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# Open new market

## \*This is not financial advice\*

**To Learn How to Navigate to "open new market" click** [**HERE**](/developers-api/market-creation.md)

## **To create a market for an existing token pair, you will use Auto Select**

![Open New Market Auto Select](/files/-MgHe85AlZ324sRm3I4D)

**Pink Box -** RAM will be included in the cost to facilitate your new market pair.

**Red Box -** Select the base token you want to use for your pair.

**Blue Box** **-** Select the new "quote" token you want to pair with your base token

**Yellow Box -** Switch to Manual token selection 

Or, if you do not have token that you want to list, you have to use manual mode.

## **To create a market pair Manually**

![Open New Market Manually](/files/-MgHfh2aLTKpWLIOxzFr)

**Green Box -** Select your base token.

**Red Box -** Manually enter your quote tokens contract.

**Yellow Box -** Manually enter symbol for the market pair you are creating.

**Pink Box -** Shows total cost of new market creation fee .

 

\*Only tokens already in your connected wallet will show in the drop-down token selection menus. 

\*When creating a new token pair, the exchange value will be calculated automatically.