A faster schedule is not automatically a better schedule. The right cadence is the one your capital can survive at its worst. Not the one that prints the prettiest backtest.
Start from capital
Before choosing a cadence, answer two more pressing questions first:
- How much quote asset are you willing to tie up for weeks or months?
- How much peak exposure can you absorb without breaking the plan midway?
If you want at most EUR 1,000 open but the plan can reach EUR 5,000 at peak, the cadence does not match the capital. Change one of them. Not when the peak arrives, but now.
Frequency changes the shape
Every cadence creates a different capital and activity signature:
- Daily: fewer orders, easier monitoring, moderate price spread.
- Weekly: even sparser entries, with stronger dependence on which day of the week you pick.
- Hourly or faster: many parallel positions, a higher capital peak, clearly more fee activity.
This is why comparing two cadences by closed profit alone is misleading. Compare average locked capital, max locked capital and how many positions stayed open at the end. Read them together.
Fees still matter
The smaller and more frequent the order, the more visible fees become. With a tight take-profit, fees are not a footnote. They become part of the actual result.
When comparing cadences, hold market, period and fee assumptions constant. Otherwise you are not comparing schedules. You are comparing two entirely different setups wearing the same label.
