Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers to the most common questions about HypeTrade.

Credits & Billing

What the Bot Does

Supported Exchanges

Security

Tier Differences

HypeTrade offers two subscription tiers. Both get full trading capabilities — Pro unlocks AI features and more backtest capacity.

Refund Policy

When you switch between Standard and Pro tiers, we calculate a fair refund based on two factors:

1. Time remaining in your current billing period
2. Credits remaining from your monthly allotment

If you haven't used any of your monthly credits, you get a full refund for the remaining time — no penalty. If you've used some credits, the refund is proportionally reduced: the more credits you've used, the smaller the refund.

Example

Say you're on Pro ($69/mo) with a 30-day billing cycle:

• You're 15 days in → 50% time remaining
• You've used 100 of your 200 monthly credits → 50% credits remaining
• Refund = 50% time × 50% credits = 25% of $69 = $17.25

But if you haven't touched your credits at all:

• 15 days in → 50% time remaining
• 200 of 200 credits remaining → unused account protection kicks in
• Refund = 50% of $69 = $34.50 (no credit penalty)

Beginner's Guide

Quick Start (30 Seconds)

Getting your bot trading takes about 30 seconds:

1. Sign up and complete onboarding — you'll choose a preset and enter your Hyperliquid wallet private key
2. You land on the Dashboard (Live tab)
3. Press "Start Bot" — that's it. The bot begins trading with whichever preset you chose during onboarding.

The bot starts running in the cloud immediately. No installation, no server setup. It trades 24/7 until you stop it.

Choosing a Preset

Navigate to the Setup tab. You'll see three built-in presets — each represents a different trading personality:

Click a preset → all settings auto-populate. You can start trading immediately or fine-tune the individual settings.

Pro Features: Custom Configuration

Beyond the presets, every setting is individually customizable from the Setup tab. This is where experienced traders dial in their edge. Settings are organized into sections:

General Settings

These control your core risk parameters — how much you trade and when the bot enters or exits.

Advanced Settings (Exit Behavior)

Fine-tune how the bot manages positions after entry — trailing stops, profit targets, and exit timing.

Indicator Weights

Each of the 15 technical indicators contributes to the composite score. Higher weight = more influence on trade decisions. Weights should sum to approximately 15.0.

Indicator Sub-Settings

Each indicator has its own configuration — thresholds, periods, and sensitivity controls. Click the ⚙️ gear icon next to any indicator in the weight table to open its specific settings.

For example:

• RSI: Overbought level (default 70), oversold level (default 30), period
• BBW: Squeeze threshold — how narrow the bands need to be to signal a breakout
• MACD: Fast/slow periods, signal line period
• OFI: Imbalance threshold for triggering a signal
• Elliott Wave: Minimum wave confidence, lookback period

These are power-user controls. The defaults are sensible for most market conditions — only adjust if you understand the indicator's behavior.

Save & Apply

After configuring your settings:

1. Name your config — enter a name in the config name field at the top of the Setup tab. This saves it to your personal preset library.
2. Click "Save" — stores the configuration. You can load it later from the preset dropdown.
3. Click "Apply" — saves your settings to the bot's configuration file. If the bot is running, you must Stop and Start it to pick up new settings. The bot reads config.json once at boot — there is no hot-reload.

Live Tab

After applying settings, the app navigates to the Live tab automatically. This is your real-time dashboard — everything you need to monitor at a glance.

Bot Status Bar

At the top you'll see:

• LIVE indicator — green when the bot is actively running
• Symbol badge — which asset the bot is trading (e.g., ETH, BTC, SOL)
• PID — process ID of the bot task (useful for support)
• Uptime — how long the bot has been running this session

Position Card

When the bot holds an open position, you'll see:

• Entry price — the price at which the position was opened
• Current P&L — unrealized profit/loss in real time
• Unrealized % — P&L as a percentage of entry
• Leverage — the effective leverage on this trade

Metric Cards

• Composite Score — the combined indicator signal (-1.0 to +1.0). This is the number that drives trade decisions.
• Decision — LONG / SHORT / HOLD based on the composite vs. your thresholds
• Volatility — current market volatility reading
• Wave Phase — current Elliott Wave position (Wave 1–5 or corrective), with trend bias (bullish/bearish/neutral)

Indicator Breakdown

Below the metric cards, you'll see each individual indicator's contribution to the composite score. This helps you understand why the bot is making a particular decision — which indicators are bullish, which are bearish, and how much each one contributes.

