# Every setting explained

## Settings › Trading
- Trading enabled: Master switch for this profile. Off, the app stops reading its groups and closes its MetaTrader, so nothing new is placed. What is already at the broker stays there: open trades keep their stop-loss and take-profit, and pending orders can still fill. While it is off the app does not move stops, close One trade shares or look after runners.

## Settings › Position sizing
- Sizing mode: How the lot size of a signal is chosen. All three end at a number of lots; they differ in what stays the same from one signal to the next. Options: Risk % of equity / Fixed lots / Fixed cash. When it applies: Risk % of equity and Fixed cash need a stop-loss to work the lots out from: the wider the stop, the fewer the lots, and the whole signal shares them across its take-profits. Fixed lots ignore the stop, and "Fixed lots are for" says whether every take-profit gets the full lots or the whole signal shares them. Example: Same account, same 25-pip stop on EURUSD: Risk 1% of 10 000 → 0.40 lots; Fixed cash 50 → 0.20 lots; Fixed lots 0.10 → 0.10 lots. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Risk % of equity (per signal): The share of your equity one signal may lose if its stop-loss is hit. The lots are worked out for the whole signal and then shared across its take-profits, so all its trades together risk this much, not each of them. A message with several separate trades (two entries, two instruments) is several signals, and each risks this share. 0.5–1% is a common conservative choice; up to 100% is allowed, the whole account on one stop. When it applies: Only with the Risk % of equity sizing mode. Equity is read live from MetaTrader when the signal arrives, floating profit and loss included. The lots are rounded down to the broker's lot step and never exceed the lot cap below, so the real risk can come out lower. Example: Equity 10 000, risk 1%, stop 25 pips on EURUSD (10 per pip per lot): 100 / (25 × 10) = 0.40 lots for the signal. Shared equally across 4 take-profits that is 0.10 lots on each: 1% at risk in all, not 4%. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Fixed lots are for: Each take-profit: every take-profit of a signal gets the full lots, so a signal with 4 take-profits puts 4 times the lots in the market. The whole signal: the lots are the signal's total, shared across its take-profits the way a risk-sized signal is. Options: Each take-profit / The whole signal. When it applies: With "Nearest take-profit only" or "Furthest take-profit only" a signal uses one take-profit, so both choices trade the lots once. Example: 0.05 lots and 4 take-profits: for each take-profit that is 0.20 in all; for the whole signal it is 0.05, as 0.01 + 0.01 + 0.01 + 0.02. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Fixed lots: The lots, whatever the stop distance or the account size: for each take-profit, or for the whole signal, as "Fixed lots are for" says. When it applies: Only with the Fixed lots sizing mode. The lots are rounded down to the broker's lot step and never exceed the lot cap below or the broker's largest lot. Example: 0.10 for each take-profit on a signal with 3 take-profits: 0.30 lots in the market, as three trades of 0.10 (Split) or one trade of 0.30 that closes 0.10 at each take-profit (One trade). For the whole signal: 0.10 in all. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Fixed cash (per signal): The money, in the account's currency, one signal may lose if its stop-loss is hit, shared across its take-profits like Risk % of equity: all its trades together risk this amount. You still trade in lots; this only works them out. When it applies: Only with the Fixed cash sizing mode. The lots are rounded down to the broker's lot step and never exceed the lot cap below, so the real risk can come out lower. Example: Fixed cash 50, stop 25 pips on EURUSD: 50 / (25 × 10) = 0.20 lots. The same 50 with a 50-pip stop gives 0.10 lots. With 2 take-profits the 0.20 lots are shared as 0.10 on each: 50 at risk in all. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Max lots per signal: The most lots sizing may give. With Risk % of equity, Fixed cash, or Fixed lots for the whole signal, it caps the signal's total before it is shared across the take-profits. With Fixed lots for each take-profit it caps each trade, so a Split signal can put this many lots on every take-profit; a signal held as one trade (One trade, or any signal on a netting account) is capped as a whole and its take-profits share the capped lots. The broker's largest lot applies the same way. The last safety net against a mistyped signal or a tiny stop that would size a huge lot. When it applies: A capped signal still trades, and its story says so. A listener with its own "Multiple take-profits" follows its own choice. Example: Sizing gives 1.4 lots and the cap is 1.0: the signal goes in at 1.0, 0.50 on each of 2 take-profits. Fixed lots 0.50 for each take-profit with the same cap: 4 take-profits in Split open 4 trades of 0.50 (2.00 in all); in One trade the position is capped at 1.00 and 0.25 closes at each take-profit. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.

