What is Real/Live Trading and How to Invest in Real mode
Real or live trading refers to the actual buying and selling of financial instruments in the real market, using real money. Unlike demo trading, real trading involves the use of actual funds and exposes traders to the real market conditions, including market volatility and liquidity.
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Once you're logged in into Vestinda app, you can use our ready-made trading strategies from the Strategy Library or create your own trading strategy using our no-code builder either from scratch or starting from a template.
Read more on how to get started with trading strategies:
Step 1
Depending on whether you have created your own strategy (either from scratch or from a template) or you have chosen a strategy from the Library, you can to start Real Investing in a few different ways.
Go to the the Strategy details page.
- If you're just building your strategy, you'll see the "Backtest" button on the right side of your screen. Click on the dropdown arrow next to it and then click on "Start Real Investing".
- If the strategy was already created:
- If you're on the "Demo Investing" tab or any other tab than "Real Investing": click on the dropdown arrow next to the button on the right and then click on "Start Real Investing".
- if you're on the "Real Investing" tab: click on the "Start Real Investing" button.
- If you're on the "Demo Investing" tab or any other tab than "Real Investing": click on the dropdown arrow next to the button on the right and then click on "Start Real Investing".
Click on the " Invest Using This Strategy" button from the top right.
Step 2
Once you've clicked on "Start Real Investing" / "Invest Using This Strategy", you'll see the "Real Investing" overlay.
Here you can select the Exchange on which you want to invest in Real mode, the asset and the Amount to invest with each trade.
Note
You must have an account with one of the Crypto Exchanges currently integrated.
More details about Crypto Exchanges and how to connect them to Vestinda can be found here: https://help.vestinda.com/category/28-connect-exchange
Step 3
Once you've selected an exchange and filled in a value inside the "Amount to invest with each trade" field, click on the "Start Real Investing" button.
You need to have enough balance in your account in the asset on the right side of the pair. In the example above, you need balance in EUR to be able to trade live.
When you start a strategy with Vestinda, your trading is managed automatically by the platform. This means that it will open and close positions according to the rules set for the strategy.
You can always manage you open positions also manually. See how to do it here: Manage open positions
Congrats! 🎉
You're now automating your crypto investments using real money.