Every setting, explained

This is the on/off switch for the whole profile. While it is on, the app keeps the profile's Telegram connection and its MetaTrader open, reads the groups of its listeners and places what your settings allow.

When you turn it off, the Telegram connection closes within about 30 seconds. A signal that arrives in that gap is recorded as skipped with "Signal skipped — trading is turned off", and a waiting order that expires is cancelled instead of being sent at market.

If the profile uses its own terminal, the app closes that MetaTrader, unless another profile that still trades uses the same one. A terminal you chose yourself stays open.

Your open trades stay at the broker with their stop-loss and take-profit, and pending orders can still fill there. What the app does on its own needs the connection: moving stops after a take-profit, closing the shares of One trade, following runners and closing them before the weekend. None of that runs until you start trading again.

When you turn it back on, MetaTrader starts (with an active licence and a terminal set up) and the listeners reconnect within about 30 seconds. Messages posted while the profile was off can arrive as Telegram catches up; they are judged by when they were posted, so those older than "Max signal age (min)" are skipped.

Every signal goes through the same steps: first the stop-loss is settled (the signal's, a default one, or your own), then the lots, then the caps, and last the lots are shared across the take-profits.

With "Risk % of equity" the money at risk is your live equity times the percent; with "Fixed cash" it is the amount you type. Both divide that money by what the stop costs on 1 lot: the distance to the stop in points times the value of one point on 1 lot, which MetaTrader works out for the symbol in your account currency.

With "Fixed lots" the stop plays no part in the size. The lots are the number you type, for each take-profit or for the whole signal, as "Fixed lots are for" says.

The result is capped at "Max lots per signal" and at the broker's largest lot, then rounded down to the broker's lot step. If it ends up under the broker's smallest lot, the signal is skipped.

The signal's story shows the working, for example: "Size: 1.00% of 10000.00 USD equity (Risk % of equity) is 100.00 USD at risk for this signal; with the stop 250 points away, that is 0.40 lots in all."

When a signal arrives, the app reads your equity from MetaTrader at that moment: the balance plus the floating profit or loss of open trades. This percent of it is the money the whole signal may lose at its stop.

That money is divided by what the stop costs on 1 lot, which gives the lots for the signal. With several take-profits the lots are shared by "Share across take-profits" (equally by default), so all the trades together still risk this percent.

The distance is measured from the limit price for a waiting limit order, and from the current price for a market order. A stop closer than the broker allows is pushed out first, which only makes the lots smaller.

The lots are then capped at "Max lots per signal" and at the broker's largest lot, and rounded down to the lot step. Rounding only ever lowers the risk; slippage or a price gap through the stop can still make a real loss larger.

It only matters with "Fixed lots" and a signal that has more than one take-profit.

"Each take-profit": every take-profit gets the full lots. With "Split" that is one trade of that size per take-profit; with "One trade" it is one position of take-profits × lots that closes one share at each take-profit.

"The whole signal": the lots are the signal's total. They are shared by "Share across take-profits" (equally by default), each share rounded down to the lot step, with the rest on the last take-profit. A share under the broker's smallest lot is dropped, furthest take-profit first, and its lots move to the ones kept.

With "Nearest take-profit only" or "Furthest take-profit only" there is one trade, so both choices put the lots in once. A runner ("let the rest run") counts as one more take-profit here: with "Each take-profit" it gets the full lots too.

With "Fixed lots" the number you type is the size, whatever the stop distance and whatever the account's size. "Fixed lots are for" decides whether it applies to each take-profit or to the whole signal.

The lots are rounded down to the broker's lot step and held under "Max lots per signal" and the broker's largest lot. Under the broker's smallest lot the signal is skipped.

This value is also the fallback of the other two modes. With "Risk % of equity" or "Fixed cash", a signal left with no stop at all (none in the signal, "Require stop-loss" No, default stop 0 for its kind) trades these lots as the signal's total, and its story says so.

This amount, in your account's currency, is the money the whole signal may lose at its stop. The app divides it by what the stop costs on 1 lot and gets the lots.

Unlike "Risk % of equity", it does not follow your equity: after a win or a loss, the next signal risks the same money.

The value of a price move comes from MetaTrader's own profit calculation for the symbol, so a EUR account trading a USD-priced symbol is converted for you.

The lots are then capped, rounded down to the lot step and shared across the take-profits, so the money really at risk can come out a little under the amount.

After sizing, the lots are checked against this cap and then against the broker's largest lot. Over the cap, the signal still trades, at the cap, and its story says "Capped at Max lots per signal (…)".

With "Risk % of equity", "Fixed cash" or Fixed lots for the whole signal, the cap is on the signal's total, before it is shared across the take-profits.

With Fixed lots for each take-profit on a hedging account with "Split" (or a single take-profit), each trade is held to the cap on its own, and the page names it "Max lots per trade". With "One trade", or on a netting account, the signal is one position: take-profits × lots is capped as a whole and shared evenly.

It is 50 out of the box, wide enough not to cut a normal signal. It is there for the mistyped signal or the stop a few points away that would otherwise size a huge lot.

This decides what happens to a signal that comes without a stop-loss. A stop the signal gives in pips or in percent counts as a stop.

Yes: the signal is skipped and its story says why. Nothing is placed.

No (the default): the app gives it a default stop. It uses "Default stop, any symbol (points) — older setting" when that is above 0, and otherwise the default stop for the symbol's kind: forex, metals, indices and oil, or crypto. The stop is measured from the entry the signal wrote, or from the current price when it wrote none.

That stop protects the trade at the broker and is the distance "Risk % of equity" and "Fixed cash" size from. Where the default for the kind is 0, the trade goes in without a stop, at your fixed lots.

With "Own stop-loss" on, this setting is hidden and not used: every signal gets your stop.

It applies to a signal with no stop, while "Require stop-loss" and "Own stop-loss" are both off and "Default stop, any symbol (points) — older setting" is 0.

