# TWAP Bot * By DAVE ### 1. Why do you need TWAP Bot? A TWAP strategy underpins more sophisticated ways of buying and selling than simply executing a lot of single orders. For example: Dumping a huge number of Coins in one big order is likely to affect market perceptions, with an adverse effect on the price. High-volume traders use TWAP to execute their big trades over a specific time period, so they won‘t affect the true market price too much. TWAP basically is a strategy of executing one big order, as multiple smaller orders, over a specified time period. ### 2. How to use TWAP on Pionex? Visit Pionex and select TWAP from the list of trading tools.buy/sell through TWAP ![](https://blog.pionex.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/TWAP-Bot_1-1024x423.png) **Simply input 2 parameters:** Order Period and Total Investment, and the TWAP will be ready. Pionex lets you to choose one of 5 different Order Periods for the TWAP strategy: 1 Hour, 6 Hours, 12 Hours, 1 Day, and 7 Days. TWAP will place an order according to your configuration every 10 minutes. ### 3. Example of using a TWAP Bot Sell 1 ETH by using TWAP: Set the investment period to 1 hour and the total investment for TWAP as 1 ETH. According to the system estimation, it’ll sell 0.1666 ETH every 10 minutes. After 1 hour the strategy is finished and the full amount of 1 ETH will have been sold, without having too much effect on the market price in the process. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://help.bituniverse.org/trading-tutorial/trading-bot-tutorial/untitled-4.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.