Bittime Spot & Futures Account Fund Transfer Operation Guide

Hi Bittimers,

On the Bittime platform, funds in your spot account and futures account are segregated independently. If you wish to trade futures, you need to transfer assets from your spot account to your futures account. If you want to withdraw funds for spot trading or cash out, you may also transfer available assets from your futures account back to your spot account. This guide covers the full process of two-way fund transfers, applicable rules, restrictions and risk warnings to help you complete fund transfers in compliance with platform standards.

1. Transfer from Spot to Futures (Deposit into Futures Account)

Funds in the futures account are isolated and independent. All futures position opening, margin deductions, trading fees and funding rates can only be covered by assets held in the futures account — assets in the spot account cannot be used for futures trading directly, and a transfer deposit is mandatory. Segregating futures funds from spot funds is a necessary measure: it defines the capital you are willing to expose to trading risks and affects your trading margin requirements. Futures markets carry far higher price volatility than spot markets. To safeguard your personal financial health, only allocate funds you can fully afford to lose.

Navigate to Assets in the top-right corner of any page, then select the "Futures" tab to view your futures account.

Click the Transfer button to launch the fund transfer window, then select the transfer direction: Spot Account to Futures Account.

Enter the USDT amount you intend to transfer, or click Max to transfer all available funds. You may also toggle on Batch transfer to transfer multiple selected crypto assets in bulk. After confirming the amount, click Confirm to submit the transfer request.

A pop-up window will appear to confirm successful transfer (example shown with a 1 USDT transfer). The page will refresh automatically shortly after, and the transferred funds will be credited to your futures account in real time for immediate position opening.

2. Transfer from Futures to Spot (Withdraw from Futures Account)

Only unoccupied, unfrozen available USDT in your futures account (with no open positions) can be transferred back to the spot account for spot trading, asset conversion, withdrawals and other operations. Funds locked as position margin cannot be withdrawn directly.

Similarly, go to Assets in the top-right corner of any page and open the "Futures" tab to access your futures account. On the Transfer page, click the bidirectional arrow icon ⇄ to switch the transfer direction to Futures Account to Spot Account.

The page will automatically display your current withdrawable balance from futures, after deducting margin occupied by open positions and funds frozen under pending orders. Input the withdrawal quantity and click Confirm to trigger a secondary verification window.

The secondary confirmation page will display changes to your maintenance margin ratio. Double-check that the ratio remains within a safe threshold, then click Confirm again to finalize the transfer. The page will refresh automatically, and the withdrawn funds will arrive in your spot account instantly for unrestricted use.

3. Mandatory Restrictions on Futures-to-Spot Withdrawals

-Funds locked by open positions cannot be withdrawn

Whether you use Cross Margin or Isolated Margin mode, margin reserved to maintain open positions and assets locked by unrealized profit/loss cannot be withdrawn. You must close all open positions to release margin before transferring the corresponding funds out.

-Funds frozen by unfilled pending orders cannot be withdrawn

If your account holds limit orders, take-profit/stop-loss conditional orders or other unexecuted trading requests, the margin occupied by these orders will be frozen and excluded from your withdrawable balance. You must cancel all pending orders first to unlock the funds for transfer.

-Trial funds cannot be withdrawn

Trial funds in the futures account can only be used to offset trading costs and losses, and cannot be transferred back to the spot account. Submitting a spot withdrawal request will immediately clear all trial funds held in your account.

-Transfers suspended during tiered reduction or forced liquidation

All withdrawal operations will be temporarily halted when your account triggers tiered reduction or forced liquidation procedures. Fund transfer functionality will resume only after liquidation completes and locked funds are released.

4. Risk Warnings

Large-scale one-time withdrawals will drastically lower your account margin ratio, which may trigger tiered partial liquidation or full forced liquidation, resulting in asset losses.Under Cross Margin mode, withdrawing funds will reduce the risk buffer for all open positions simultaneously, pushing liquidation prices upward across all positions and increasing your risk of liquidation.Under Isolated Margin mode, withdrawals only impact the safety buffer of the corresponding individual position. However, insufficient margin for a single position may still trigger isolated forced liquidation.