The app counts as forex every symbol it does not recognise by name as a metal, an index, oil or gas, or a coin. That includes stocks and symbols with unusual names.

The stop goes this many pips from the entry the signal wrote, or from the current price when it wrote none: below for a buy, above for a sell. A pip is 0.0001 on most pairs and 0.01 on JPY pairs, read from the symbol's digits.

The same stop is what "Risk % of equity" and "Fixed cash" size from, so a wider default stop means fewer lots, not a bigger loss. With "No stop", such signals trade with no stop, at your fixed lots.

It applies to a signal with no stop on a metal, while "Require stop-loss" and "Own stop-loss" are both off and "Default stop, any symbol (points) — older setting" is 0.

The app knows metals by name, with any broker prefix or suffix: XAU or GOLD, XAG or SILVER, XPT or PLATINUM, XPD or PALLADIUM.

The stop goes this many pips from the stated entry, or from the current price: below for a buy, above for a sell. A gold pip is 0.10 and a silver pip 0.01; platinum and palladium follow their digits, usually 0.01.

The same stop is the distance Risk % and Fixed cash size from. With "No stop", metal signals without a stop trade with none, at your fixed lots.

It applies to a signal with no stop on an index, oil or gas, while "Require stop-loss" and "Own stop-loss" are both off and "Default stop, any symbol (points) — older setting" is 0.

The app knows the common index names (US30, NAS100, US500, GER40, UK100, JP225 and their other spellings) and the energy names (WTI, BRENT, XTI, XBR, OIL, NGAS and similar).

On an index the unit is one whole point of the price. On oil and gas it is the pip read from the digits, usually 0.01, so the number counts cents.

The stop goes this many units from the stated entry, or from the current price, and is the distance Risk % and Fixed cash size from. With "No stop", such signals trade with no stop, at your fixed lots.

It applies to a signal with no stop on a coin, while "Require stop-loss" and "Own stop-loss" are both off and "Default stop, any symbol (points) — older setting" is 0.

The app knows coins by name: BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, LTC, ADA, DOGE, BNB, DOT, LINK, AVAX, MATIC, TRX, XLM, BCH, SHIB and TON, with any broker prefix or suffix.

Coins are priced too far apart for one pip figure, so this one is a percent of the price: of the stated entry, or of the current price when the signal gives none. The most allowed is 50%.

The stop is also the distance Risk % and Fixed cash size from. With "No stop", coin signals without a stop trade with none, at your fixed lots.

Before the stops per kind of instrument existed, this was the only default stop. It is kept so a setup that relied on it keeps working.

Above 0 it wins over all four stops per kind, on every symbol: a signal without a stop gets its stop this many points from the stated entry, or from the current price. "Not used" hands the choice back to the four stops per kind.

A point is the symbol's smallest price step, so the same number means very different distances: 10 points make a pip on 5-digit forex, and on a 2-digit quote 100 points are 1.00.

With it on, the app ignores the stop the signal gives and places its own, "Own stop-loss (pips)" away from where the order goes in: the current price for a market order, the order's price for a limit or stop order.

Signals without a stop trade too, so "Require stop-loss" and the default stops are hidden and not used.

Everything that depends on the stop follows yours: the lots under "Risk % of equity" and "Fixed cash", the break-even and trailing moves, and the R a runner is measured in. A stop closer than the broker allows is still pushed out to the broker's minimum.

The signal's story shows both, for example "Your own stop-loss: 30 pips → 1.0972 (the signal's stop 1.095 is not used)".

The distance from the order's price to your stop, in pips of the symbol traded.

The app turns pips into price with the pip the market uses: 0.0001 on most pairs, 0.01 on JPY pairs, 0.10 on gold, 0.01 on silver, 1 on the indices it knows and on BTC and ETH. Other symbols follow their digits.

The stop is rounded to the symbol's digits. If it falls closer than the broker allows, it is pushed out to the broker's minimum distance, which sizes the lot down.

It must be above 0 while "Own stop-loss" is on; a save with 0 is refused.

The app sorts a signal's take-profits nearest first and turns each one into a part of the signal: TP1, TP2 and so on. A signal that also says to hold (“TP4: hold”, “runner”) gets one more part without a take-profit, the runner.

Split sends one order per part. Each has the signal's stop-loss and its own take-profit, and the broker holds both, so every part closes at its target even when the app or MetaTrader is off.

One trade sends a single order with the whole size, the stop-loss and the last take-profit (no take-profit if the signal has a runner). The earlier take-profits are levels the trading bridge in MetaTrader watches: when the price reaches one, it closes that take-profit's share of the trade.

Nearest and Furthest take-profit only send one order with the whole size on TP1 or on the last take-profit. The other take-profits and any runner part are not used.

Whatever you choose, a signal with a single take-profit is one trade, and a signal with no take-profit is one trade without a target, which the app treats as a runner. On a netting account a symbol can hold only one position, so Split and One trade both become one position whose earlier take-profits rest at the broker as closing orders.

Your sizing first works out the size of the whole signal: from Risk % of equity, Fixed cash, or Fixed lots for the whole signal. This setting then shares that size across the take-profits.

The app adds up the numbers and gives each take-profit its number divided by the total. Only the ratio matters: 2,1 and 50,25 give the same result. You can write up to 10 numbers, separated by commas, each above 0; decimals are fine. Empty means equal parts.

If the signal has more take-profits than numbers, the last number repeats. A runner part counts as one more take-profit and takes the last number too.

Each part is rounded down to the broker's lot step, and whatever is left over goes to the last part. If a part would come out under the broker's smallest lot, the farthest take-profit is left out and the size is shared again across the rest, until every part fits.

Before sizing the parts, the app counts what the signal wants: one part per take-profit, plus the runner if the signal has one. If that is more than this cap, it keeps the nearest take-profits and drops the rest, the runner first since it comes last.

The size is shared across the parts kept. With Risk % of equity, Fixed cash or Fixed lots for the whole signal your risk stays the same; it is just spread over fewer targets. With Fixed lots for each take-profit, each dropped part is lots you no longer put in.

