# How to hedge a Matched Trade

At this moment, the hedging platform dYdX can only trade with Ethereum based tokens. If you are matching with **Cosmos based tokens (Rowan, Atom) - you wil need to manually hedge the trade yourself.**

### **Pre - Hedging Instructions**

Ensure that you have the same amount of ethereum tokens that you intend to collatoralise in your Ethereum based wallet such as Metamask.

### How to make use of Auto-Hedging

1\) Ensure your Keplr wallet is synchronised 

2\) Deposit your Ethereum based Collatoral by selecting Match > Deposit and entering the amount you wish to deposit

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3\) Select Deposit and follow the Keplr wallet instructions to complete the transaction

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