Platnum Wiki

What is Platnum? — Platnum is a browser-based trading terminal that puts charts, order entry, bots and alerts for many crypto exchanges in one place.

Platnum at a glance — The short fact sheet for Platnum: what it is, who runs it, where it runs, and what it does and does not do with your money.

Start with test money — Try Platnum with test money first: connect a testnet or demo account and place orders without risking real funds.

Connect an exchange account — Connect an exchange account so Platnum can read balances and place orders on your behalf.

How Platnum keeps your keys safe — Your exchange API keys are encrypted and kept on Platnum’s servers; the browser never holds them, and every signed request is made server-side.

What Platnum never does — A plain list of what Platnum is built not to do: hold your funds, withdraw through its trading endpoint, or let its assistant place orders.

Create trade-only API keys — How to create exchange API keys with only the permissions Platnum needs: read and trade, never withdraw.

How orders are protected — Every order you place by hand goes through the same validation and a confirmation step before it is sent to your exchange.

Paper trading — Paper trading runs strategies and bots on live prices with simulated money, so no real order is ever sent.

Grid and DCA bots — Grid and DCA bots place buy and sell orders automatically by rules you set, either on paper or with real orders.

Paper bots vs live bots — A paper bot simulates fills on live prices; a live bot sends real orders to your exchange account using the same settings.

The web app — The web app runs at platnum.app in any modern browser: sign in and trade with nothing to install.

The desktop app — The Platnum desktop app wraps the same terminal in an installer for your computer and updates itself.

Self-host with Docker — Run your own copy of the Platnum terminal in Docker with one command; the container holds no keys and no data of its own.

The status page — The status page shows live health for Platnum and the exchanges it connects to, and never shows green when it cannot tell.

Risk disclosure — Trading crypto is risky. This page explains the main risks of using Platnum and why nothing in the wiki is financial advice.

Press and brand — A short description of Platnum for writers and partners, the logo files, and the published contact address.

Kraken — Kraken is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

Coinbase Advanced — Coinbase Advanced is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

Gemini — Gemini is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

OKX — OKX is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

Binance US — Binance US is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

Bitstamp — Bitstamp is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

Binance — Binance is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

Bybit — Bybit is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

Alpaca — Alpaca is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

Robinhood — Robinhood is an exchange you can connect to Platnum; this page lists its published facts and what Platnum has verified.

Pine compatibility — Platnum runs a bounded subset of Pine on two engines; this page lists what each one supports, generated from the code.

Market order — An order to buy or sell immediately at the best price currently available.

Limit order — An order to buy or sell at a chosen price or better; it waits until the market reaches that price.

Stop order — An order that only becomes active once the market trades through a trigger price.

Order book — The live list of open buy orders (bids) and sell orders (asks) at each price.

Bid — The highest price a buyer is currently willing to pay for an asset.

Ask — The lowest price a seller is currently willing to accept for an asset.

Spread — The gap between the best bid and the best ask in a market.

Market depth — How much can be bought or sold near the current price before the price moves.

Liquidity — How easily an asset can be bought or sold without moving its price.

Slippage — The difference between the price you expected and the price an order actually filled at.

Fat-finger error — A typing mistake in an order, such as an extra zero, that sets a price or size far from what was intended.

Base and quote asset — In a pair like BTC/USD, the base asset (BTC) is what you buy or sell and the quote asset (USD) is what it is priced in.

Trading pair — Two assets quoted against each other and traded together, written like BTC/USD.

Tick size — The smallest price step an exchange allows for a market.

Lot size — The smallest amount step an exchange allows for an order in a market.

Minimum order value — The smallest order value (price times amount) an exchange accepts in a market.

Candle — One bar on a price chart summarising the open, high, low and close for a period of time.

Volume — The amount of an asset traded in a given period.

Ticker — A snapshot of a market’s latest price, recent change and trading volume.

Maker fee — The fee on an order that adds liquidity by resting in the order book until it is filled.

Taker fee — The fee on an order that removes liquidity by filling immediately against resting orders.

Fee tier — A fee level set by the exchange that usually falls as your trading volume over a period rises.

Centralised exchange — A company-run exchange that holds user accounts and balances and matches orders on its own order book.

API key — A credential an exchange issues so software can act on your account within the permissions you choose.

Withdrawal permission — An API-key permission that lets software move funds out of the exchange account.