Every dropped part is listed in the signal's story as “not placed: Max take-profits per signal is” and the number. In Split on a hedging account the position caps can drop more parts after this one, the same way, nearest kept.

With “No cap” this setting sets no cap; the signal's own take-profits and your position caps still bound it.

The app first works out how many parts the signal should place: every take-profit plus the runner, or fewer if “Max take-profits per signal” is lower. Then it sees how many actually fit.

Two things can make fewer fit: the position caps (“Max open positions”, “Max open positions per symbol”, and a listener's own caps), which apply to Split on a hedging account, and the broker's smallest lot, when a share of the size is too small.

With Yes, if fewer parts fit than it should place, nothing is placed and the story says how many of how many fit. With No, the parts that fit are placed, nearest take-profits first.

The app watches the parts of each signal. When one closes at its take-profit, it works out a new stop from this rule and moves the stop-loss of every part still open, runner included.

“Entry” is the price the signal's first trade filled at. To the entry: the stop goes to the entry after TP1 and stays there. To the take-profit before: the entry after TP1, then TP1 after TP2, TP2 after TP3. A fixed step from the entry: after take-profit k the stop goes to entry + k × (TP1 − entry), which after TP1 is TP1 itself. Just behind the take-profit reached: the stop sits “Pips behind the take-profit” from the take-profit just reached, the tightest of them.

With “To the entry” and “To the take-profit before”, “Room behind the stop” puts the stop that many pips further back, toward the loss side, so a dip back to the level does not close what is still open.

A stop is moved only if the new one protects more than the current one. A close at the stop, a manual close or a runner closing never moves anything.

If the broker keeps stops a minimum distance from the price, the stop goes as close as it allows. If the price is already past the new stop, the app closes that part at market, where the stop would have closed it.

The rule used is the one in force when the signal was placed, including a listener's own setting. Changing it later does not change signals already open. After a restart the app picks the open signals back up and keeps moving their stops.

Used only by the “Just behind the take-profit reached” rule. When a take-profit is reached, the new stop for what is still open is that take-profit minus this many pips on a buy, plus this many on a sell.

A pip is the symbol's pip: 0.0001 on EURUSD, 0.01 on USDJPY, 0.10 on gold, one point on indices and crypto. The same number therefore means very different distances on different instruments.

The stop only moves if it protects more than the current one, and never closer to the price than the broker allows.

When a take-profit is reached, these rules move the stop to the entry or to the take-profit before; with room, it goes that many pips further back, toward the loss side: below on a buy, above on a sell.

It is for groups that enter over a range: the app fills at the near end, and with no room a dip back to the entry closes what the group still holds.

A pip is the symbol's pip: 0.0001 on EURUSD, 0.01 on USDJPY, 0.10 on gold, one point on indices and crypto.

The stop still only moves forward: if the room would put it behind where it already is, it stays.

The app measures the gaps from the entry to TP1, TP1 to TP2 and so on, and takes their middle value as the signal's usual step.

From TP3 on, a target more than this many times that step past the one before is left out as a likely typo, with every target after it.

The left-out targets are listed with the signal, each saying why, with a button to this setting.

A signal with no entry price is measured from the price at the time.

While MetaTrader is connected, the app checks every runner about every 10 seconds. It keeps track of the best price the runner has reached: the bid for a buy, the ask for a sell.

Once the runner is “Start following at” in profit, the app puts its stop “Keep the stop behind by” behind that best price. From then on the stop moves only when the best price improves, and never back.

To avoid a stream of changes at the broker, a stop moves at most once every 15 seconds, only when it improves by at least a tenth of the trail, and never closer to the price than the broker allows.

The weekend close and the time limit are separate settings: they close runners even with protection off. Changes here apply at the next check, also to runners already open.

The unit applies to both “Start following at” and “Keep the stop behind by”.

With R, the app takes the runner's fill price and the stop it opened with; the distance between them is 1R. Each runner has its own R, so the same numbers fit a tight scalp and a wide swing.

With pips, a pip is the symbol's pip: 0.0001 on EURUSD, 0.01 on USDJPY, 0.10 on gold, one point on indices and crypto.

If the unit is R and a runner has no opening stop, or it is on the wrong side, there is nothing to measure from. The app leaves that runner's stop alone and says once that it should be switched to pips.

The app measures the runner's profit from its fill price to the best price it has reached. Until that reaches this distance, the runner's stop is not touched by this rule.

When it does, the first move puts the stop at the best price minus the trail on a buy, plus the trail on a sell. Since the trail must be smaller than the start, that first stop is already past the entry.

The app saves settings only when the trail is smaller than this value.

Once following has started, the new stop is the best price reached minus this distance on a buy, plus it on a sell.

The app only sends the change when the new stop is better than the current one by at least a tenth of this distance, at most once every 15 seconds, and not closer to the price than the broker's minimum distance.

A pullback does not move the stop. If the price comes back to it, the broker closes the runner there.

On Friday, from “Minutes before the weekly close” before 17:00 New York time until 17:00, the app closes every runner at market during its regular check, about every 10 seconds.

Only runners are closed. Trades with a take-profit keep their take-profit and stop over the weekend.

If the broker refuses a close, for example because the symbol is already closed, the app tries again at most once a minute until 17:00.

Sets the start of the Friday window in which runners are closed. The window always ends at 17:00 New York time; with 30 it runs from 16:30 to 17:00.

Accepted values are 1 to 720 minutes, so the window can open as early as 05:00 New York time on Friday.

At each check, about every 10 seconds, the app compares how long the runner has been open with this number. Once it is reached, the runner is closed at market, in profit or not.

The time counts from the runner's fill; if that is not known, from the signal. Weekends and closed markets count too: the clock does not pause.

It works whether or not “Protect runners” is on.

Before a signal is placed, the app counts what it already has open on this profile: every open position plus every pending order it placed. Trades you opened by hand are not counted.

