2d - Connect to Kucoin

How to connect Kucoin with CryptoTrader.app

Ensure you have read and understood the required prerequisites before continuing. Please refer to the "Must-knows" page in the left menu.

Follow the steps below to configure a Kucoin account and enable automated management of your funds.

Before proceeding, ensure that your SPOT wallet contains only USDT.

1. Main Account Synchronization

1. Log in to your Kucoin account.

2. In the Asset Overview tab, ensure that the funds allocated to our automated strategy are in the trading account and not in the funding account.

3. Click here to access the page for generating new API keys.

4. Next, click on the Create API button.

5. In the API-based Trading section, label your key by naming it CryptoTrader, then add CryptoTrader#100 for the API's Passphrase:

1. Check only the Spot Trading box in the API restrictions:

1. Click on Yes in the IP Restriction, then add the following two IP addresses, separating them with a comma. Then click on Add:

   • 35.195.13.37

   • 89.184.13.176

1. Click on Next.

Your API keys have been successfully generated. Before proceeding to the final step located in the left menu of this documentation under the section '3 - Link to CryptoTrader', please make sure to keep the window containing the newly created public and private keys open, or copy them into a temporary file.

Synchronizing a Sub-Account

It is possible to connect a Kucoin sub-account instead of your main account.

This will allow you to host our automated strategy while the main account is used for your own trading operations.

1. Click here to access the page for generating a new sub-account.
2. Then click on the Create Sub account button.

3. Complete the following steps:

   • Sub-Account Name: CryptoTrader

   • Permissions: Spot

   • Add a login password

   • Account type: General sub-account

   • Click on: Save

1. Click on Transfer, perform the transfer to your sub-account of the funds you wish to allocate to our automated strategy, then click on Confirm:

1. Click on Settings, then on View API. On this new page, click on Create API.

2. In the API-based Trading section, label your key by naming it CryptoTrader, then add CryptoTrader#100 for the API's Passphrase:

1. Check only the Spot Trading box in the API restrictions:

1. Click on Yes in the IP Restriction, then add the following two IP addresses, separating them with a comma. Then click on Add:

   • 35.195.13.37

   • 89.184.13.176

1. Click on Next.

Your API keys have been successfully generated. Before proceeding to the final step located in the left menu of this documentation under the section '3 - Link to CryptoTrader', please make sure to keep the window containing the newly created public and private keys open, or copy them into a temporary file.