Secret Terminal 2.0 OCTA: огляд глобального оновлення

Secret Terminal 2.0 OCTA has shipped as a major update to the crypto trading terminal. At its core is a new engine, five exchanges have been added to the list of venues for watching the market, and the chart now has an INFO panel with key data on the instrument. If you keep several charts and order books open at once, this means less switching between windows and more context in one place. Let's go through what changed and how to put it to work in your daily trading.

New Engine: Faster Startup and a More Responsive Workspace

A completely new engine is the foundation of OCTA.

The terminal starts faster, and overall responsiveness and stability have been improved. The practical point is simple: a scalper's workspace rarely consists of a single window. There's a chart open, two or three order books next to it, the tape, the density map, and all of them are receiving data at the same time. How smoothly the interface keeps up with the market depends largely on the engine.

Load on the terminal grows when activity spikes: news, price breaking out of a range, a sharp burst in volume. At moments like these, more data flows into the order book and the tape than in a calm market. The more stable the foundation, the less attention goes to the interface itself and the more is left for analysis.

The final speed also depends on your own setup (computer power, number of open windows, connection quality). That's why it's best to judge the update on your usual workspace.

Five New Exchanges for Watching the Market

OCTA adds five exchanges: Bitget, Gate.io, BingX, Hyperliquid, and AsterDex.

As of the presentation, the new venues are connected in view-only mode. Charts and order books for them open, while trading on these exchanges through the terminal is listed as the next stage.

How do you use this? Pick an instrument that trades on several venues at once and open its charts and order books side by side. This shows where activity is higher right now, where a density level sits (a large limit order or a cluster of orders at one price), and how differently price reacts to the same impulse. What to compare: order book depth near the current price, the size and staying power of density levels, and how price moves on the same timeframe. The same coin can look different on different venues, and that in itself is information.

This kind of comparison helps you avoid relying on data from a single order book. It's extra context for analysis, not a ready-made entry signal and not an arbitrage recipe.

Work with the already supported exchanges (Binance, Bybit, OKX, MEXC, and WhiteBIT) has been improved as well.

INFO: Volume, Volatility, and BTC Correlation Right on the Chart

INFO puts instrument data right on the chart. The panel brings together the DV and AV volume metrics, NATR volatility, and correlation with BTC. You no longer need to hunt for these numbers in different windows or third-party services; they sit right next to price.

Setup comes down to three steps:

• Open the instrument you need on the chart and expand the INFO panel.
• Click the settings icon and set the calculation periods for the metrics. For DV the period is set in hours, for AV in number of candles, and the periods for NATR and correlation are chosen separately.
• If needed, set thresholds for DV, AV, and NATR, the color for a normal value, the color for a threshold breach, and the panel position. Save the settings.

Color thresholds let you spot right away that a metric has moved outside your usual range. For example, for DV you can set a volume threshold, and once it's exceeded, the value will be highlighted in the color you chose. Pick the levels to fit your own trading. The values from the demo shouldn't be taken as a recommendation or optimal settings.

The main benefit of INFO is that the instrument's context is gathered in one place before you even move on to the order book and the tape. How active is the coin right now? How wide are its moves? How is it tied to bitcoin? The answers to these questions sit in one panel instead of being scattered across tabs.

Correlation with BTC describes the relationship over the selected period. It doesn't predict the next price move and can change over time.

Using INFO as a filter in the quotes list is currently announced as a future feature.

Order Book, Tape, and Clusters: Updated Handling of the Data Flow

These modules were in the terminal before; in OCTA, the way they work has been reworked. These are the tools a scalper spends most of the session with.

Each has its own job. The order book shows limit orders, meaning participants' intentions to buy or sell at a specific price. This is where you see density levels in the order book and the areas where the order book is empty (more on reading the order book in a separate article “Crypto Order Book: How to Read and Use It”).

The tape records trades that have already been executed. It shows who is more aggressive right now and what volumes are actually going through the market. An order in the book can be pulled; a print has already happened.

Clusters group executed volume by price level inside a candle and show where most of the trading took place. How to work with them is covered in the article “Cluster Analysis in Trading: How to Read Clusters”.

In an active market, all three modules are under load at the same time, and how accurately you read the situation depends directly on their stable performance. When a density level in the order book starts getting eaten into and the tape shows a series of large trades, any lag between the screen and the market distorts the picture.

Density Map, Charts, and Workspace Settings

Density map. The module's performance and the saving of its settings have been improved. If you track large orders across several coins at once, reliably saved parameters mean less routine before the session starts.

Charts. General performance, scaling, and drawing tools have been improved. These are basic actions a trader repeats dozens of times a day: mark a level, zoom in on a stretch of price action, go back to the big picture. The less friction in these small things, the less they pull you away from the market.

Workspace. Hotkeys, workspace saving, and floating windows have been refined. For multi-window trading, this is the foundation. The more reliably the layout is saved and the more conveniently windows are arranged on the monitor, the faster you're ready to trade. Floating windows can be moved to a second monitor, and hotkeys shorten the path from decision to action. This matters especially when you have several workspaces, each for its own task: one for listings, another for calm trading of the major pairs.

Trade journal, listings, and funding rates have been refined too. These are the modules for reviewing your own trading, working with new coins, and tracking the funding rate (a periodic payment between longs and shorts on perpetual futures). Their update covers familiar everyday tasks.

What to Check After Updating

After installing, don't rush straight into the market: first make sure your workspace is set up the way you're used to. The order below can serve as a plan for your first look at the Secret Terminal update:

• Open your usual workspace and check that everything is in its place.
• Check the connected exchanges and selected instruments. While you're at it, open one instrument on a new venue in view-only mode and compare its order book with your usual exchange.
• Set up INFO for your trading, from periods to thresholds and panel position.
• Go through the hotkeys you use most often.
• Check where the floating windows are and how the settings are saved.

The new version of Secret Terminal is available on the official website. Install the update and test it in action, on your own workspace and with the instruments you trade every day.