If that count has reached the cap, the signal is skipped. If there is at least one free slot, the signal goes ahead and is then fitted to the free slots.

A Split signal needs one slot per take-profit. With fewer slots than take-profits, the nearest take-profits are placed and the rest are listed as not placed. With "Require full signal" on, the whole signal is skipped instead.

A signal held as one trade ("One trade" mode, or any signal on a netting account) needs one slot, whatever its number of take-profits.

A pending order holds its slot until it fills, expires or is cancelled.

The same count as "Max open positions", made for one symbol: the app's open positions and pending orders on the signal's symbol, buys and sells together.

A signal is skipped when that symbol is already at the cap. Otherwise a Split signal is trimmed to the free slots on that symbol, nearest take-profits first, or skipped as a whole with "Require full signal" on.

Both caps apply: a signal gets the smaller of the free slots on the profile and on the symbol.

The app groups its open trades and pending orders by the signal that placed them and counts the signals. A Split signal with 3 trades still open is one; once its last trade closes, it no longer counts.

When a new signal arrives and that count has reached the cap, the signal is not placed. On an Auto listener it waits on the Dashboard for your approval instead of being skipped, because this is often a signal you still want.

"Place anyway" on that waiting signal lifts this one limit for it. Every other rule still applies.

An app trade whose signal the app cannot trace counts as a signal of its own.

After the signal is sized, the app adds up the lots of all its trades and adds them to the lots it already has open on this profile, pending orders included.

If the sum is above the cap, the whole signal is skipped. It is not shrunk to fit.

Only trades the app placed count; lots you opened by hand are left out.

A signal refused by this cap can be placed anyway from the app, which sets your lot and margin limits aside for that one signal.

The same test as "Max total lots", on the signal's symbol only: lots already open or pending on that symbol plus the lots of all the new signal's trades.

If that is above the cap, the whole signal is skipped; it is not trimmed. Other symbols are not affected.

Both lot caps apply, and "Place anyway" sets both aside for one signal.

The app keeps a count of the signals it traded today on this profile, from every listener. A signal adds 1 once it has placed at least one trade or pending order, whatever the number of trades.

When the count reaches the cap, every new signal that day is skipped. Follow-ups on trades already open still work.

The day is the broker's server day: the count restarts at midnight on the server clock. It is rebuilt from the app's own records at start, so a restart does not reset it.

A pending order that later expires unfilled still counted, because it was placed.

The app adds up the result of every trade it closed today on this profile: losses, wins, partial closes and netting exits, from every listener.

Before each new signal it compares that net result with the line. Once the loss reaches the line, no new trade opens for the rest of the broker day.

Open trades are not touched, and their floating result does not count until they close.

The line is money or a percent of the account's value at the start of the day, as "Daily loss limit is in" says. It resets at the broker's midnight and survives a restart.

That is with the switches under it off. "Count open trades" reads the line with what the app's open trades float at; "At the limit: delete pending orders", "close trades in loss" and "close trades in profit" act on what is open the moment the day reaches it. All three leave the account flat until the broker's midnight.

With "account money", the number under "Max daily loss" is the line itself, in the account's currency.

With "percent of the account's value at the start of the day", the app takes the account's equity at the broker's midnight, floating results included, and works the line out from it. It keeps that figure, on your computer and on the website, so a restart later that day, or the app brought back on another computer, keeps the same line.

If the app is not running at midnight, the figure is taken the first time it reads the account that broker day.

The unit also applies to every listener's own "Max daily loss".

Off (the default): before each new signal the app compares the result of the trades it closed today with the limit. Open trades do not count until they close.

On: the app also adds what its open trades are floating at, each time MetaTrader reports them, about every 2 seconds. The moment the sum reaches the limit, no new trade opens for the rest of the broker day, and the limit holds from the result it was reached at, even if the open trades come back.

What else happens at that moment is up to the three switches under it.

New trades stop at the limit whatever these switches say, until the broker's next day. Each of the three adds one thing, on its own: delete the pending orders, close the trades in loss, close the trades in profit.

All three on leave the account flat and quiet until the broker's midnight: nothing open, nothing waiting.

The limit is read as "Count open trades" says: on the closed result alone, or with what the open trades float at.

Each closed trade's signal story and a notice on the bell say what was done and why.

New trades stop at the limit whatever these switches say, until the broker's next day. Each of the three adds one thing, on its own: delete the pending orders, close the trades in loss, close the trades in profit.

All three on leave the account flat and quiet until the broker's midnight: nothing open, nothing waiting.

The limit is read as "Count open trades" says: on the closed result alone, or with what the open trades float at.

Each closed trade's signal story and a notice on the bell say what was done and why.

New trades stop at the limit whatever these switches say, until the broker's next day. Each of the three adds one thing, on its own: delete the pending orders, close the trades in loss, close the trades in profit.

All three on leave the account flat and quiet until the broker's midnight: nothing open, nothing waiting.

The limit is read as "Count open trades" says: on the closed result alone, or with what the open trades float at.

Each closed trade's signal story and a notice on the bell say what was done and why.

The app adds up the result of every trade it closed today on this profile: wins, losses, partial closes and netting exits, from every listener.

Before each new signal it compares that net result with the target. Once the profit reaches it, no new trade opens for the rest of the broker day.

Open trades are not touched, and their floating result does not count until they close.

The target is money or a percent of the account's value at the start of the day, as "Daily profit target is in" says. It resets at the broker's midnight and survives a restart.

That is with the switches under it off. "Count open trades" reads the target with what the app's open trades float at; "At the target: delete pending orders", "close trades in loss" and "close trades in profit" act on what is open the moment the day reaches it. All three bank the day: the account stays flat until the broker's midnight.

With "account money", the number under "Daily profit target" is the target itself, in the account's currency.

With "percent of the account's value at the start of the day", the app takes the account's equity at the broker's midnight, floating results included, and works the target out from it. It keeps that figure, on your computer and on the website, so a restart later that day, or the app brought back on another computer, keeps the same target.

