Delta-Neutral Made Native, Now Built Into OKX
Where most platforms see two risky positions, we see one smart strategy, a hedge.
So we created a first-of-its-kind new smart account for delta-neutral traders, where your hedge is seen by the platform as a unified trade, unlocking capital efficiency and control. It’s built to understand your true net risk. By analyzing your longs and shorts as a single, balanced portfolio, it delivers two key benefits:
Stronger Margin Usage: Your capital enjoys strong borrowing limits
Smarter Liquidation Limits: You're protected from unfair liquidations on one leg of your strategy.
It's the account built for the way you actually trade.
It's exactly the same structured delta-neutral strategies used by market makers, hedge funds and traders on Wall Street, and it's now available on your OKX account in a dedicated mode.
A trader's dream on structured earnings with lower risk
When you trade size, risk isn’t theoretical, it's as real as a margin call away. So we rethought the foundation for both efficiency and clarity:
Higher borrowing limits: so your strategies enjoy maximum capital efficiency as compared to the general account mode.
Lower Auto-Deleveraging (ADL) queues: lowering the risk of your hedge unwinding unexpectedly, in turn, increasing the stability of your strategy
What’s Delta-Neutral, and why do Funds trade Delta-Neutral?
When running delta-neutral trading strategies, you don’t bet on direction. You bet on structure. Delta-neutral strategies aim to neutralize market exposure. This means holding off-setting positions (e.g., long on spot, short on perps) with tight balance in between. Profits come from either of the following:
Funding rate spreads
Basis differentials
Its basically compounding the benefits of the edge derived from delta-neutral trading (hedging), for growth stability regardless of market conditions.
Who is it for?
Delta-neutral strategy is best used with large position sizes. To begin, it's available if you're one of the following:
Funds and Market Makers running basis trades at scale
OKX VIPs, HNWIs and Sophisticated Traders looking to grow without overexposure
Institutional Partners who need capital discipline without operational drag
If you’ve been building delta-neutral trades manually across accounts, toggling margin modes, managing risks by spreadsheet, this changes everything.
How To Access
Open your OKX account
Go to Settings → Account Modes
Select Delta-Neutral Mode
You're live.
You can also create a sub-account to run delta-neutral trading in isolation from your main account
Go to Sub-accounts → Strategy Type
Select Delta-Neutral Mode
You're live
Where & When
Delta neutral goes live for all KYC and KYB VIP level users, on the 7th of November, 2025, in the following markets/region only:
Australia
UAE
Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines)
South Korea
CIS Region
More markets to be released soon.
For API Traders: Find the Delta-Neutral API Change log here
For Delta-Neutral calculations, borrowing limits and risk control restrictions, click here.
See Borrowing Limits and the 4 waves of borrowing limits updates here: 1) November 13, 2025, at 4pm (UTC+8) 2) November 20, 2025, at 4pm (UTC+8) 3) November 25, 2025, at 4pm (UTC+8) 4) November 27, 2025, at 4pm (UTC+8)
Welcome to the New Money App.
© 2025 OKX. This article may be reproduced or distributed in its entirety, or excerpts of 100 words or less of this article may be used, provided such use is non-commercial. Any reproduction or distribution of the entire article must also prominently state: “This article is © 2025 OKX and is used with permission.” Permitted excerpts must cite to the name of the article and include attribution, for example “Article Name, [author name if applicable], © 2025 OKX.” Some content may be generated or assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. No derivative works or other uses of this article are permitted.
