# DLMM Strategies

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**DLMM (Dynamic Liquidity Market Maker) Strategies** opens up new precision and flexibility for liquidity management. With DLMM, you can carefully setup a LP strategy and flexibly adapt it to current market conditions. Below is an outline of the various types of strategies that are available, split between Beginner and Advanced.

## Beginner Strategies <a href="#beginner-strategies" id="beginner-strategies"></a>

### **Normal (Bell Curve)**

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Distributes liquidity along the "bell curve", making it similar to the liquidity in order book exchanges. Allows to capture fees from both price increases and decreases, while concentrating liquidity around the current price point.

**✅ Advantages:**

* Perfect in calm markets
* Capital efficient

**❌ Drawbacks:**

* Increased risk of impermanent loss

ℹ️ **Considerations:**

* Requires rebalancing around current price for maximum effectiveness

### Spot (Uniform) <a href="#spot-uniform" id="spot-uniform"></a>

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Concentrates the liquidity in a single bin. This is the maximum amount of capital concentration. Having all liquidity in one bin allows users to provide incredebly deep liquidity, enabling slippage free trading and earning those fees.

**✅ Advantages:**

* Suited for Stablecoin pairs
* Very capital efficient

**❌ Drawbacks:**

* Biggest risk of impermanent loss if price leaves the bin and does not revert

**ℹ️ Considerations:**

* Can be used in volatile pairs for capturing greatest fees with the highest risk of impermanent loss

### Spot (Uniform) <a href="#max-uniform" id="max-uniform"></a>

<figure><img src="/files/LSZQdGGm514N2i4SMLJG" alt=""><figcaption><p>Max (Uniform) Strategy</p></figcaption></figure>

The spot option, distributes your liquidity uniformly across a set price range. Spot liquidity can be set across multiple price ranges. The larger the price range the more bins will need to be deployed effecting the cost of gas that needs to be payed for the deposit.

**✅ Advantages:**

* Even distribution good fee capturing for ranging tokens
* Reduced risk of impermanent loss compared to other strategies

**❌ Drawbacks:**

* Reduced capital efficiency

**ℹ️ Considerations:**

* While the capital efficiency is lower than with other shapes, it is still better than x\*y=k exchanges

### Bid-Ask <a href="#bid-ask" id="bid-ask"></a>

<figure><img src="/files/RYjGJoskUEfLdWyh2FC9" alt=""><figcaption><p>Bid-Ask Strategy</p></figcaption></figure>

Mimics the bid-ask spread on an order book exchange, allowing liquidity providers to capture fees, as market fluctuates.

**✅ Advantages:**

* Captures market volatility
* Allows to Dollar Cost Average in/out of positions

**❌ Drawbacks:**

* Riskier than other strategies

ℹ️ **Considerations:**

* Similar to normal shape, requires rebalancing to stay effective

## Advanced Strategies <a href="#advanced-strategies" id="advanced-strategies"></a>

These strategies outlined below are for experienced Traders and all are considered risky. Before deploying any of the below strategies you should be fully aware of the divergence risk they may possess. If you are uncomfortable with closely monitoring your position, please do not engage in active and higher risk liquidity strategies, such as the below.

### Ranged Limit Orders <a href="#ranged-limit-orders" id="ranged-limit-orders"></a>

<figure><img src="/files/uxbqChrfTBkxI2WGgUgm" alt=""><figcaption><p>Ranged Limit Order Strategy</p></figcaption></figure>

Users can use single-sided one-bin spot liquidity to place "limit orders" outside of the current price. Once the price reaches these bins, liquidity in them will be converted from one token to another.

**✅ Advantages:**

* Buy/sell tokens at prices you want
* Withdraw/change your order at any time

**❌ Drawbacks:**

* Doesn't earn fees while inactive

ℹ️ **Considerations**

* Require withdrawing to prevent converting back

### Dollar Cost Average (DCA) <a href="#dollar-cost-average-while-earning" id="dollar-cost-average-while-earning"></a>

<figure><img src="/files/bd3zRW1DRxAc4UmpxpnF" alt=""><figcaption><p>Dollar Cost Average While Earning Strategy</p></figcaption></figure>

Combining a one-sided bid-ask shape with uniform distribution can allow you to buy your favourite tokens for cheap if an opportunity arises while continuing to earn fees from swaps around the current price.

**✅ Advantages:**

* Stable fee revenue
* Dollar Cost Average at selected prices

**❌ Drawbacks:**

* Sacrifices some fee performance for the Dollar Cost Average opportunities

ℹ️ **Considerations:**

* If the order fills it needs to be withdrawn

### Gradual Ladder Orders <a href="#gradual-ladder-orders" id="gradual-ladder-orders"></a>

<figure><img src="/files/Q1QRqowjiY62IcemRbkJ" alt=""><figcaption><p>Gradual Ladder Order Strategy</p></figcaption></figure>

Layering multiple spot uniform shapes on top of each other in one direction allows users to gradually scale in and out of positions with market movements.

**✅ Advantages:**

* Earn fees if the market moves in your favour
* Passively buy/sell tokens at regular intervals

**❌ Drawbacks:**

* Big risk of impermanent loss if the market moves against your position

**ℹ️ Considerations:**

* Require withdrawing to prevent converting back

### Sell / Buy Walls <a href="#sell-buy-walls" id="sell-buy-walls"></a>

<figure><img src="/files/h8L8rQpNQLwQD6ch7ANk" alt=""><figcaption><p>Sell/Buy Wall Strategy</p></figcaption></figure>

Combining normal and uniform shapes can allow liquidity providers to form liquidity "walls". This way the liquidity is much deeper one side of the price while keeping exposure in case price moves in the opposite direction.

**✅ Advantages:**

* Contribute to price floors while earning fees
* Less risky than ladder orders approach

**❌ Drawbacks:**

* Can result in impermanent loss if the price moves beyond the wall

ℹ️ **Considerations:**

* Price movements can result in wall needing rebalancing


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