If the app is not running at midnight, the figure is taken the first time it reads the account that broker day.

The unit also applies to every listener's own "Daily profit target".

Off (the default): before each new signal the app compares the result of the trades it closed today with the target. Open trades do not count until they close.

On: the app also adds what its open trades are floating at, each time MetaTrader reports them, about every 2 seconds. The moment the sum reaches the target, no new trade opens for the rest of the broker day, and the target holds from the result it was reached at, even if the open trades come back.

What else happens at that moment is up to the three switches under it.

New trades stop at the target whatever these switches say, until the broker's next day. Each of the three adds one thing, on its own: delete the pending orders, close the trades in loss, close the trades in profit.

All three on leave the account flat and quiet until the broker's midnight: nothing open, nothing waiting.

The target is read as "Count open trades" says: on the closed result alone, or with what the open trades float at.

Each closed trade's signal story and a notice on the bell say what was done and why.

New trades stop at the target whatever these switches say, until the broker's next day. Each of the three adds one thing, on its own: delete the pending orders, close the trades in loss, close the trades in profit.

All three on leave the account flat and quiet until the broker's midnight: nothing open, nothing waiting.

The target is read as "Count open trades" says: on the closed result alone, or with what the open trades float at.

Each closed trade's signal story and a notice on the bell say what was done and why.

New trades stop at the target whatever these switches say, until the broker's next day. Each of the three adds one thing, on its own: delete the pending orders, close the trades in loss, close the trades in profit.

All three on leave the account flat and quiet until the broker's midnight: nothing open, nothing waiting.

The target is read as "Count open trades" says: on the closed result alone, or with what the open trades float at.

Each closed trade's signal story and a notice on the bell say what was done and why.

After sizing, the app asks MetaTrader how much margin one lot of the symbol needs, multiplies it by the lots of all the signal's trades, and adds the margin already in use on the account.

That total divided by the account's equity, times 100, must not be above this percent. If it is, the whole signal is skipped.

This reads the whole account: margin held by trades you opened by hand counts too, and so do floating losses, because they lower equity.

When the broker gives no margin figure for the symbol, or equity is unknown, the check is not made.

Before each new signal, the app reads the account's equity live from MetaTrader: balance plus the floating result of everything open, including trades you opened by hand.

If equity is below the floor, the signal is skipped. Nothing is closed.

There is nothing to reset: as soon as equity is back above the floor, the next signal trades again.

While equity is unknown (MetaTrader not answering), this check is not made.

The app remembers when it last placed a signal on this profile, from any listener. A new signal arriving sooner than this many seconds after it is skipped.

A skipped signal does not restart the clock; only a placed one does. All the trades of one signal go in together and count as one entry.

The skipped signal is not queued for later. After a restart the time of the last entry is read back from the app's records.

Right before a market entry, the app reads the current bid and ask and turns the difference into points, the smallest price step of that symbol.

If the spread is wider than the cap, the whole signal is skipped.

It is checked for market entries and for a pending limit that expires and is sent to market. A limit left waiting in the book is not checked, because it fills at its own price.

A listener can set its own value, including "Off" to turn the guard off for that group only.

Every market order the app sends carries this number as the largest distance, in points, the fill may be from the price the app asked for.

The broker applies it. On accounts with instant or request execution, a fill further away is refused. On market-execution accounts many brokers fill at the price available and ignore it.

When a limit is sent to market because the price is already better or the order expired, the allowed slippage can be tightened further, so the fill never lands worse than the stated entry.

A listener can set its own value.

When the group posts a message that is not a new signal, the app reads it for instructions. It then finds which of this listener's own trades the message is about: the signal it replies to; otherwise the one open trade on the symbol it names; otherwise the only trade open from that listener. If more than one could fit, it changes nothing and says why.

This setting covers closing the trade, cancelling its orders that have not filled, moving the stop to the entry and moving it to a tighter price. “Close” closes the signal's open positions and also cancels its orders still waiting.

The stop only ever moves closer. Break-even uses the entry the signal stated, or each position's own open price for a market signal. If the broker keeps stops a minimum distance from the price, the stop goes as close as it allows.

With Ignore them, each instruction is still recorded in Activity and the signal's story, marked as not followed, and nothing changes. Follow-ups never count toward your daily signals.

This covers two instructions: closing part of a trade (“close 20%”, “take half”) and moving its take-profit to a new price. The app finds the trade the same way as for exits.

A partial close takes that share of the signal's open lots, rounded down to the broker's lot step. Whole trades go first, the one with the nearest take-profit first and the runner last; what is still to close comes out of the next trade. It never closes more than asked, and a trade closed in part keeps at least the broker's smallest lot.

A take-profit move changes the target and keeps the stop.

With Ignore them, each such instruction is recorded as not followed, and your own take-profit, share and trailing settings keep managing the trade.

For each signal it places, the app remembers the broker symbol, the side and the stated entry, stop-loss and take-profits, for this many minutes. This covers every listener of the profile.

A new signal is a duplicate when, within that window, a placed one has the same symbol and side, both have an entry or neither does, both have a stop or neither does, the same number of take-profits, and every level within "Duplicate tolerance (pips)".

On an Auto listener a duplicate is not traded. It waits on the Dashboard marked "duplicate" or "possible duplicate", and expires after 10 minutes if you do nothing. On Manual and Watch listeners it is only marked.

Signals that were skipped or only watched are not remembered, so they never make a later one a duplicate. A restart keeps the window.

When the duplicate check compares a new signal with one placed recently, each level is compared on its own: entry with entry, stop with stop, first take-profit with first take-profit, and so on.

The difference is measured in pips of that symbol. Every level must be within this number for the signal to count as a duplicate. If all differences are 0 it is marked "duplicate"; otherwise "possible duplicate".

A pip follows the instrument: 0.0001 on EURUSD, 0.01 on USDJPY, 0.10 on gold.