Session Balance Chart

A live chart showing your account balance over time with adaptive bucketing — automatically adjusts time resolution based on how long your session has been running. Useful for tracking balance trends within a single bot session.

Exit Reason Codes

When a position closes, the position card displays the exit reason as a color-coded badge:

• TSL — Trailing Stop Loss triggered
• MXL — Max Loss (hard stop) hit
• GnG — Grab & Go target reached
• FLP — Signal Flip (composite score reversed direction)

Gann Fan Visualization

An interactive Gann Fan angle display rendered directly on the Live tab. Visualizes the geometric price-time angles used by the Gann Fan indicator for support and resistance levels.

Real-Time WebSocket

The entire Live dashboard updates in real time via WebSocket — no polling. Price, P&L, indicator scores, and position data stream directly to your browser with sub-second latency.

P&L Tab

The P&L (Profit & Loss) tab gives you a comprehensive view of your trading performance.

Cumulative P&L Chart

A running total of your realized gains and losses over time. The line trends up when you're profitable, down when you're losing. Useful for spotting sustained profitable periods vs. drawdowns.

Trade History Table

Individual trades listed with entry price, exit price, P&L (both percentage and cash), and trade duration. Sortable and filterable by time range.

Performance Metrics

• Win Rate — percentage of trades that were profitable
• Average Win / Loss — how much you make on winners vs. lose on losers
• Sharpe Ratio — risk-adjusted return. >1.0 is good, >2.0 is excellent
• Max Drawdown — worst peak-to-trough decline — your actual worst-case experience

Config Performance

See which preset or config was active during which trades. Helps you compare whether your manual tuning is outperforming the base presets.

AI Optimization (Pro only)

The AI tab is where HypeTrade's machine intelligence adapts your strategy over time. Available on the Pro tier.

AI Optimizer Frequency

A slider from 500 to 5,000 cycles controls how often the AI reviews your bot's recent performance and suggests adjustments to weights, thresholds, and exit parameters.

The AI reviews your bot's recent performance data and proposes incremental improvements — changing values by 10–30% at most. Over time, this creates a compounding optimization effect.

AI Optimization Whitelist (Pro)

Control exactly which settings the AI is allowed to adjust. This is organized by section:

• Entry Rules — long/short threshold percentages
• Exit Rules — TSL, decay, wave multipliers, grab-and-go
• Indicator Weights — all 15 indicator weights
• Indicator Sub-Settings — thresholds per indicator (RSI overbought/oversold, BBW, etc.)

Backtesting

Test your strategy against historical data before risking real money. Backtesting uses credits (see Credits & Billing).

Credits Required

Every backtest costs credits based on symbols and lookback days. The formula: base + (0.2 × lookback_days). The exact cost is displayed before you run — review it and confirm.

Symbol Selection

• All Symbols — tests against every Hyperliquid perpetual. Comprehensive but costs more credits (50 base Standard / 25 base Pro).
• Multiple — use the dropdown to select specific symbols. Good for comparing a few assets.
• Single — pick one symbol for focused analysis. Cheapest option (1 credit base).

Lookback Days

Choose 1–7 days of historical data. More days = more data points = more robust results, but costs slightly more credits (0.2 per day).

Understanding Results

After the backtest completes, you get a comprehensive results view:

• Sort by P&L — which symbols made/lost the most money with your config
• Sort by Win % — which symbols have the highest win rate
• Sort by Sharpe Ratio — risk-adjusted returns (the best single metric for comparing performance)

Chart markers:

• ● Cyan = entry points
• ● Gold = winning exits
• ● Magenta = losing exits

Below each chart you'll see per-symbol metrics: P&L, trade count, win rate, and Sharpe ratio.

Dropped Symbol Refunds

If any symbols are dropped during a backtest — either because of data errors or because no trading signals were generated — you'll automatically receive a credit refund.

