Getting started
Sign in, get your account ready to trade, and place your first order, step by step.
This page walks you from a cold start to a live order. Nothing here happens automatically. Every step that moves money is signed by you, in your browser.
What you need first
- A wallet you control, or an email or passkey. Sign-in runs through Privy, so you do not need a wallet to begin. Privy can provision one for you.
- A little USDC if you want to use the paid AI suggestions. That funds your Agent Wallet, which is separate from your trading collateral. See self-custody for why those two are kept apart.
The short version
1. Sign in
Authenticate with Privy using a wallet, email, or passkey. Your keys stay yours the whole time.
2. Get ready to trade
Pick a venue and complete its one-time onboarding. For Hyperliquid that is a first deposit, then two signing approvals.
3. Trade
Place an order yourself, or ask the AI for a suggestion and push it into the order ticket. You confirm every order.
Step 1: Sign in
Click connect and choose how you want to authenticate. You can link an external wallet like MetaMask, or use email or a passkey, in which case Privy provisions an embedded wallet for you. Either way your identity across the app is your Privy DID, and your keys are never exposed to our servers.
There is no "create an account" step in the usual sense, and no platform balance. You are signing in, not depositing.
Step 2: Get your account ready to trade
Trading at a real venue needs a one-time readiness flow called Venue Onboarding. It runs in your browser and you sign each step.
For Hyperliquid the order is fixed:
- First deposit. Fund your trading account at the venue. This is a one-time milestone. Withdrawing later does not undo it.
- Approve an agent wallet for signing. This lets your orders be signed without a popup on every action.
- Approve the builder fee. A small routing approval the venue needs.
The two signing approvals read live from the chain, so they can reopen if you tear that setup down later, for example by revoking the agent. That is correct. You genuinely cannot route orders without them in place.
Funded once is not the same as fundable now
"Have you ever funded this account" and "can this account trade right now" are two different questions. The first is the one-time First Deposit milestone. The second, called Tradeable Funds, is a live check at the Place Order button. You can pass the first and fail the second after a full withdrawal.
Step 3: Place an order
You have two ways in.
Do it yourself. Pick a market, set your size and leverage, and place the order. The ticket, charts, orderbook, and positions table work the same on every venue, because each venue plugs in behind one shared port. See DEX aggregation.
Ask the AI. Open the suggestion sheet, type a symbol, and optionally add a style, a strategy, a margin amount, and a leverage. You do not pick long or short. The engine tells you the direction. It asks several AI providers at once, merges their answers, and returns one of three results: a directional idea, a delta-neutral result, or a no-trade result. A directional idea can prefill the order ticket. You still review and confirm it. See AI suggestions.
Placing an order is always a separate action your wallet signs, sent straight to the venue, with no server in the path.
What it costs
Two cost streams, kept fully separate:
- Trading fees are charged by the venue on your trades, and paid from your trading collateral.
- AI suggestion calls are charged per call and paid from your Agent Wallet in USDC.
The fees page breaks both down.