Your first trade
Once you have funds on Hyperliquid, the only one-time setup is approving a trading agent, so you don’t confirm every order in your wallet.
Set up a trading agent (once)
Start a trade
Open the trading desk (Trade in the nav) and place your first order. If no agent is set up yet, Liquary prompts you to approve one.
Sign the approval
Sign once with your wallet. This approves the agent and, if applicable, the Liquary builder fee (see Fees).
Trade freely
From now on, orders, cancels and leverage changes are signed by the agent, with no wallet pop-up.
An agent can trade, not withdraw. It never moves funds out of your account. Review, rename or revoke agents at any time in Settings → Trading agents.
Place an order
Pick a market
Choose a perp or spot market from the trading desk, or search with ⌘K / Ctrl+K.
Choose a side and size
Long or short (perps), buy or sell (spot). Type a size or use the percentage slider.
Pick an order type
Market or limit. Stop-loss, take-profit, scale and TWAP are covered in Order types.
Submit
The order is signed by your agent and sent to Hyperliquid. It appears in your open orders or positions instantly.
Managing your position
Positions, orders and balances show up in your Portfolio, where you can close positions, set take-profit / stop-loss brackets and track your PnL live.
A dead-man switch has Hyperliquid pull your resting orders if you don’t return to the app within a chosen window. It cancels every open order, stop-losses included, so it is not a way to protect a position.