Every Telegram message carries the time it was posted. When a message reaches the app, the app compares that time with now.

A live message is a few seconds old and always passes. A message older than this limit is never read as a signal or traded.

When the app was off, asleep or offline and catches up, messages posted within the limit are picked up but wait for your approval instead of trading by themselves; older ones are left out without a record.

When Telegram delivers a message late while the app is connected, a message over the limit is listed as stale, with its delay.

Before a signal trades, the app looks for its listener's trades and waiting orders on the same symbol in the other direction.

If there are some, it does what this setting says. "Ask me" puts the signal in Approvals with a note; approving it trades it beside them.

The two closing choices close them only if the signal itself would trade, so a misread or refused signal never closes anything.

On a netting account, which holds one position per symbol, "Open it beside them" is refused as before and an approval closes the open position first.

Before each signal the app takes today's weekday from the broker's server clock, not your computer's, and checks it against this list.

On a day not in the list the signal is skipped. It is not held for the next allowed day.

Only new entries are affected. Trades and pending orders already open keep running, and a pending limit that expires on a day off is not sent to market.

A listener can have its own trading days.

The window is written as HH:MM-HH:MM and read on the broker's server clock, the time MetaTrader's Market Watch shows.

A signal is placed only when the server time falls inside it. Both end minutes count as inside, so 08:00-22:00 still trades at 22:00 and not at 22:01.

If the start is later than the end, the window runs over midnight: 22:00-06:00 trades from 22:00 to 06:00.

Signals outside are skipped, not queued. Open trades are not closed. The trading days are checked first, by the day on the same clock.

When a signal names an instrument, the app first looks the word up in this list. A row found there wins; the app then trades exactly the symbol on its right.

Without a row, the app uses its built-in names (GOLD → XAUUSD, US100 and NASDAQ → NAS100 and so on) and then finds your broker's version of the symbol, endings such as .s, .pro or m included.

A row covers every spelling of its word: the left side is read the same way as the channel's word, so US100, NAS100 and NASDAQ are one row.

The symbol on the right is kept exactly as you typed it, upper and lower case, because some brokers tell XAUUSDm from XAUUSDM.

With the list empty, any symbol may be traded. With anything in it, a signal whose symbol is not on the list is skipped, from every listener of the profile.

Each entry is read the way a signal's symbol is: the plain name (XAUUSD), a word the app knows (GOLD), a spelling with a space or slash (EUR/USD), or your broker's own name (XAUUSD.s) all match a gold or euro signal.

This check happens before the listener's own "Symbols" list. A symbol must pass both.

The name is how this listener appears everywhere in the app: in the list on the Listeners page, in Listener performance on the Dashboard, on each signal it brought, and on the website and in the office.

When you pick a group with Choose…, the name fills in from the group's title. You can change it at any time.

Renaming changes nothing else. Past signals, open trades, waiting orders and the listener's own limits stay attached to the listener, not to its name, so a rename keeps its whole history.

In a group with topics, each signal shows the listener and the topic together, for example “Gold VIP › Signals”.

This is the Telegram group or channel the listener reads. The app reads it through your own Telegram account, connected on the Connections page, so you must be a member of the chat.

Choose… lists the groups and channels your connected account is in, with a search box. Pick one and the name fills in from its title. You can also type a public channel's @handle, or an id: -100… for a channel or supergroup, - followed by digits for a small group.

Only new messages are read: a message edited after it was posted is not read again. Captions of photos count as text. Your own messages in the chat are read too.

Several listeners may point at the same chat. A message goes to only one of them: the first in the list that reads its topic. On a chat without topics, that is always the first.

Some Telegram groups have topics: one chat split into threads, such as Signals, Results and Discussion. For the app it is still one chat, and every message carries the topic it was posted in. This setting appears only for such a group.

“All topics” reads every message in the group, whatever the thread. Choose… opens the group's topic list; tick the ones this listener reads and click “Use these”.

A message goes to one listener only: the first in the list that reads its topic. So two listeners on the same group can split it by topic, each with its own mode and rules.

Every signal says which topic it came from, in the app, on the website and in the office. A dry run on this listener replays only messages from the topics you ticked.

On, the listener reads its group and handles each message by its mode. Off, the listener is paused: the app stops reading the chat for it, and nothing posted there in that time is recorded or traded.

Pausing keeps everything else: the listener's settings, its history, and any trades or waiting orders it already placed. Those stay open and keep being managed (take-profits, trailing, runners, expiry of waiting orders).

Your plan sets how many listeners may run at once, counted across all your profiles; a switched-off listener does not count. The Desk shows your plan's limit under Account → "Plan & billing"; level 10 and level 40 add one more each, and cards can add more for a while.

Mode decides what happens to a signal from this group once it is read.

Watch — record only: the signal is recorded and never placed. The record also says what your rules would have done at that moment: the orders it would have placed, with lots, stop-loss and take-profit, or the reason it would have skipped. Follow-up instructions are recorded but never applied. New listeners start on Watch.

Manual — wait for my approval: the signal waits on the Dashboard under “Awaiting your approval” for 10 minutes, with “Trade it” and “Dismiss”, and the bell tells you. “Trade it” runs every check at that moment, with the current price, your limits and the trading switch. After 10 minutes it expires and nothing is placed. The waiting list survives a restart.

Auto — trade immediately: the signal goes through your rules and is placed within seconds. Switching to Auto asks you to confirm that orders will be placed on your account with no human check.

Even on Auto, some signals wait for you: one that looks like a repeat of a recent signal, one stopped only by “Max signals open at once” (with the button “Place anyway”), and one posted while the app was offline but still within “Max signal age (min)”.

Market enters right away at the current price: the ask for a buy, the bid for a sell. If the signal gives a range, the middle of the range is the entry the checks measure from.

Limit places a waiting order at the entry price the signal states and lets the market come to it. It rests at your broker with its stop-loss and take-profit, and fills even if the app is closed at that moment.

