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Orders running for the duration of the trading day.
An indicator value from 0 to 4 reflecting a position’s place in the per-market Auto-Deleveraging ranking. Higher Grade signals higher likelihood of selection as an ADL counterparty. Grade 4 corresponds to the asymptotic top 5% of the ranked list. See ADL Grade.
Sell order.
A digital representation of value transferable, storable, or tradable electronically.
Final-stage liquidation mechanism on the futures market. Activates only when standard market liquidity cannot fully cover a liquidated position. Closes profitable counterparty positions on the opposite side at a calculated price, ensuring no user balance becomes negative. See Auto-Deleveraging.

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Balance for margin and futures trading
A balance accepting deposits and withdrawals of cryptocurrency and national currency.
Balance for spot trading. This balance supports non-marginal trading (order placement) and currency exchange.
Best-bid-offer (BBO) determines limit order prices based on market conditions. In the counterparty method, for buy orders the system uses the lowest ask price in the order book; for sell orders, the highest bid price. The queue method uses the highest current buy price (Bid) for buy orders and the highest ask price for sell orders.
Buy order.

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A unique identifier for a card, used to facilitate payments and manage subscriptions without exposing the actual card information.
The cryptocurrency asset pledged by the borrower as a guarantee of loan repayment.
The practice of placing trading servers in close physical proximity to an exchange’s matching engine to minimize latency. Colocation is crucial for high-frequency trading (HFT) operations.
“Conditional orders” is a collective term for orders with conditions. Currently, these include OTO (One Triggers the Other) and OCO (One Cancels the Other) orders.
Crypto Lending enables earning passive income by lending funds to the exchange in a chosen cryptocurrency for a set period.

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A transaction where two parties buy or sell an asset at an agreed-upon price. The trade record includes the price, amount, date, and any fees.
Crypto derivatives are contracts deriving value from a primary underlying asset. The primary asset is a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.

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A position-level metric used in the Auto-Deleveraging Rating formula. Defined as |position size in money| / account equity. Distinct from configured account leverage — effective leverage scales with position size relative to the account’s collateral balance, not with the leverage setting alone. See Rating formula.
The EEA is an international agreement enabling the extension of the European Union’s single market to non-EU member states. The EEA consists of the EU member states and three EFTA states (Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway).

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An OAuth-issued WhiteBIT API key that a partner platform obtains on behalf of an end user through the OAuth API key consent flow, replacing manual key creation and copy-paste. The API secret is retrievable by the partner exactly once through a Bearer-authenticated endpoint, and the resulting key is restricted to the partner’s registered IP ranges. See the Fast API Key integration guide.
The platform charges a fee for crypto transactions.
A currency (a medium of exchange) established by government regulation as money but without intrinsic value (value independent of the nominal value, such as a precious metal might have).
A list of all completed (executed) orders including order ID, date, amount, price, conditions, and other relevant data.
Futures trading supports opening Long and Short positions and using leverage. Traders pay a fee for using borrowed funds to each other, not to the exchange.

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An automated trading strategy involving executing a large number of orders at extremely high speeds, typically utilizing colocation services to minimize latency.

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A function to cancel all orders automatically when the timer expires. The kill-switch timer only cancels orders grouped by concrete asset.

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The time delay between sending a trading order and order execution. In high-frequency trading, traders measure latency in milliseconds or microseconds.
The ratio of margin to borrowed funds shows how many times credit exceeds available assets.
A limit order specifies a fixed price for buying or selling an asset.

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A maker is a trader who places limit orders on the order book, setting the price and quantity of the trade, and waits for another trader to accept the order.
The use of exchange’s funds to trade assets enables placing orders for sums exceeding the initial deposit several times. The initial deposit is called “margin,” and the margin size depends on the leverage.
Assets tradable for each other on an exchange.
Market information (last price, volume, high, low, change) for the last 24 hours.
A market order specifies an asset for immediate purchase or sale at the best available price.
See Market
The core system of an exchange pairing buy and sell orders. In colocation setups, exchanges position trading servers close to the matching engine to minimize execution time.
A special identifier some cryptocurrency networks require for transactions. Depositing and withdrawing some cryptocurrencies, such as Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM), requires specifying a memo.
The currency used to buy and sell assets on a trading platform.
Cryptocurrency like USDT exists on different networks (e.g. OMNI, Tron, Ethereum). Traders select the network when making a deposit or withdrawal.

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An arbitrary number used only once in a request.

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An OCO order combines a limit order with a stop-limit; only one executes. When one order fills, the platform automatically cancels the other.
OTO is a trading feature where fulfilling a primary order automatically sets corresponding stop loss and take profit orders. OTO allows specifying prices for stop loss and take profit when creating the primary order.
A separated list of buy (bids) and sell (asks) active orders for a specific market.
Simple contracts specifying the crypto to buy or sell, the quantity, and the price. Orders consist of trades (deals). The execution of all deals executes the order. There are different types of orders: Market order, Limit order, Stop market order, Stop limit order, OCO order. Orders have either executed (finished) or unexecuted (active) status.
Orders requesting an exchange to buy or sell an asset at a set price and conditions.

