Gemini adds drag-and-change tools to ActiveTrader to go after speed-focused traders even as GEMI stock trades well below its IPO price and users still complain about lag.
Gemini has introduced a new order modification feature in the ActiveTrader interface, allowing users to “change the price by dragging the order line on the chart and change the quantity by clicking on the pill on the order line,” co-founder Tyler Winklevoss said in a post on X. Winklevoss focused the update on speed, telling his followers, “Markets move fast, so can you, too, with @Gemini Active Trader,” along with a short product demo video that has been viewed approximately 29,400 times. Within hours of posting. This feature is targeted at frequent retail and professional users who need to adjust orders during the day without leaving the chart.
This enhancement builds on a broader Gemini push to make ActiveTrader more customizable, including previous changes that allow users to drag and drop modules and activate floating order forms for chart-centric workflows. Gemini states on its support page that ActiveTrader already supports a full suite of market orders, limit orders, and advanced limit orders, including immediate or cancel (IOC), fill or kill (FOK), maker or cancel, and auction-only instructions, in addition to the stop-limit feature. Gemini bridges the usability gap with established trading terminals that have long offered drag adjustment orders on price ladders and depth charts by allowing traders to modify these orders directly from chart objects rather than static tickets.
Initial reactions to X highlight both enthusiasm and lingering problems. “Swift move,” user @ZackD0x wrote, while another former team member, @ignacio_ape, said he was “so happy” about the upgrade and praised ActiveTrader for seeing it “continue to grow even without me.” Not all feedback was positive. “Drag and drop is cool and all, but I just want the app to be lag-free during times of high volatility,” user @Steffan0xd complained, emphasizing that reliability of execution is still more important than interface polish when spreads explode.
This product update comes as Gemini navigates a more challenging market environment as a publicly traded company. It gained attention on the Nasdaq market in September 2025, initially valuing the exchange at around $4.4 billion, but the company’s GEMI stock has since fallen well below its public offering price, and in February, Bloomberg reported that Gemini was “at risk of a hard landing” following Bitcoin’s more than 40% plunge and mounting operating losses. Recently, crypto.news reported that despite the rally in Bitcoin and Ethereum, GEMI is trading below $6, down about 76% since its IPO, suggesting a growing disconnect between the exchange’s capitalization and the broader crypto rally.
This disconnect has forced Winklevoss-led platforms to deploy features such as self-custodial wallets, prediction markets, and a more modular ActiveTrader interface, and to place greater emphasis on product differentiation in order to convert volatility into higher fee income. Whether the new drag-to-modify tool meaningfully moves the needle will depend more on whether active traders actually route their orders through Gemini rather than rival exchanges when cryptocurrency volatility reaches its next stage, rather than on the X engagement metric.
