Trade on Kraken with Axiom Finance
Connect your Kraken account with a trade-only API key and run backtested, paper-tested strategies against it — without moving a single coin off the exchange.
Test before you risk
Backtest and paper trade every configuration first. Walk-forward validation is on every plan, including free.
Keep custody
Your coins never leave your exchange account. Connect a trade-only API key with withdrawals disabled.
Control risk
Position caps, drawdown breakers, stop-losses and a paper-first default before anything touches live capital.
Connecting Kraken
- Venue type
- Regulated spot exchange
- Markets supported
- Spot
- Credentials required
- API Key · Private Key
- Order size unit
- Base asset quantity
- Typical symbol
- BTC/USD
- Official API docs
- Kraken
Operates under stricter licensing in its home markets. Listings are more conservative and slower to arrive, and some markets are gated by region.
What Axiom Finance does on Kraken
The Kraken adapter handles authentication, symbol filters, order placement and status reconciliation. Order status is read back from Kraken rather than assumed, so a rejected order is recorded as rejected instead of being logged as a fill.
How to connect Kraken step by step
- Create a Kraken API key with trading enabled and withdrawals disabled, then add it to your encrypted Axiom Finance vault.
- Pick the BTC/USD market and configure a strategy — grid, breakout, funding fade or your own indicator rules.
- Backtest it, then run rolling walk-forward validation. If the strategy only worked on the data it was tuned on, the verdict says so.
- Run it in paper mode against live prices. Promote it to live capital only once you have seen how it behaves — and start small.
Markets you can automate on Kraken
Availability depends on your region and on Kraken's current listings. Axiom Finance reads the live symbol list from your connected account, so the platform follows the venue rather than a hardcoded table.
Kraken: common questions
Is it safe to connect my Kraken account?
Create the key with trading permission only, leave withdrawals disabled, and restrict it by IP if Kraken supports that. Credentials are stored encrypted and are only decrypted to sign a request. Never share a wallet seed phrase or private key with any trading platform, including this one.
Which Kraken markets can Axiom Finance trade?
The adapter reads the live symbol list from your connected account, so it follows whatever Kraken currently lists in your region rather than a table we maintain by hand.
What happens if Kraken rejects an order?
The rejection is read back from Kraken and recorded as a rejection. Order status is parsed from the venue's own response rather than assumed to be filled, so your trade history and analytics do not count failed orders as executed ones.
Other exchanges
Axiom Finance is trading software, not financial advice, and we do not promise returns. Backtests are hypothetical and past performance does not predict future results. Market availability, order types, API permissions and listings depend on your exchange and jurisdiction and change without notice.