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name: apex description: Trade and monitor ApeX perpetual futures. Check balances, view positions with P&L, place/cancel orders, execute market trades. Use when the user asks about ApeX trading, portfolio status, crypto positions, or wants to execute trades on ApeX.

ApeX Trading Skill

Full trading and portfolio management for ApeX perpetual futures exchange.

Prerequisites

Install dependencies once:

cd skills/apex/scripts && npm install

Authentication

Private operations require API credentials and an Omni seed:

• APEX_API_KEY
• APEX_API_SECRET
• APEX_API_PASSPHRASE
• APEX_OMNI_SEED

Testnet:

• Set APEX_TESTNET=1 (or APEX_ENV=qa).

Core Operations

Market Data (Public)

Get price for a coin:

node scripts/apex.mjs price BTC

List available symbols:

node scripts/apex.mjs meta

Portfolio Monitoring (Private)

Check balance:

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs balance

View positions with P&L:

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs positions

Check open orders:

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs orders

View trade history:

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs fills

Trading Operations

All trading commands require the ApeX API credentials and seed.

Place limit orders:

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs limit-buy BTC 0.1 45000

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs limit-sell ETH 1 3000

Market orders:

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs market-buy BTC 0.5

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs market-sell ETH 2

Cancel orders:

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs cancel-all

APEX_API_KEY=... APEX_API_SECRET=... APEX_API_PASSPHRASE=... APEX_OMNI_SEED=... \
  node scripts/apex.mjs cancel-all BTC

Output Formatting

All commands output JSON. Parse and format for chat display:

For balance/portfolio:

• Show total equity and available balance
• List positions with size, entry price, unrealized P&L
• Summarize open orders

For trade execution:

• Confirm order details before executing
• Report order ID and status after execution
• Show filled price if immediately executed

Safety Guidelines

Before executing trades:

1. Confirm trade parameters with user (symbol, size, side, price)
2. Show current price and position for context
3. Calculate estimated cost/proceeds

Position sizing:

• Warn if trade is >20% of account equity
• Suggest appropriate sizes based on account balance

Price checks:

• For limit orders, compare limit price to current market price
• Warn if limit price is >5% away from market (likely mistake)

Error Handling

Common errors:

• "Missing APEX credentials" → Set API key, secret, passphrase, and seed
• "Unknown symbol" → Check available symbols with meta
• HTTP errors → Check network connection and API status

When errors occur:

• Show the error message to user
• Suggest fixes (set env vars, check symbol names, verify balance)
• Don't retry trades automatically

Workflow Examples

"How's my ApeX portfolio?"

1. Run balance to get total equity
2. Run positions to get open positions
3. Format summary: equity, positions with P&L, total unrealized P&L

"Buy 0.5 BTC on ApeX"

1. Run price BTC to get current price
2. Confirm with user: "Buy 0.5 BTC at market? Current price: $X. Estimated cost: $Y"
3. Execute market-buy BTC 0.5
4. Report result

"What's the current BTC price on ApeX?"

1. Run price BTC
2. Format response: "BTC: $X on ApeX"

"Close my ETH position"

1. Run positions to get current ETH position size
2. If long → market-sell, if short → market-buy
3. Execute with position size
4. Report result

Advanced Features

List all available symbols:

node scripts/apex.mjs meta

Notes

• Symbols use -USDT format for trading (e.g., BTC-USDT).
• Public market data endpoints often use BTCUSDT format.
• Prices are in USD.
• ApeX uses perpetual futures, not spot trading.
• Check references/api.md for API details.