Trading Tutorial

Welcome to Ready Set Trade
Trade Hyperliquid perps and copy top traders from one terminal.

Ready Set Trade is a trading terminal for perpetual futures on Hyperliquid, with copy trading built in. Stocks and options through Alpaca are optional and covered near the end of this guide.

Perps

Fund your wallet and trade long or short with leverage, no wallet popups.

Copy Trading

Mirror FOMO traders and Hyperliquid wallets with your own sizing and limits.

Stocks (optional)

Connect an Alpaca account to trade stocks and options, in Paper or Live.

Quick start: sign in, fund your Perps wallet, and you can trade in about 5 minutes. Start with Get Started with Perps.
Get Started with Perps
Sign in, fund your trading balance, and place your first Hyperliquid trade.
1
On the homepage, select Sign in with Google. A self-custody Hyperliquid wallet is created for you automatically.
2
Open Settings → Perps and select Enable Perps (or let automatic setup run). This adds a trading agent that signs orders for you. It can never withdraw your funds.
3
Deposit, using either method:
  • USDC on Arbitrum: Send native USDC (not USDC.e) to your wallet address, plus a little ETH on Arbitrum for gas. Then enter an amount and select Deposit USDC.
  • SOL on Solana or ETH on Ethereum: Choose a coin, select Prepare deposit, and send it to the Unit address shown. We convert it to USDC and credit your balance automatically. Minimum is 0.12 SOL or 0.007 ETH; smaller deposits are not credited (check the current minimum).
4
Wait for your status to show Active (select Activate Trading if prompted). For SOL and ETH, progress resumes in the same browser after a refresh, and a notification links to recovery steps if anything needs attention.
5
In /app, switch to Perps, pick a coin, choose Long or Short, set margin mode, leverage and size, and submit. No wallet popups. To attach exits, tick Take Profit / Stop Loss on a new Market order and enter your prices.
Leverage cuts both ways. Check size, leverage and liquidation price before every trade. Isolated limits a loss to that coin's margin; Cross puts your whole balance behind every position. Margin mode is set per coin on Hyperliquid, so changing it on a coin you already hold moves that position's liquidation price.
Find Your Way Around
What each part of the terminal does.

Use the header venue switch to choose Perps or Stocks. On desktop, /app has three columns. On mobile, use the Trade, Traders and Account screens; the menu opens Top Wallets and Manage follows.

Left - Signals & Watchlist

Recent trade signals from X and other sources, refreshed automatically. Click a signal to load its symbol into the trade form. Toggle to your Watchlist, or scroll down for Community Trades.

Middle - New Trade

The order ticket, with a live chart and price for the selected symbol. The AI Chat tab beside it answers stock research questions and can draft an order for you to review; it never submits one.

Right - Account & Positions

Your balance, open positions with live P&L, open orders and trade history for the selected venue. See Manage Positions.

Follow & Copy Traders
Copy FOMO traders and Hyperliquid wallets with your own sizing and limits.

Fund your Perps wallet first. Then open Copy Trade in the Perps venue and choose Mirror a wallet.

Copy a FOMO trader

  1. Select FOMO handle, type a handle and select Resolve to find their Hyperliquid wallet.
  2. Check the resolved wallet and its positions, then set your account, sizing and limits.
  3. Review the consent and select Mirror wallet.

FOMO is a social trading app. We use a trader's FOMO handle to find their Hyperliquid wallet, and only their Hyperliquid perp trades are copied, not their Solana token trades. If a handle won't resolve, use a verified wallet address.

Copy a Hyperliquid wallet

  1. Choose Wallet address, paste a public 0x… address and select Look up. Or open Top Wallets and select Mirror on a trader.
  2. Review performance and recent activity. A ranking is not a promise of returns.
  3. Set your sizing and limits, confirm consent and select Mirror wallet.

Mirrors copy new activity only; positions the trader already holds are not copied. Resting limit orders are copied too, and edits or cancels follow the source. Your fills can differ in price, be partial, or be skipped.

Sizing and limits

  • Size: a percentage of each source trade, or a fixed dollar position size (position value, not margin).
  • Caps: per-position and account-wide limits. Leverage follows the source, capped by your settings and the market.
  • Entry and exits: set a worst acceptable entry price, exclude coins, and add optional TP/SL percentages. These are measured on margin: at 5x leverage, a 10% TP triggers after a 2% price move. Venue minimums can skip small orders.