• Per-symbol backtests: 1 credit refunded per dropped symbol
• "All symbols" backtests: Already discounted, no partial refunds (unless zero symbols complete — full refund)
• The lookback day fee (0.2 × days) is only refunded if no symbols were processed at all
• A popup will show exactly which symbols were dropped and why

"Dropped" means either:

1. The symbol errored out (data couldn't be fetched or processed)
2. The symbol had zero trades (your settings didn't generate any signals for that symbol)

AI Strategy Feedback (Pro)

After a backtest completes, Pro users can get AI-powered analysis:

1. Select a symbol to analyze (or analyze all)
2. Wait for analysis — the AI reviews your results and generates reasoning + suggested parameter changes
3. Review the suggestions — the AI explains why it's recommending each change, referencing patterns across symbols
4. Save as a new preset — the suggested config becomes available in your preset dropdown
5. Iterate — backtest again with the new config, get more feedback, refine until improvements plateau

Trades Tab

A complete log of every trade your bot has executed:

• Entry/exit timestamps — exact time in and time out
• Symbol — which asset was traded
• Direction — long or short
• P&L per trade — both percentage and cash value
• Exit reason code — why the trade closed (TSL, MXL, GnG, FLP)
• Duration — how long the position was held
• Active preset — which config was running when the trade was made

Filterable by time period (1h, 6h, 24h, 7d, 30d, all). Use this alongside the P&L tab to audit individual trades and understand what went right or wrong.

CSV Export

Download your trade history as a CSV file with date-range filtering. Select a start and end date, then export — useful for tax reporting, external analysis, or record keeping.

Copy Trading (Pro only)

Mirror the trades of any Hyperliquid wallet — no permission needed. Paste a wallet address and HypeTrade handles the rest.

How It Works

1. Paste any Hyperliquid wallet address — find a top trader on the leaderboard or enter an address you already follow
2. Choose allocation mode:
   • Proportional — mirrors the trader's position sizes relative to their account balance
   • Concentrated — uses your full configured position size regardless of the source trader's sizing
3. Choose timing:
   • Immediate entry — copies existing open positions right away
   • Wait for next trade — only enters when the source wallet opens a new position

Leaderboard Discovery

Browse the built-in leaderboard to find top-performing Hyperliquid traders. Sort by P&L, win rate, or trade frequency to find wallets worth copying.

Copy History & P&L

Track every copied trade with full P&L visibility. See which source wallets are generating profits and which aren't — adjust or stop copying accordingly.

Fees

Marketplace

Buy proven strategy presets from other traders — or sell your own configs with live performance tracking.

Buying Presets

• Browse listings — see strategy presets from other HypeTrade users with live performance data (win rate, P&L, Sharpe ratio)
• Credit-based purchases — buy presets using your HypeTrade credits
• Instant load — purchased presets appear in your preset dropdown immediately

Selling Presets

• List your configs — publish any saved preset to the marketplace with a credit price you set
• Live performance tracking — your listing shows real-time stats from your bot's actual trading results
• 7-day listing expiry — listings with zero sales are automatically removed after 7 days to keep the marketplace fresh
• 7.77% commission — HypeTrade takes a 7.77% commission on each sale

Seller Dashboard

Track your marketplace earnings, see which presets are selling, and claim your earnings with a single click.

Logs Tab

See what the bot is doing on its terminal — in real time.

The Logs tab streams the live output from your bot process, including:

• Cycle start/end with indicator calculations
• Trade decisions and the scores that triggered them
• Order placement and fills
• Errors and warnings
• Config load confirmations at startup

This is your debugging tool. If something seems off — the bot isn't trading when you expect, or it's making unexpected decisions — the logs show exactly what's happening and why.

Data Management

HypeTrade gives you full control over your data. From the Account tab, you'll find a Data Management panel where you can delete, restore, and permanently purge your data.

What You Can Delete

• Trade History — All trades, or only trades older than 7, 30, or 90 days
• Backtest Results — Saved backtest snapshots and data files
• Saved Presets — Custom config presets you've created
• Full Account — Request complete account deletion (30-day grace period)

How Trash Works

All deletions are soft deletes. When you delete something, it moves to Trash with a 30-day retention period. During those 30 days, you can:

• View — See what's in your trash, grouped by category and date
• Restore — Bring items back instantly, as if they were never deleted
• Force Purge — Permanently delete items immediately (requires typing "DELETE" to confirm — this cannot be undone)

After 30 days, items in trash are automatically and permanently purged.

