Telegram to OKX: copy signal channels to OKX swaps and spot

Connect your Telegram account and an OKX API key, choose the channels to follow, and AlgoVesta executes their signals on OKX. Swap trades get stop-loss and take-profit orders; spot trades run in cash mode with one OCO order, so a copied buy never borrows. Your OKX passphrase is stored encrypted.

How it works

Why spot copies on OKX stay in cash mode

Telegram channels that trade spot usually assume you are buying with your own coins. On OKX that is only guaranteed in cash mode: other modes can turn a buy into a borrowed position. AlgoVesta sends OKX spot orders through OKX's own API with cash mode set explicitly, so a copied spot signal spends only what is in the account.

Protection on spot is one OCO algo order that holds both the stop-loss and the take-profit. On swaps, the stop-loss and each target are conditional reduce-only orders.

Targets, breakeven and trailing

Many channels give three or four targets. You decide whether the first target closes everything, whether targets share the position equally, or a custom split. After a target is hit, the stop can move to the entry price automatically, or trail the price by a distance you choose. These rules run on the AlgoVesta servers and change the orders that sit on OKX.

Signals that fail to execute

If OKX rejects an order, for example because the size is below the minimum or the symbol does not trade there, the reason is shown on the bot card in your language. Signals filtered by your own rules, such as a daily-loss limit, are shown the same way, so you can tell a rule from an error.

Sizing copied trades on OKX swaps

OKX swaps are traded in contracts, and one contract represents a different amount of coin on each symbol. A channel that trades many coins therefore produces orders of very different contract counts for the same dollar amount. AlgoVesta converts your margin and leverage into contracts per symbol and uses the nearest size OKX accepts, as long as it is within 20% of your setting.

When a coin's contract is too large for a small amount, the signal is skipped with a reason that names the amounts that would have worked, instead of opening a position much bigger than you planned.

Approve signals yourself, or let them run

Every bot can run in manual approval mode: each parsed signal waits as a card in the dashboard until you confirm or reject it. Once you trust how a channel is read, switch approval off and let the bot trade on its own rules.

To see how a specific channel post will be read before you connect anything, paste it into the free Telegram signal parser on this site. A stopped bot ignores incoming messages completely: nothing is opened and no approval cards appear.

Test a channel post in the free signal parser →

Connect your OKX API key

Create the key in OKX with these permissions: Trade. Withdrawal and transfer stay disabled, because AlgoVesta never needs them: it can place and close orders, but it cannot move funds out of your account. OKX keys also have a passphrase that you choose when you create the key. Enter it in AlgoVesta together with the key and secret; it is encrypted the same way.

If you restrict the key to IP addresses, the AlgoVesta connection wizard shows the two server addresses to add. The full click-by-click guide, with what each OKX screen looks like, is in the help center.

How to connect OKX to AlgoVesta →

Rules that apply to every order

• A stop-loss on every order: from the signal, or from your own percentage or distance. No stop-loss source, no order.
• A daily-loss limit that pauses new entries until the next UTC day.
• Maximum open positions and maximum trades per day per bot.
• A panic button that closes what AlgoVesta opened and leaves your own positions alone.

On crypto exchanges an order opens in about 4.1 seconds on average, from the signal arriving to a filled order with its protection attached, measured across AlgoVesta's own executions.