How to generate APIs, link your account & enable “Shorting Functionality” (Mobile)
How to generate APIs, link your account & enable "Shorting Functionality" (Mobile)
Guide to generate API, link your account & enable Shorting Functionality on AYMBot (Mobile)
In order to activate futures accounts to enable shorting feature please do the following:
WARNING: updating your API keys or toggling the “shorting functionality” to the OFF/ON position will close all trades and liquidate all bitcoin holdings at market. This might affect the account performance on the short term. AYMBot® will resume normal function as soon as the updated API keys are entered. Only do this when absolutely necessary.
Step 1: Activate future account feature on Binance:
1. Login to the Binance account associated to your AYMBot® account.
2. Tap on the “future” icon.
3. Tap on the “Buy/Long” icon to verify a future account.
4. Confirm activating the “open future account”.
Once these steps are completed the “future” feature is ready to use on your Binance account
Step 2: Create New API
1. Tap on the “home” icon.
2. Tap on the “more” icon showing in the middle of the screen.
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and tap on the “API Management” icon.
4. Tap on “Create API”
5. Select the “System generated API key” option and click “Next”
6. Name the API label (any memorable name you choose will do) and tap “Next”
7. Complete the Security (“2FA”) verification by entering the codes.
After generating the API, copy both API Key and Secret key and paste them into the necessary fields in your “Account Management” section on www.aymbot.com by following the process in Step 3 below:
Step 3: Update Your AYMBot® account APIs
1. Login to your AYMBot® account.
2. Navigate to “Account Management”.
3. Scroll down to “Trade Settings”.
4. Tap the “Edit APIs” button in order to update your API keys.
5. A warning message will pop-up, please read carefully and designate that you agree
6. Paste both the “API key” and “Secret key” you recently created on your Binance account in the relevant fields.
7. Toggle the “Shorting Functionality” button to the ON position to enable it for your account.
8. Copy IP addresses Shown in the AYMBot® IPs field by Tapping the “Copy” Button.
9. Return to the Binance App.
Step 4: Edit API permissions
1. Tap on the “Edit Restrictions” button.
2. Tap on “restrict access to trusted IP’s only”, and paste the AYMBot® IP addresses (copied from the “Trade Settings” section of your AYMBot account during the previous steps), into the required field
3. Ensure that you tap the “Confirm” button to save the IP’s you just pasted.
4. Check the following permissions:
- Enable reading (automatically permitted)
- Enable spot and margin trading
- Enable futures
- Enable universal transfer
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5. Finally Tap on “Save” to complete the process and enter the verification codes.
6. Afterwards return to your AYMBot® account and click on “update”, if API was successfully generated and edited a success message will appear on the top right corner of the page
If you make a mistake at any step of this process, don’t worry AYMBot® will show you a pop-up with the exact cause of the problem
Congratulations! You’ve completed the steps required to enable the Short selling mode functionality of your AYMBot® account.
Please note: If at any time following the activation of the ‘shorting functionality’, you choose to deactivate, all you have to do is simply toggle “Enable/ Disable Shorting Functionality” Off.
Happy Trading!
The AYMBot® Team
WARNING: updating your API keys or toggling the “shorting functionality” to the OFF/ON position will close all trades and liquidate all bitcoin holdings at market. This might affect the account performance on the short term. AYMBot® will resume normal function as soon as the updated API keys are entered. Only do this when absolutely necessary.
