Risk first
Define where the idea fails, how much can be lost, and where the first take-profit belongs before entry, then derive size from the current risk budget instead of adding risk controls after entry.
Software Features
From charting and technical analysis to Futures risk control or Spot execution.
CubeTrade is a desktop workstation that combines chart analysis and trade execution. Multi-timeframe charts, layout profiles, 23 indicators, and 30+ drawing tools form the trade plan; Futures risk sizing, entry confirmation, and position protection, plus Spot asset review, trading, and order review, all follow the same market context.
1. Workstation Positioning
More than position sizing: a trading path from analysis to execution
Process before emotion
CubeTrade does not replace discipline, but it puts the easiest-to-distort risk-control checks before trade execution so stop loss, size, first take-profit, and protection boundaries are defined first.
Reusable charts and layouts
Indicators, drawings, position zones, and price alerts stay on the chart, while layout profiles retain pane timeframes and indicator setups for repeated use.
Separate Futures and Spot execution
The main window carries chart analysis, market selection, trade entry, history, and tracking. The Futures entry dialog confirms risk and size; the Spot panel trades real available assets, avoiding mixed semantics.
9 venues, two market workspaces
Binance, OKX, Bybit, Bitget, Gate, HTX, Deribit, Kraken, and Hyperliquid can switch between Futures and Spot. Futures reuses risk-control and protection habits; Spot follows asset balances and venue rules.
Clear boundaries
Exchange APIs and order types do not always match retail intuition. CubeTrade separates market, limit, trigger, position protection, and local Order Watch behavior instead of presenting local fallback as exchange-native.
2. Execution Path
Read CubeTrade by trade path: analyze, confirm Futures risk or execute Spot from assets, then review state
1. Analyze and plan in the main window
The main window is for market observation, chart analysis, layout profile management, market selection, trading entry points, and state review. The trade plan stays in chart context before it moves into a Futures entry confirmation or Spot trade instead of being assembled across unrelated pages.
- Chart layout profiles can be created, switched, and renamed, then applied and saved automatically when selected
- Each profile stores pane arrangement, pane timeframes, crosshair sync, realtime indicator preview, and complete indicator visibility, inputs, and display styles
- Profiles are stored separately by venue and symbol, so switching venues or trading pairs does not overwrite another chart setup
- Top-bar timeframes are configurable per exchange, with common defaults and CubeTrade-built custom aggregate intervals where supported
- Crosshair, last-price label, bar countdown, and historical backfill share one time axis
- Trend lines, channels, Fibonacci, measurement, notes, and price alerts keep the trade plan on the chart
- Venue, market, account, symbol, trading entry points, history, and tracking remain in the main-window context
2. Futures and Spot follow their real trading semantics
Market selection makes charts, symbol search, account queries, trading panels, history, and tracking update around the active market type. Futures and Spot do not reuse each other's assets, positions, open orders, or local tracking records.
- Futures retains risk-first sizing, leverage, positions, protection orders, and Order Watch
- Spot provides asset balances, open orders, market buys/sells, and limit buys/sells
- Spot market buys submit a quote-currency budget; sells submit available base-currency quantity
- Spot does not include leverage, borrowing, short selling, position protection, or Futures-style take-profit and stop-loss
3. Define risk before deriving Futures size
Each trade starts from the stop, the first take-profit, and the risk budget, not from an arbitrary position size. The sizing logic divides the risk budget from the current account balance by the risk distance between entry and stop to derive quantity first. Notional value comes from price and position quantity; leverage mainly enters stop-offset bands, margin usage, max open size, and liquidation-distance checks.
- Risk Management starts enabled in the entry window: 0.5% single-trade risk, 0.5% stop offset, and 1.5R
- The first take-profit defaults to an 80% reduction and can use 1.0R / 1.5R / 2.0R / 2.5R references
- You mainly adjust stop offset and risk tier; risk tier ranges from 0.0% to 2.0%, and 2.0% is the cap, not the default
- Stop-offset presets are constrained by leverage band; 100x and above offers 0.5% / 1.0% / 1.5% / 2.0% / 2.5%
- Long and short position tools can mark entry, stop, first take-profit, target zones, and risk/reward in advance
4. Confirm Futures entry in the entry dialog
Click market long / short in the main window to open the smaller entry dialog, then confirm side, quantity, risk, protective stop, and first take-profit. If defaults are unchanged, entry takes two confirmations from entry command to final market confirmation.
- Supports open long, open short, close long, and close short order commands
- Market commands preserve risk context before execution so quantity is not reviewed without stop-loss impact
- Market reverse confirmation shows reverse risk, notional value, balance, and margin checks
- Limit and conditional order types keep separate semantics instead of being presented as one generic order command
5. Review Futures position details after fill
After entry succeeds, the homepage case does not need to make open orders the main visual. Position details already show side, entry price, mark price, PnL, margin, account balance, and the protection entry point, which is enough to explain post-fill review.
- Margin, PnL, protection state, and risk fields remain visible after entry
- In cross-margin mode, one symbol can show at most one long and one short position view
- Position details keep the position-protection entry point available for review
- Market close-all and market reverse confirmation remain available when needed
6. Futures protection, Order Watch, and tracking boundaries
Position protection, regular TP/SL, limit parents, and local Order Watch are expressed separately. Exchange-native behavior uses the exchange; when a venue cannot express the logic unambiguously, CubeTrade makes local watch explicit instead of presenting fallback as native exchange behavior.