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See Market
A type of derivative contract for trading cryptocurrencies with no expiration date and daily rollover.
Defines the position direction for a trade when hedge mode is enabled, and only for perpetual futures trading Market. “LONG”: Represents a long (buy) position. “SHORT”: Represents a short (sell) position. “BOTH”: Applies to both long and short positions, typically used in query contexts.
The number of digits to the right of the decimal point.
The order-matching rule used by the matching engine: better-priced orders fill first, and orders resting at the same price fill in the sequence they reached the engine.
Fiat currencies have different providers facilitating deposits and withdrawals by bank transfers.

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Refund returns funds for a canceled deposit. The refund address must support the same network and asset as the original deposit. The refund address cannot be a WhiteBIT address. Use the Refund deposit endpoint to request a refund.
Retail Price Improvement (RPI) defines a limit order mode improving execution for retail users and keeping the order out of public market data feeds. RPI is a two-sided feature: makers submit RPI orders with rpi=true, and takers eligible to match against those orders set retail=true.VisibilityPublic depth and bookTicker feeds exclude RPI orders in both WebSocket and REST responses. Private active order endpoints and private WebSocket streams return RPI orders. The exchange UI order book (web and mobile) displays RPI orders.IOC compatibilityRPI orders use post-only behavior by design. An RPI order does not support the IOC flag. The API returns error code 40 when a request sets both rpi=true and ioc=true.FeesRPI executions apply a specific fee or rebate model defined for the account. When a user trades through a sub-account, the system applies the effective sub-account fee configuration. Use the Query Market Fee or Query All Market Fees endpoints to retrieve effective fees.
The retail request parameter on the Create Limit Order and Bulk Limit Order endpoints marks a limit order as a retail-source taker eligible to match against orders submitted by Retail Price Improvement (RPI) makers. The Retail flag is the taker-side counterpart to the rpi flag, which marks the maker side of the same feature.EligibilityThe Retail flag must be enabled on the account before retail=true can be sent from a private-API source. Contact the account manager to enable the Retail flag.BehaviorA retail taker is eligible to match against RPI-maker liquidity and may receive price improvement at execution. The flag has no effect when combined with postOnly=true — post-only orders are makers, never takers.Mutual exclusivityThe Retail flag cannot be combined with the rpi flag. The API returns error code 41 when a request sets both retail=true and rpi=true. See Order Parameter Rules for the complete list of unsupported parameter combinations.
Reduce-only is an order parameter that guarantees an order only decreases or closes an existing position — never increases the position or opens a new one in the opposite direction.BehaviorIf the order amount exceeds the current position size, the system automatically reduces the order to match — the response returns the adjusted amount. This applies on placement and execution.RejectionThe API returns error code 116 if no open position exists or the order direction matches the position direction. This is a synchronous rejection — the order is never created.Auto-cancellationIf a position closes while a reduce-only limit order is still pending, the backend auto-cancels the order with status AUTO_CANCELED_REDUCE_ONLY. Auto-Deleveraging-triggered closure also auto-cancels pending reduce-only orders with the same AUTO_CANCELED_REDUCE_ONLY status — no ADL-specific cancel status was introduced.AvailabilityAvailable on collateral (margin and futures) markets only. See Order Types — Reduce-only orders for details and endpoint links.

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STP is a mechanism preventing traders from executing trades against own orders. STP helps avoid unintentional self-trading and ensures market integrity by automatically canceling or modifying orders resulting in a self-match.
Buying and selling assets for immediate settlement.
An asset tradable on an exchange.
A stop-limit order has both the stop and the limit prices. When the market price at the pair reaches the stop price, the order activates and executes as a basic limit order.
A stop-market order executes when the market price reaches the stop price. Traders use stop-market orders to limit losses during market volatility.
A price set in advance to trigger a stop order.
A main account manages a sub-account. The main account assigns specific permissions to the sub-account (for example, the main account disables margin trading).A sub-account can use a custom trading fee or rebate model defined for the sub-account. Use Query Market Fee and Query All Market Fees to retrieve effective fees when an API key belongs to a sub-account.RPI trading uses account-specific fees or rebates. When a user places RPI orders through a sub-account, the system applies the effective sub-account fees. Use Query Market Fee and Query All Market Fees to verify fees for RPI executions.

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A risk management feature to automatically close positions at predefined price levels. Take Profit (TP) closes at a higher price; Stop Loss (SL) closes at a lower price. These orders help traders manage risk and lock in profits automatically.
A taker accepts an existing order from the order book, taking liquidity from the market.
An alphabetic and/or numeric abbreviation of the name of a digital asset. (BTC - Bitcoin ticker).
See Deal
See Volume

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The total number of shares or contracts buyers and sellers exchange in a market on a given day.

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WhiteBIT Codes enable converting funds into a unique alphanumeric code. Easy and free to use.

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