Anyone who trades a few times a year barely notices fees. Anyone who trades hundreds of times a day lives or dies by them. Before looking at any strategy, it is worth doing the math.
The calculation nobody does
Suppose each order pays a fee of 0.1% of its value, a common standard rate on spot exchanges. A round trip, buying and selling, costs 0.2%. With 1,000 dollars turning over fully 10 times a day, the fees alone reach about 20 dollars a day. In a month, that is more than half of the account.
In other words, a strategy that looks profitable on paper can lose money simply because each trade costs more than it earns.
Maker and taker
Exchanges usually charge less for maker orders, the ones that wait in the order book at a set price, than for taker orders, which execute immediately. A bot designed for high frequency places limit orders and waits to be filled, paying the lower rate.
Other ways to reduce costs
- Trade only liquid pairs, where the gap between buy and sell prices is small.
- Check whether the exchange offers a discount for paying fees with its own token.
- Avoid trades where the expected gain is smaller than the total cost.
- Track fees paid every day, side by side with the result.
How Resolutes handles this
The engine counts the cost of each order before sending it and favors maker orders. In the dashboard, fees appear on their own line, so the daily result is always shown net of costs. Rates change over time, so check the current fee table of your exchange.