https://bitstairs.com/ Sign-up, deposit and troubleshooting guides for OKX, in English, Romanian and Chinese, plus a set of free trading calculators. en https://bitstairs.com/fix/account-locked/ https://bitstairs.com/fix/account-locked/ A locked or restricted OKX account rarely means wrongdoing — more often an automated risk-control rule matched something ordinary, like a login from a new device, a sudden change of location, or a P2P dispute pattern. This guide explains the most common triggers one by one, then walks through the self-service appeal flow OKX provides inside the account itself, which routes faster than a generic support ticket. It also lists the documentation worth attaching on the first attempt — matching ID, payment receipts for a disputed P2P order, device confirmation — so the review is a single pass rather than a slow back-and-forth. It covers the legitimate appeal path only, not evasion tricks. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/deposit/eur-sepa/ https://bitstairs.com/deposit/eur-sepa/ A practical walkthrough of moving euros onto OKX from a European bank account. It covers the SEPA deposit flow step by step — where to find the IBAN and reference, why the reference field matters, and what actually happens between sending and crediting — plus the difference between SEPA Standard and SEPA Instant and why your own bank often decides which one you get. Card deposits and P2P are covered as alternatives, with their usual cost trade-offs. A dedicated section looks at depositing from Romania, where most bank accounts hold lei rather than euros, and another explains what the EU's MiCA licensing regime means for an EEA account holder. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/security-setup/ https://bitstairs.com/security-setup/ The window between creating an exchange account and funding it is exactly when security setup matters most, and this checklist keeps it to about fifteen minutes. It walks through switching two-factor authentication to an authenticator app instead of SMS, and explains why SIM-swap attacks make the app the stronger choice. Then it covers setting an anti-phishing code so every genuine OKX email carries a phrase a scammer cannot know, enabling the withdrawal address whitelist as the last line of defense if everything else is compromised at once, and reviewing active devices and sessions. Each step includes where the setting lives and what it actually protects against. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/fix/kyc-failing/ https://bitstairs.com/fix/kyc-failing/ Repeated identity-verification rejections almost always trace back to one specific, fixable cause rather than a mysterious account problem. This guide works through them in order: the four common document-photo failures — glare, cropped edges, expired documents, and low-resolution captures — then the facial-recognition step, where lighting, glasses, hats, camera angle, and missing camera permissions do most of the damage. It also covers name and detail mismatches, where a shortened or reordered name fails against what is literally printed on the ID, and ends with a retry strategy: fix the one stated cause, change the setup, and avoid burning attempts by resubmitting the same flawed photo repeatedly. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/fix/region-restricted/ https://bitstairs.com/fix/region-restricted/ The region-restriction message can come from three different places — your app store's country setting, the country you selected at sign-up, or OKX's actual service list for where you live — and mixing them up wastes time. This guide separates the three, shows how to check each on Android, iOS, and the web, and points to OKX's own published list of supported and restricted countries as the only source worth trusting. It also walks through two real 2025 regulatory cases that changed availability in specific markets, explains how the EEA's MiCA licensing works in the other direction, and describes what a partial product-level restriction looks like day to day. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/first-trade/ https://bitstairs.com/first-trade/ A first trade should be uneventful, and this walkthrough is built around keeping it that way: spot only, a small amount you genuinely do not care about, and a limit order placed at a realistic price. It explains the difference between market and limit orders in plain terms, how to read enough of the order book to sanity-check a price, and the beginner mistakes that cost the most time — confusing total with amount, setting a limit price far from the market and assuming something broke, and forgetting stale unfilled orders. It finishes with where fees are actually deducted and where to find the trade afterward in open orders, history, and balances. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/fix/no-verification-code/ https://bitstairs.com/fix/no-verification-code/ When a sign-up or login code never shows up, the fix depends on which channel is failing, so this guide splits the problem in two. For email: spam and promotions folders, work and school inboxes that silently filter automated mail, code expiry windows, and the resend cooldown that punishes rapid clicking. For SMS: wrong or missing country codes, carrier-side filtering on prepaid and MVNO plans, why virtual and VoIP numbers frequently receive nothing at all, and simple network resets worth trying before blaming the platform. It closes with the cases where the account itself is the problem — a number or address already registered once — and a warning about scammers who ask for your codes. