Dedicated Bot Account
Trader Pending maps your strategies to different API keys within one exchange (strategy-based API routing): manual trading runs on your main key, while Grid and DCA bots run on a sub-account key. This is more than simply supporting sub-accounts. Everything is still managed from one app, and the journal tracks each strategy’s performance separately, so the capital, risk, and results of each lane never mix.
How it works
Section titled “How it works”In Dedicated Bot Account mode, each type of strategy is routed to its own API key:
| Strategy | Slot | What it runs |
|---|---|---|
| Manual | Main API | /trade, /signal, /zona |
| Automated | Sub-account API | Grid, DCA, and AUTO |
This mode is set per exchange. You can use a Dedicated Bot Account on one exchange and a Single Account on another, as needed.
Two choices
Section titled “Two choices”- Single Account (default). One API key runs everything: manual trading and bots share the same account and balance. Simplest to start with. The trade-off: positions on the same pair are netted by the exchange, and journal and PnL records across strategies can mix.
- Dedicated Bot Account (Pro). Your strategies are mapped to two API keys within one exchange. Manual trading uses the Main API; bots use the Sub-account API, which is a key from a separate exchange sub-account. As long as the bot key genuinely comes from a sub-account (its own wallet), positions do not net against each other and the journal is recorded separately per strategy.
Why separate them
Section titled “Why separate them”- Separate capital. You allocate dedicated funds for bots on a sub-account, without mixing them with your manual trading capital.
- Contained risk. A bot’s drawdown is limited to its sub-account and does not drag on your main account.
- A separate journal per strategy. The journal breaks down PnL and win-rate per source (manual, Grid, DCA, and more), so you know exactly what works, all from one place.
How to enable it
Section titled “How to enable it”- Make sure you are on the Pro plan. This mode is available to Pro plan users. On lower plans the option is still visible but locked.
- Create a bot sub-account on your exchange. Create a sub-account dedicated to bots directly on the exchange (this is an exchange feature, not something in Trader Pending). This sub-account is what gives you a truly separate wallet and history from your main account. Do not work around it by creating two API keys inside the same main account, because they share the same wallet and give no separation at all. If your exchange does not support sub-accounts, full separation cannot be achieved there, so keep using Single Account on that exchange.
- Issue a trade-only API key for each account. Create one API key in your main account and one inside the bot sub-account, each with read and trade permissions (including Futures), without withdrawal permission. The full steps are in Connect an API key. Restrict it with an IP whitelist where supported.
- Turn on Dedicated Bot Account mode. In the API Keys tab, on the card for the exchange, switch the account mode to Dedicated Bot Account.
- Connect both keys. Add the main account key to the Main API slot, and the sub-account key to the Sub-account API slot. Each key is stored encrypted and isolated per user.
Once active, your manual orders execute through the Main API, while bots execute through the Sub-account API.
- Set per exchange. The mode is chosen separately for each exchange, so you can mix Single Account and Dedicated Bot Account across exchanges.
- You can switch back any time. You can return to a Single Account whenever you like. Before switching, make sure no bot is running on the lane that will change, so execution stays consistent.
- Balance and journal. Each slot’s balance reflects the account actually in use, and the journal records each strategy’s performance separately.