A Limit listener still enters at market when the signal gives no entry price. When the price has already passed the entry (you would get a better price than asked), no limit can rest there, and “If the price is already better” decides.

An unfilled limit is cancelled after “Cancel a limit or stop order not filled after”, and “If the limit order expires” decides whether it may still enter at market.

Some signals give an entry range instead of one price, such as “BUY GOLD 2400–2405”. A limit can rest at only one price, and this setting picks where inside the range.

The best price is the low edge for a buy and the high edge for a sell. It gives the best fill but the price reaches it least often. The worst price is the edge the price reaches first (the high edge for a buy, the low edge for a sell), so it fills most often. The middle sits between. The best price is the default.

A signal with a single entry price uses that price as it is, and a signal with no entry at all enters at market.

While the price is inside the range, the entry deviation check sees no distance at all; outside it, distance is measured from the nearer edge.

Some groups post breakout orders: BUY STOP above the price, SELL STOP below it. With this on, such a signal is placed at your broker as a stop order at its level, with its stop-loss and take-profits. MetaTrader enters it when the price reaches the level, even if the app is closed then.

It works whatever the entry mode. When the signal arrives with the price already at or past the level, the breakout has happened: it enters at market, within “Max entry deviation”, and further than that it is skipped.

A stop not filled after “Cancel a limit or stop order not filled after” is cancelled. It never turns into a market order, whatever “If the limit order expires” says: the price never got there.

A buy stop and a sell stop in one message (a straddle) trade one side only, unless you turn on “Let both sides of a straddle trade”. Off, the app reads BUY STOP and SELL STOP like any other entry.

A straddle is a buy stop above the price and a sell stop below it in the same message, so the trade follows whichever way the price breaks out.

Off (the default), only the first side to enter trades. The moment one side fills, or enters at market because the price was already past it, the app cancels the other side's stop at your broker. A later order of the same message in the other direction is refused.

On, each side waits on its own as a separate stop order, and both can fill. Nothing is cancelled or refused.

Only the stops of one message on this listener are linked. Two separate messages are two separate trades. Stops in the same direction as the side that entered keep waiting.

A waiting limit or stop order that has not filled after this many minutes is cancelled. The default is 30.

About every 30 seconds the app looks for orders past their time. A cancelled limit then follows “If the limit order expires”: it is cancelled for good, or it may still enter at market if the price is close. A cancelled stop order, or a limit waiting for the price to come back to an entry it had passed, is always just cancelled.

The clock runs from the moment the order was placed. After an app restart, orders keep their original time and are checked with the listener's current setting.

A signal that waits for your approval (Manual mode) is not an order yet and has its own wait of 10 minutes; these minutes start counting once an order is placed.

What happens when a waiting limit expires unfilled.

“Cancel it” (the default): the order is cancelled and the trade is shown as unfilled.

“Enter at market if still close”: after cancelling, the app checks the price against “Max entry deviation”, measured from the limit price, or from the range when the signal gave one. Within it, a market order goes out with the same lots, stop-loss and take-profit, and keeps its place in the signal.

The market order must still pass the rules a new trade passes, as they are now: the listener still on and not on Watch, trading hours and days, daily loss, open-position and lot limits, spread, margin and the trading switch. The daily signal count is not checked again, because the signal counted when its limit was placed. If a rule refuses, the order stays cancelled and the signal's story names the rule.

A buy limit waits below the price and a sell limit above it. When the signal arrives and the price has already passed its entry in your favour (a buy with the ask below the entry, a sell with the bid above it), a limit cannot rest there.

“Enter at market, never worse than the entry” (the default): the app first checks “Max entry deviation”; too far is skipped as a runaway. Within range, it sends a market order whose allowed slippage is capped at the distance to the entry, so your broker refuses any fill worse than the entry. The spread check applies.

“Skip the signal”: the signal is recorded as skipped, with the reason that the price is already better than the limit, and nothing is placed.

If the price has already moved further than this from the signal's entry, in either direction, the signal is skipped: you would be chasing. “Off” is how a new listener starts.

It is measured from the current price: the ask for a buy, the bid for a sell. With a range, a price inside it has no deviation and a price outside is measured from the nearer edge. A signal with no entry price is never checked.

It applies to Market entries, to a stop order whose level the price has already passed, and to a Limit that turns into a market order: one that expired with “Enter at market if still close”, or one whose entry the price has already passed.

The unit is set by “Deviation unit”: a percent of the entry price, or pips. Percent may be 0–10, pips 0–5000.

Sets how “Max entry deviation” is measured.

Percent of price is relative to the entry price. It means the same on every instrument, so one value works across forex, gold, indices and crypto. It is the default for a new listener.

Pips is a fixed price distance, the usual measure on forex and metals. A pip is 0.0001 on 5-digit forex pairs and 0.01 on JPY pairs, 0.10 on gold and 0.01 on silver, and 1.0 of the price on indices such as US30 or NAS100 and on bitcoin and ether.

What a signal does when it arrives with the price already through one or more of its take-profits: a buy with the ask at or above TP1, a sell with the bid at or below it.

“Skip the signal” (the default): nothing is placed, and the signal's story names the take-profit the price had passed.

“Trade the take-profits still ahead”: the trade opens at market with the take-profits the price has not reached yet. Each keeps its number and its share of the size (tp3 stays tp3), and the passed ones are listed as not placed. The stop-loss is the signal's, so the risk is the same while the targets are closer than the signal planned. With every take-profit passed, the signal is skipped.

“Wait for the price to come back to the entry”: the entry rests as a limit where the price meets the entry first on its way back, the edge of the entry zone nearest to it or the entry when the signal gave one price, with every take-profit and the signal's stop-loss. It waits for “Cancel a limit or stop order not filled after”, then is cancelled; it never turns into a market order.

“Max entry deviation” is checked first either way: a price further than that from the entry is skipped as a runaway.

