Choosing range width

The single most important LP decision — how tight to set your range.

Range width is the lever that decides your fee yield, your rebalancing frequency, and your IL exposure. Here's how to think about it.

The core trade-off

There's no universally "best" width — it depends on the pair's volatility and how much rebalancing cost you're willing to absorb.

A practical approach

1. Match width to volatility. Choppy, range-bound pairs (e.g. correlated or stable-ish pairs) tolerate tighter ranges — price stays nearby, so you capture lots of fees with few rebalances. Volatile pairs need wider ranges or they'll rebalance constantly.
2. Account for rebalancing cost. Each rebalance pays gas and a little swap slippage. If a tight range rebalances all day on a low-fee pool, those costs can outrun the extra fees. Wider = cheaper to maintain.
3. Let automation do the heavy lifting. Because the keeper re-centers for you, you can safely run tighter than you would by hand — but tighter still means more frequent (paid) rebalances. Find the point where extra fees beat extra cost.

Using Strategies

The Strategy presets give you sensible tight/balanced/wide starting points. Scout recommends one per pool based on its volume and efficiency. Start there, watch how often it rebalances and how fees accrue, then adjust on the Manage page.

Rules of thumb

• High Fee/TVL + steady price → go tighter to harvest more fees.
• Volatile / trending → go wider, or pair a moderate width with TP/SL.
• Low-volume pool → go wider (rebalances are relatively expensive there).