Step 4 – Launching your bot on the market

Once back-tests look solid and paper trades behave, it’s time to “flip the switch” and let real money flow.

At a high-level every platform you met in the earlier lessons follows the same four-phase release cycle:

1. Create or fund a live sub-account on the exchange (so the bot’s trades stay ring-fenced).

2. Generate an API Key + Secret with “trade / read” rights, never “withdraw.”

3. Plug that key into the automation platform (WunderTrading, 3Commas, TradeSanta, Kryll, AutoView, etc.) and map it to the bot you back-tested.

4. Press the platform-specific “Start / Go Live” toggle — confirm the first live order, then move into monitoring mode.

Below is the exact click-path for each stack you built in the guide, plus the common safety checks you should run before and immediately after launch.

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1 Prepare — and Ring-Fence—Your Exchange Wallet

Exchange	Recommended practice	Key screens
Bybit	Create a Unified-Trading sub-account named after the strategy (e.g., ST_BTC_D1). Deposit only the amount you’re willing to risk there.	“Sub-accounts → Create → Standard → Unified”
Binance / HitBTC / Bitfinex / Bittrex (TradeSanta examples)	Add an “Access Point” in TradeSanta, then paste a read-trade-only API key from the exchange.	“Access Points → Set up an API key” documentation

Security tip: whitelist IPs when the exchange offers it and never tick “Enable withdrawals” in the API-permissions panel.

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2 Mint an API Key with Trading Rights

1. Bybit – “API Management → System-generated → Connect to third-party → choose WunderTrading, grant read + write, scope = Unified Trading, click Submit.” The key is flagged Permanent so it doesn’t expire unexpectedly. Check detailed official guide here.

2. Binance / other CEXs – Create the key, enable information + trade rights only, copy the Secret once (it vanishes on refresh). Check TradeSanta documentation here.

Paste the Key/Secret into the automation platform immediately; store an encrypted backup.

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3 Connect the Key to Your Bot

WunderTrading (signal-driven set-up)

1. Click Signal Bots → Create bot → TradingView bot.

2. Give it the same name as the sub-account, select Trading pair, 100 % position size, un-check Keep positions open, press Create then Save.

3Commas

1. My Bots → Create DCA Bot – pick the newly-added exchange key, set pair, choose Single pair or Multi pair, define order size.

2. Press Start; the bot status switches to Running and the first live safety orders appear on the exchange order-book.

TradeSanta

1. Access Points → Add – connect the exchange key.

2. Bots → Create Bot – walk through the stepper (strategy, pair, order size).

3. The last screen shows “Enable live trading”; toggle it and confirm.

Kryll

1. In the editor click Deploy → Select exchange → Set allocation.

2. Tick Pro mode to push the strategy live; Kryll spawns a running instance and displays real-time P/L on the Dashboard.

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4 Fire the Production Alerts / Switch to “Live”

1. TradingView – Duplicate the final back-test alert; point the WebHook URL to the live Make/Integromat scenario, extend the Expiration two months forward, hit Create.

2. Make/Integromat – Ensure the scenario toggle is ON; watch the first execution in the History tab.

3. Platform dashboard – Each service shows a green or running dot when the bot receives the first live order:

   • WunderTrading → Signal bot list.

   • 3Commas → My Bots table.

   • TradeSanta → Crypto Bots page status column.

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5 Post-Launch Safety Checklist

Item	What to check	Where
Micro-trade executed?	One position opened/closed with cents or tiny size.	Exchange order history.
API withdrawal = off	Double-check key permissions.	Exchange API-management.
Bot limits correct	Max-positions = 1 (spot) / Max-deals as intended.	Bot settings page (platform-specific).
Alert expiry	Calendar reminder to renew TradingView alert in < 60 days.	Personal calendar.
Monitoring	Enable e-mail / Telegram push from the platform so you get trade reports in real time.	Notification settings (WunderTrading/3Commas/TradeSanta).

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6 First-Trade “Dry-Run” (Optional but Recommended)

• Fund the sub-account with just 1–2 × your base order size.

• Shorten the TradingView alert to a lower timeframe for a few hours to trigger quickly, observe fills, then revert to the real timeframe.

• Once you are confident deposits, orders and closes work flawlessly, move the full allocation across and let the strategy breathe.

Congratulations! Your no-code bot is now truly live, firing trades from TradingView (or another engine) through Make/Integromat into your chosen automation hub, and finally onto the exchange order-book — all without writing a single line of code.

Now you can sit and relax. Or you can kepp improving your bot by teaching it new strategies and approaches. Let's see how you can do it.