Kraken Trading Bot, Without the Code

Kraken is one of the longest-running exchanges in crypto and is known for putting security and regulation first. That makes it a natural choice for traders who want automation on an exchange they already trust with savings.

TradeFIQ connects to Kraken spot and Kraken's futures platform. You pick the market per connection, and each automation trades within its own budget, so your long-term holdings on the same account stay untouched.

What you can automate on Kraken

• Spot or futures. Each Kraken connection trades one market; add both if you use both.
• Indicator strategies without code. RSI, MACD, moving average crossovers, Bollinger Bands, Stochastic, ADX, Supertrend, Ichimoku, Smart Money Concepts, candlestick patterns and more, combined with rules like "crosses above" or "is below".
• Your schedule. Every 15 minutes, hourly, daily at 9am or once a week, in your own timezone.
• Risk rules on every trade. Stop-loss, take-profit and trailing stops, set once in a risk profile and reused.
• A hard budget. Give an automation $200 of a $5,000 balance and it trades with $200. That's the most it can lose.

How to connect Kraken to TradeFIQ

1. On Kraken, go to Kraken Pro → Settings → API → Create API key.
2. Give the key trading permission for the market you want (spot or futures). Leave withdrawals off.
3. In TradeFIQ, open Settings → Exchanges → Add exchange, choose Kraken, pick spot or futures and paste the key and secret.
4. TradeFIQ checks the key with Kraken straight away, so a typo shows up now rather than at your first trade.

Kraken tips for automated trading

• For spot, create the key in Kraken Pro with Query Funds, Query Open Orders & Trades and Create & Modify Orders. Leave Withdraw Funds off.
• Kraken's futures platform issues its own separate API keys. Add those as a second connection if you trade both.
• Holding coins long term on the same account? Give the automation a budget well below your balance. It can never touch more than that.

Why automate Kraken with TradeFIQ

Most bots on Kraken get one setting wrong in the same way: they can see the whole balance. TradeFIQ gives every automation its own capital budget, sizes trades from it, and closes a position before it can lose more than the budget allows. If the budget runs out, the automation stops and tells you why.

Changed your mind about a stop-loss while a trade is open? Edit the running trade's rules without closing the position. Not sure a strategy works yet? Run it with paper money on live prices or backtest it first, then switch the same automation to live.

Trading on more than one exchange? The same strategies work on all 9 we support, including Binance, Bybit, OKX, KuCoin and more. See all supported exchanges.