Account Deletion

If you request account deletion, your bot will be stopped, your subscription cancelled (with a refund per the refund policy), and all data scheduled for permanent deletion after a 30-day grace period. You can cancel the deletion at any time during those 30 days and everything will be restored.

API Key Setup Guides

HypeTrade needs two API keys to function. Both can be entered during onboarding or later in the Setup → API Keys section. Tap the ℹ️ setup guide hint below each input field for step-by-step instructions.

🔑 Fresh Wallet Private Key (Required)

This is the private key from your Hyperliquid fresh wallet. The bot uses it to place trades on your behalf.

🤖 Anthropic API Key (Optional)

This key connects to Anthropic's Claude AI for strategy optimization. It's optional but enables:

• AI-powered backtest analysis (suggests config improvements)
• Live bot monitoring with dynamic adaptation (Pro)
• Automated weight/threshold tuning

How It Works

Trade Decision Flow

Every cycle, the bot follows this decision tree — from raw market data to order execution:

flowchart TD
    A["📡 Fetch Candle Data\n(Hyperliquid API)"] --> B["📊 Calculate 15 Indicators\n(RSI, MACD, VWAP, Elliott, Gann, etc.)"]
    B --> C["⚖️ Apply Weights\n(each indicator × its weight)"]
    C --> D["🎯 Composite Score\n(sum of weighted scores, -1.0 to +1.0)"]
    D --> E{"Score vs Thresholds"}
    E -->|"> long_threshold"| F["🟢 LONG\nOpen long position"]
    E -->|"< short_threshold"| G["🔴 SHORT\nOpen short position"]
    E -->|"Between thresholds"| H["⏸️ HOLD\nMaintain current state"]
    F --> I["📝 Place Order\n(market or limit)"]
    G --> I
    I --> J["🔄 Exit Management\n(TSL, decay, G&G targets)"]
    J --> K{"Exit Triggered?"}
    K -->|"Yes"| L["💰 Close Position\nRecord P&L"]
    K -->|"No"| M["↩️ Next Cycle"]
    H --> M
    L --> M

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Credit System

How credits flow through the system — from monthly allotment to usage to refund:

flowchart TD
    A["🗓️ Billing Cycle Start"] --> B["💳 Monthly Credit Refill\n(Standard: 50 / Pro: 200)"]
    B --> C["💰 Credit Balance"]
    D["🛒 Purchase Credit Pack\n(Starter/Value/Power)"] --> C
    C --> E{"Use Credits"}
    E -->|"Run Backtest"| F["📉 Deduct: symbols + (0.2 × days)\nPro gets discounted all-symbol rate"]
    E -->|"AI Analysis"| G["🧠 Deduct: 5 credits"]
    F --> H["Updated Balance"]
    G --> H
    H -->|"Balance = 0"| I["⚠️ Backtest Blocked\nLive trading continues!"]
    H -->|"Balance > 0"| C
    C -->|"Switch Tier"| J{"Refund Calculation"}
    J --> K["time_remaining% × credits_remaining%\n(or time% only if 0 credits used)"]
    K --> L["💵 Refund Issued"]

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Bot Lifecycle

From pressing "Start" to an idle shutdown — the full lifecycle of your trading bot:

flowchart TD
    A["🟢 User clicks 'Start Bot'"] --> B["📁 Provision EFS Directory\n(per-user isolated storage)"]
    B --> C["🚀 run_task on ECS Fargate\n(Standard: SPOT / Pro: On-Demand)"]
    C --> D["⏳ Task Startup\n(container pulls config, loads keys)"]
    D --> E["🔄 Polling Loop\n(fetch data → calculate → decide → execute)"]
    E --> F{"Bot State Check"}
    F -->|"Active trading"| G["📊 Execute Cycle\n(indicator calc → composite → order)"]
    G --> E
    F -->|"No position + idle timeout"| H["💤 Idle Shutdown\n(saves state, stops task)"]
    F -->|"User clicks Stop"| I["🛑 Graceful Stop\n(close position if open, save state)"]
    H --> J["⏹️ Task Stopped\n(ECS task terminated)"]
    I --> J
    J --> K["💾 State Preserved\n(trades, logs, config on EFS)"]
    K --> L["Ready to restart anytime"]

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