Frequently asked questions

VTX Macro is a platform for running AI trading bots on perpetual futures exchanges such as Hyperliquid, Binance and OKX, and on MetaTrader 5 with your own broker. You choose the exchange, model, markets, prompts, and settings. The AI analyzes the information it receives and makes trading decisions; VTX handles the connection to the exchange and execution. You can inspect other bots and their results on the Leaderboard.

No. The platform is already built. You configure a bot through the app, and you can copy an existing bot's settings as a starting point. Coding tools and agent integrations are optional. Start offers guided setup, agent-assisted setup, and a manual path.

Create a VTX account, connect your exchange account on System, and configure access to an AI model. Most exchanges take an API key with trading on and withdrawals off; Hyperliquid and Aster use an API wallet you authorize; MetaTrader 5 connects through the VTX Bridge in your own terminal. Each exchange needs its supported account mode; Hyperliquid's is Manual, with collateral in the matching Perps balance. Follow Start or Help for the connection steps, then inspect the bot's analysis with AI Assistant before enabling AI Trader.

Yes. Open a bot's configuration from the Leaderboard to inspect its prompts, models, markets, and settings, then use Copy Settings for your own profile. You still need your own exchange connection and model access. Copying settings creates your own configuration; following another wallet's orders is the separate Copy Trading feature.

Begin with Start for the guided setup options and Help for detailed instructions. Use Join Telegram at the top of this page for community help. For product support, use Contact and include your profile handle and a description of the problem. Never send passwords, API secrets, private keys, or seed phrases.

Client Mode is free. Optional Server Mode costs $0.0025 per qualifying model call and $0.25 per filled exchange order. Each filled order counts once; opening and closing are separate orders.

AI provider charges, exchange trading fees, and funding are separate. A free AI model can avoid provider token charges within its free-tier allowance.

In Client Mode, your browser, desktop app, or headless runtime runs the bot and must stay online. Server Mode runs on VTX infrastructure and can continue after you close the app. You can enable optional Server Mode Backup to take over an already-running client bot when its client becomes unavailable, subject to server credentials, model availability, capacity, and fees.

It depends on the provider, model, prompt size, analysis frequency, and any additional Review or Screener calls. Bring your own key (BYOK) means provider usage is billed to your provider account. The Models page shows available token prices. Prompt cost estimates describe model usage; they do not include VTX's separate Server Mode fees or show a subscription's remaining allowance.

You can choose from the live Models catalog, supported local models, or connected providers and agents. Compare cost, available context, response time, and how the model behaves with your strategy. A more expensive model is not a guarantee of better trading results. Public bots provide examples of settings and outcomes you can inspect.

Yes, when your provider offers a free model or free-tier access. VTX's model selectors include a confirmed-free-model filter, and Help includes a Google AI Studio setup guide. Free access still has provider limits. More symbols, larger prompts, shorter intervals, or extra model calls can exceed those limits; availability and allowances are controlled by the provider.

Yes. Client Mode supports Local AI through compatible servers such as LM Studio and Ollama using an OpenAI-compatible connection. Configure the server in System, test the connection, then select the local model on AI. Your hardware must support the model and its prompt size. The local server and client runtime must remain reachable; trading still requires an internet connection.

Yes, through supported connections. These include subscription-backed inference such as Codex and provider-specific coding plans, plus agent-driven integrations. Capabilities differ: some connections automatically answer VTX prompts, while others let an agent request data and submit decisions. A chat or coding subscription does not automatically include API access. Use the connection instructions in Help to check your service and setup.

In Agent mode the agent chooses when to look again. Grok Bot asks VTX to wake it for the bot's next check; a run that doesn't choose is woken again at the bot's interval. Every run counts toward the agent's own plan, so a later check on a quiet market saves usage. VTX can't read how much of a Grok Bot plan is left: Grok Bot shows it under Settings → Usage & Billing. See Help for the limits.

No. VTX doesn't put mechanical trading filters in front of the AI: the agent reads what it needs and decides what to do and when to look again. To check less often, let the agent choose a later next check or raise the bot's interval.

