Navigating Bull and Bear Markets: A Stable Profit Strategy with OKX Product Suite

Like traditional financial markets, retail users face three major obstacles when seeking profitability in crypto: cash flow shortages, scarce opportunities for stable returns, and difficulty executing correct operations amid extreme market volatility. These challenges manifest specifically as:

1. The "buy low, sell high" trading principle is universally known, yet many lack sufficient capital to maximize returns. During market downturns, users with limited funds can only watch potential gains slip away. This capital shortage for bottom-fishing remains a persistent pain point for newcomers.

2. The crypto space is a complex product born from fintech, code, economic models, and global policy, with rapid iteration and constantly shifting trends. Unlike real estate, long-term stable quality assets are rare. Finding consistent profit opportunities in this volatile market is extremely challenging for ordinary users.

3. Digital assets are characterized by high risk and high returns, reflected in dramatic price swings. During current market volatility and bull-bear transitions, investors face enormous tests of trading psychology, operational skills, and market understanding. Navigating uncertain markets is a constant challenge throughout traders' wealth-building journeys.

As a leading global crypto asset trading service provider, OKX deeply understands these three pain points and has launched a comprehensive product matrix to help users earn passive income, navigate bull and bear markets, make informed decisions, and achieve value investing—all with near-zero risk.

Below, we introduce these three product lines. Users can flexibly select, diversify configurations, maintain overall control, participate rationally, and design an optimal capital allocation strategy based on their financial situation, risk appetite, operational habits, and knowledge level.

Note: Due to different product interfaces, we will selectively use app or web screenshots for demonstration. In practice, both app and web versions are operational. For best results, set the app to professional mode.

1. Flexible Loan Products

1. Pain Point Addressed:

Users hold digital assets but face cash flow shortages.

2. Product Details:

OKX flexible loan products allow users to useBTC, ETH, and other mainstream digital assets as collateral to borrow USDT and other digital assets.

3. Core Advantages:

Instant funding with APR as low as 1%

Multi-coin collateral options

Repay anytime

2. Stablecoin Earn + Arbitrage Strategies

A.Stablecoin Earn

1. Pain Point Addressed:

Users hold assets but have no way to generate passive income.

2. Product Details:

Earn is a tool product created by OKX to help users generate stable returns.

Maximize passive income by lending idle digital assets.

Core advantages:

Principal-protected low risk, stable returns with flexible terms, subscribe and redeem anytime.

B.Arbitrage Strategies

1. Pain Point Addressed:

Frequent trading during volatile markets easily leads to losses.

2. Product Details:

Arbitrage generally refers to using hedging or swaps to profit from price differences between markets with minimal risk. Common arbitrage methods include funding rate arbitrage, spot-futures arbitrage, and futures-futures arbitrage.

Notably, in crypto asset trading markets, arbitrage users need to monitor two markets simultaneously, place orders concurrently, and ensure both orders execute as simultaneously as possible to avoid slippage. OKX arbitrage strategy tools focus on helping users improve efficiency and execution accuracy during arbitrage.

3. Core Advantages:

Stable, continuous, and rapid profit generation in trading.

During actual arbitrage, users can select suitable arbitrage combinations based on platform-calculated arbitrage order information.

Once selected, the two legs of the arbitrage combination are populated into the corresponding order areas with the arbitrage direction pre-selected. Users can choose limit, market, or counterparty prices based on actual market conditions to place orders for both legs. Then enter quantity or amount to submit orders.

After successful order placement, view execution status in the strategy order list or stop orders. Sub-orders can still be viewed and operated in manual trading's current or historical orders.

After completing these operations, the hedged arbitrage position is opened. For funding rate arbitrage, funding fees settle daily to your trading account. For spot-futures arbitrage, close positions when the price spread between the two legs converges to capture profits, following the completion process described below.

Regarding arbitrage completion: When funding fee returns in rate arbitrage meet expectations or lose profit potential, or when spot-futures and futures-futures arbitrage spreads converge and profits meet expectations, close positions promptly to harvest arbitrage profits. Execute in the opposite direction from opening to close existing positions. The specific operation follows the same process as opening, with attention to slippage control. Complete position closure completes one full arbitrage trade.

3. Grid Trading + Dual Currency Earn

A.Grid Trading

1. Pain Point Addressed:

"Born for volatility" trading strategy—no monitoring required, fully automated.

2. Product Details:

Simply put, grid trading is an automated strategy that executes buy-low-sell-high within a specific price range. The strategy calculates buy and sell prices for each small grid, automatically places orders, and continuously buys low and sells high as markets fluctuate to capture volatility profits.

