> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.defiloops.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# LP strategies

> Seventeen ways to place and manage a liquidity position, and every input each one takes

**Tool:** `list_lp_strategies`

A liquidity position does not have to sit still. It can be recentred when the
price leaves it, rebalanced on a clock, widened when volatility rises, split
into a ladder of bands, or left half out of the pool entirely.

`list_lp_strategies` returns all seventeen, grouped into eight families, with
every input's bounds, step, default and help text.

## Read it before running one

The list is **fetched from the backtester**, not written down in the tool's
description. That is deliberate. A copy in a prompt goes stale the first time a
strategy is added, and the failure is silent: an agent reading a stale list
simply never offers the new strategy, and nobody notices something that was
never mentioned.

## The eight families

| family               | the question it answers                      |
| -------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| **Static**           | What if I place one band and never touch it? |
| **Recentring**       | What if I follow the price when it leaves?   |
| **Adaptive**         | What if the width tracks volatility?         |
| **Multi-band**       | What if I place several bands at once?       |
| **Directional**      | What if I lean the band one way?             |
| **Regime-switching** | What if the rule changes with the trend?     |
| **Never closing**    | What if I never realise a loss?              |
| **Part held**        | What if some of it never enters a pool?      |

## Every input describes itself

Ask for one strategy by name and the answer includes each input's label, what it
means, its range and its default — and for inputs that are choices rather than
numbers, a line on each option:

```
Ladder of bands (ladder) — 4. Multi-band

Several bands placed on day one covering a range above and below spot, never
touched. Only the rung holding the price earns, so a four-rung ladder runs at
about a quarter utilisation.

Inputs — every one has a default, so none is required:

  geometry — Geometry
      How the rungs are laid out
      default 0, from 0 to 3 in steps of 1
        0 = Equal width (contiguous) — Every rung the same width in price.
        1 = Geometric (contiguous) — Every rung the same RATIO, so they widen
            as price rises.
```

Fill inputs from that rather than guessing a range. Every input has a default,
so a strategy runs with none of them named.

## It reads history

Nothing here signs anything, opens a position, or touches a chain.

See [run\_lp\_backtest](/tools/run-lp-backtest) to run one.


## Related topics

- [Every tool](/tools/reference.md)
- [Backtesting a position](/tools/run-lp-backtest.md)
- [What we hold](/data/streams.md)
- [Quickstart](/quickstart.md)
- [How a run works](/platform.md)