What is Gemini ActiveTrader™?

USD Trading Pairs

• AAVE/USD
• AMP/USD
• BAL/USD
• BAT/USD
• BCH/USD
• BTC/USD
• COMP/USD
• CRV/USD
• DAI/USD
• ETH/USD
• FIL/USD
• KNC/USD
• LINK/USD
• LTC/USD
• MANA/USD
• MKR/USD
• OXT/USD
• PAXG/USD
• REN/USD
• SNX/USD
• STORJ/USD
• UMA/USD
• UNI/USD
• YFI/USD
• ZEC/USD
• ZRX/USD

GBP Trading Pairs

• BTC/GBP
• ETH/GBP

EUR Trading Pairs

• BTC/EUR
• ETH/EUR

Digital Asset Trading Pairs

• BTC/DAI
• ETH/BTC
• ETH/DAI
• ZEC/BTC
• ZEC/ETH
• ZEC/LTC
• ZEC/BCH
• BCH/BTC
• BCH/ETH
• BCH/LTC
• LTC/BTC
• LTC/ETH
• LTC/BCH
• OXT/BTC
• OXT/ETH
• BAT/BTC
• BAT/ETH
• LINK/BTC
• LINK/ETH

When placing orders via the ActiveTrader™ interface, the digital asset that is listed first in the trading pair is the asset being bought or sold.

For example: When placing a Buy order on the LTC/BTC trading pair, LTC is being purchased with BTC. When placing a sell order on the LTC/BTC trading pair, LTC is being sold for BTC. 

For more information please see our Prices Page

Our order matching engine currently supports the following eight order types:

• Market
• Limit
• Limit: Immediate-or-Cancel (IOC)
• Limit: Fill-Or-Kill (FOK)
• Limit: Maker-or-Cancel (MOC)
• Limit: Auction-Only Limit (AO)
• Limit: Indication of Interest (IOI)
• Stop-Limit

Market orders are filled immediately against resting orders at the current best available price.

Limit orders are filled at or better than a specified price. Any quantity that is not filled rests on the continuous order book until it is filled or canceled.

Stop-Limit orders place a Limit order when a Last Trade Price crosses the Stop Price of the order.

Limit: Immediate-or-Cancel (IOC) orders are filled immediately at or better than a specified price. Any quantity that is not filled immediately is canceled and does not rest on the continuous order book.

Limit: Fill-or-Kill orders are filled immediately at or better than a specified price. If the order cannot be filled in full immediately, the entire quantity is canceled. The order does not rest on the continuous order book.

Limit: Maker-or-Cancel orders rest on the continuous order book at a specified price. If any quantity can be filled immediately, the entire order is canceled.

Limit: Auction-Only (AO) Limit orders rest on the auction order book and is filled at or better than a specified price at the conclusion of an auction. Any quantity that is not filled is canceled.

Limit: Indication of Interest (IOI) orders Initiates Gemini’s block trading workflow to source liquidity for large block quantities.

For more information, please see our Marketplace page

Market Buy Order on ActiveTrader™

1. Select the trading pair from the dropdown menu on the top left of the ActiveTrader screen
2. Select the "Buy" tab at the top left
3. Then Select the "Continuous" tab
4. Select "Market" under “Order Type”
5. Under “Total” enter the size of your order. This will be measured in the supported currency or digital asset you are using to buy the digital asset 
6. Confirm the order details and press the "Buy" button at the bottom

Market orders are filled immediately against resting orders at the current best available price.

Market Sell Order on ActiveTrader™

1. Select the trading pair from the dropdown menu on the top left of the ActiveTrader screen
2. Select the "Sell" tab at the top left
3. Then select the "Continuous" tab
4. Select "Market" under “Order Type” 
5. Under “Quantity” enter the quantity of digital assets you wish to sell
6. Confirm the order details and press the "Sell" button at the bottom

Market orders are filled immediately against resting orders at the current best available price.

Limit Buy Order on ActiveTrader™

1. Select the trading pair from the dropdown menu on the top left of the ActiveTrader screen
2. Select the "Buy" tab at the top left
3. Then select the "Continuous" tab
4. Select "Limit" under “Order Type”
5. Under “Price” enter the price at which you would like the buy order to be filled  
6. Under “Quantity” enter the quantity of digital assets you would like to exchange 
7. Confirm the order details and press the "Buy" button at the bottom

Limit orders are filled at or better than the specified price. Any quantity that is not filled rests on the continuous order book until it is filled or canceled.

