# Inventory Skew¶

Updated as of v0.25.0

This feature lets you set and maintain a target inventory split between the base and quote assets. It prevents your overall inventory level from changing too much and may result in more stable performance in volatile markets.

## How It Works¶

This function adjusts the bid and ask order amounts to limit the user's trading exposure within a defined range. This prevents the user from being over-exposed from the risks of a single side of the trade when the market keeps hitting limit orders on one side only.

Example: You are market making for the BTC-USDT pair and have 0.667 BTC and 6000 USDT. At $6000 BTC price, your total portfolio value is$10,000 and the base asset (BTC) accounts for 40% of total value. If your target base percent is 50%, your buy orders will be increased and your sell orders will be decreased until you reach the target percent.

The user specifies a target base asset percentage. Since the user's outstanding orders may change this split if they are filled, the total order size is used to define an allowable range around this target percentage. The user may expand or contract this range via a multiplier parameter.

Example: You are market making for the BTC-USDT pair and the total value of your BTC/USDT inventory is 10 BTC. Your target base percent is 50% and each set of orders you place is 1 BTC (10% of your total portfolio). With inventory_range_multiplier of 1.00, your target range is 40% to 60%. With inventory_range_multiplier of 2.00, your target range is 30% to 70%.*

If the user's base asset value goes above the upper limit, then no bid orders would be emitted. Conversely, if the user's base asset value goes below the lower limit, then no ask orders would be emitted.

## Sample Configurations¶

 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 - maker_market_trading_pair: BTC-USDT - mode: multiple - number_of_orders: 3 - order_start_size: 0.002 - order_step_size: 0.002 - ask_place_threshold: 0.005 - bid_place_threshold: 0.005 - order_interval_percent: 0.01 

### No Inventory Skew¶

 1 - inventory_skew_enabled: false 

Without inventory skew, order amounts are always symmetrical between buy (outlined in green) and sell orders (outlined in red).

### Inventory Skew, Multiplier = 1¶

 1 2 3 - inventory_skew_enabled: true - inventory_skew_target_base_percent: 50 - inventory_skew_range_multiplier: 1 

Since the current inventory percentage (36.5%) is outside of the target range (38.2% to 61.8%), only buy orders are placed until the inventory split is within the range.

### Inventory Skew, Multiplier = 2¶

 1 2 3 - inventory_skew_enabled: true - inventory_skew_target_base_percent: 50 - inventory_skew_range_multiplier: 2 

By increasing the range multiplier to 2, the current inventory percentage fall inside the widened target range (26.5% to 73.5%), so both buy and sell orders are placed. However, the buy order amounts are larger than the sell order amounts.

## Relevant Parameters¶

Parameter Prompt Definition Default Value
inventory_skew_enabled Would you like to enable inventory skew? (Yes/No) >>> Activates Inventory Skew if true false
inventory_target_base_percent What is your target base asset percentage? (Enter 50 to indicate 50%) >>> Target amount held of the base asset, expressed as a percentage of the total base and quote asset value none
inventory_range_multiplier What is your tolerable range of inventory around the target, expressed in multiples of your total order size? This expands the range of tolerable inventory level around your target base percent, as a multiple of your total order size. Larger values expand this range. 1

## Order Size Calculation Math¶

The input order_amount in single-order mode, or its equivalent in multiple-order mode, is adjusted linearly by comparing the percentage of the base asset in the overall trading portfolio vs. the target base asset ratio.

The mathematics operations is as follows.

$o$ = order size.
$t$ = target base asset ratio.
$r$ = inventory range multiplier.
$s$ = total order size.
$$s = 2 \times o$$ for single order mode $$s = 2 \times (order\_start\_size \times n + {{order\_step\_size \times n \times (n - 1)} \over 2})$$ for multiple order mode, with $n$ = number of orders.

$b_{base}, b_{quote}$ = current balance of base and quote asset, respectively.
$p$ = current price of base asset, in terms of quote asset.
$interp(x, x_0, x_1, y_0, y_1) = {y_0 + (x - x_0)({y_1 - y_0 \over x_1 - x_0})}$, i.e. the linear interpolation function.
$clamp(x, l, r) = min(max(x, l), r)$

Then,

total\_value=b_{base} \times p + b_{quote}
base\_value=b_{base} \times p
limit_{R}, limit_{L} = (t \times total\_value) \pm r \times s \times p
bid\_adj=clamp(interp(base\_value, limit_{L}, limit_{R}, 2, 0), 0, 2)