BikoTrading and Secret Terminal: From Trading Education to Practice

Analyzing the market on your computer while opening trades on your phone is inconvenient. While you're switching between screens and looking for the stop field, the price is already gone.

This guide is based on a video by our partner BikoTrading Academy. It takes you from installing Secret Terminal to managing a position, and the video itself is embedded below for reference. You can follow each step alongside the video.

How to Install Secret Terminal on Windows

Below are the steps for Windows.

• Open the official Secret Terminal website.
• Download the Windows version.
• Open the downloaded installer file.
• Complete the installation.
• Launch the terminal.

After the first launch, move on to connecting the exchange: without it, the terminal won't see your account and won't be able to send orders.

How to Connect Bybit via API

An API key gives the terminal access to your account and permission to send orders. Your account password isn't needed for this.

• Log in to your Bybit account in a browser and open the API management section.
• Create a system-generated API key for trading. The key needs read and trade permissions: read-only isn't enough to open trades from the terminal.
• Confirm the key creation using the method the exchange requires.
• Copy the API key and secret key right away. Save the secret key before closing the page and never show it to anyone.
• In the terminal, open the exchange connection settings and select Bybit.
• Paste both keys into the corresponding fields and save the connection.

After that, the terminal sees your account, and you can open trades right from the workspace without switching to the exchange's website or app. Store your keys as carefully as your password.

Check the permission set against the official instructions of the exchange and the terminal. Withdrawal access isn't needed for trading, so don't enable it.

How to Add a Chart, Order Book, and Clusters

The main benefit of the terminal is that analysis and execution are in one window. Build it like this.

Chart

• Click "plus" to add a module and select a chart.
• Enter the ticker, choose the exchange and the market: spot or futures.
• Set the timeframe and scale.
• Draw the lines and levels you trade from.
• Set up an alert at the level you need.

Now the terminal will notify you when the price reaches your markup, and you won't have to keep every chart in front of you. If you need another instrument or timeframe, duplicate the chart and change the instrument or timeframe on the copy.

Order Book and Clusters

• Add the order book module and link it to the chart of the same instrument.
• Turn on the cluster display to see how much volume traded at each price inside the candle.
• Set up aggregation, i.e. merging price steps so the order book and clusters read more compactly.
• Choose the volume display units: dollars or contracts. Preset several order sizes in advance. At the moment of entry, you pick the size with one click, without typing it in manually.
• Turn on the funding rate display (the financing rate on perpetual contracts).

Why have all this side by side? The price approaches your level, and the chart only shows a touch. The order book tells you whether there's a density level at that price (a cluster of large limit orders at one price) or the book is empty. Clusters show how much volume traded at that price. Three answers in one window instead of three browser tabs.

How to Set Up the Interface and Hotkeys

• Open the general settings.
• Choose the language, theme, and font.
• Set the take-profit and stop-loss parameters.
• Assign hotkeys to the main actions and memorize your combinations before your first trade.

A readable font and a calm theme seem like minor details until you've spent a few hours at the screen. Hotkeys let you act without hunting for buttons with your mouse. Before using them, check the active assignments in the settings: the default combinations can be changed to suit you.

How to Manage Orders and Positions

First, a quick note on order types. A limit order sets the price and can wait in the order book to be filled. A market order is filled immediately at the available prices, so the final price may differ from what you expected.

• Make sure the right instrument is selected and set the order size.
• Choose the order type, limit or market.
• For a limit order, enter the price. For a market order, no price is set.
• Send the buy or sell command, double-checking the instrument and size.
• Once the position is open, place a stop-loss and a take-profit.
• To move your protection, drag the stop-loss or take-profit line on the chart or in the order book.
• To exit fully, use the close position command or the hotkey assigned to it. For a partial close, enter only the size you want to close and check the remaining position size.

This guide explains the terminal's mechanics and is not a trading recommendation. Size, leverage, and stop placement are set by your trading plan, not by a demo.

A small note on the version. In the terminal version at the time the video was recorded, linked protective orders when placing a limit order still needed refinement. Stop-loss and take-profit orders for an already open position can be placed as described above. Check the current state of this feature in the current version.

The terminal speeds up execution, but entry, exit, and risk rules are built in advance, and that's exactly what BikoTrading teaches through order flow analysis.

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