From signup to running bot in 5 minutes
Six honest steps. No screenshots, no guaranteed-profit language — just the actual journey from email verification to your first trade on a demo bot.
- Step 01
Create your account
Sign up with email and verify the address. No phone, no KYC, no card. The full demo experience is unlocked the moment your email is verified.
- Step 02
Choose your exchange
Pick the venue you want to trade — Binance, OKX, Bitget, MEXC, Deribit, or Kraken Futures. Connectors are venue-specific by design; the executor is tuned per matching engine.
- Step 03
Connect your API key
Paste API key and secret. We validate format in real time, detect IP-allowlist hints, and hard-reject any key that has withdraw permission. Keys are KMS-encrypted at rest and never leave the runtime in plaintext.
We never store withdraw permission. Keys with it are rejected at ingest.
- Step 04
Latency benchmark
Before deployment, we measure RTT to the exchange API and WebSocket from each available cloud region. The lowest-RTT region is selected automatically and re-tested continuously while your bot runs.
Pre-flight benchmark + continuous re-test. The measured number is shown on your dashboard.
- Step 05
Pick a strategy and capital
Choose a preset — Conservative MM, Balanced Scalper, or Aggressive Multi-Pair on the HFT Edge tier — and set your capital with the slider. Demo Mode is on by default; switch to live trading when you are ready.
- Step 06
Launch
Click Launch Demo Bot. The bot appears in your dashboard within 30 seconds and the first trade is typically visible within minutes. Net PnL, fill rate, slippage, and latency-to-fill update in real time.
Demo runs on simulated capital with real market data. No real funds are at risk during the trial.
What happens behind the scenes
Optional reading for the curious. None of this is required to run a bot, but it’s how the platform actually works.
Your bot runs in the closest available region
Region selection is driven by measured RTT — not by a marketing claim. If your venue is faster from Singapore than from Tokyo today, your bot runs in Singapore today.
Every decision is fee-aware
Maker/taker fees, funding, spread, and expected slippage are inputs to the EV calculation, not afterthoughts. The dashboard shows the row breakdown — gross / fees / funding / slippage / net.
One risk engine watches every pair
Account-wide kill switch, correlation cap, exposure cap, and liquidation-distance guard run as a single engine. A multi-pair bot cannot silently accumulate correlated long exposure on our platform.
We publish our own bot’s results
We run a demo bot on our own capital and publish its equity curve, drawdowns, and losing days. The /proof dashboard is the same data your bot will produce.
Frequently asked
- Do I need to fund a real account during the trial?
- No. The 7-day demo runs on simulated capital with real market data. You can connect a venue API key in read-only mode if you want; we don’t require it.
- Is this real high-frequency trading?
- We run a low-latency execution stack with auto exchange- proximity deployment and microstructure-driven decisioning. We do not claim institutional co-location or sub-millisecond matching-engine access — that is not a retail capability.
- What happens if the exchange goes down?
- The risk engine triggers the kill switch, all open orders are cancelled where the API still responds, and your bot is paused. You receive a notification and a full incident log.
- Can I bring my own strategy code?
- Not on the public tiers today. The platform ships our strategy presets and risk engine; custom code is reserved for higher tiers and roadmap.
Ready in 5 minutes
Email verification, exchange selection, API key, latency benchmark, strategy preset, launch. That’s it.