From dollars to your trading account
You have never bought crypto. That is fine — most of our clients had not either. This guide walks the whole way from money sitting in your bank account to a funded trading account, one step at a time.
Your country decides which brokers you can use, which currency you send, and what your bank will ask for. Pick it once and every tutorial follows it.
Your money stays yours. It is deposited into YOUR exchange account, opened in YOUR name, which only you can access. Uriel holds nothing but a trading key on it: we can open and close positions, we can never withdraw a cent. Uriel never receives your capital.
You are free to withdraw at any time, without asking our permission.
Gather your documents
Three different organisations will ask you for the same papers — the exchange, the broker, and us. Prepare them once, as sharp photos or PDFs, in a single folder on your computer:
- Your ID card, front and back, or a valid passport.
- Proof of address less than 3 months old in your name: an electricity bill, a council tax bill, or a bank statement.
- A selfie holding your ID next to your face.
- Proof of where the money came from: payslips, a sale deed, savings statements, a tax return, or a probate document — whichever fits your case.
The transfer must leave a bank account in your OWN name. Never a spouse's, a parent's or a company's. A payment from a third party will be refused, and it makes bringing the money back to your bank later very difficult.
Open your exchange account
This is the account that will hold your money. Open it BEFORE buying anything: you will need its deposit address at step 4.
The exchange does not accept residents of every country — the United States, Canada, mainland China, Singapore and the European Economic Area are among those excluded. Confirm with your Uriel adviser that your country of residence is served before you transfer any money.
- Sign up with your email and a password you use nowhere else. Install the app ONLY from the App Store or Google Play.
- Turn on two-factor authentication straight away, with Google Authenticator. Write the backup codes down ON PAPER and keep them away from your phone. This is the single most important protection in the whole journey.
- Complete identity verification (KYC): passport or ID card, then a selfie. Approval takes anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
- Activate the derivatives account (Unified Trading Account). You will be asked to fill in a short questionnaire. Without it, the strategy cannot run on your account.
Never open the exchange from a link received by text, WhatsApp or email — type the address yourself. Fake exchange sites are the most common fraud there is.
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Signing up and clearing identity checks, filmed by the exchange itself. Prefer it in writing? The same steps in their help centre. Your adviser will walk through it with you if you would rather not do it alone.
Open an account with a licensed broker
This is the clean way to turn money in a bank account into dollars on an exchange. It matters which broker you use: a regulated one keeps the paper trail your bank will later want to see.
Use a provider licensed or registered in your own country: that is what keeps the paper trail clean, and what lets you bring the money back to your bank later. Your national financial regulator publishes the register.
Above roughly $15,000, ask for the large-amount (OTC) desk rather than the standard web form.
On a transfer of this size, expect both your bank and your provider to ask where the money came from, and to hold the payment until you answer. Prepare the evidence in advance — payslips, a sale deed, savings statements, a tax return.
Send it from an account in your own name. A payment arriving from a spouse, a parent or a company will be rejected, and it makes bringing the money back later far harder.
Send the transfer, then buy USDT
Once your broker account is approved, send the bank transfer from your own account. As soon as it lands, you buy USDT.
It is a digital dollar: one USDT is always worth about one dollar. It is not a speculative investment and its price does not go up or down — it is simply the form your money travels in, and what the strategy works with.
Do NOT buy Bitcoin or Ethereum to make the transfer: their price moves while the money is in transit, so you would gain or lose at random.
If your broker does not offer USDT, buy USDC instead — the same thing, also pegged to the dollar. You convert it to USDT on the exchange in two clicks, at a negligible cost.
| Your transfer | Roughly | Broker fee |
|---|---|---|
| $15,000 | $15,000 | 1–2 % |
| $50,000 | $50,000 | 1–2 % |
Funding in dollars means no conversion step. If your account is in another currency, your bank applies its own rate — ask for it before you send.
Send your USDT to your exchange account
- On the exchange: Assets → Deposit → USDT, then choose the TRC20 (Tron) network — the cheapest, about $1 in fees.
- Copy the address shown, using the copy button. Never retype it by hand, and never read it out for someone else to type.
- At your broker: request a withdrawal, paste the address, and select exactly the same network — TRC20.
- Do a test first. Send a small amount, worth about $50. Wait until you see it arrive on the exchange (2 to 10 minutes). ONLY THEN send the rest.
- Check the balance shows in the Unified Trading Account. If it sits in Funding, use Transfer to move it across.
If the network you send on is not the network the address expects, the funds are gone for good — no bank, no support team, nobody can get them back. That is why you do a test transfer: it costs a dollar and removes the risk entirely.
Your Uriel adviser can stay on the phone with you through this step. Please ask — most clients do it that way the first time.
Connect your account to Uriel
Sign in at uriel-group.com. A wizard walks you through six screens: your details, your investor profile, your identity documents, signing the management agreement (confirmed by a code sent to your email), the amount you funded, and finally connecting your exchange account.
That last screen asks for an API key — the thing that lets us place trades on your account, and nothing else. There is a separate guide for that step, with a video.
Going live
Our compliance team reviews your file, and the strategy starts mirroring onto your account. You follow your positions, your performance and your statements live from your dashboard.
How we are paid: a fee on the net realised performance of the month, with a high-water mark — no gain, no fee, and no fee at all until earlier losses have been made back. The rate depends on your net invested capital. See the fee schedule.
Six rules never to break
If you remember nothing else from this guide, remember these.
- 01Nobody at Uriel will ever ask you for your password, a two-factor code, or your API secret. Whoever asks is not us.
- 02The API key never has withdrawal permission. If you are asked to enable it, refuse and call us.
- 03The transfer leaves your own bank account, never someone else's.
- 04Always a test transfer before sending the full amount.
- 05Two-factor authentication on from day one, and the backup codes written on paper, kept away from your phone.
- 06Keep every confirmation — bank, broker, exchange — in one folder. Your bank and your accountant will ask for them.
Tax
Tax on crypto gains is set by your country of tax residence. Uriel does not provide tax advice and does not file on your behalf: speak to your accountant before you start, and keep your full transaction history. Your monthly statements are downloadable from your dashboard.
A realistic timeline
| Day | What happens | Who acts |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Documents gathered, exchange account opened, 2FA, KYC, derivatives enabled | You |
| Day 1–2 | Licensed broker account opened and verified | You |
| Day 2–3 | Bank transfer sent, credited at the broker | Your bank |
| Day 3–4 | USDT bought, test transfer, then the balance | You |
| Day 4 | Uriel wizard, agreement signed, API key connected | You and your adviser |
| Day 5 | Compliance review, going live | Uriel |
Your adviser can stay with you by phone or screen share at every step, especially step 4. It is planned for, it is included, and it is how most of our clients do their first transfer.
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