How Pricing Works — the Safety Corridor and Position
How Pilotbot calculates your P2P ad price, what the safety corridor is, how position in the list works, and why it runs around the clock.
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Pilotbot keeps your P2P ad competitively priced automatically. It watches the market, decides where your ad should sit, and repositions it — always inside safety limits you can trust. Here's how that works.
The Reference Price
Every calculation starts from a reference price — the current fair market value for your pair. Your ad's price is set relative to that, based on where you want to be in the ranking.
The Safety Corridor
The corridor is the hard boundary your price can never cross, no matter what any strategy says:
- Hard corridor — ±19.9%. By law of the platform, your bot price always stays within ±19.9% of the reference price. If a target would fall outside it, Pilotbot clamps to the edge instead of going beyond. (HTX, which works through the browser extension, uses a wider ±100% band because it lacks a reliable reference price.)
- Soft corridor — your own band. Inside the hard limit you can set a tighter, personal band. The bot works within your soft band, and the hard corridor is the absolute backstop.
This is what makes automated pricing safe: even a mistake or a wild market can't push your price to a harmful level.
Position in the List
Within the corridor, Pilotbot aims for the position you want in the order book. If you want to be near the top, it prices just enough to sit there; if you want to follow the pack, it holds a spot nearby. You set the goal (via the AI agent); the engine does the math each cycle. See target position and overtake step for the details.
It Runs Around the Clock
Pilotbot repositions your ads continuously — you don't need to stay online. The pace depends on your plan: higher plans get faster update cycles, so your ads react to the market sooner. You can confirm it's working from the worker monitor.
When the Price "Holds"
Sometimes your price sits still for a while. Usually that's the corridor doing its job — the competitive target was outside your safety limits, so the bot held at the boundary instead. That's protection, not a fault. See why a price looks frozen.