Limit Sell Order on ActiveTrader™

1. Select the trading pair from the dropdown menu on the top left of the ActiveTrader screen
2. Select the "Sell" tab at the top left
3. Then select the "Continuous" tab
4. Select "Limit" under “Order Type”
5. Under “Price” enter the price at which you would like the sell order to be filled  
6. Under “Quantity” enter the quantity of digital assets you would like to exchange 
7. Confirm the order details and Press the "Sell" button at the bottom

Limit orders are filled at or better than the specified price. Any quantity that is not filled rests on the continuous order book until it is filled or canceled.

Stop-Limit Buy Order on ActiveTrader™

1. Select the trading pair from the dropdown menu on the top left of the ActiveTrader screen
2. Select the "Buy" tab at the top left
3. Then select the "Continuous" tab
4. Select Stop-Limit under “Order Type”
5. Under “Stop Price” enter the price at which you would like your stop-limit buy order to be placed on the orderbook 
6. Under “Limit Price” enter the price at which you would like the order to be filled 
7. Under “Quantity” enter the quantity of digital assets you would like to buy 
8. Confirm the order details and press the "Buy" button at the bottom of the screen

The order will execute if the market conditions fit the parameters of your order. The limit order will be placed when the last trade price crosses the stop price of the order.

Stop-Limit Sell Order on ActiveTrader™

1. Select the trading pair from the dropdown menu on the top left of the ActiveTrader screen
2. Select the "Sell" tab at the top left
3. Then select the "Continuous" tab
4. Select Stop-Limit under “Order Type”
5. Under “Stop Price” enter the price at which you would like your stop-limit sell order to be placed on the orderbook 
6. Under “Limit Price” enter the price at which you would like the order to be filled 
7. Under “Quantity” enter the quantity of digital assets you would like to sell
8. Confirm the order details and press the "Sell" button at the bottom of the screen

The order will execute if the market conditions fit the parameters of your order. The limit order will be placed when the last trade price crosses the stop price of the order.

Auctions are events which allow two-sided trading in large or small blocks with efficient price discovery and reduced price slippage. The goal is to prevent buyers and sellers from missing each other during the trading day. Auctions are universally implemented by traditional asset exchanges like the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and BATS Global Exchange.

Auctions occur at 4:00 p.m. ET every day (including weekends and holidays).

For more details on Auction, please see our Marketplace page.

Gemini Block Trading™ is a way to trade large amounts of digital assets outside of Gemini’s continuous order books. This creates an additional mechanism for customers to source liquidity when trading in greater size.

The minimum trade quantity for each supported digital asset is 10 BTC, 100 ETH, 100 BCH, 200 ZEC, 1,000 LTC, or 50,000 OXT. Information about the trade will be published 10 minutes after the trade is completed.

To participate as a market maker in Gemini Block Trading™, please contact bizdev@gemini.com. If you’d like to learn more, see our Marketplace page.

Within the Gemini ActiveTrader™ interface you can find your open orders just beneath the chart on the dashboard. You can cancel any open order by hovering over the status of the order and clicking “cancel” once it appears.

You can download your trading history by following the steps below:

1) Navigate to Account Balance and Transaction History Page
2) Click the drop-down arrow next to your account.
3) Click the “Trade History” or "Transfer History" tab.
4) Click "Download History (xlsx)" and select your desired date range. Click "Download .xlsx" and the transaction history will download onto your device.

If your account is set to the Gemini ActiveTrader™ view, you can see your trading history at the base of your dashboard. The completed orders section will display the past 50 completed orders of your account. To see all of your orders in one place, go here: https://exchange.gemini.com/balances

All limit orders are Good 'Til Cancelled (GTC) meaning that they stay on the order book until they have been completely filled or until you manually cancel them.

If you are trading programmatically via the Gemini API, you can enable a feature called "Require Heartbeat," which will automatically cancel all of your open orders if you lose connectivity to Gemini. This feature can be found on our API Settings page.