# Banned Tokens

Add tokens that you want to exclude from trading due to personal preference or security concerns.

### Main Menu > Settings > [🚫 ](https://emojipedia.org/prohibited)Banned Tokens

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## How to Add Tokens You Do Not Want Bitfoot to Trade

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### Go to the Banned Tokens Settings

Main menu > Settings > Banned Tokens

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#### **Disabled/Enabled**

You can toggle this feature to activate or deactivate the automatic exclusion of tokens identified by the set criteria. When enabled, any token matching the configuration will be automatically excluded from all trading activities.
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### **Add Banned Token**

Manually add specific tokens to the banned list based on their token address by entering their contract address.
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### Config

This setting allows you to define criteria for identifying tokens to be banned based on their name or symbol characteristics.

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This setting is explained below.
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#### **Banned vs. Super Banned**

* Banned Token name is no filter sensitive.
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#### **Words**

* Excludes tokens containing specific words anywhere in their name or symbol.

#### **Words Start**

* Bans tokens whose names specified prefixes.

#### **Words End**

* Targets tokens whose names end with specified suffixes.

#### **Symbol Start**

* Filters out tokens based on the starting characters of their symbols.

#### **Symbol End**

* Bans tokens based on the ending characters of their symbols.
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