How to run a BTC grid bot on Bybit (spot, step by step).

Bybit is one of the easiest exchanges for running a BTC grid bot on spot. This guide shows the full setup with Daily Trade, from an empty account to your first completed trade, and what to expect after.

Step 1: Prepare your Bybit account

1. Create a Bybit account and complete the identity verification Bybit asks for.
2. Deposit or buy USDT.
3. Make sure the USDT is in your Unified Trading account (Assets → Unified Trading). If it's in Funding, use Bybit's "Transfer" button to move it.

Step 2: Create a safe API key

The API key lets the bot place orders for you. It never needs permission to withdraw your money.

1. On Bybit: profile → API → Create New Key → System-generated API Keys.
2. Choose API Transaction and set permissions to Read-Write.
3. Turn on Spot → Trade only.
4. Leave Withdraw OFF. Always.
5. Optional: turn on Account Transfer if you want the Profit wallet (each trade's profit is moved to your Bybit Funding account). Leave Subaccount Transfer off.
6. Restrict the key to the IP address shown in your Daily Trade settings, so the key only works from our trading server.

Full screenshots: Bybit API guide.

Step 3: Connect it to Daily Trade

1. Sign up free on Daily Trade.
2. Open Settings → Exchange, choose Bybit and paste your API key and secret. Keys are stored encrypted.
3. Click Test my key. It checks the connection and permissions before anything trades.

Step 4: Choose your amount and style

• Amount: how much of your USDT the bot may use. It never uses more, and never touches BTC you already had.
• Style: start with Balanced (0.5% step, 5 levels). Why: best grid bot settings.

The bot places its first buy orders a little below the current price. When one fills, it places a sell 0.5% higher. When that sells, you've completed a round trip.

Step 5: Watch it work

• Live chart: every buy and sell drawn on the real BTC chart.
• Telegram alerts: a message for every completed trade and a daily summary (Settings → Account).
• Bybit app: you'll see the bot's orders under Spot → Open Orders. They're normal limit orders on your own account.

What to expect

Our own $300 bot on Bybit had 37 completed trades and 0 losing trades by mid-October 2026, about $0.19 profit per trade at that size. Busy weeks with BTC moving up and down bring more trades; quiet weeks bring fewer.

When BTC falls a lot, the bot holds the BTC it bought and waits. Its sell orders sit above the price until BTC comes back. That's normal: it never sells its own BTC below the buy price unless you turn on the stop loss.

Bybit's built-in grid bot vs Daily Trade

Bybit also has its own grid bot inside the app, and it's a good tool. Daily Trade runs a spot grid on your Bybit account through the API and adds:

• A paper mode with $1,000 of virtual money to practice first
• A public backtest that shows the worst dip, not only the profit
• Automatic re-centering of buy orders when BTC runs away
• Telegram alerts, a daily summary, and an optional Profit wallet
• A full Arabic interface