Welcome to Kelor!

Welcome to Kelor — your gateway to smarter, automated cryptocurrency trading.

Why Kelor?

If you've ever traded crypto, you know the feeling: buying on hype, watching prices soar but not selling, then panicking when they crash. This emotional rollercoaster often leads to poor decisions — buying high out of FOMO (fear of missing out) and selling low in desperation.

Kelor changes that. We help you trade systematically by allowing you to stick to a strategy that you've determined from the start. Once you've set your strategy, your bot executes it exactly as planned — removing emotional interference that often causes traders to abandon their original approach at critical moments. With Kelor, you can also free your time from continuously monitoring trade activity. Once you've determined a strategy, the bot works 24/7 according to your chosen plan, so you don't have to.

Additionally, Kelor's backtesting feature lets you analyze how you would have fared if you had used a particular strategy in the past. This powerful tool helps you validate your approach before committing real capital.

What was once exclusive to Wall Street institutions and tech-savvy quants is now accessible to you — right from your phone or computer, with no coding required.

How Trading with Strategy Works

Kelor follows a simple, powerful workflow:

Gather Market Data → Analyze the Data → Craft Strategy → Backtesting → Paper Trading → Live Trading

Let's break this down:

1. Market Data

Everything starts with real-time and historical price data from cryptocurrency exchanges. This is the foundation for all analysis.

The most common form of historical data is OHLCV — which stands for:

• Open — Opening price for the period
• High — Highest price reached
• Low — Lowest price reached
• Close — Closing price for the period
• Volume — Total trading volume

This data comes in standardized timeframes like 1-minute, 5-minute, 15-minute, 30-minute, 1-hour, or 1-day intervals. Each timeframe offers different levels of detail and trend visibility. Shorter timeframes show micro-movements, while longer timeframes reveal broader trends.

From OHLCV data alone, there are countless indicators and strategies we can craft. Later on, we can combine this with additional data sources like liquidity metrics or even sentiment analysis for even more sophisticated strategies.

Note: For gathering and analyzing market data, you may want to use platforms like TradingView or similar charting tools. Kelor's role begins at the strategy crafting stage, helping you implement, test, and automate your trading approach.

2. Analyze the Data

This step involves applying mathematical calculations to price data to help identify patterns and trends. Examples include:

• Moving Averages — Smooths price data to reveal trends
• RSI (Relative Strength Index) — Measures momentum to spot overbought/oversold conditions
• MACD, Bollinger Bands, and more — Various technical indicators to inform your decisions

Think of these analyses as the foundation for your trading strategy.

Note: Platforms like TradingView are excellent for conducting this technical analysis. Once you've identified promising patterns and signals, you can then move to Kelor to craft and automate your strategy.

3. Strategy

A strategy is a set of rules that define when to buy and when to sell. Kelor offers multiple approaches:

If you have difficulty crafting your own strategy, Kelor provides a marketplace for strategies where you can browse and adopt proven approaches created by other traders.

Alternatively, Kelor allows you to craft your own strategy using our intuitive interface. Once created, you can backtest your strategy against historical data and start paper trading to ensure that the strategy really works before committing your real money.

4. Backtesting

Now it's time to test your strategy. The easiest and safest way to do this is backtesting — running your strategy against historical market data to see how it would have performed.

Here's how it works: Say you start with $10,000. You run your strategy against past data for Bitcoin over the last 6 months. At the end of the backtest, Kelor shows you:

• Final portfolio value (Did you make or lose money?)
• Total profit/loss percentage
• Number of trades executed
• Win rate (percentage of profitable trades)
• Maximum drawdown (biggest loss period)

This gives you a clear picture of whether your strategy has potential — all without risking a single dollar.

5. Paper Trading

While backtesting is fast and free, it has limitations. It can't perfectly predict real-world trading because it doesn't account for factors like:

• Slippage — The difference between expected and actual execution prices
• Order book dynamics — Real-time changes in available liquidity
• Market impact — How your orders might move the market

This is where paper trading comes in. You deploy your strategy with virtual money in real-time market conditions. It's like a flight simulator for trading — everything is real except the money.

Kelor's paper trading engine uses the actual exchange order book to calculate realistic trade execution and slippage, giving you the most accurate simulation possible before going live.

6. Live Trading

Now for the real deal — it's time to deploy with real money.

Connect your bot to your favorite cryptocurrency exchange. Kelor supports over 50 major exchanges worldwide. Integration is simple: generate an API key from your exchange and import it into Kelor.

Security First

Your security is our priority:

• We never touch withdrawals — Kelor cannot withdraw funds from your account
• Limited permissions — Only enable "Read" and "Trade" permissions when generating your API key (never enable "Withdraw")
• Your keys, your control — API keys stay encrypted and under your control

Built-in Protection

Since many exchanges don't provide built-in stop-loss functionality, Kelor's stop-loss feature is crucial — it automatically limits your losses when the market moves against you, protecting your capital from sudden crashes.

Please Note: Stop loss is executed according to the timeframe implemented in the strategy that you choose to deploy.

Once deployed, sit back and let your bot work 24/7. Monitor performance, adjust as needed, and enjoy the results of systematic, emotion-free trading.

Your Trading Journey

Here's the typical workflow when using Kelor:

1. Pick a Strategy — Choose from different bot types based on your trading style: Trailing Bot for trend-following strategies, Grid Bot for range-bound markets, or Signal Bot for indicator-based trading. Each bot type offers unique approaches to implementing your trading strategy.
2. Configure Parameters — Adjust settings like timeframes, indicator values, and risk levels
3. Backtest — See how your strategy performs against historical data
4. Paper Trade — Test in real-time with virtual money
5. Go Live — Deploy with real funds when you're confident

Each step is designed to help you build confidence before risking real money.

The Easy Path: Copy Strategy

Want to get started without building your own strategy? We've got you covered.

Kelor lets you copy successful strategies from other traders. Browse strategies ranked by performance metrics like:

• Backtesting results
• Paper trading performance
• Real trading track record

Simply choose a high-performing strategy and deploy it with your own settings. It's the fastest way to start automated trading while you learn the platform and develop your own strategies.

Note: Copy strategy is currently available for Trailing Bot and Signal Bot only.

Think of it as learning by example — see what works, understand why it works, then adapt it to your needs.

What's Next?

This guide has introduced you to the core concepts. In the following pages, we'll dive deeper into:

• Trailing Bot — Master trend-following strategies that adapt to market movements
• Grid Bot — Learn how to profit from market volatility and ranging conditions
• Signal Bot — Implement indicator-based strategies with technical analysis signals

Ready to become a smarter trader? Let's get started!