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id: waves-strategy-and-its-parameters
title: "Waves Strategy and Its Parameters"
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category: "Strategies / Advanced Strategy Parameters"
url: https://moonbot.eu/en/documentation/advanced-strategy-parameters/waves-strategy-and-its-parameters
locale: en
status: published
updated_at: 2026-07-13T20:00:29+00:00
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# Waves Strategy and Its Parameters

The essence of the strategy is volume detection. It defines 4 intervals and verifies that average prices and volumes increased from each previous interval to the next. Growth is specified in percentages. If 0% is set, the condition becomes “price (volume) did not decrease.”

To exclude the growth check for price/volume on a specific interval, you must enter a large negative value in the corresponding parameter. This will allow the condition check for that interval to always pass (except in rare cases of an actual price/volume drop below the specified value).

Designations: T — time intervals; P — prices; V — volumes.

![Waves Strategy](https://moonbot.eu/storage/editor-images/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%8F%20Waves.png)

### General Parameters

- WavesT0: field for specifying the time interval T0, in whole seconds (see figure above);
- WavesT1: field for specifying the time interval T1, in whole seconds (see figure above);
- WavesT2: field for specifying the time interval T2, in whole seconds (see figure above);
- WavesT3: field for specifying the time interval T3, in whole seconds (see figure above);
- WavesP1: field for specifying the minimum price change value P1 from the previous time interval T0 to the subsequent time interval T1, in percent. If a positive value is set, growth is checked. If a negative value is set, decline is checked. If 0 is set, not applied;
- WavesP2: field for specifying the minimum price change value P2 from the previous time interval T1 to the subsequent time interval T2, in percent. If a positive value is set, growth is checked. If a negative value is set, decline is checked. If 0 is set, not applied;
- WavesP3: field for specifying the minimum price change value P3 from the previous time interval T2 to the subsequent time interval T3, in percent. If a positive value is set, growth is checked. If a negative value is set, decline is checked. If 0 is set, not applied;
- WavesDelta0: field for specifying the price change value on the zero interval: the difference between the maximum and minimum price within the zero interval T0, in percent. If a positive value is set, growth is checked (the measured delta is greater than the specified value). If a negative value is set, absence of growth is checked (the measured delta is not greater than the specified value). For example, “-1” means that the fluctuation was no more than 1%. If 0 is set, not applied;
- WavesMaxSpike: field for specifying the maximum difference between the maximum price within the interval and the average price, in percent. Used to exclude spikes;
- WavesV1: field for specifying the volume growth value from the previous time interval T0 to the subsequent time interval T1, in percent. If a positive value is set, growth is checked. If a negative value is set, decline is checked. If 0 is set, not applied;
- WavesV2: field for specifying the volume growth value from the previous time interval T1 to the subsequent time interval T2, in percent. If a positive value is set, growth is checked. If a negative value is set, decline is checked. If 0 is set, not applied;
- WavesV3: field for specifying the volume growth value from the previous time interval T2 to the subsequent time interval T3, in percent. If a positive value is set, growth is checked. If a negative value is set, decline is checked. If 0, not applied;
- WavesWeightedAvg: YES/NO checkbox. Used for calculating average prices. If YES is set, the volume-weighted average over the interval is used. If NO is set, the average by number of trades over the interval is used;
- WavesReducedVolumes: YES/NO checkbox. If YES is set, calculate volume per minute. If NO is set, use the full volume over the interval.