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Cove offers two DCA strategies in different parts of the token panel: Limit → DCA opens a Price ladder; Strategy → DCA Time Interval opens a timed plan. Choose Buying or Selling first. The two strategies can produce very different timing and fills. There is no longer a Price ladder / Time Interval toggle inside the DCA tab. Both forms have P1–P3 Order Presets for complete saved setups. With Last used values inactive, Min/Max, count, interval, and amount start blank until you select them. The quick amount buttons fill one field and are separate from P1–P3.

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Create a price ladder

1

Open the token and wallets

Paste the token address in the intended profile and check the selected wallets.
2

Choose DCA and Buying

Choose Buying → Limit → DCA.
3

Set the market-cap range

Enter both Min mcap and Max mcap. You can use shorthand such as 800k or 1.5m.
4

Set the order count and total

Choose 2–10 orders and select one of the three buy amount presets or custom. The amount is the total budget for the ladder, not each rung. These are the same amount presets used in the Limit builder.
5

Review targets and expiry

Check the preview, selected wallets, and expiry. The default is 30 days; the allowed range is 1 minute–30 days.If the range crosses the current market cap, review the mixed-ladder warning: some rungs buy dips and others buy breakouts.
6

Place and verify

Tap the Place … buy orders button. It includes the order count and total spend. Check the receipt, then open /orders to verify the rungs.
Blank DCA price ladder buy form with P1–P3, market-cap range, order count, amount, and expiry.

Buying → Limit → DCA opens a blank Price ladder form with P1–P3 slots.

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Example: buy in three steps

Assume the current market cap is 1m. You choose 600k to 900k, 3 orders, and $300 total. The targets are evenly spaced. Each rung waits for its own condition; the highest dip target may execute first. With multiple wallets, DCA buys always split the total across wallets, even if ordinary buys use Per Wallet. The rung count is per wallet: three rungs across two wallets can create six orders. Check the actual preview for allocation and any minimum-size restriction.

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Create a sell ladder

  1. Open a holding and choose Selling → Limit → DCA.
  2. Enter both Min mcap and Max mcap.
  3. Choose 2–10 orders.
  4. Choose a sell amount preset or custom for the total percentage to sell, from 1–100, across the ladder.
  5. Review targets, wallets, expiry, and any skipped rungs.
  6. Tap Place up to N sell orders and verify the receipt.
Cove divides the sell allocation into equal absolute slices. A 100% sell across four rungs aims to allocate four equal quarters, not four sequential 25%-of-remaining sells. Rungs exactly at current market cap and wallets without a holding can be skipped. The receipt can therefore contain fewer orders than the maximum.
Price ladder sell form with market-cap range, order count, total sell amount, and expiry controls.

Selling → Limit → DCA opens the Price ladder form.

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Create a Time Interval plan

  1. Open the token in the intended profile and select the wallets. Choose Buying or Selling, then Strategy → DCA Time Interval.
  2. Set Order count to 2–20. With several wallets, the field is Orders per wallet; the creation button shows the combined count.
  3. Select a Buy amount or Sell amount preset, or enter a custom total. Cove divides that total across the planned orders. A sell percentage applies to each selected wallet’s own holding.
  4. Set Interval. The picker offers 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h, 24h, plus Custom from 1 minute to 24 hours. Choose an interval explicitly unless you recalled a saved value.
  5. Optionally set Min mcap, Max mcap, both, or neither. Enter none to clear a bound. If both are set, Min must be below Max. Without a range, the plan follows the timer alone.
  6. Review the preview, expiry, wallet count, per-order size, and the side-specific bound. A buy with Max mcap never pays above that price; a sell with Min mcap never sells below it. Then tap the Place … orders button and check /orders.
If the price is outside the range when a piece is due, the plan waits. Missed intervals are not piled into a burst; the next eligible evaluation attempts one piece and resumes the spacing. The duration estimate assumes the price remains in range, so the plan can take longer or expire before all pieces run. Each executed piece has its own trading costs; small orders can cost proportionally more.
Blank Time Interval buy form with P1–P3, market-cap bounds, order count, interval, amount, and expiry.

Buying → Strategy opens DCA Time Interval with P1–P3 and blank required fields.

Time Interval sell form with market-cap bounds, order count, interval, sell amount, and expiry.

Selling → Strategy → DCA Time Interval.

Interval presets and Custom button.

Interval presets and Custom button.

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Create by replying to a panel

The complete command places the ladder immediately using the selected wallets. Sending it is the confirmation. The numbers below are examples, not recommended trade sizes.
Reply to the token’s live panel:
This means buy, range 800k–1.5m, 10 price-ladder rungs per wallet, $500 total.
This means sell, range 80k–120k, 10 rungs, 100% total. Send /dca alone for the tutorial. This reply-command grammar creates a price ladder: use B or S, a range, a count from 2–10, then USD for buys or a holdings percentage for sells. Use the panel to create a Time Interval plan.

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Edit, cancel, and follow results

Open /orders. For a price ladder, edit or cancel a pending rung; Cancel DCA group cancels its remaining rungs. A Time Interval plan appears as its own plan in the token’s order list; open it to inspect progress and cancel the remaining plan. Completed trades are not undone. Price-ladder rungs can trigger close together if the market moves through the range. A rung whose target is never met remains pending until expiry. Each fill has trading costs and can fail independently. For a duplicate-command warning, expired panel, or uncertain partial creation, check existing orders before retrying. See Manage orders. For a step-by-step comparison of Time Interval and Price ladder modes, read the Cove DCA guide.