Crypto trading bot in India: what to check before you connect one
A crypto trading bot is software that places orders on your exchange account according to rules you chose in advance. It does not hold your money, and it does not know what the market will do next. For a trader in India the practical questions are narrower than the marketing suggests: which exchange, what kind of API key, what the bot does when something breaks, and what it costs in rupees.
This guide walks through those four questions. It is educational only.
Which exchanges can a bot connect to from India?
A bot can only trade where the exchange offers an API (a way for software to place orders with your permission). Among exchanges that serve Indian customers, these offer one that Stralines connects to:
- Delta Exchange India: crypto futures and options, settled in rupees.
- CoinDCX: futures through its API.
- CoinSwitch: futures through CoinSwitch PRO.
- Pi42: crypto futures in rupees.
- Mudrex: futures through its trading API.
Stralines also connects to Binance, Bybit, Coinbase and KuCoin, nine exchanges in all. Some of these are opened account by account while readiness checks finish, so if an exchange is not offered when you go to connect, ask support to open it for you.
What should the API key be allowed to do?
Every exchange lets you choose what a key may do. A bot needs two permissions: read (see balances and positions) and trade (place and cancel orders). It never needs withdraw.
Create the key with withdrawal switched off. With a trade-only key the software can place orders on your account, and it cannot move money out of it. Stralines never asks for withdrawal permission, and it refuses withdrawal-enabled keys on Binance and Bybit. The longer version is in Is it safe to give a trading bot your API key?.
What happens when a stop-loss goes missing?
This is the question most comparisons skip. Exchanges sometimes reject, drop or cancel a stop-loss order, and a bot that placed it once and moved on leaves the position open with no stop.
Ask any platform what it does in that case. On Stralines, each stop-loss is checked right after it is placed, a scan every two minutes looks for open positions with a missing stop and puts it back, and a third check catches stops that the exchange removes later. The details and the limits are in Why your stop-loss disappears.
No software removes the risk of loss. A stop-loss limits a loss when the market reaches it; in a fast move the fill can be worse than the stop price.
What does it cost in rupees?
Stralines prices its plans in rupees and bills through Razorpay. The Explorer plan is free and runs one live futures bot. Paid plans start at ₹799 a month and go up to ₹19,999 a month, exclusive of 18% GST. Live trades also use prepaid credits that cover a small per-trade fee. The full table is on the pricing page.
Fees charged by your exchange are separate and go to the exchange.
A short checklist
- Pick an exchange with an API that you already use and understand.
- Create a key with read and trade permission and withdrawal off.
- Run the bot on a practice account first, where the exchange has one.
- Read the bot’s rules: how it enters, where it stops, how it exits. The marketplace shows these for every bot.
- Decide the most you are willing to lose in a day and set that limit in the software before the first trade.
Who is behind Stralines?
Stralines Labs Private Limited is a software company incorporated in India in 2026. It is not a broker, not a portfolio manager and not an exchange. It sells software that runs your rules on your own exchange account.
Educational content only. Stralines is software for executing and managing your own trading rules. Nothing here is investment advice, and trading carries risk of loss.