wide crash, crypto coins tend to fall together, and that's exactly where seven-coin spread helps least. In that case the protections that matter are the trade caps, the pool slowing down new trades, and the stop-loss and crash exits. On spot Alpha 1x your loss is bounded by your deposit and there's no liquidation; on leveraged Alpha 2x a broad crash actually concentrates risk, because all positions share the same margin. So the strategy isn't crash-proof — a correlated crash is its most important risk — but your loss is always limited to what's in your account.

Yes. Alpha 2x already comes with a stack of protections (low fixed 2x leverage, a stop-loss well above liquidation, an emergency crash exit, a close when the trend flips, capped sizing, cooldowns, and a safety switch). On top of that you can lower the risk further: choose the more conservative sizing setting (through the team), keep extra collateral in the account (it widens your safety margin), and avoid withdrawing collateral while trades are open. What you can't do is set the leverage below 2x. For a genuinely lower-risk profile, use Alpha 1x — same strategy, spot, no leverage, no liquidation — and a split (part 1x, part conservative 2x) is a fair middle ground. No setup removes the tail risk of a fast crash, though.

You can pause the strategy and reactivate it later — open positions stay managed while it's paused. But to profit from timing it yourself, you'd have to call the market top and bottom correctly, again and again, better than the strategy's own trend signals do — and there's no evidence that beats simply letting it run. Pausing during a drop also takes the strategy out of the recoveries where a dip-buying strategy makes most of its gains. So it's possible, but it's a market-timing bet — your call to make.