Yes. The bot's own settings apply to every decision, whichever model or agent makes it: its sizing, Stop Loss and Take Profit protection, the Max Loss guardrails and the Killswitch. An agent can't change them; it only submits decisions, which VTX checks and carries out. See AI configuration in Help.

The bot simply gets no new decisions. Open positions keep the bot's Stop Loss and Take Profit protection, and the Killswitch still applies; VTX doesn't close positions just because the agent went quiet. To exit, use Close All on the Trade page.

The bot's trading symbols, set on the AI page: the agent sees and decides on those markets alone. On an exchange where the agent names its own markets, it picks them itself, up to the bot's Max Open Markets.

In Hyperliquid itself, with its transfer between your Spot and Perps balances. VTX never moves funds. Keep enough in Perps for the market's minimum order size and the bot's size and leverage.

No. Once VTX accepts the webhook it stays registered. Register it again only when you change the routine's key or address, or after you reconnect the VTX connector, which makes a new connection. Paste the key itself into the Grok Bot chat: a Grok Bot secret card hides it, even from VTX.

The model receives your instructions and trading context, then returns a decision and an explanation. It can choose to buy, sell, or hold and specify trade size within the configured limits. AI Trader can execute accepted decisions on the bot's exchange. AI Assistant runs the analysis without executing trades.

The prompt can include candles, indicators, market statistics, account balances, positions, performance, economic-calendar information, and news. You choose the available variables and instructions on the AI page. Trader prompts also receive recent decision and position context. Inspect the recorded execution context to see what was actually sent for a particular decision.

An analysis call does not have to produce a trade. The model can keep returning HOLD while it waits or manages an existing position. In the normal model workflow, the Loop Interval controls how often analysis runs; Review and Screener can add calls. A connected Main Agent can choose its own cadence. Prompt count measures analysis activity, not trade count.

No. Each profile can use different models, symbols, timeframes, prompts, and limits. The system prompt describes how you want the model to trade; the user prompt supplies its context. You can copy a configuration or experiment with your own. The model interprets these instructions, so a sentence in a prompt is not a guaranteed execution rule.

Yes. The AI page includes trade-size and exposure limits, optional mechanical stop-loss and take-profit settings, scheduling, and other risk controls. Some settings enforce application limits; others guide the model through its prompt. Review the setting's behavior in Help. Stops and limits cannot guarantee a fill price or prevent every loss, and some controls need an active runtime.

Yes, but small copies can be skipped. By default, Copy Trading scales each source order to your account size, and VTX never enlarges a copy to reach a minimum order size; minimums differ by exchange. A full close is always sent. On Hyperliquid, an open or add that scales below its minimum isn't copied, and isn't bought later; a reduction that's too small is applied with the next copied trade on that market. On other exchanges, a move too small to place is held and goes with the source's next move if that comes soon enough; otherwise it isn't bought. If the source trades in small orders, raise the Size Multiplier so each copy is larger.

Yes. Public profiles expose bot settings, prompts, decisions, trades, and results. Trade Analysis shows the recorded decision and available execution context; provider reasoning traces appear when the provider supplied them and VTX retained them. The public Changelog records settings changes, which helps you distinguish today's configuration from the one used for an older result.

Yes. Connect an agent app to VTX Insights to analyze public bots' stored history: settings changes, decisions, trades, fills, fees, and PnL. Bundled skills cover common questions, such as what changed after a settings update or whether a bot gave back its gains. Changes and trades through Insights are limited to bots you own.

No. The application is closed source. Its trading configurations, prompts, decisions, and results are public so people can inspect how bots are configured and learn from their outcomes. Public strategy information does not mean the application's source code is available.

VTX is built around public bot configurations and trading transparency. Treat strategy settings, prompts, and recorded model output as public, and do not put secrets in your prompts. Account login details, billing information, provider credentials, and exchange secrets are excluded from public profile views. See Privacy for the data-sharing details.

