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Crypto spot trading by hand, on OKX demo trading or your live account.

Trading on margin can lose you more than you put in. Past results, including backtests, do not predict future results. Cloud9Trader provides tools and education, not financial advice. Read the full risk warning.

Connect your own OKX account to see your balances and to send spot orders. The connection is new: it is built and tested against OKX’s published API but has not yet been run end to end on demo trading, so it is marked beta. Start on Demo trading and check each order on OKX’s own site.

OKX runs separate sites by region. An account registered in the US or Australia uses us.okx.com, one registered in the European Economic Area uses eea.okx.com, and others use okx.com. A key works only on the site where it was made.

What you can do

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  • Manual orders: market and limit orders on OKX spot pairs. A limit order is GTC unless you choose IOC or FOK.
  • Account view: your account’s total in US dollars, your USDT cash, and each coin you hold as a position in its USDT pair. OKX gives no entry price for a coin you hold, so profit on it is not shown.

Algorithm sessions cannot trade on OKX yet.

Connect

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  1. OKX demo trading trades with play money at real prices, from your own OKX account. On OKX, switch to demo trading and create a demo API key there. Demo keys only work on demo trading.
  2. Give the key the Trade permission. It may also have Read. Do not give it Withdraw: Cloud9Trader refuses a key that can withdraw, and checks again every minute.
  3. OKX asks you to choose a passphrase for the key. Keep it: OKX does not show it again.
  4. Set your account to Spot mode with spot borrowing off, or to Futures mode. Cloud9Trader refuses an account in multi-currency or portfolio margin mode, because spot orders there can borrow.
  5. In Cloud9Trader, open Exchange API Keys from the user menu. In OKX’s row, paste the API Key and Secret Key, type the Passphrase, and choose where the key runs: Demo trading, Demo trading (US) or Demo trading (EEA), by the site the key was made on. Click Save.

To trade with real money later, create a key on your live account, delete the demo key in Cloud9Trader, and save the live key with Live (real money), Live US or Live EEA.

Limits

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  • Spot only, paid in cash. Margin, perpetual swaps, futures and options are not offered.
  • No stop or stop-limit orders, and no stop loss, take profit or trailing stop on an entry. An order that asks for one is refused, not sent without it.
  • Quantities and prices must be in the pair’s steps and at or above its minimum. Anything else is refused, never rounded.
  • One OKX connection per Cloud9Trader account.
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