Trader's guide

Master the Pro Terminal

A deep-dive reference: every order type, every hotkey, the risk controls, the automation, the engine, and the honest FAQ — in one place.

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Order types

Twelve ways to enter a position

The right order type saves more money than any strategy. Pick from a spec-compliant library of 12.

Market

Fill immediately at best available price. Highest slippage risk.

Limit

Fill only at a specified price or better. Adds maker liquidity.

Stop-market

Trigger a market order when price hits your stop. Used to cut losses fast.

Stop-limit

Trigger a limit order at stop-price. Precision cost: may not fill in fast markets.

OCO

One-cancels-other. Pair take-profit with stop-loss. Cancel one, cancel both.

TWAP

Time-weighted average: break large order into timed slices to minimize impact.

VWAP

Volume-weighted: slice execution to follow real-time volume profile.

Iceberg

Show only a fraction of your order. Hide size from orderbook to avoid gaming.

Post-only

Reject the order if it would take liquidity. Guarantees maker fee / rebate.

FOK

Fill-or-kill: fill the full size instantly or cancel entirely. No partials.

IOC

Immediate-or-cancel: fill what you can now, cancel the remainder.

Trailing stop

Stop trails the best price by a set offset. Locks in profit as market moves your way.

Hotkeys

Trade at the speed of your keyboard

Customizable bindings for every terminal action. Defaults below — remap any of them from Settings → Shortcuts.

Order entry

Buy at marketShift+B
Sell at marketShift+S
Cancel all ordersCtrl+Shift+X
Flatten positionCtrl+F
Switch to limitL
Switch to marketM
Post-only toggleP
Reduce-only toggleR

Size slider

25% / 50% / 75% / 100%1·2·3·4
Nudge size +1%Shift+↑
Nudge size −1%Shift+↓

Chart & workspace

Open command palette⌘/Ctrl+K
Search pair/
Toggle depth chartD
Toggle orderbook sizesO
Full-screen chartF
Switch timeframe[·]
Indicator listI
Drawing toolsT

Workspaces

Save layoutCtrl+S
Switch workspace 1–9Alt+1…9
Pop chart to new windowCtrl+N
Engine

Benchmarks, not adjectives

Numbers pulled from this week's production telemetry. Rolling 7-day averages, published hourly on the Status page.

1.42MMatching engine TPS
0.8msMedian ack latency
99.995%12-month uptime
0.02%Avg BTC/USDT spread

Co-located execution

Servers in AWS us-east-1, eu-west-1, ap-northeast-1 and Equinix NY4. Pro subscribers get dedicated cross-connects with sub-100µs added latency.

Dedicated WS channels

Premium WS multiplexing gives you isolated channels for book, trades, fills and account — no shared rate limits across symbols.

Self-trade prevention

3 STP modes (cancel-taker / cancel-maker / cancel-both) for sophisticated accounts running multiple trading bots on one exchange account.

Automation

Every button is also an API call

Whatever you can click in the Pro Terminal, you can drive from REST, WebSocket or FIX 4.4. Production SDKs in 5 languages, end-to-end typed.

RESTJSON over HTTPS, 3000 req/s.
WebSocketLive books, trades, fills, account.
FIX 4.4For institutional clients, co-lo eligible.
WebhooksSigned callbacks on orders and fills.
Open API docs Trading bots
place_order.py 
from exbit import Client
import os

client = Client(
    api_key=os.environ["EXBIT_KEY"],
    api_secret=os.environ["EXBIT_SECRET"],
)

# Place a post-only BTC limit order
order = client.orders.place(
    symbol="BTC-USDT",
    side="buy",
    type="limit",
    price=94_180.50,
    quantity=0.125,
    time_in_force="GTC",
    post_only=True,
)

print(order.id, order.status)  # → "OPEN"
Risk controls

Trade aggressively, sleep calmly

Optional guardrails you set once and forget. All enforced server-side so no client-bug can override them.

Daily loss cap

Auto-liquidate and block new orders if daily realized + unrealized loss exceeds a user-set %. Cooling-off until next UTC day.

Max position size

Cap notional per symbol. Orders exceeding the cap are pre-rejected at the REST gateway, not in the matching engine.

Self-trade prevention

3 STP modes for multi-bot accounts. Choose cancel-taker, cancel-maker, or cancel-both per strategy.

Dead-man's switch

If your bot stops sending heartbeats, the exchange auto-cancels all its open orders after your chosen TTL.

Withdrawal allowlist

Only pre-approved addresses can receive withdrawals. New entries incur a 24h cool-down before use.

2FA + anti-phishing code

TOTP, FIDO2, YubiKey, and a personal anti-phishing header prefix visible on every official email.

Pro FAQ

Answers for serious traders

Is there a cost to use the Pro Terminal?

No. The Pro Terminal is free for any verified Exbit account. Maker/taker trading fees are exactly the same whether you trade from the basic UI, Pro Terminal, API, or FIX gateway.

Can I customize the layout?

Yes — every panel can be dragged, resized, stacked into tabs, popped into a second monitor, or hidden. Save up to 9 named workspaces and cycle with Alt+1–9.

Which indicators are supported?

All 100+ TradingView indicators plus our own: CVD, liquidation heat-map, open-interest delta, funding-rate overlay, large-order flow, and volume-profile by session (Asia / London / NY).

Can I trade from the orderbook?

Yes. Click any price in the orderbook to pre-fill the order form. Right-click any price for a context menu: ladder-buy to this level, cancel orders beyond, or set an alert.

What rate limits apply to Pro API accounts?

Standard: 3,000 REST req/s. Pro-tier (by volume or EXB held): up to 10,000 REST req/s plus dedicated WebSocket channels. FIX 4.4 sessions support burst rates of 60,000 msgs/min.

How do you prevent wash trading and spoofing?

Surveillance is continuous and AI-assisted. Self-trade prevention is baked into the matching engine. Suspicious flow gets flagged and escalated to our compliance team, with automatic reporting to relevant regulators under MiCA and the Travel Rule.

Does the terminal work offline?

In limited mode, yes. Our PWA caches the last 60 minutes of charts and your latest positions/orders for read-only review if your connection drops. Order placement and modifications require live connectivity.

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