As a form of quantitative trading, grid trading has been applied in traditional financial markets for years and is a mature, effective trading strategy. In crypto markets, OKX grid trading strategy holds an industry-leading position.

OKX grid trading strategy is currently mainly applied to spot trading. In OKX grid trading mode, users only need to set the range high and low prices and determine the number of grids to start running the strategy.

The strategy calculates buy and sell prices for each small grid, automatically places orders, and continuously buys low and sells high as markets fluctuate to capture volatility profits.

3. Core Advantages:

Automatically executes buy-low-sell-high programs with guaranteed returns.

Grid trading creation has two main methods: smart creation and manual creation. You can choose based on your situation.

a. Smart creation: Click the toggle button in the upper left of the trading page to select [Strategy Trading Mode]—select [OKB/USDT trading pair]—[Spot Grid]—[Smart Creation]—after reviewing relevant data indicators, enter [Investment Amount]—click [Create Strategy].

b. Manual creation: Click the toggle button in the upper left of the trading page to select [Strategy Trading Mode]—select [OKB/USDT trading pair]—[Spot Grid]—[Manual Creation].

Enter your predicted price volatility range [Range Low Price], [Range High Price]—select [Geometric/Arithmetic], determine and enter [Grid Quantity] based on your set range—select [Investment Currency] and enter [Investment Amount]—click [Create Strategy].

Note:

Difference between arithmetic and geometric grids: Arithmetic grids have fixed price differences between each grid, suitable for relatively small range volatility arbitrage. Geometric grids have fixed percentage price differences between each grid, suitable for oscillating uptrends or larger range volatility arbitrage.

Different trading pairs and grid quantities require different minimum capital amounts. Please refer to system prompts—trading cannot proceed below minimum capital requirements.

3) Withdraw Profits or Stop Strategy

Successfully created grid strategies can be viewed in the lower right of the grid trading page. You can perform [Stop Strategy] or [Withdraw Profits] operations.

You can withdraw generated profits without [Stopping Strategy].

B.Dual Currency Earn

1. Pain Point Addressed:

During volatile markets, users struggle to consistently generate stable returns.

2. Product Details:

Dual Currency Earn is a wealth management product that uses options to help users achieve returns. Users can choose from BTC, ETH, and USDT to earn returns.

At subscription, the product's yield is clear and fixed, but the settlement asset type at maturity is uncertain. The actual settlement asset depends on the comparison between BTC or ETH index market price at maturity and your pre-selected linked price.

3. Core Advantages:

Continuously execute buy-low-sell-high operations, stably generate additional returns, support early redemption, flexible trading.

Dual Currency Earn mainly provides two investment scenarios: using BTC or ETH as principal, and using USDT as principal to obtain corresponding returns. We introduce each below.

1) Customers use BTC as investment principal, comparing BTC price index and linked price at maturity to receive BTC or USDT settled investment returns. Specific example:

Example: BTC current price $42,704.5, select linked price $45,000, 3-day term, 51.34% APY product. At maturity, two scenarios:

Scenario 1: BTC price index remains below $45,000, receive principal and 51.34% APY (BTC-denominated).

Scenario 2: BTC price index equals or exceeds $45,000, invested BTC is sold at this linked price for USDT, plus 51.34% APY (USDT-denominated).

2) Customers use USDT as investment principal, comparing BTC price index and linked price at maturity to receive USDT or BTC settled investment returns. Specific example:

Example: BTC current price $43,593.3, select linked price $42,500, 2-day term, 37.32% APY product. At maturity, two scenarios:

Scenario 1: BTC price index remains above $42,500, receive principal and 37.32% APY (USDT-denominated).

Scenario 2: BTC price index equals or falls below $42,500, invested USDT is used to buy BTC at this linked price, plus 37.32% APY (BTC-denominated).

Similarly, the above two examples also apply to ETH and USDT. Welcome all users to experience!

Note:

First, select linked price based on your investment objective. If you only want to hold and earn coins, choose a linked price far from current price to avoid currency conversion. If you want to trade coins, choose a linked price close to current price for easier execution.

Second, regarding risk: Dual Currency Earn is a non-principal-protected floating return product that does not guarantee principal or returns. It achieves interest earning and currency conversion through options markets, thus carrying market volatility risks. Please understand this product and manage risks when investing.

Finally, users can initiate early redemption while holding Dual Currency Earn products to ensure asset liquidity.