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Configuring Futures Strategies and Margin in OctoBot

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Summary

The document explains how OctoBot supports automated futures trading through several trading modes: DCA, Dip Analyser, TradingView, and Daily. It names Binance, Bybit, and Kucoin as supported exchanges, with regional and account limitations for some venues.

Leverage is configured within the enabled trading mode in a profile, and the leverage control appears only when futures trading is enabled for that exchange. The platform currently supports isolated margin; the document advises against using cross margin. It describes platform configuration rather than a trading signal or tested strategy, and provides no performance evidence or discussion of futures risk beyond margin-mode support and availability restrictions.

Key ideas

  • OctoBot supports futures trading through DCA, Dip Analyser, TradingView, and Daily modes.
  • Binance, Bybit, and Kucoin are listed as supported exchanges, subject to stated access restrictions.
  • Leverage is set in the enabled trading mode's profile configuration.
  • Futures must be enabled for an exchange before the leverage setting appears.
  • OctoBot supports isolated margin and does not support cross margin for this use.

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# Futures Trading with OctoBot


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description: "OctoBot can be used to trade Futures using configured strategies TradingView on Binance, Bybit, Kucoin and OKX."
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# Futures Trading with OctoBot

OctoBot can be used to configure and automate many Futures trading strategies on multiple exchanges exchanges. 

## Supported Trading Modes
The following [Trading Modes](../octobot-trading-modes/trading-modes) can be used to trade using Futures:
- [DCA Trading Mode](../octobot-trading-modes/dca-trading-mode)
- [Dip Analyser Trading Mode](../octobot-trading-modes/dip-analyser-trading-mode)
- [TradingView Trading Mode](../octobot-trading-modes/tradingview-trading-mode)
- [Daily Trading Mode](../octobot-trading-modes/daily-trading-mode)

## Supported exchanges
The following exchanges can be used to trade Futures on OctoBot:
- [Binance](exchanges/binance) (not supported in the EU)
- [Bybit](exchanges/bybit) (only working with standard (non-UTA) accounts, which have to exist already, because they cannot be created anymore)
- [Kucoin](exchanges/kucoin) (not available in Europe yet)

## Leverage configuration

The current Futures trading leverage value to use with a profile can be set from the configuration page of your enabled Trading Mode, which is accessible from your [profile configuration](../octobot-configuration/profile-configuration).
![access octobot trading mode config from profiles](/images/guides/configuration/access-octobot-trading-mode-config-from-profiles.png)

Note: futures trading must be enabled on your profile exchange for the leverage setting to appear in your trading mode configuration. 

## Cross and Isolated margin

For now, only Isolated margin is supported by OctoBot. Cross margin should not be used to trade with OctoBot.

Shown in full with attribution under the source's licence. Licence: GPL-3.0

This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.