KuCoin Trading Bot, Without the Code

KuCoin lists a long tail of altcoins alongside the majors, which makes it popular with traders who want to automate smaller pairs. Smaller pairs also mean thinner order books, so a strategy's position size deserves more thought here than on BTC/USDT.

TradeFIQ connects to KuCoin spot and KuCoin futures. Your strategy's rules decide when to trade; the automation's budget decides how much, and a capital stop closes a position before it can lose more than that budget allows.

What you can automate on KuCoin

• Spot or futures. Each KuCoin 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 KuCoin to TradeFIQ

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

KuCoin tips for automated trading

• KuCoin requires an API passphrase. You choose it when you create the key, and TradeFIQ needs it along with the key and secret.
• Grant General and Spot (or Futures) trading. Never Transfer or Withdrawal.
• On thinner altcoin pairs, a longer timeframe (1 hour or 4 hours) usually beats a 5 minute one. Fewer trades, less slippage.

Why automate KuCoin with TradeFIQ

Most bots on KuCoin 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, Kraken and more. See all supported exchanges.