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/deposit/p2p-guide/ https://bitstairs.com/deposit/p2p-guide/ P2P is how most first-time depositors fund an exchange account without a direct bank rail, and the escrow mechanics reward knowing the rules before the first order. This guide covers choosing a merchant by completion rate, order history, and verified badges rather than chasing the best headline price, then walks the pay-then-release flow step by step. The red-line rules get their own section: keep every conversation inside the order chat, never mark an order paid before money has actually left your account, leave the payment memo untouched, and refuse third-party payments outright. It ends with how disputes work, what evidence to attach, and the timing windows that matter. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/sign-up/ https://bitstairs.com/sign-up/ The full OKX sign-up flow in the order the screens actually appear: country selection, terms, email, the referral-code field, the email code, phone number, the SMS code, and password. Before the steps, a five-minute checklist covers what to have ready — a durable personal email, a real mobile number rather than a VoIP line, and ID for the verification that follows. After them, a decoded table maps each common error message to its likely cause and the specific fix, from expired codes to already-registered phone numbers. The guide closes with KYC verification levels, three ways to fund the account once verification clears, and the first-day security setup worth doing before any deposit. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/fees/ https://bitstairs.com/fees/ Exchange fee schedules look opaque until the three moving parts are separated: whether an order made or took liquidity, which volume tier the account sits on, and any discount applied on top. This guide explains maker and taker pricing in plain language, how OKX's tiered system moves with a rolling volume window, and why a casual trader mostly sits at the base tier. A worked example with clearly labeled illustrative numbers shows how the pieces multiply together on a single trade. It also takes apart the fine print behind zero-fee marketing claims — narrow pair lists, maker-only terms, launch windows, and spreads that cost more than the fee they replace. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bitstairs.com/tools/fee-calculator/ https://bitstairs.com/tools/fee-calculator/ A small calculator that turns a trading habit into a monthly fee number. Enter an average trade size, how many trades you make in a month, and a maker or taker rate, and it shows the fee per trade, the monthly total at that pace, and what the same month looks like with a percentage discount applied. The defaults are clearly labeled as illustrative rather than live exchange rates, and the page explains where to find the rate that actually applies to your own account and tier so you can plug in the real figure. Runs entirely in the browser, with no sign-up and no data sent anywhere. https://bitstairs.com/tools/position-size/ https://bitstairs.com/tools/position-size/ Risk-first position sizing, done in the order experienced traders actually do it: decide the maximum loss you will accept on one trade, and let the position size fall out of the math. Enter account size, risk percentage, entry price, and stop-loss price, and the calculator returns how many units you can hold so a stopped-out trade loses exactly the planned amount and no more. The page explains why a tighter stop allows a larger position for the same risk, what the calculation deliberately leaves out — leverage, fees, slippage, liquidation mechanics — and why those need checking on the exchange's own tools before sizing a leveraged trade. https://bitstairs.com/tools/eur-ron-converter/ https://bitstairs.com/tools/eur-ron-converter/ A live converter between Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether and both euros and Romanian lei, built for planning a deposit or P2P trade size rather than quoting an execution price. Rates are fetched once on page load from a public price API — no key, no login — with a refresh button for a newer snapshot, and both currencies are pulled in the same request so the two figures always describe the same moment. If the live fetch fails behind an ad-blocker or a rate limit, a manual-rate mode appears with six fields so the math keeps working with numbers you supply from any price source you trust. https://bitstairs.com/tools/grid-spacing/ https://bitstairs.com/tools/grid-spacing/ A planning tool for arithmetic grid strategies: enter the bottom and top of your range, the number of grid lines, and the amount spent per grid, and it returns the price gap between lines, the gap expressed as a percentage at both ends of the range, and the total commitment. The page explains why equal price gaps mean unequal percentage moves near the bottom versus the top, why the per-cycle percentage is a theoretical pre-fee figure, and — bluntly — why a grid is not a guaranteed-profit machine: a strong one-directional move leaves an unbalanced position outside the range until price returns. https://bitstairs.com/tools/dca-planner/ https://bitstairs.com/tools/dca-planner/ A dollar-cost-averaging schedule builder: pick an amount, a frequency, and a number of periods, and it produces an actual dated schedule with a running total, long plans summarized so fifty-two weekly buys stay readable. The surrounding text is honest about what DCA is and is not — a discipline tool that smooths entry prices across good and bad days, not a guaranteed edge over lump-sum investing, and no protection against an asset that simply declines across the whole schedule. Useful for turning a vague intention to buy regularly into a concrete plan you can check against what you actually did.