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How to create your API keys

Follow these steps to connect your exchange to TradingIA. It takes under 5 minutes and works the same for Binance, Kraken and OKX. First, your exchange account needs advanced identity verification completed and two-factor enabled.

Start with the first step

The key's permissions

Reading and spot trading enabled; withdrawal, never. This is the step that ensures your funds can't leave the exchange.

PermissionStatus
Enable readingBalances, positions and history.
Enabled
Enable Spot & Margin TradingLimit orders and their associated stop.
Enabled
Enable FuturesOptional, BTC, ETH and SOL only.
Optional
Enable withdrawalsTradingIA doesn't ask for this permission.
Disabled
Restrict access to trusted IPs onlyAvailable on your dashboard when you connect the account.
Go to the dashboard

The names are Binance's; on Kraken and OKX the labels change, not the path.

Now, save the keys

On confirming, the exchange shows the secret key only once: copy it and paste it into TradingIA right then, because afterwards it can't be viewed again.

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Dashboard illustration. Key and secret are stored encrypted at rest (AES-256).

The futures API is separate

Optional and with its own key. It only covers BTC, ETH and SOL; the rest trade spot with the existing key.

BTCBitcoin · spot + futuresETHEthereum · spot + futuresSOLSolana · spot + futures

The other assets trade spot with the existing key.

The permission we never tick

In step 5 you'll see: reading and spot in green; futures only to hedge a position; withdrawal off and locked.

Enable withdrawalsTradingIA doesn't ask for this permission.
Disabled

TradingIA doesn't ask for withdrawal on any exchange. Without that box ticked, nobody with the key can move your coins out of your account.

Six guarantees

AES-256

Key and secret encrypted at rest.

No withdrawal

The permission is neither requested nor used.

Whitelist

The key only responds to our IP.

Limit orders

Never at market.

Stop on the exchange

Registered outside our system.

Revocable

Cut off from your exchange, without telling us.

Five minutes on the clock, six screens

The path is the same on all three exchanges; only the menu names change.

  1. 1. Open API management

    Inside your exchange account, go to the API area: it's the screen where keys are created, listed and revoked.

    Account › API Management

  2. 2. Choose the key type

    Choose the system-generated one, HMAC type: it's the one we recommend and the one TradingIA signs with on every order.

    Key type › System-generated

  3. 3. Name it

    Label it so you recognize it at a glance the day you want to revoke it, without touching your other keys.

    Label › TradingIA-spot

  4. 4. Complete verification

    The exchange will ask for two-factor and, depending on the case, a code by email or SMS. Without advanced identity verification it won't let you create the key.

    2FA › Email › SMS

  5. 5. Set the permissions

    Reading and spot trading enabled; withdrawal, never. This is the step that ensures your funds can't leave the exchange.

    See the table

  6. 6. Add the IP whitelist

    Restrict the key to our address: it will only respond from TradingIA servers. Many exchanges expire unrestricted keys.

    See the IP on the dashboard

Ready to connect?

Keep the key and secret you just generated at hand. Pasting them into TradingIA is all that's left.

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