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Lead traders: Spot lead trading guidelines
Traders who meet the following behavior may have their traffic limited or have their lead trader position revoked: Lead traders who fake their name, use someone else's verified account, or buy another person's account. Lead traders who falsify account data or create many different lead trade accounts. Lead traders engage in hedging transactions to influence data while making sure they don't make a loss.Published on Oct 30, 2023Updated on May 8, 2026197Lead traders: Futures lead trading guidelines
Set your lead trading crypto and complete the initial setup to start lead trading. If your application is rejected, contact customer support or reach out to the person who contacted you. You may reapply and resubmit your supporting documents.How do I cancel or close lead trading? Please refer to Lead traders FAQ for steps to cancel or close lead trading.How do I lead trade futures?How do I select a futures lead trading pair? Initial setup.Published on Oct 30, 2023Updated on May 8, 202610Lead trader: how do I carry out spot lead trades?
How do I place a spot lead trade? Go to Copy Trading, and select Spot You can enable the lead trade toggle switch to allow your order to be copied by your copy trader. For example, lead trader A enables the lead trade option and buys a 1 BTC spot order. His copy traders can copy this lead trader Enabling the lead trade toggle switch before creating a spot trade If you don't want your copy trader to copy your order, you can disable the lead trade toggle switch.Published on May 2, 2024Updated on Feb 9, 202647What's Nitro Spreads and how can I trade on OKX Nitro Spreads?
Currently, we support: Spot vs Perpetual, Spot vs Futures, Perpetual vs Futures, and Futures vs Futures. Futures for now include Bi-Quarterly Futures and Quarterly Futures.3. How do I interpret the bid and ask prices on the spread tiles? The prices on the tiles indicate the spread between the filled prices of the two instruments after the trade is filled. The spread will be equal to the filled price of the further dated instrument minus the nearer dated instrument.Published on Sep 25, 2023Updated on Feb 12, 202635Why do I have to trade on OKX Liquid Marketplace?
Customizable strategies: Carry trades (spot vs future/perp), futures spreads (future vs future/perp), call/put spreads, calendar spreads, butterfly spreads, condors, ratio spreads, diagonal spreads, back spreads. Options/volatility strategies: collars, straddles, strangles, covered call, protective put, synthetic futures. Creation of synthetic currency pairs by going long one name and short another. For example, BTC/USDT vs AVAX/USDT booked atomically create a synthetic BTC/AVAX pair.Published on Mar 13, 2024Updated on Oct 30, 202516Spot copy trading: lead trader FAQ
What type of lead trader does OKX prefer and prioritize? Genuine: lead traders who employ a significant portion of their personal capital in their lead trades, assuming the same risk as their copy traders. Reliable: lead traders with well-defined risk control and stop-loss strategies, demonstrating accountability to users, maintaining a low maximum drawdown, setting reasonable stop-loss levels, and striving to secure positive PnL outcomes for copy traders.7.Published on Oct 18, 2023Updated on Mar 3, 202667How does futures spread trading work on OKX Liquid Marketplace?
Trade all sorts of spreads: carry trades (spot vs future/perp), futures spreads (future vs future/perp), call/put spreads, calendar spreads, butterfly spreads, condors, ratio spreads, diagonal spreads, back spreads. Bespoke instruments: customize your own strategies with up to 20 legs.Published on Mar 13, 2024Updated on Sep 10, 20256Copy traders: How do I choose a lead trader?
On the App: On the app, tap Trade twice, then select Marketplace Select your Profile Picture Select Following and once you're on the page, then all of the Lead Traders who you're following will be shown Select the Profile Picture of the Lead Traders to check the overview of their trades On the Web: Select Trade > Marketplace > Profile Select Following and once you're on the page, then all of the Lead Traders who you're following will be shown Select the Profile Picture of the Lead Traders to checkPublished on Dec 22, 2022Updated on Apr 9, 2026259How do I use the Copy mode restriction feature?
Head over to the Copy trading page and select My lead trades Proceed to enter the My lead trades option Once in, select Lead settings Select the Copy mode restrictions option within the Lead trade settings Select Copy mode restrictions option Toggle between No restrictions or Smart sync only options under the Copy mode restrictions option within the Lead trade settings Select your preferred restriction mode A statement on the lead trader requiring copy traders to use smart sync will appear on thePublished on Jul 16, 2024Updated on Feb 9, 202637X Layer FAQ
Which address should I use now, XKO vs. 0x? Product support status Guidance Products that support XKO-prefix addresses • XKO-prefix addresses and 0x EVM addresses are supported simultaneously. • Users are recommended to prioritize using XKO-prefix addresses for a better product experience.Published on Jan 29, 2026Updated on Feb 11, 20268Building RFQs
This opens a menu for fields that take on specific values (expiry date or strike price), a text input for numerical values (quantity), or a button to flip values that can only take binary input (buy vs sell, put vs call, USDT vs Coin margined). The other is to either select on the value in the "product" column" or tab "add leg" below the final leg of your strategy.Published on Jun 30, 2022Updated on Apr 30, 202630What's Smart Sync on spot copy trading?
Smart sync is a copy trading mode that lets you automatically sync your asset allocation for each spot order with the lead trader. When a lead trader buys crypto, a ratio between the amount they buy and their trading account equity is calculated. This is then applied to your total investment to determine how much you buy.Published on Oct 9, 2024Updated on May 11, 2026268What's a private key/seed phrase?
Save them offline and never screenshot or share them with anyone.What's the difference between importing via seed phrase vs importing via private key? Importing via seed phrase restores your entire wallet — all accounts, all addresses, all assets across all chains.Importing via private key only restores the one address that private key belongs to, on its corresponding chain. If you want to fully restore your wallet, use your seed phrase.Where do I create a private key wallet in OKX Wallet?Published on Aug 24, 2023Updated on May 9, 20262,928What are the reasons for my spot copy trade order fail?
Slippage protection: Significant differences in the buy price between copy traders and lead traders can have a big impact on a copy trader's PnL. To prevent this, if there is more than a 0.5% disparity between the lead trader's and copy trader's buy price, our slippage protection mechanism will cancel the copy trade. For example, if a trader buys BTC at a price of 20,000 USDT, we'll make sure that the copy trader's buy price is less than 20,000 × (1+0.5%) = 20,100 USDT.Published on Oct 13, 2023Updated on Feb 9, 202669What's Private Copy Trading?
For Lead tradersWhat's private copy trading? Private copy trading allows lead traders to share their trades privately and only allows invited users to copy trade. Lead traders' profiles in private mode can still be found through search, but the Copy button will be shown locked as lead traders can configure unique invitation links to share with the intended copy traders and lead traders are able to manage copy traders through private mode.Published on Aug 29, 2023Updated on Mar 4, 20261,748