> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.quantumvoid.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Strategy Overview > The nine VOIDX strategy families explained in plain English, including TBLTBS, Vortex, market making, signal trading, and recovery systems # Trading Strategy Overview The current VOIDX Marketplace contains **nine strategy families**. Some average into price movement, some quote both sides of the book, and others wait for completed-candle or liquidation signals before opening a campaign. You deploy strategies from the **Marketplace** tab: open a preset to inspect its canonical configuration, then use the standard deploy wizard. Marketplace values are configuration facts, not performance projections. See the [Preset Selection Guide](/strategies/preset-guide) for selection and update behavior. ## The Nine Families ### TBLTBS **What it does:** Runs durable directional campaigns admitted by liquidation Cascade signals, volatility ranking, or a combination of both. Depending on the profile, it builds LINEAR or Peaks/Troughs DCA geometry, manages staged protective hedges, and exits through fixed, trailing, or partial-plus-trailing policies. TBLTBS is the most lifecycle-heavy family. Exact exchange order ownership, restart-safe journals, campaign handoff, no-growth caretaker recovery, capacity gating, Profit Danger, Profitable Recycle, and Professional Auto-Reduce are integrated into the strategy. Cascade admission, maker-first campaigns, structural DCA, protection, and safe switching ### Vortex DCA **What it does:** Buys dips on a widening grid and takes quick small profits. Wave-queue variants extend the grid with larger rescue orders when price keeps moving against the position. You're not trying to predict the next candle. Each fill changes average entry, and a recovery through the take-profit threshold closes the campaign. The trade-off is increasing exposure during sustained trends. Grids, take-profits, wave queue, and anchor-stable pricing ### XGrid / Perpetual Market Maker **What it does:** Quotes around current price with high-frequency grids, momentum-aware placement, tight take-profits, and layered inventory recovery. This is a highly configurable family with multilevel quoting, loss tiers, time-based exits, wall detection, and counter-scalp variants. Spreads, multilevel quoting, loss tiers, and counter-scalp ### GLFT Optimal Market Maker **What it does:** Computes bid and ask offsets from the Gueant–Lehalle–Fernandez–Tapia model. Quotes widen with volatility and skew to reduce accumulated inventory. GLFT has fewer discretionary knobs than XGrid, while retaining position ceilings, regime handling, and recovery controls. Optimal quoting, inventory skew, and recovery grids ### Orderbook Walls **What it does:** Uses observed bid/ask liquidity walls to select maker entries, take-profits, and recovery levels. Profiles vary by venue, risk tier, and V1/V2 lifecycle. Orderbook liquidity can disappear. A visible wall is evidence at one moment, not guaranteed support or resistance. ### EMA Singularity **What it does:** Waits for completed-candle EMA-extreme conditions and seeks reversion from statistically stretched prices. BloFin profiles range from Low through High risk. This is signal-driven rather than continuously quoting: no qualifying completed-candle condition means no new entry. ### RetShock **What it does:** Detects return shocks and manages bounded recovery through the current Bedrock lifecycle. Presets vary by risk and venue while retaining explicit notional controls. ### Hydra **What it does:** Watches a dynamic symbol universe and coordinates fresh admission, strongest-wall or Click-Clack recovery, fee-aware exits, and terminal collar handoff under one account-wide strategy. ### Geometric Long-Only DCA **What it does:** Builds a long-only ladder that accumulates as price falls and exits recovery rungs at fixed profit targets. Deeper orders grow geometrically. This is easy to understand but can become heavily exposed during a sustained downtrend. Current presets have no directional short campaign to offset that risk. ## Quick Comparison | Family | Primary behavior | Usually prefers | Main risk | | - | - | - | - | | TBLTBS | Signal-admitted directional campaign with DCA and hedging | Liquid markets with valid signal and structure | Very high configured exposure, leverage, campaign complexity | | Vortex DCA | Average into movement and exit recovery | Choppy or mean-reverting markets | Exposure grows during sustained trends | | XGrid | High-frequency two-sided grid quoting | Liquid, active books | Leveraged inventory and execution churn | | GLFT MM | Model-derived two-sided quoting | Stable flow and measurable volatility | Inventory accumulation in trends | | Orderbook Walls | Liquidity-wall maker entries and recovery | Deep books with persistent liquidity | Walls can move or disappear | | EMA Singularity | Completed-candle extreme reversion | Markets that revert after extension | Trend continuation after an extreme | | RetShock | Shock admission with bounded recovery | Discrete volatility events | Follow-through after the initial shock | | Hydra | Dynamic-universe admission and coordinated recovery | Broad liquid symbol sets | Correlated account-wide exposure | | Long-Only DCA | Geometric buy-the-dip ladder | Assets you expect to recover | Unbounded holding time and deep drawdown | ## How to Choose * **New to bots:** begin with a lower-exposure Vortex or conservative market-making preset and one symbol. * **Want model-driven market making:** compare GLFT Conservative profiles. * **Want configurable high-frequency quoting:** study XGrid loss tiers and position limits first. * **Want signal-driven reversion:** compare EMA Singularity and RetShock. * **Want dynamic multi-symbol recovery:** review Hydra and its account-wide limits. * **Want directional liquidation campaigns:** read the [TBLTBS guide](/strategies/tbltbs). Do not begin with Tyler's Liquidation Hunter unless you understand that `wallet_exposure_ratio: 20` is an exceptionally aggressive leveraged-notional setting. * **Want a simple bullish ladder:** Long-Only DCA is conceptually simple but can hold large losing exposure for a long time. ## Risk Disclosure Every family can lose money. DCA converts price drawdown into position drawdown. Market makers accumulate inventory. Signal strategies can enter just before continuation. Protective hedges, stops, and recovery systems reduce specific failure modes but cannot remove liquidation, gap, fee, slippage, funding, exchange, API, or operational risk. * Trade only funds you can afford to lose. * Read the canonical preset values before deployment. * Understand exit and stop behavior before increasing exposure. * Use read/trade-only API keys with withdrawals disabled. * Monitor live bots and exchange positions. Compare presets, risk labels, and source updates Liquidation Hunter and durable campaign ownership Grids, wave queue, and anchor-stable pricing Model-derived market making This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.