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How do I avoid liquidation with trading tools and features?
On our platform, it helps prevent traders from owing more than their initial investment.What are the tools and features to help you? Maintain a healthy margin level: a key risk metric in tracking healthy measures, you can spot the margin level as on the image below. Liquidation happens when the level reaches 100% and the margin call alert is at 300% (TBA).Published on 2 Aug 2024Updated on 17 Nov 2025FAQ15How do I use a physical security key to protect my account?
What is physical security key? A physical security key is a type of hardware-based authentication used to verify account access and transactions. Unlike software-based options, physical security keys work offline and are not reliant on cloud services, minimizing risks like account takeovers or unauthorized access.Why choose physical security key?Published on 10 Jan 2025Updated on 12 Feb 2026FAQ17,609How do I verify OKX's ownership and balance of the wallet address?
The BTC wallet adopts two signature methods: single signature and multi-signature Multi-signature adopts 2/3 signature, and each piece of data contains two signatures, which are signed by two private keys among the three private keys held by OKX. By verifying the two signatures, it can be ensured that OKX has at least two of the private keys, thus proving that OKX has ownership of the multi-signature address.Published on 26 Sept 2023Updated on 26 Jan 2026FAQ996How do I display historic orders on the chart?
This tool is especially helpful for spotting key price levels, refining entry and exit points, and improving decision-making in future trades.Published on 29 Nov 2024Updated on 10 Sept 2025FAQ417How do I find the Marketcap feature?
Compare assets: view rankings of cryptocurrencies based on market cap, liquidity, and other key metrics. Identify trends: detect bullish or bearish market conditions and adjust your trading strategies accordingly.How do I find the Marketcap feature?Published on 27 Feb 2025Updated on 10 Sept 2025FAQ6What should I do during or after a scam?
Screenshot key information: capture crucial transfer information, including the scammer's address, transfer screenshots, the scammer's false claims, and other scam website information. Ensure that the screenshots are clear and include timestamps and transaction details.Published on 11 Mar 2024Updated on 4 Mar 2026FAQ723How can I do spot trading with the Jupyter Notebook?
How can I create API keys? After signing in to our platform, go to Trade > Demo trading to create API keys for testing purposes Open Demo trading page Go to Profile and select Demo Trading API to create API keys. Open API to create API keys Create API keys for the different master/sub accounts you might have Select Create API key Select Trade in the Permissions to trade with the API key Select Trade in Permissions Now you have access to your API key, your Secret key, and your passphrase.Published on 29 Sept 2023Updated on 10 Sept 2025FAQ544What's KYC: What to expect and why it matters?
It’s a key step in maintaining a safe, transparent, and legally compliant platform for everyone.Published on 24 June 2025Updated on 15 Jan 2026FAQ52Why should I trade crypto options on the OKX Liquid Marketplace?
Risk management Our risk management tools allow you to manage your risk all in one spot – and to avoid the extra counterparty or operational risks of having to move funds around. Pick structures using our position builder, manage risk or try synthetic strategies to better model and visualise your risk. Efficient execution Our execution tool offers an aligned, no conflict workflow for bulk orders or complex multi-leg trades.Published on 13 Mar 2024Updated on 2 Dec 2025FAQ6ChatCoin (CHAT) Now Available
ChatCoin offers users a new digital asset management solution that can be used to make red envelopes, rewards and social games within IM tools. ChatCoin will soon be extended to other IM tools such as WeChat and Whatsapp. After that we will be able to send digital currency envelopes in all IM tools for digital pet games and more.Published on 7 Feb 2018Updated on 17 Nov 2025AnnouncementsUnderstanding OKX's Security Fund
A key component of our risk architecture is our Security Fund. This article explains the Security Fund's purpose, structure, funding mechanism, and outlines critical disclaimers regarding its operation.1. What's the Security Fund? The Security Fund is a segregated pool of assets, established and fully owned by OKX.Published on 25 Mar 2026Updated on 25 Mar 2026FAQOKX and Alertatron goes into the next phase of partnership
Finally, for Permissions, make sure you enable 'Trade', so the keys can create and cancel orders in your account. Adding the keys to Alertatron From the Automated Trading menu, choose Configure Api Keys. (see image below). Choose OKX from the exchange list. Give the keys a name. This name is how you will refer to this set of API keys when you send orders to Alertatron. It should be letters only. If you are unsure, just call them 'okx' Enter the key into the Key field.Published on 11 Apr 2023Updated on 17 Nov 2025AnnouncementsFast API Launch
Secure IP whitelist for supported brokers: The automatically generated API Key will only have users' connected Broker's IP addresses whitelisted. In unfortunate circumstances where the API Key gets hacked on the Broker's side, the hacker cannot easily exploit the users' API Key since OKX only accepts requests coming from Broker's whitelisted servers.Broker: How to enable the Fast API function?Published on 5 Jan 2023Updated on 1 Apr 2025Product documentationThird Party App IP Whitelist Launch
When users are connecting to an API Broker, the API Key generating and binding process is always the critical step that requires extra caution. In order to mitigate any risk, we have launched the Third Party App IP Whitelist feature to limit the usage of users' API keys to only whitelisted servers.Published on 5 Jan 2023Updated on 1 Apr 2025Product documentationIntroduction to OKX Copy Trading
Overview Copy trading is a new social investment approach and portfolio management tool. Regular traders can replicate the trading success of lead traders by copying their strategies and automatically executing them in real markets. At the same time, lead traders can earn profit shares from traders who’ve copied their trades. OKX Copy Trading aims to build an efficient, transparent, and profitable trading tool for OKX traders.Published on 21 Dec 2022Updated on 15 Oct 2025Product documentation