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How do I start live trading?

Paper first. Then create a Binance API key — Spot trading on, withdrawals off, locked to your box IP. Paste it in the app and tap Go live. Real money. You can still steer strategy, stop-loss, take-profit, and size on an open trade.

Paper first. Then a Binance API key. Then Go live. That is how this Binance trading bot starts live trading. Live is real money on binance.comOpens in a new tab Spot.

Do not skip paper. How paper trading works →

This is a binance.com API key. Not testnet. Free. Do it on a computer. The secret is shown once.

Binance will not turn on Spot trading without a trusted IP. CryptoBud emails you the IP for your cloud box. Find that mail first.

  1. On binance.comOpens in a new tab: Profile icon → Account → API Management → Create API
  2. Complete 2FA
  3. Turn on: Enable Reading, Enable Spot & Margin Trading
  4. Leave Enable Withdrawals off. If the key can send coins off Binance, bud refuses it
  5. Turn on Restrict access to trusted IPs only and paste the IP from the email
  6. Copy the API key and the secret

That key only works from your box. Binance’s own steps: How to create API keys on BinanceOpens in a new tab

In the iPhone app or the web app, open your server → Go live.

  • Mode: Binance.com (real money)
  • Paste the API key and secret
  • Confirm

A bad key stays on the sheet with an error. Do not wait for a wallet number here.

Go live copies your paper pairs, style, and budget onto Live. Paper keeps running. Open lots and paper profit stay on paper. Live starts a fresh book.

The bot trades USDT on Binance Spot. Fiat you deposit is not that.

On binance.comOpens in a new tab: Wallet → Fiat and Spot. Deposit, then convert that fiat to USDT. Leave it on Spot. Funding, Earn, and Futures stay put. The bot cannot spend those.

No Spot USDT means no live buys.

The key does not pick a budget. After Go live, tap the Wallet tile. Type how much this bot may trade. Apply.

Fit to wallet is a tap, not automatic. Use it if you want the budget to match the Spot USDT you just put there. If Fit shows $0, the coins never landed on Spot.

Two live Bud Boxes, or a live sandbox, on the same Binance account: do not tap Fit and trust the number. Each tap sees the same Spot total. The other bot is invisible. Split the USDT yourself. Type the share for this bot.

Do not run live on a sandbox if you can help it. You or Bud Intelligence can delete a sandbox. The Bud Box stays. Put real-money keys on the main Bud Box.

$1,000 on Spot and two live bots? Set $500 and $500. Or $700 and $300. You pick. Fit to wallet would put $1,000 on each.

Trades can leave crumbs too small to sell. Convert those in the Binance app. What to do with leftover coins →

Trades pay Binance’s usual Spot fees. Usually 0.1%.

More than one server on the same wallet →

Do not dump every paper pair into live. Pick a winner.

  1. Long press on the server in live mode → Set Binance key
  2. Long press on the pair in paper mode: Promote → destination Live

Promote copies that pair’s strategy and risk. Positions do not come along. You can leave the pair disabled on arrival and turn it on when you are ready.

Use Go live when you want the whole setup. Use Promote when you want one pair. Check the test-then-promote loop →

Yes. You can change the stop-loss on an open live trade, and the rest of the plan with it.

Long press the pair → Strategy. Then change what you want:

  • Stop loss and Take profit
  • Trailing stop
  • How big the pair can get — Max position, Max lots
  • Entry logic — what the crypto trading bot watches before it buys

Tap Apply. Open lots use the new exits. New buys use the new plan. Each knob on that sheet →

The market turns and the stop-loss is close? Widen it and give the trade more room. Want out sooner? Tighten it. Same sheet.

Need the bot off right now? Pause or Stop on the Live tab. Sell a lot with Take now. How to stop live trading →

  • Withdrawals on → create a new key with withdrawals off
  • Spot trading off → turn on Enable Spot & Margin Trading
  • Wrong IP → the email IP, not your phone’s IP
  • Binance.US key on Binance.com (real money) → pick Binance.us (real money) instead. Those are different exchanges.
  • Testnet key on Binance.com (real money) → will not work. Those are different keys

Paper is the CryptoBud test. Testnet is extra: the live path with fake USDT, orders hitting Binance’s matching engine. Do that on a sandbox (tap + → New Sandbox), then Go live with Binance Testnet (fake money). Keys come from testnet.binance.visionOpens in a new tab. Host Go live with testnet works; it latches that box’s live book to testnet but is irreversible.

CryptoBud can run paper, live testnet, live on binance.com, and live on binance.us. Pick the venue in Go live or Set Binance Key. A Bud Box runs one live venue. To change it, close open live lots, then email [email protected]. Terms of Use →

Keys live on your private cloud box. How exchange access stays scoped →