Possible Trading Errors and how to resolve them | 3Commas Help Center (2023)

Insufficient Funds

You think you have enough funds to cover your deals, but sometimes funds may be locked on other trades.

API key is invalid

API keys are no longer valid or incorrect

Exchange account is banned. Check your account settings.

Exchange account is not active. Check your account settings.

Failed to create trade: Smart Trading is not available for this account

These errors ask you to:

Error: Account does not exist. If you have created this key, please wait 30 seconds and try again

That's a tricky issue, and exchanges need to let us know the exact reasons.

API Secret error: can't be blank or is too short

(minimum is 5 characters)

Please check carefully how you copied the API secret. Try this: open a word processor or text editor program and copy and paste your Secret keys there.
Sometimes malware can cause issues with copying and pasting values like your API Key or API Secret.

This way, you can verify what your computer or laptop is trying to paste into the boxes on the My Exchanges page.

Error placing base order: 3Commas.io should be added to IP Whitelist.

To add the IP whitelist addresses, please refer to this article:

We also recommend using the Fast Connect feature (if available) rather than manual API keys creation, as this feature automatically applies the IP whitelist addresses.

On some exchanges like OKX and Bybit, due to our close partnership, 3Commas is listed as a "3rd Party" app within the API creation page - this allows "application layer security" so the IP whitelist is also automatically added, as these exchanges can recognize orders created from within 3Commas and protect the connection with enhanced security accordingly!

For other exchanges that can't yet offer these security measures, our product development team is in constant discussions with them to ensure we have fast and secure communications.

Error placing base order: Position on the exchange for this pair is already open or otherwise not available for starting a new deal

It means a deal is already open on the same Futures contract, and until that deal closes no new deal or position can open.

Please check your open positions using the SmartTrades page. Choose the Futures exchange account at the top of the page, and then scroll down to the "Open Orders and Positions" widget and expand it. Click the "Positions" button to view all open positions on that exchange account.

If you trade manually on the exchanges app or web-site or use several bot platforms with the same exchange account this would certainly cause this issue.

Error: Market is closed/offline

Error No current price for this pair

Please log in to your exchange and see if you are able to trade these coins using their interface (see if you can create a limit buy order far below the current chart price directly on the exchange - you may find you get a warning or error here). Maybe the exchange is down for maintenance, or the trading pair may be offline for maintenance.

Also, the coin pair can be delisted or blocked for trading in your country.

The bot cannot be edited now; the process of placing or cancelling orders is in progress. Try later.

Try the following things:

Trading is disabled on this account

Leveraged Tokens disabled on the Exchange. ERR_808Y

Some exchanges like Binance, Coinbase and Bittrex block certain cryptos from being traded if your state or country laws forbid them.

Exchanges can suffer huge penalties if they allow users to trade assets that are prohibited in their region.

If trading Leveraged Tokens, such as the Binance UP/DOWN tokens, you may have to accept a user agreement on the exchange's website before the tokens can be enabled for trading on your exchange account.

Please check your exchange's support knowledgebase to find out the process to enable them for your account.

Error placing base order: Impossible to set specified leverage value for the chosen pair

It means you can't change the leverage if you already have an active deal, pending deal, or active bot (even without deals) for this contract (Binance Futures) or the whole account.
Please note that “not specified” also means that the last used or default leverage set on the exchange account will be used.

Error placing base order: Currently, you can only place reduce-only orders.

This is a result of the quantitative rules on Binance Futures.
To learn more details about this error please visit the page:
Futures Trading Quantitative Rules

Error placing Take Profit trade: Units should be greater than 0.0001

You need to increase the Base or Safety order size. It is too close to the minimum order size which are enforced by the exchange's "Trading Rules".

Error placing take profit trade: Invalid reduce-only order. No opened position to reduce.

This error means that your position was already closed on the exchange, this could happen either because your trade was already closed due to an open position in opposite direction, or you were liquidated.

The most frequent reason is the usage of Beast mode

It can also mean your exchange requires KYC or for you to accept a user-agreement on their web-site. Log-in to your exchange account to see if you can place a manual trade on the same contract - you may find a message or prompt you have to agree to before Futures trading is enabled for your account.

Error placing Take Profit trade: Invalid order params: 'MIN_NOTIONAL'

Error occurred during request: Invalid order params: 'MIN_NOTIONAL'

Please try not to trade with the absolute minimum order size. Any price movement can drop your position below the exchange's minimum allowed lot size and the trade may fail.

MIN_NOTIONAL = You need to increase your trade base order and safety order size and hold some BNB to save on trading fees.

Try to use at least +10% of Minimum Order Size.

Bot disabled. Risk reduction violates order minTotal limit.

The error you see is where the size of your position would increase beyond the allowed risk limits defined by the contracts trading rules specified by the exchange, should the order be accepted and eventually filled.

On Bybit, you can edit the risk limit if you wish (it is set to a conservative value by default), but please make sure you understand the ramifications of this action (you may need to speak to Bybit support to get a link to their help article that explains this process.

We were only able to find this article:

One step of the SmartTrade can't be cancelled, please reload the page and try again

You should cancel this SmartTrade and set up a new Smart Sell with the same bought price and volume.

The order price doesn't meet the exchange's minimum & maximum price limitations. The system will be able to place the order after the coin price moves closer to the order level.

Exchanges limit the maximum price deviation for Limit orders. Usually it is limited to no more than 99% of the current chart price for the asset being traded (much lower for Futures contracts).

