6. Cadence strategy
Build or exit a position in many small, randomized trades without moving the price against yourself.
Buy 5,000 ADA of a small-cap token in one order, and you pay for it in price impact. Cadence breaks a large buy or sell into many small trades at randomized sizes and times, rotated across several wallets and spread over hours.
What you'll learn
When to use Cadence
Setting buy and sell totals, trade sizes and duration
Rotating trades across multiple wallets
Reading the preview, schedule and safety guards
When to use it
Accumulate a token
Set ADA → Token higher than Token → ADA
Exit a position
Set Token → ADA higher than ADA → Token
Keep your position steady
Set both totals about equal
Create a Cadence strategy
Click New Strategy and choose Cadence.
Pick your trading pair and DEX.
Set ADA → Token (total to buy) and Token → ADA (total to sell).
Set the trade size range. The hint above it shows the size where fees stop eating into each trade.
Choose the duration: 12, 24, 48 or 72 hours.
Add up to five hot wallets. Trades rotate between them.
Check the Performance Preview and the required balance, then click Deploy Strategy.
Performance preview
Total volume
Everything bought and sold over the plan
Est. fees
Batcher, network, pool and Surge fees combined
Net ADA
ADA you'll end up with or spend, after fees
Est. trades
How many trades the schedule will place
Avg trade size
Average size per trade
Avg time/trade
Average gap between trades
While it runs
Schedule: Surge splits the plan into trade windows with randomized orders
Live status: a countdown to the next trade and your progress through the plan
Safety guards: daily volume cap, buy and sell caps per day, and the trade size range
Trade log: every fill, with its transaction link
Controls: pause, edit the config, or reschedule any time
Good to know
Keep the Surge tab open. Cadence trades are signed in your browser. Turn on Keep display awake in Settings.
Fund with a buffer. The required balance covers the whole plan, plus fees.
Smaller trades, lower impact. Your trade size range matters more than the total.
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