Only signals on these symbols are traded from this group. Empty means every symbol your profile's “Allowed symbols” allows.

Write each one as the Signals page shows it (XAUUSD for gold), as the group writes it (GOLD), or as your broker spells it (XAUUSD.s), separated by commas. The app reads each entry the way it reads a signal's symbol, so any of these spellings matches.

The list narrows the whitelist, never widens it: a symbol must be allowed by both. A signal on any other symbol is skipped with a reason that names the list.

By default a listener trades with the profile's settings. Here you give it values of its own for any of them. Pick a setting from “Add a setting of its own…”: it starts at the profile's current value, with the profile's value shown under it. Change it: it is saved by itself. ✕ removes it, and the listener follows the profile again. What you do not set here follows the profile and changes when the profile changes.

What a listener can set for itself: its size (“Sizing mode”, “Risk % of equity”, “Fixed lots are for”, “Fixed lots”, “Fixed cash”, “Max lots per signal”); take-profits and trailing (“Multiple take-profits”, “Share across take-profits”, “Trailing stop”, “Pips behind the take-profit”, “Max take-profits per signal”, “Require full signal”); all runner settings; stop-loss rules (“Require stop-loss”, “Own stop-loss”, “Own stop-loss (pips)”, the older default stop); “Max spread (points)” and “Max slippage (points)”; “Trading days” and “Trading hours”; and the group's follow-ups (“Exits and stop moves”, “Partial closes and target moves”). These replace the profile's value in either direction: a listener may risk 2% while the profile risks 1%.

Limits of its own are different. Nine profile limits can be set per listener: “Max traded signals per day”, “Max daily loss”, “Daily profit target”, “Max open positions”, “Max open positions per symbol”, “Max signals open at once”, “Max total lots”, “Max lots per symbol” and “Pause between signals (seconds)”. A listener's own counts only its own trades, and can only be tighter: at most the profile's (a cooldown may be longer). Both apply, and whichever is reached first stops.

When the listener's own limit is reached, only this listener stops; the others trade on. When the profile's limit is reached, every listener stops, this one included, because the profile counts them all.

Some settings stay the profile's alone, because they belong to the account as a whole: “Max margin use %”, “Lowest equity to trade”, duplicates, “Max signal age (min)”, the symbol whitelist and names, and “Trading enabled”.

On, the app adds a startup entry for your Windows user. It runs when that user signs in to Windows, not when the machine powers on.

The app checks the entry at every start and repairs its path if the app moved. Turning the setting off removes the entry at once.

Whether that automatic start shows the window depends on Start minimized in tray.

It belongs to this computer and is not synced to your account.

It applies only to the start from Launch at startup. With Launch at startup off it has no effect.

On, the app starts with no window and no splash screen; listeners, MetaTrader and trading start as usual. Off, the window opens as if you had launched it.

Launching the app from the desktop or the Start menu always shows the window. It belongs to this computer and is not synced.

On, ✕ only hides the window. Listeners, MetaTrader and trading keep running, and you bring the window back from the tray icon or by launching the app again.

Off, ✕ quits the whole app, the same as Quit in the tray menu: every profile stops, listeners disconnect and the profiles' own MetaTrader copies close. Positions stay open at the broker with their stop-loss and take-profit.

A change applies to the next ✕, without a restart. It belongs to this computer and is not synced.

On, a line at the bottom of the window shows one tip at a time, picked at random, and a new one every few minutes. Tips come from our server, so new ones appear without an update.

A tip about something you already set up, like starting with Windows when it is already on, is skipped. You see every tip once before any comes back.

“Show me” opens the page or setting the tip is about. › shows the next tip; ✕ hides the line until the next one.

It belongs to this computer and is not synced to your account.

debug records everything, info (the default) records normal events and problems, warn only warnings and errors, error only errors.

The change applies at once, without a restart. The log file is capped at 5 MB, after which it starts a new one and keeps one older file.

A support ticket sent with the log attached carries the last part of this file, so the right level helps support see what happened.

It belongs to this computer and is not synced.

Each language is listed in its own words. The change applies as soon as you pick it, without a restart.

It follows your account: the same language on every computer and on the website's view of the app. The newest change wins, wherever it was made.

It has nothing to do with the signals. A group posting in English, Romanian or any other language is read the same way.

Named pipe (recommended), the default: works out of the box. The app allows the needed permission on the bridge's chart only; MetaTrader's terminal-wide setting stays off.

Local socket: the bridge connects to 127.0.0.1 and works only after 127.0.0.1 is on MetaTrader's allowed-URL list. In each MetaTrader: Tools › Options › Expert Advisors, tick "Allow WebRequest for listed URL", add 127.0.0.1, OK. The app cannot write that list for you.

Changing it redoes the setup of every profile's MetaTrader, so each restarts once. The status bar shows which link is in use.

It follows your account: every profile, every computer.

Nothing can reach your computer from outside: the app opens the connection itself, sends over it, and takes what you do in the Desk over it, within seconds while it runs.

The three switches below decide what is sent; with this one off, none of them sends anything and nothing done on the website reaches the app.

The switch follows your account, like the language.

Changes are sent in batches a few seconds after they happen. A failed send is kept and retried, waiting longer each time, up to 5 minutes between tries.

The original message text goes only when Sync original messages is also on. Dry-run records are never sent.

Turning it on also sends the latest 200 signals, so the dashboard is not empty.

The app sends the trading switch, the risk settings, the symbol rules and the listeners of each profile: at every start, after each change to them, and after your plan held a setting.

The website's editor shows this copy. An edit made there is checked by the same rules as on the desktop and applied by the app; an edit that fails a rule is not applied at all, and the bell says why.

Passwords, the Telegram session, MetaTrader paths and bridge secrets are never in it.

On, the message text is stored with the signal in your account on our servers. It comes from your signal groups, which may be private or paid.

Off, only the parsed fields leave this computer: symbol, side, entry, stop-loss, take-profits and the result.

It works only with Remote control and Sync activity both on.