Video tutorials

Learn Surge in 12 short videos, from connecting your wallet to running every strategy.

New to Surge? Watch these in order. Each video is 2 to 3 minutes and walks through the real app step by step. Prefer reading? Each tutorial includes links to the matching guide.

Getting started

1. Welcome to Surge

What Surge does, the five strategies, and how your keys stay safe.

Watch: 1. Welcome to Surge

Read: What Surge is

2. Connect your wallet and sign in

Connect a CIP-30 wallet, sign the free login message, and find your way around the app.

Watch: 2. Connect your wallet and sign in

Read: Connecting your wallet

3. Hot wallets: generate, fund, back up and sweep

Create a strategy wallet, fund it, back it up, and get your funds back out.

Watch: 3. Hot wallets: generate, fund, back up and sweep

Read: Manage strategy wallets

4. Dashboard, Portfolio and Activity

Track P&L, fees and every trade, with links to Cardanoscan.

Watch: 4. Dashboard, Portfolio and Activity

Read: Dashboard, Portfolio, and Activity and trade history

5. Swap across Cardano DEXes

Live quotes, transparent fees, and the aggregator for large orders.

Watch: 5. Swap across Cardano DEXes

Read: Manual swaps

Strategies

6. Cadence: build and unwind positions

Build or exit a position in many small, randomized trades without moving the price.

Watch: 6. Cadence strategy

Read: Cadence (volume)

7. DCA: buy and sell on a schedule

Buy or sell on a fixed schedule, and backtest the plan first.

Watch: 7. DCA strategy

Read: DCA

8. Arbitrage across Cardano DEXes

Capture price gaps between Minswap, SundaeSwap, WingRiders and Splash.

Watch: 8. Arbitrage strategies

Read: Sequential arbitrage and Parallel arbitrage

9. Grid: profit from sideways markets

Profit from sideways markets with a ladder of buy and sell levels.

Watch: 9. Grid strategy

Read: Grid

10. Rule-Based: trade from chart levels

Draw your buy and sell levels on the chart and let them fire automatically.

Watch: 10. Rule-Based strategy

Read: Rule-based strategies

Managing and staking

11. Manage your strategies

Pause, stop and archive strategies, set up alerts, and choose what signs automatically.

Watch: 11. Managing strategies, alerts and settings

Read: Managing strategies, Notifications and alerts, and Settings

12. Surge staking and fee tiers

Earn ADA every epoch with no lockup, and unlock lower trading fees.

Watch: 12. SURGE staking and fee tiers

Read: Stake SURGE and Tiers and fee discounts