BTC and a low-cap altcoin do not move the same way, do not deserve the same stop rules, and definitely should not be sharing one strategy setting because the setup wizard only asked once. Most bots make you pick anyway: one mode, one rule set, applied to every coin in the account whether it fits or not, because running multiple strategies on one crypto bot was never really on the table.
"Set and forget, but actually see what it's doing" is a reasonable thing to want from automation, and it quietly assumes a single strategy is even the right unit to set and forget in the first place. It usually isn't. A trader who wants more than 3Commas gives them without hand-building it from scratch is usually describing exactly this gap: cava-signals on the coins with a track record behind them, a custom formula on the altcoins that need tighter filters, maybe a grid on a pair that's been chopping sideways for a month while a separate DCA ladder works a dip somewhere else in the same account. Three different jobs, and most platforms sell you one bot per job. Running multiple strategies on one crypto bot, on one account, is the actual fix, and it has a name: Trading Groups.
TradeArmor is where I put all of this to work: self-hosted, my keys never leave my hardware, three years of live BTC/USDC signal history behind it, 15 indicators running in real time, a plain-English AI strategy builder, and DCA, grid, futures, copy trading, backtesting, paper trading, and tax exports built into the same platform. Trading Groups is the setting that turns "DCA and grid" from two competing answers into two answers running at once, on the same account, for less than the price of running them as two separate subscriptions. See the full platform before you decide a single strategy has to cover your entire portfolio.
What a Trading Group Actually Is
A Trading Group is a scoped slice of your account: a set of coins, a strategy mode, a position count, an indicator set, and a sell-rule stack, all bundled together and running independently of every other group in the same instance. Set one group to cava-signals for BTC and ETH, the same signal source a copy-trading provider could publish from. Set a second to a custom boolean formula (RSI_BUY && (MACD_BUY || SUPERTREND_BUY)) for a shortlist of altcoins. Set a third to the grid bot for a pair that's been range-bound since spring. Each group keeps its own DCA levels, its own EQ-price buy gate, its own take-profit and stop rules, the same rule mechanics how TradeArmor's engine works covers in more depth. None of them borrow settings from the others, and none of them know the others exist.
That last part matters more than it sounds. A stablecoin pair running the same aggressive DCA ladder built for a volatile altcoin is not a small tuning error, it's the wrong tool wearing the right one's badge. Groups exist so that never has to happen by accident.
How to Run Multiple Strategies on One Crypto Bot: Trading Groups Explained
The mechanics are simple even when the setups get elaborate. You assign coins to a group, pick that group's strategy mode from the same three (cava-signals, hybrid, custom) plus the AI assistant that any single-strategy account already has access to, then configure the position count, indicators, and sell rules that apply only inside that group. The setup wizard and dashboard handle this the same way they handle a single-strategy account, just with a group boundary drawn around each slice.
Ready to try the DCA engine one Trading Group at a time? Start with two groups, cava-signals on your core holding and a custom formula on one altcoin, before building out a third.
Grid and DCA in particular were built to run this way. The grid bot works independently from DCA mode by design, and can run on a different coin group entirely while a DCA ladder keeps working somewhere else in the same account. That's the direct answer to a question that comes up constantly once traders understand both modes: not "grid or DCA," but "grid here, DCA there, on the same login." Some SaaS bots take a different approach and blend grid and DCA into a single hybrid bot type, one product that switches behavior automatically, priced at whatever the tier chart says this quarter. That's a legitimate design choice for someone who wants one dial instead of two. It just isn't the same thing as choosing your own boundaries coin by coin, which is what a Trading Group is for.
A Real Trading Groups Setup
Here's a layout that shows the pattern without being prescriptive about your own coins. Group one runs cava-signals on BTC and ETH, since that's the built-in signal history with the longest track record behind it. Group two runs a custom formula on a shortlist of mid-cap alts, gated tighter than the BTC group because altcoins move harder and the formula needs to say no more often, not less. Group three runs the grid bot on whichever pair has been stuck in a range long enough that grid orders are actually collecting the bounce instead of getting run over. If a fourth coin is genuinely uncorrelated with the other three, in the sense Investopedia's definition of diversification describes, holding assets that don't move in lockstep, it earns its own group instead of getting folded into whichever one has room. This is the same layout the grid vs. DCA comparison landed on as the answer to "why not just pick one": you don't have to.
None of these groups touch the same buying power unless you want them to. Keep Balance still applies at the portfolio level, reserving a share of total account value the bot won't deploy no matter which group is asking, so an aggressive altcoin group can't quietly starve the BTC group of dry powder during a drawdown.
What Trading Groups Isn't
Two things it gets confused with. First, it isn't the same as the multi-instance signal proxy, which fans one signal out to separate bot instances, possibly on different machines, different exchanges, or behind a VPN tunnel. That's about one signal reaching many places. Trading Groups is about many strategies coexisting inside one place. Second, it isn't a way to run two accounts on two exchanges under one login; each group still trades through your connected exchange account, just with its own coin list and rule set. If you genuinely need separate exchange accounts running independently, that's the proxy's job, not a group's.
Pricing and Tier Gates
Trading Groups ships on Pro at $49.99/mo, alongside the 15-indicator strategy builder, AI Strategy Assistant, copy trading, and signal analytics. Starter at $19.99/mo runs cava-signals and the DCA engine well, but as a single strategy scope, not segmented groups. Enterprise at $89.99/mo keeps everything Pro has and adds multi-machine management, Docker plus VPN support, and the grid bot alongside futures trading. If grid-plus-DCA-plus-signals in parallel is the setup you're after, Pro is the floor, not the ceiling.
Trading Groups is what turns "which strategy should I run" into a question you only have to answer once per coin, not once for your whole account. TradeArmor keeps cava-signals, 15 real-time indicators, the AI strategy builder, and every mode from DCA and grid to futures, copy trading, backtesting, paper trading, and tax exports on one engine, self-hosted, with your keys staying on your own machine the whole time, and Trading Groups is the setting that lets every mode in that list run at once instead of one at a time. See how a Pro-tier account is configured and decide which coin gets which group first.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Signals are algorithmic outputs, not personalized investment advice.