Crypto Spot Trading

TradersPost supports buying and selling (not shorting) spot crypto through the following brokers.

TradersPost Crypto Strategy Setup Demo

Supported Brokers

Automating spot crypto: buying and selling, not shorting

Crypto on TradersPost is spot trading. You buy and sell coins on the account you connect, and a few connection specific rules decide what a strategy is allowed to do.

Tickers are base and quote pairs

Send base, a dash, then quote. TradersPost converts it for each exchange.

One ticker

BTC

Base

the coin

USD

Quote

what you pay with

  • BTC-USDBase, dash, quote Accepted
  • ETH-USDCA different quote currency Accepted
  • BTCUSDInvalid crypto ticker format Rejected
Pairs are separate markets: BTC-USD + BTC-USDT =2 positionstoward a maximum position count

One pair, written the way each exchange expects

What you send and what each exchange receives.

Bitcoin in US dollars

Crypto

You send BTC-USD

  • Coinbase

    BTC-USD

  • Alpaca

    BTC/USD

  • Kraken

    BTCUSD

  • Crypto.com

    BTC_USD

TradersPost converts the symbol before it places the order. See the crypto symbol format docs.

Leftover balances still count as positions

On Coinbase, a holding above the minimum tradable size, usually about $1.50 or more, is a position in TradersPost.

Example small wallets

  • ETH$1.90 Counts
  • SOL$2.40 Counts
  • DOGE$1.60 Counts
  • ADA$0.40 Below minimum

Max strategy positions

3 of 3

New alertbuy BTC-USD Rejected

The small wallets already use up the limit, so new orders can be rejected. Raise the maximum or clear the balances.

Coinbase default quote currency USD USDC USDT DAI GBP EUR

Chosen when you connect Coinbase, with USD as the default. TradersPost uses it to close or exit a position, and falls back to USD when the coin has no market in that currency.

Order support by connection

What each connection that trades crypto accepts, as TradersPost sends it.

Supported Limited Not supported

Alpaca tastytrade Coinbase Kraken Bybit Binance Crypto.com Public.com
Direction
Long Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Short Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Sizing
Fractional quantity Supported 1 Supported 2 Supported 1 Supported 1 Supported 1 Supported 1 Supported 1 Supported 3
Order types
Market Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Limit Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Stop Limited 4 Not supported Limited 4 Supported Limited 4 Supported Supported Supported
Stop limit Supported Not supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Trailing stop Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Time in force
Day Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported
Good till canceled Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported
Immediate or cancel Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Supported Not supported
Fill or kill Not supported Not supported Supported Not supported Supported Supported Supported Not supported
At the open Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
At the close Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Attached exits
Bracket / OCO / OTO Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Trailing stop attached Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
Accounts
Paper trading Supported Not supported Not supported Not supported Supported Not supported Not supported Not supported
  1. 1 Up to 9 decimal places.
  2. 2 Up to 8 decimal places.
  3. 3 Up to 6 decimal places.
  4. 4 Stop-limit only. Plain stop orders are not offered.

If you have any questions about our crypto support, you can email us at [email protected]