You can set your Take Profit step to use a Market Order (or enable Trailing Take Profit), which will not be sent to the exchange's order book beforehand, so the exchange cannot refuse the order!

Trade does not meet minimum requirements

Exchanges limit the minimum trade volume, for example, 5 USDT on Huobi or 10 USDT on Binance. Please log-in to your exchange's web-site and check their "Trading Rules" to see what your exchange's limits are!

Do not send more than 2 orders total per 200ms

Too many new orders; current limit is 50 orders per 10 SECONDS

Error Rate limit exceeded. Markets::GdaxMarket::GdaxCustomErrors (429)

Unknown error occurred. Too many base orders.

Exchanges place restrictions on how fast you can send orders to your account. The limits can vary depending on your account size or Fee Tier level.

These errors mean too many orders or actions are being placed by you at the same time. Usually, you need to wait a few seconds before starting a new trade.

If you frequently receive these errors, you can try adding a "Cooldown" of a few seconds to your DCA Bots or create sub-accounts on the exchange to "spread the load" of your orders - for example, on Bybit or OKX, you can create separate sub accounts to split your DCA Bots from your Grid Bots, therefore increasing the amount of orders you can create simultaneously.

This error is not due to a limitation from 3Commas but from your exchange provider to prevent Exchanges being overwhelmed/overloaded when markets are extremely volatile, especially if some users are abusing the exchange with misconfigured HFT bots or too many tiny orders. The solution is to switch Base order type to Market

The value of the position and buy order has reached the position limit, and no further buying is allowed

Price value is bigger than allowed maximum price

Your order is bigger than the exchange allows. Please check the Minimum & Maximum order or position size on your exchange's web-site. Alternatively, decrease your order size.

If you have an active trade that cannot be closed as it exceeds the exchange's Maximum Order Size, you can create multiple Smart Sells or One Smart Sell with multiple Take Profit Steps.

You can also use multiple Take Profit Steps to sell at a loss in order to “scale-out” of a losing position.

If it is on Futures, you have to go to the Open Positions widget and Convert it into a Smart Trade.

Max active deals must be less than or equal to 1

This setting is for the Maximum Active Deals for your multi-pair DCA bot,

Typically you may see this message if you only have one trading pair selected in the bot's settings but set Maximum Active Deals greater than 1.

If your intention is to have multiple deals for the same trading pair, then you will need to adjust one more setting at the bottom of the page, for "Maximum Simultaneous Deals per Pair":

Position is not open anymore. Probably, the position has been liquidated

Please check on your exchange website, 3Commas cannot connect to this position via the API connection anymore, it may have been closed by yourself using the exchange's trading App or web-site, or the position was liquidated. It may even be due to an exchange issue preventing 3Commas communicating to your account.

Please check your exchange account and the API key used to link it to 3Commas, then cancel any trades in 3Commas with this error and pick them up as smart trades:

1. Go to the SmartTrade page.
2. Choose the exchange from the drop-down box at the top of the page.
3. Expand the "Opened Orders and Positions" block.
4. Click the "Positions" button and look for the open positions.
5. Click the "Convert to SmartTrade" button that looks like a bar graph to the right of the position where it says "not linked to 3Commas."

This screengrab shows how to pick up a cancelled trade (either DCA Bot, Grid bot, Smart Trade, or a position opened on the exchange and not through our platform):

The current value is higher than or equal to the last price

This is a warning that the deal could be closed immediately with current presets. Please pay attention.

The order amount is too large. the order will be filled by parts

The order will be filled by parts due to the current maximum order size restrictions of your exchange.

Max trading view state size exceeded and some settings will not be saved. Please remove newly added settings

Try the following things:

Error status: 401 You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

This can happen when your PC or Laptop is woken from "Sleep" or "Hibernation" mode before your network connection is ready to be used to connect to the internet.

Please refresh the page and log into your 3Commas account again.

Stop Loss should be below the last safety order

Stop Loss in DCA bots is calculated from the price the initial Base Order was executed at, not the current "Average" price of the deal:

So, if you are confused about fine-tuning the Stop Loss percentage to the exact amount you have in mind, click the "Edit" button by the deal, and set the Stop Loss timeout to 600 seconds.

You can then adjust the Stop Loss percentage to your exact requirement and once you are happy, "Edit" the deal and disable the Stop Loss timeout feature!

Signal was received but then its processing was interrupted:

This error appears when all of the "Deal Start Conditions" configured in your bot are not met to begin a new trade, for example, did you configure a minimum or maximum price that an asset needed to have before your bot is allowed to begin a trade?

Or maybe you had a value set for the "minimum 24 hour volume" and the signal for the new trade was for an asset that had a value below this amount?

Error: 1135 "Invalid Account Status" (Binance Futures)

If you have a SmartTrade, DCA Bot or Grid Bot that shows an error message similar to: "code"=>-1135, "msg"=>"Invalid account status."

The reason is because at 0000hrs UTC on 18th February, Binance Futures rolled out an update that affects all traders (not just 3Commas users) that use the minimum order sizes when placing orders on Futures contracts.

More information can be read here:

How do I avoid this problem?

To avoid triggering this new Trading Rule, we'd recommend editing your bots and lowering the Max Active Deals (for Multi-pair bots) or disabling some of your Single-pair bots, so that you can edit and increase the Base Order and Safety Order sizes to be above 50 USDT.

Network error occurred. HTTP code: 500. Request will be retried

It happens when the exchange's API systems are overloaded. In this case, 3Commas will automatically try to place orders again. If that does not happen, then the deal should be cancelled and handled manually or converted into Smart Buy or Smart Sell.