OKX is primarily known for its low fees, advanced trading experience, and support for multiple cryptocurrencies. However, the platform also offers several useful trading bots. This guide explores their features and how users can automate trades and enhance strategies in 2025.

Bots have reshaped trading by automating complex and rapid trading strategies, and as a result, have become crucial with the advent of high-frequency trading (HFT). 

They emerged from advancements in quantitative finance, enabling traders to execute large volumes of orders at extremely high speeds.

Some people theorize that these automated systems conduct most trading in today’s financial markets, which can execute orders at speeds and volumes unattainable by human traders.

This shift towards bot-driven trading was highlighted in Michael Lewis’s book “Flash Boys,” which exposed how these bots could exploit market inefficiencies.

“A big Wall Street bank really had only one advantage in an ever-faster financial market: first shot at its own customers’ stock market trades. So long as the customers remained inside the dark pool and in the dark, the bank might profit at their expense. But even here the bank would never do the job as efficiently or thoroughly as a really good HFT.”

– Michael Lewis in his book Flash Boys.

OKX is among the first MiCA-licensed global crypto exchanges to offer services in the E.U.

There are many bots available for various scenarios, as well as a trading bot marketplace for users to create and use bots created by others. OKX provides industry-standard and rigorously tested trading bots for users to take advantage of.

DCA Bot	Automates dollar-cost averaging by purchasing crypto at regular intervals.
Grid Bot	Operates on a grid trading strategy, executing buy and sell orders within a predefined price range

This is advantageous because the BTC price is volatile — it may go up or down. Yet, if buyers make multiple purchases at regular intervals, they can acquire a significant amount of crypto, regardless of price change.

The OKX DCA bot’s strategy begins with an initial order that is programmed to execute a specific number of times.

Users can select their risk profile with several parameters or choose from the backtested pre-set AI parameters: conservative, moderate, and aggressive.

A grid bot is a type of trading bot that operates on a systematic strategy known as grid trading.

Grid bot: Spot 

As the name suggests, the Spot Grid bot operates in spot markets.

The bot spends a portion of your allocated funds to purchase assets based on your set trading range and the current market price. 

The OKX Futures Grid bot sets an order at predetermined price levels above and below the initial entry price.

Additionally, in a downtrend, filled buy orders may lead to losses. The same applies to sell orders in an uptrending market.

To set up a trading bot on OKX, navigate to the “Trading Bots” section under the “Trade” menu, choose either Spot Grid or Spot DCA, and select either smart strategy or manual configuration. 

For manual setup, define your trading range (upper and lower price limits), grid quantity, and investment amount. For smart strategies, you can choose a pre-set strategy and customize it, or use the system-recommended settings. 

Here’s a more detailed breakdown of the process:

Trading bots are powerful tools in the right hands. They can magnify the potential of an experienced trader and, conversely, compound the losses of an inexperienced one.

Even so, an experienced trader can manage and mitigate many risks, but it’s important to note that not all trading bots carry the same inherent risks.

For example, with a grid futures trading bot that executes long buy orders as the price decreases in a down-trending market, this strategy would lead to compounding losses if the market does not eventually pivot.

In the image below, imagine executing a long order at the top, the middle, and then the bottom.

To summarize the risks of all trading bots, they work until they don’t. It is up to the trader to understand:

Never use a trading bot without ensuring you are clear on all three of these elements.

OKX trading bots are nifty tools. With the many strategies and bots available, users have the potential to take advantage of any market. This is even more true when factoring in the bot marketplace, where users can create and exchange potentially profitable strategies.

However, users should remain aware that no bot can guarantee profits 100% of the time. Therefore, you should limit the amount of capital you allocate to such tools and ensure you understand the risks before placing any trades.