Crypto Trading

Supported brokers

See Broker Support. The Crypto rows show which brokers trade crypto.

Pair format

Send the base coin and the quote currency. Any common separator works:

EZPZ Trader converts the pair to each exchange's own format. The quote currency must be one the exchange trades the coin against.

{
    "ticker": "BTCUSD",
    "action": "buy",
    "quantityType": "dollar_amount",
    "quantity": 500
}

Long only

Crypto is long only: buy opens or adds to a position, and sell or exit closes it. A sell never opens a short, and a reverse closes the long without opening a short.

Fractional quantities

Crypto is almost always traded in fractions. Turn on Allow fractional quantity in the subscription's Position Size. With it off, quantities are rounded down to whole coins: a 0.4 BTC order becomes 0 and is skipped, and a fixed quantity below 1 becomes 1.

Quantities are also fitted to each exchange's own step size and minimum order.

Dust

Selling a whole position can leave a tiny amount behind, called dust, that's below the exchange's minimum order size. Dust can't be sold, so EZPZ Trader treats a position that's only dust as closed.

Market hours

Crypto trades 24/7, so crypto signals are never queued for an open.

Time in force

Exchanges limit the time in force for crypto orders, usually to GTC or IOC. The subscription form only offers what the exchange accepts.