Getting Started

What TradeGuardX does

TradeGuardX is a risk-management layer on top of your own Delta Exchange account. You keep full control of your funds — we never hold them. You connect a Trading API key, define your rules (daily loss limit, max trades, loss-streak cooldown, and more), and our cloud engine enforces them: when a rule is breached it cancels your open orders and closes your positions, then locks the account for a cooldown so you can't keep digging.

Note: On a retail exchange like Delta this is a cooperative safety tool, not an un-bypassable cage — you always own your exchange login. Its job is to stop impulse decisions in the moment, for the trader who wants to be protected from their own tilt.

Set up Delta Exchange — step by step

Follow these in order. The only part done outside TradeGuardX is creating the API key on Delta.

1. 1

   Create your TradeGuardX account

   Sign up at tradeguardx.com/signup with email or Google. No card is needed to start.

2. 2

   Start adding your Delta account

   In the dashboard, open Accounts → "Add trading account" and choose Delta Exchange (India or Global).

   • Name the account. Keep this form open — it shows the IP you need to whitelist and is where you paste your key.
   • The API Key and Secret are required to create the account, so you'll finish this form in step 4.
3. 3

   Create a Trading API key on Delta Exchange

   Open your Delta API keys page at delta.exchange/algo/delta-exchange-apis (log in first) and click "Create a new API key". Delta's form asks for just a few things:

   • API Key Name — type anything you like (e.g. "TradeGuardX"). It's just a label.
   • Whitelisted IP — paste TradeGuardX's IP. The connection panel shows it with a Copy button (currently 13.205.214.83 on dev). Delta requires this for Trading keys.
   • Permissions — tick "Trading". "Read Data" is always on (leave it); there is no Withdrawal option, so your key can never move funds.
   • Click "Create API key", then copy the API Key and API Secret. Delta shows the secret only once — copy it immediately.

   A read-only key (Trading unticked) can only send alerts — it cannot run the kill switch. For enforcement, tick Trading and whitelist the IP.

4. 4

   Connect the key in TradeGuardX

   On the Add-account form (or the Delta connection panel), paste your API Key and API Secret and create/connect. The API key and secret are required to create a Delta account.

   • We validate the key against Delta immediately and show your linked Delta account and email.
   • If Delta rejects it, check you used the right region key and gave it a few minutes — new keys take ~5 minutes to activate.
   • Your secret is encrypted (KMS) before storage and is never shown again.
5. 5

   Confirm you're protected

   The connection should read CONNECTED and the header shows a green "Protected" pill.

   If it shows "Alerts only" or "Unprotected", the key is read-only or the IP isn't whitelisted — recreate the key with the Trading permission and the IP whitelisted.

6. 6

   Set your guardrails

   Open Rules and configure the protections you want — daily loss limit, max trades per day, loss-streak cooldown, risk per trade, and more.

   • Each rule has a "How it works" toggle explaining exactly what it does.
   • Saving a tighter limit applies instantly; loosening one waits 24 hours (a cooling-off so you can't weaken protection on impulse).
7. 7

   Trade — you're covered

   Open the Live tab to watch your session in real time: status, guardrail meters, and activity. If a rule is breached, the kill switch cancels your orders, closes your positions, and locks the account with an unlock countdown.