Product updates
Announcement on Bitget's new futures cooling-off period feature
2025-08-26 17:543786
Bitget has introduced a new feature—the futures cooling-off period to help users better manage risk and avoid unnecessary losses due to emotional trading or unexpected mistakes in the volatile futures market.
What is a futures cooling-off period?
The futures cooling-off period is a trading pause mechanism that users can set proactively. When enabled, users cannot open new futures positions. With a mandatory "trade isolation" feature, it helps users to:
- Deter emotional trading behaviors (such as revenge trading).
- Interrupt the cycle of irrational trading decisions triggered by consecutive losses.
- Allow time for reflection before making major market decisions.
Feature description
Applicable business lines
- Futures (classic account)
- Restrictions on perpetual and delivery.
- Restrictions on USDT-M Futures and USDC-M Futures.
- Bot trading, futures copy trading, and elite trading remain unaffected.
- Classic demo trading remains unaffected.
- Unified trading account
- Restrictions on perpetual and delivery.
- Restrictions on USDT-M Futures, Coin-M Futures, and USDC-M Futures.
- Demo trading remains unaffected.
Futures cooling-off period rules
- Existing futures positions can be reduced or closed, and their margin and leverage can be adjusted, but position size cannot be increased.
- New futures positions cannot be opened.
- Hedge mode: New positions opening are not supported. Only positions closing are allowed.
- One-way mode: Only reduce-only trades are supported.
- Bot trading: Bot grid creation is supported. Existing grids can still place new orders based on their settings.
- Copy trading and elite trading are both supported.
Futures cooling-off period duration
- You can choose different cooling-off durations, including 1 day, 3 days, 7 days, or set a custom duration. All durations are calculated based on local time, with 1 day as the default option. Once enabled, the cooling-off period starts immediately and runs until 12:00 AM (local time) on the following day. Upon enabling a 7-day duration, the cooling-off period will start immediately and end at 12:00 AM (local time) on D+7. If the duration is customized, the end time will be displayed on the trading page.
- Do not enable this feature if you have open or ongoing orders.
- Once the futures cooling-off period is enabled, it is advised to exercise caution before terminating it early. All position opening functions and confirmation buttons will be disabled until the cooling-off period ends.
How to enable the futures cooling-off period?
Web
Step 1: Log in to your Bitget account and go to the futures trading page, then click Settings.
Step 2: Find and click the Futures Cooling-off Period under Preferences.
Step 3: Read the instructions carefully. Select the duration of the cooling-off period, then click Enable.
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