Two-factor authentication — A second proof of identity, such as a code from an authenticator app, required on top of a password.

Sandbox — An exchange’s test environment where orders use free test funds instead of real money.

Non-custodial — Describes a service that never holds your funds; they stay in your own account or wallet.

Grid bot — A bot that places buy and sell orders at set price steps inside a range and profits from price moving back and forth.

DCA bot — A bot that buys in steps, usually as the price falls, and sells when a profit target is reached.

Combo bot — A bot that buys in steps like a DCA bot and sells in several steps like a grid bot.

Strategy bot — A bot that runs a Pine script bar by bar and places the orders its strategy calls for.

Backtest — Running a trading strategy on past prices to see how it would have behaved.

Drawdown — The fall from a portfolio’s or strategy’s peak value to a later low, usually shown as a percentage.

Realized profit and loss — The profit or loss from positions you have already closed.

Unrealized profit and loss — The gain or loss on a position you still hold, measured at the current market price.

Cost basis — What you paid for an asset, including fees, used as the starting point for measuring profit or loss.

Position — An amount of an asset you hold, or an open exposure to its price.

Stop-loss — An exit placed to close a position if the price moves against it by a chosen amount.

Take-profit — An exit placed to close a position once the price has moved in its favour by a chosen amount.

Pine Script — TradingView’s scripting language for writing chart indicators and trading strategies.

Indicator — A calculation drawn on a chart from price and volume, such as a moving average or the RSI.

Pine strategy — A Pine script that places simulated entries and exits, so its results can be tested on past prices.

Series — In Pine, a value with one entry per bar, such as the close or the output of an indicator.

Timeframe — The period one candle covers, such as one minute, one hour or one day.

Volatility — How much, and how fast, the price of an asset moves over a period of time.

Oscillator — An indicator drawn in its own pane that moves within a bounded range, often to show momentum.

Support and resistance — Price levels where a market has repeatedly stopped falling (support) or stopped rising (resistance).

Simple moving average — The plain average of the last N closing prices, recalculated on every bar.

Exponential moving average — A moving average that gives more weight to recent prices than to older ones.

Relative strength index — A 0 to 100 oscillator that compares the size of recent gains with recent losses.

MACD — An indicator built from the gap between a fast and a slow exponential moving average, with a signal line.

Bollinger Bands — A moving average with an upper and a lower band set a number of standard deviations away.

Average true range — The average size of recent bars including gaps, used as a measure of volatility.

Volume-weighted average price — The average price over a period weighted by how much traded at each price.

Supertrend — A trend-following indicator built from the average true range that flips between a support line and a resistance line.

Crossover — The moment one series moves from below another to above it, for example a fast average crossing a slow one.

WebSocket — A persistent connection that lets a server push updates, such as live prices, without being asked each time.

REST API — A request-and-response interface where software asks an exchange a question and gets one answer.

Rate limit — A cap on how many requests an exchange accepts from one client in a window of time.

“Insufficient balance for this order.” — The exchange refused the order because the account does not have enough free funds for it.

“Order rejected: …” — The exchange refused the order and gave a reason, which Platnum shows after “Order rejected:”.

“This market is not available.” — The exchange does not recognise the market the order was sent for.

“Order rejected — invalid parameters.” — The exchange refused the order because part of the request was not valid for that market.

“Duplicate order — it may already be submitted.” — The exchange saw an order with the same client id again and refused the second copy.

“Exchange is temporarily unavailable. Please try again.” — The exchange reported that it is down for maintenance or cannot take requests right now.

“This market is currently closed.” — The market is not open for trading right now, so the exchange refused the order.

“Authentication failed — reconnect your exchange account.” — The exchange did not accept your API key, or the key is missing a permission the request needs.

“Too many requests — wait a moment and retry.” — The exchange refused a request because too many were sent in a short time.

“Network error reaching the exchange. Please try again.” — The request to the exchange did not complete: a timeout or a connection problem.

“Amount rounds to zero at this market’s precision.” — The amount entered is smaller than the smallest step the market allows, so it rounds down to nothing.

“Order total is below the … minimum.” — The order’s total value is smaller than the exchange’s minimum for this market.

“Rejected by the exchange” — The status panel shows this against a key the exchange refused during this session.

“Missing a permission” — The status panel shows this when the exchange refused an action because the key lacks a permission.

Desktop changelog — What changed in each Platnum Terminal desktop release, newest first, taken from the project changelog.