The principle#
Liquid Edge never has custody of your funds. Every trade happens inside your own exchange account. Liquid Edge connects to that account through an API key you create, and sends order instructions — it never holds, pools, or transfers your capital. There is no Liquid Edge wallet that your money passes through.
What Liquid Edge's API access can do#
With a read-and-trade API key, Liquid Edge can:
- Read your balances and open positions.
- Place, modify, and cancel orders on the account.
That is the full extent of its access. It is exactly what is required to run a strategy for you, and nothing beyond it.
What it cannot do#
Liquid Edge cannot withdraw, transfer, or move funds anywhere. Withdrawal permission is never requested when you create your key, and the platform has no mechanism to move assets off your exchange.
Treat withdrawal access as a hard line. If any tool, bot, or person asks you to enable withdrawal permissions on an API key, that is a red flag — stop and do not proceed. A trading integration never needs to move your money; it only needs to trade it.
Backstops against extreme or erroneous execution#
A trade-only key can still place orders, so Liquid Edge runs backstops to guard against a bug, a bad signal, or a malicious actor trying to push execution to an extreme — for example, an attempt to open an oversized, highly leveraged position that could liquidate your account. These include hard limits on leverage and position size, sanity checks before an order is sent, and the ability to pause or kill execution immediately. See Risk Controls & Kill Switch.
These backstops are defense in depth on top of trade-only access — they exist precisely because trading permission alone isn't a guarantee, and they materially reduce the chance of a single flaw wiping out an account. No system removes all risk: markets move, strategies can lose, and you should still size positions deliberately (see Risk Management Basics) rather than relying on backstops as your only protection.
The controls you keep#
- Revoke at any time — delete or disable the API key from your exchange and Liquid Edge instantly loses all access.
- Pause or kill any bot — stop a strategy immediately from the trading terminal, independent of the exchange.
- 2FA on your Liquid Edge account — protect access to the dashboard itself.
If Liquid Edge disappeared tomorrow#
Your funds would sit untouched in your own exchange account, exactly where they already are. Nothing about your balance depends on Liquid Edge continuing to exist. Deleting the API key severs the connection completely, and your account carries on as a normal exchange account.
Recommended key hygiene#
- Grant trade-only permissions — never enable withdrawals.
- Enable 2FA on your exchange as well as on Liquid Edge.
- Never share your API keys with anyone. The secret key is shown once on creation; store it safely and treat it like a password.