Connect BloFin with a read-only key
Flicker reads positions, balances and orders with this key. Where BloFin reports its permissions, Flicker refuses a key that can trade or withdraw, so create a read-only one.
On BloFin
Sign in to BloFin and open its API key settings.
Create a new API key and name it Flicker.
Give the key read-only access. Leave every trading, transfer and withdrawal permission off.
API key permissions
- ReadSee positions, balances and ordersOn
- TradePlace or cancel ordersOff
- WithdrawMove funds outOff
Illustration. Each exchange names these permissions in its own words. Set a passphrase for the key and keep it: Flicker needs it too.
Restrict the key to Flicker's IP address, 18.153.160.58. BloFin expires a key with no IP restriction after 90 days.
Copy the key and its secret.
Paste it below. Where the exchange reports it, Flicker checks what the key can do before saving it.
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The key is checked before anything is saved, and you can remove it at any time.
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After you connect, BloFin may email or text you about a new API login: that's this key. Your first history can take a few minutes to load.
BloFin at a glance
- Connect with
- Key, secret and passphrase
- Synced
- Positions, balances and order history
- Stops and targets
- Read
- Setup
- 7 steps
- First sync
- Positions while you connect; history can take a few minutes
- After that
- On each visit and once a day
What you'll see after connecting
- Every open position with entry, mark and unrealized P&L, beside your other exchanges.
- Each position's stop and target as set on BloFin, and what you'd lose if every stop fills.
- Flicker's read on each asset you hold: its verdict and how many factors agree.
- Closed trades as a record, measured in R, and a weekly review.
If something goes wrong
When BloFin rejects a key, check that it was copied whole, has read access and allows 18.153.160.58. Each message below comes with its fix.
- BloFin rejected this key.
- Create a new read-only key on BloFin and paste it here.
- BloFin refused the request.
- Try again in a minute. If it repeats, create a new key.
- Couldn't reach BloFin.
- Try again in a minute.
- Too many key checks.
- Try again in an hour.