No. Your bot starts at a different time with its own balance, positions, runtime, and model access. Market conditions and execution can differ, and the same model can make different decisions. A copied configuration is a starting point to inspect and evaluate; it does not copy the other bot's trading history or guarantee its future returns.

Your trading funds stay in your own exchange account. VTX trades it with a key that can trade but not withdraw: on Hyperliquid, your main wallet's public address with a separate API wallet key you authorize; on Aster, an API wallet key; elsewhere, an API key with withdrawals off, and VTX refuses one that can withdraw where the exchange lets it check. Extended, Lighter and Nado have no trade-only key: theirs can also withdraw, but only to the wallet that owns the account. MetaTrader 5 needs no key: the VTX Bridge in your own terminal sends the trades. Do not enter your main wallet's private key or recovery phrase. Trading authority still carries risk: the bot can place losing trades. Follow your exchange's setup in Help.

Open Security, choose Delete Account, type DELETE and confirm. Your email, sign-in methods, keys and connected apps are deleted right away. Your bots are stopped and given generic names, and their trading history, prompts, settings and Leaderboard results stay. Your funds, open positions and orders stay on your exchange account. Help lists everything that is deleted and what stays.

AI Trader places real orders on the exchange account you connect. The Leaderboard and profile analytics report those accounts' results, not VTX paper portfolios; MetaTrader 5 demo and contest accounts are listed apart, under Demo. Hyperliquid results are checked against its public account data; on other exchanges they're as the bot's own app or terminal reports them. Open a profile to inspect its trades, selected period, and settings history rather than relying on a screenshot alone.

The Leaderboard ranks bots by ROI by default, and you can sort by PnL, volume, and other columns over 24h, 7d, 30d, 90d, 365d, or All Time. PnL follows each bot's account value, net of deposits and withdrawals, so it includes open positions, trading fees, and funding (swap on MetaTrader 5): on Hyperliquid from the wallet's portfolio history, elsewhere as the bot's app or terminal reads the account. Running is on by default; turn it off to include stopped bots. Every bot with a connected account is listed, and it stays listed: stopping or archiving a bot, or emptying its account, never removes it or its results, and once a bot has traded, its account can't be swapped for another. For results pooled across every bot, open Analytics, choose Platform, and turn off Running.

PnL on the Leaderboard and in Analytics is after your exchange's trading fees. It doesn't include AI provider charges or VTX Server Mode fees: those are billed separately and never come out of your trading account. To compare costs, History and Trade Analysis show each prompt's cost, and Models lists token prices. Leaderboard PnL follows the account's value, so it also counts funding and open positions; Analytics totals closed trades.

No. VTX trades real money only, because a live account is the only place a result is real. To see what a model would decide without placing orders, run AI Assistant on the Trade page. It's a dry run with no simulated portfolio or paper PnL, and its model calls can still use provider allowance or incur provider and Server Mode fees. VTX doesn't offer backtesting: an LLM backtest needs a model call for every past cycle, so it costs about as much as running live, and it only shows how the model would have handled a market that has passed. The model may also have seen that period in its training data.

No. Volume is the notional value traded. The same funds can be traded repeatedly, so a small account can accumulate a large volume while making a profit or a loss. Use PnL and ROI for the selected period to examine performance, and distinguish realized results from the changing value of open positions.

No. Results depend on the market, symbols, model, settings, costs, and execution. A strategy that benefits from a strong trend can struggle in a sideways market or reversal. Compare different periods, losses, and configuration changes as well as gains. AI can make mistakes and lose money; past results do not establish future profitability.

A bot trades the perpetuals VTX lists for its exchange, never spot: crypto, and on many exchanges stocks, ETFs, indices, commodities and FX as well, as Hyperliquid's HIP-3 markets are. A bot on Kalshi trades prediction markets instead. A MetaTrader 5 bot trades the forex and CFD symbols your broker's account lists. They're derivatives, not ownership of company shares or physical assets. Check the live symbol selector for availability. On Hyperliquid, HIP-3 markets can use separate collateral balances, which you fund through Hyperliquid; VTX does not transfer that collateral for you.