Follow, Copy and Mirror

Follow adds feed updates only. Copy prefills a ticket you submit yourself. Mirror places trades automatically after your consent. On Top Traders you can also follow callers (X accounts whose trade calls appear in Signals) and RST members (other traders on this site).

Edit or stop one follow in Manage follows. To stop everything at once, open the … menu next to Manage follows in Copy Trade and choose Stop all copying. Stopping only blocks new copied orders unless you also switch on Also close my open perp positions, which closes them at market.

Results show in your notifications. Add your own Discord webhook in Settings → Copy Trading for alerts.

Manage Positions
Track P&L, adjust exits and close positions from the right-hand column.
  • Open / Closed: toggle between live positions (with real-time P&L in green or red) and your trade history. Open orders are listed separately.
  • Perps: each position shows its liquidation price. Select Set TP/SL to add or change exits, close all or part of it, and export open or closed P&L as a shareable card. After a partial close, check the TP/SL on what remains. Your performance chart is in the account view.
  • Stocks: click a position to see its exit orders. Use the pencil icon to move a stop loss, or Close Position to sell some or all at Market or Limit. Fractional positions close in full at market.
  • Cancel an order: find it under open orders and select Cancel (confirm if asked).
  • Refresh forces an update; positions also refresh on their own.
Fees, Wallet & Support
What trading costs, how to back up and withdraw, and where to get help.
  • Fees: a platform fee of up to 0.1% per order, plus Hyperliquid's own trading fee (shown as HL Fee in your fills).
  • Funding: perps charge or pay funding every hour, depending on your side. The chart header shows the current Funding (1h) rate.
  • Back up your wallet: in Settings → Perps, select Export Private Key and store it somewhere safe, like a password manager. Anyone with this key controls your funds; never share it.
  • Withdraw: import your exported key into a wallet such as Rabby or MetaMask, open app.hyperliquid.xyz , connect that wallet and withdraw USDC to Arbitrum. Your RST trading agent cannot withdraw for you.
Need help? Ask in our Discord community . Never share your private key, even with support.
Stocks: Connect Alpaca
Optional. Only needed to trade stocks and options. Perps don't use Alpaca.
1
Sign up at alpaca.markets . A Paper (simulated money) account is the easiest way to start.
2
In Alpaca's Trading Dashboard, switch to Paper or Live, then find the API Keys card on the Home page and select Generate New Keys. Save the Secret Key right away; Alpaca shows it only once.
3
In Settings, fill in Add Broker Account and select Save Credentials:
Account TypePaper or Live, matching the keys
Account IDFrom Alpaca's Account → Overview
API Key ID / Secret KeyThe pair you just generated
Keys are checked with Alpaca, then encrypted before they are stored. They are never shown in plain text.
Paper vs Live: pick the account for manual stock orders with the Paper/Live control in the terminal. Switching to Live asks for confirmation and does not change saved mirrors. Regular-hours orders fill 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM ET, Monday to Friday.
Stocks: Place an Order
Stock orders come with an auto-filled exit plan. Review it and submit.

Switch the venue to Stocks, then type a ticker (e.g. AAPL) or click a signal. With Attach exit plan on (the default), the ticket fills itself in:

  • Stop loss at the low of day (long) or high of day (short).
  • Quantity sized from your Max $ Risk, which is remembered between trades.
  • Half the position takes profit at +0.4R. R is your risk per share (entry to stop), so +0.4R is 40% of that distance in your favor.
  • The other half rides a trailing stop of about 1R.

Adjust anything, then select Submit Order. The entry goes in right away; the take-profit and trailing stop attach once it fills and appear in Open Orders.

Glossary
Plain-English definitions of the terms used in the app.
Perps (perpetual futures) - Leveraged contracts with no expiry date, traded here on Hyperliquid.
Leverage - Multiplies your exposure. At 10x, $100 of margin controls a $1,000 position, so a 10% move is a 100% gain or loss on your margin.
Isolated margin - Only the margin assigned to that coin is at risk. A liquidation closes that position and nothing else.
Cross margin - Your whole balance backs every open position. Winners can cover losers, but one large loss can drain the account.
Liquidation price - The price where a position is force-closed because its margin has run out.
General education, not financial advice. Start small, or practice on a Paper account, before risking real money.