The site
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- Using Okkana
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About this lesson
What you'll learn
A tour of the Okkana pages: the overview, the markets, how a bot's market is chosen, the metric catalogue, where Signals show up, and what the profile and the lessons hold.
The overview
The Overview is the first page after you log in. At the top there are three figures: how many bots are watching, how many of your directional Signals from the last 28 days were positive an hour later, and their virtual PnL over 7 days.
Below come the things happening now: the bots closest to firing, checked against live market values, your latest Signals, and the market pulse, a list of markets with price and 24h change where each row opens that market. Further down are your statistics: average return by window, when your bots fire by weekday and UTC hour, and virtual PnL split into price move, funding and fees.
With no bots yet, the page offers to create one or to start from a template.
Markets
Markets lists the Binance symbols in three tabs: Spot, Perpetual and Futures. The filter searches by symbol, and each row shows the price and the 24h change. Switching between Spot and Perpetual keeps the asset, and Futures opens the first contract.
The panel next to the list changes with the market type. Every market has the 24h high, low and volume, the price chart with its indicators, and the order flow. Derivatives add mark and index price, open interest and its 1h change, and the liquidations of the last 30 minutes. A Perpetual also shows premium and funding, with the time to the next one. A Future shows basis, annualized basis and expiry.
At the bottom, the panel lists your bots on that market, or a button to create one for the symbol.
Asset, market type and symbol
Every bot watches one market, and a market is an asset, a market type and a symbol together. BTC on Spot and BTC on Perpetual are different markets: they have different prices and volume and, in the derivatives, open interest and funding.
In the bot builder, the Market section asks for the asset and the market type, and the symbol follows from them, such as BTCUSDT. A Futures market also asks for the contract. Each contract is its own market, the expiry date is part of its symbol, and a settled contract isn't offered.
The same ids appear across the site. perp:BTCUSDT is BTCUSDT Perpetual, and Markets opens it through the m parameter in the address.
The metric catalogue
A condition compares a metric, such as price change, RSI or open interest, with a threshold. The catalogue groups the metrics by category, and what you can pick depends on the market: Spot has no open interest or liquidations, and funding exists only on Perpetuals.
Most metrics take a timeframe from 1m to 1d, and indicators take parameters like the RSI period. Next to each metric in the builder there is What is this?, which opens the lesson step that explains it in a new tab, so the bot you're building stays as it is. The glossary lists the same metrics.
Bots, Signals and the bell
Bots in the side menu lists your bots with their status, Active, Paused or Draft, and Create bot starts a new one. When a bot fires, the Signal shows up in several places.
The bell opens the latest Signals with the unread count, Mark all as read and See all Signals. A take profit or stop loss hit on an open operation shows up there too, with the level and the percentage. My Signals holds every Signal, newest first, in numbered pages that you can filter by bot and by operation: any status, pending, taken or discarded. A bot's own page has its Signal history, and the Overview shows the latest ones.
Profile and lessons
In Profile you edit your name, see your email and choose the light or dark theme. The same page holds the webhook and the API keys, each with its own lesson in this track.
Learn is public. Search opens from the header, with / or Ctrl+K, and lands on the step that explains what you typed. The glossary defines every catalogue metric and lesson term in one sentence and links to the step that teaches it. The progress in the side panel is kept in this browser only.
These lessons explain what each number measures. They are not trading advice, and the lesson charts use simulated data. Preview build: market data on this site is simulated.