How Pilotbot Works: Prices, Position, and the Safety Corridor
A plain-English explanation of how Pilotbot keeps your P2P ads competitive — how it decides a price, what the safety corridor is, and why it works 24/7.
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Pilotbot's job is simple to describe: keep your P2P ads at a competitive position without you watching the order book. This article explains how it actually decides a price and why it's safe.
The Problem It Solves
On a P2P order book, buyers and sellers see ads sorted by price. Being near the top means more trades; slipping down means fewer. But competitors change their prices constantly, so a good position now can be a bad one in minutes. Doing this by hand means either watching all day or losing volume whenever you look away.
How the Bot Decides a Price
Pilotbot continuously reads the live market for your trade pair and looks at where competing ads sit. Based on the rules you set, it calculates the price that puts your ad where you want it — for example, just ahead of the competitor you want to overtake — and updates your ad to that price. This is called repricing.
Two ideas drive it:
- Target position — the spot in the list you're aiming for (say, position 1 or 2).
- Overtake step — the small amount by which the bot beats the ad it needs to pass, so it takes the position without overpaying.
The Safety Corridor
Pilotbot never prices blindly. You define boundaries — a minimum and maximum price you're willing to accept — and the bot only ever moves within that band. This is the safety corridor: if staying competitive would require crossing your limit, the bot stops at the boundary instead of chasing the market past a price that would lose you money. So a price that looks "stuck" is often the corridor doing its job — protecting your margin.
Why It Runs 24/7
The pricing engine runs on Pilotbot's servers, not in your browser, so it keeps working while you sleep. It reprices on a short cycle, reacting to the market within seconds to minutes — without you needing to be online.
What You Stay in Control Of
- The limits — your price boundaries; the bot can't cross them.
- On/off per ad — you decide which ads the bot manages.
- Turning the bot on or off — the platform never enables or disables your ads on the exchange by itself; that's always your choice.