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How to Automate Trading on Robinhood Chain

Nock Terminal Editorial Team

Automation on Robinhood Chain means letting a strategy place buys and sells for you within limits you set. Nock Auto splits this into a demo (paper) leaderboard for learning how each strategy behaves, and a live rail that trades from your own connected wallet — never from a wallet Nock controls.

This guide covers the difference between paper and live, the real costs, exactly what permissions live automation asks for, why a dedicated low-balance wallet is the safe pattern, and how to stop or revoke everything on-chain in one action.

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Paper vs live: what actually differs

Paper strategies simulate fills against live Robinhood Chain market data with the same 1% Nock fee, LP fee tier, gas estimate and slippage model that live trades pay. They do not consume gas or capital, and they cannot lose money. Live automation places real trades through your connected wallet inside your caps; it can lose money, and the on-chain fees and slippage are real.

Costs and permissions in plain language

Costs: the 1% Nock fee per swap (same as manual trading), the pool's LP fee tier, and network gas — Nock Auto's executor pays gas on your behalf but the vault only spends the WETH your on-chain caps allow. Permissions: an immutable per-strategy vault contract holds a reusable WETH allowance from your connected wallet. It needs no owner token allowance — buys pull WETH within the immutable per-trade and total-budget caps, open-position tokens sit in the vault, and sells return WETH proceeds to your connected wallet. The executor can only call vault.buy / vault.sell, and only within those on-chain limits; there is no session private key and no derived deposit wallet.

Why a dedicated low-balance wallet is the right pattern

Even though live automation cannot exceed its caps, running it from a wallet that also holds long-term positions is unnecessary risk surface — any allowance can be misconfigured, any signed message can be misread. A small dedicated wallet caps the worst-case blast radius to the amount you deliberately funded for automation.

Stopping and revoking

The Revoke button on any live grant sends an on-chain revoke to the vault first, so automation cannot execute another trade even if the follow-up allowance clears fail. The panel then submits two zero-allowance calls to fully clear WETH and token approvals. If cleanup fails (rare, usually a wallet cancel), the panel offers Retry allowance cleanup.

Steps

  1. 1
    Learn on the paper leaderboard first
    Open /auto to see each strategy's simulated equity curve, PnL and trade history on live market data. Paper results include the 1% Nock fee, LP fee tier, gas and slippage modeling; live performance will differ, but paper is the honest way to compare strategies before risking capital.
  2. 2
    Set up a dedicated automation wallet
    Create a fresh wallet you use only for Nock Auto and fund it with a small amount — the amount you are actually willing to have automated. Do not connect a wallet that holds long-term positions or NFTs; live automation only touches WETH and the strategy token, but a small dedicated wallet keeps the blast radius tiny.
  3. 3
    Connect and configure your caps
    In the Go Live panel, pick a strategy, set max-per-trade, daily cap, total budget and expiry (hours). These are the on-chain limits the automation contract enforces. Setup may wrap ETH to WETH in the same wallet; funds never leave your connected address.
  4. 4
    Confirm setup and arm
    One setup runs several sequential wallet confirmations: wrap ETH → WETH (only if needed), create the immutable owner-controlled strategy vault, and approve a reusable WETH allowance to that vault. You never fund a separate wallet — idle WETH stays in your connected wallet until a buy, only open-position tokens sit in the strategy vault, and sells return WETH proceeds to your wallet.
  5. 5
    Monitor and stop any time
    The panel shows the live grant with wallet address, vault address, caps and cleanup state. Revoke on-chain in one tap — the vault stops accepting trades, and the panel then clears the reusable WETH allowance to zero. Revoke is on-chain-first, so automation cannot resume once you press the button.

Frequently asked questions

Does Nock Auto hold my funds? No. Funds stay in your connected wallet. Live automation approves an immutable per-strategy vault to pull capped amounts of WETH for buys and return outputs to your wallet after each trade. Nock never takes custody. How much does Nock Auto cost? Live automation pays the standard 1 percent Nock fee per swap, the pool's LP fee tier, and network gas. There is no subscription. Paper strategies are free. Can automation exceed the caps I set? No. Max-per-trade, daily cap and total budget are enforced by the vault contract on-chain. The vault also limits sells to its on-chain sellCredit — tokens actually received from this grant's buys — so pre-existing tokens in your wallet cannot be sold by this grant. How do I stop Nock Auto right now? Press Revoke on the active grant in the Go Live panel. The on-chain revoke lands first, so automation stops the moment it confirms; the panel then clears the reusable WETH allowance to zero. Does Nock Auto guarantee returns? No. Every strategy can lose money and paper performance does not predict live performance. Only automate what you can afford to lose and start with a small budget.

No. Funds stay in your connected wallet. Live automation approves an immutable per-strategy vault to pull capped amounts of WETH for buys and return outputs to your wallet after each trade. Nock never takes custody.

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