- Position protection and regular TP/SL are expressed separately to avoid mixing whole-position protection with partial reductions
- When a venue cannot unambiguously express stop / take-profit logic bound after a limit parent fills, local Order Watch places protection after the parent fills
- Tracking centralizes Order Watch and price alerts
- Closing the last window warns when tracking tasks are still running
7. Exchange API access
Different venues keep their own rules, while the trader works through one charting, market-selection, and execution workstation. Futures reuses risk, sizing, and protection habits; Spot follows real assets and venue rules.
- Credential fields follow each venue’s own semantics to avoid mixing API keys, secrets, passphrases, or wallet fields
- Account-level proxies affect only the trading path, not the chart or market-data path
- Only the read, order/position-review, order-entry, and cancellation permissions required for the active market are recommended
3. Technical Analysis Workspace
23 main-chart and sub-pane indicators cover trend, structure, volatility, intraday sessions, and momentum
Main chart overlays
- Bollinger - Bollinger Bands
- EMA - Exponential Moving Average
- SMA - Simple Moving Average
- Vegas - Vegas Channel
- SuperTrend - Trend-following indicator
- Donchian - Donchian Channel
- VWAP - Volume Weighted Average Price
- Pivot Points High Low - Confirmed pivots and missed reversals
- Key Levels - Support and resistance zones
- TD Sequential - Sequential pressure count
- Smart Money Concepts - Market-structure overlays
- Trading Sessions - Intraday session ranges
Sub-panels
- Volume - Trading Volume
- RSI - Relative Strength Index
- RSI Swing Filter - Swing structure and divergence filter
- MACD - Moving Average Convergence Divergence
- KDJ - K/D/J stochastic oscillator
- ATR - Average True Range
- OBV - On-Balance Volume
- DMI / ADX - Direction and trend strength
- Stoch RSI - Stochastic RSI
- CCI - Commodity Channel Index
- Williams %R - Williams Percent Range
4. Chart Annotation System
30+ drawing and analysis tools for putting the trade plan on the chart
Lines and trend structure
Useful for quickly marking direction, support/resistance, and structural boundaries.
- Trend lines, rays, horizontal lines, vertical lines
- Horizontal rays, parallel lines, extension lines
- Path tools and freehand drawing
Channels and shapes
Useful for framing ranges, consolidation structure, and pace.
- Parallel channels, regression channels, rectangles
- Triangles, circles, polylines, and arrows
- Supports locking, hiding, and multi-select editing
Patterns and Fibonacci
Useful when you want the trade plan and structural hypothesis to live on the chart.
- XABCD, ABCD, wave, and related pattern tools
- Fibonacci retracement, extension, and related analysis tools
- Measurement tools help with volatility and risk/reward inspection
Positions, alerts, and notes
Useful for marking entry, stop, targets, and reminders directly on the chart.
- Long position and short position tools
- Price alerts and alert-line management
- Text notes and chart annotations
5. Futures Trading Capabilities
Futures venue capabilities at a glance
This table covers CubeTrade's currently available Futures trading entry points and boundaries only. Spot has a separate workspace across all 9 venues for asset balances, open orders, and market/limit buys and sells, without Futures leverage, position protection, or Futures-style take-profit and stop-loss.
| Venue | Market | Limit | Conditional / Trigger | Position Protection (SL / TP) | Read Leverage | Adjust Leverage |
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| Hyperliquid Futures |
Boundary Notes
- ✓ / ✕ show whether CubeTrade supports the corresponding trading semantic or trading entry point.
- A ✓ does not always mean native server-side pre-binding on the venue. When unambiguous native pre-binding is unavailable, CubeTrade makes the local Order Watch fallback explicit.
- ✕ means the venue does not provide the function, or CubeTrade does not expose it yet.
- Spot and Futures use separate market contexts. Spot orders, assets, fills, and tracking records do not mix with Futures positions or protection orders.
Local Order Watch Boundary
Important: local Order Watch depends on CubeTrade staying running.
If the app is closed, the network drops, or the exchange API fails before the parent order fills, protection orders may not be placed as planned. When local Order Watch is used, confirm task state in the tracking panel and handle exceptions manually.
6. Order Semantics
Complex execution mechanics need clear boundaries
Market
Filled immediately at market in normal usage. Treat it as immediate execution, not as an order waiting on the book.
Limit
A regular limit order that rests first and only fills when price reaches the limit and matching succeeds.
Conditional Limit and Trigger Market
Conditional limit still uses limit-order logic after the trigger. Trigger market emphasizes getting filled after the trigger rather than continuing to wait in the book.
Position Protection vs Regular TP/SL
Position protection is for the whole current position and closes it under protection semantics. Regular TP/SL is better for quantity-based partial reduction.
CubeTrade-Managed Stop
When a venue cannot unambiguously express 'bind the stop after the parent fills,' CubeTrade uses local Order Watch to place the stop afterward. That does not mean the exchange server already pre-bound it.
Order Watch and Price Alerts
Order Watch tracks limit parents that need a local fallback. Price alerts are bound to the current venue, account, and symbol rather than a timeframe.
Spot buys and sells
Spot market buys submit a quote-currency budget and market sells submit available base-currency quantity. Limit orders are checked against venue minimum quantity, step size, precision, and minimum notional. Spot does not use leverage, position protection, reduce-only, or Futures-style take-profit and stop-loss.
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