## Settings › Stop-loss
- Require stop-loss: Yes: a signal without a stop-loss is skipped; you never enter unprotected. No: it gets the default stop for its kind of instrument below, both as protection and as the distance the lot is sized from — or, where that default is 0, it trades with no stop at your fixed lots. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Default stop · forex (pips): The stop a signal without one gets on forex pairs: 30 pips on EURUSD puts a buy at 1.1000 on a stop at 1.0970. "No stop": such a signal trades without one, at your fixed lots (risk % and fixed cash size by the stop, so they cannot). When it applies: Only when Require stop-loss is No. The guide suggests a value from what you trade; check it against the signals you follow.
- Default stop · gold and metals (pips): The stop a signal without one gets on gold, silver and other metals: 50 pips on gold (a pip is 0.10) puts a buy at 2400 on a stop at 2395. "No stop": such a signal trades without one, at your fixed lots (risk % and fixed cash size by the stop, so they cannot). When it applies: Only when Require stop-loss is No. The guide suggests a value from what you trade; check it against the signals you follow.
- Default stop · indices (points), oil (cents): The stop a signal without one gets on indices, oil and gas: 60 points on US30 puts a buy at 42 000 on a stop at 41 940; on oil the same 60 are cents, 0.60. "No stop": such a signal trades without one, at your fixed lots (risk % and fixed cash size by the stop, so they cannot). When it applies: Only when Require stop-loss is No. The guide suggests a value from what you trade; check it against the signals you follow.
- Default stop · crypto (% of the price): The stop a signal without one gets on coins: 1.5% puts a BTC buy at 80 000 on a stop at 78 800. "No stop": such a signal trades without one, at your fixed lots (risk % and fixed cash size by the stop, so they cannot). When it applies: Only when Require stop-loss is No. The guide suggests a value from what you trade; check it against the signals you follow.
- Default stop, any symbol (points) — older setting: The one default stop, in points, every symbol used to get. Above 0 it is still used instead of the defaults per kind of instrument; "Not used" leaves those in charge. When it applies: Only when Require stop-loss is No. A point is the smallest price step of the symbol; on 5-digit forex 10 points make a pip. Example: 300 points = 30 pips on EURUSD: a buy at 1.1000 gets its stop at 1.0970. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Own stop-loss: Yes: every trade gets your own stop at the distance below, whatever stop the signal gives, and signals without a stop are traded too. The lot is sized from your stop, and breakeven and the ladder move from it. No: the signal's stop is used. When it applies: Off by default. The signal's own stop is shown next to yours in the signal's story. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Own stop-loss (pips): How far from the entry your stop goes, in pips of the symbol traded. When it applies: A pip is what the market calls one: 0.0001 on most forex, 0.01 on JPY pairs, 0.1 on gold, 1 on indices and crypto. The same number is tight on gold and wide on EURUSD: set it per listener when your groups trade different markets. Example: 30 pips: a EURUSD buy at 1.1000 gets its stop at 1.0970; a gold buy at 2400.0 gets it at 2397.0. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.

## Settings › Take-profits & trailing
- Multiple take-profits (per signal): How a signal with several take-profits is traded. Split opens a separate trade for each take-profit, each with its own target at the broker. One trade opens a single trade and closes each take-profit's share of it when the price gets there. Nearest or Furthest take-profit only puts the whole size on that one take-profit. On a netting account Split and One trade both become one position, and the earlier take-profits rest at the broker as orders that close their share. Options: Split: a separate trade for each take-profit / One trade: a share closes at each take-profit / Nearest take-profit only / Furthest take-profit only. When it applies: How much each take-profit gets follows "Share across take-profits", and fixed lots follow "Fixed lots are for". With One trade the shares close only while MetaTrader is open; the stop-loss and the last take-profit stay at the broker. Until the trading bridge in MetaTrader is updated, One trade signals trade as Split. Example: Take-profits at 2410, 2420 and 2430 with 0.03 lots shared equally: Split opens three trades of 0.01 lots; One trade opens 0.03 lots and closes 0.01 at 2410, 0.01 at 2420 and the last 0.01 at 2430. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Share across take-profits (per signal): How much of the signal each take-profit gets, as numbers relative to each other, first take-profit first. Empty shares it equally; the last number repeats for take-profits beyond the list, and for a runner. When it applies: Not used with Fixed lots for each take-profit, where every take-profit gets the full lots. A take-profit whose share would fall under the broker's smallest lot is left out, the farthest first, and its lots go to the ones kept. Example: 2,1 puts twice as much on the first take-profit: with 4 take-profits that is 40%, 20%, 20% and 20%. 50,30,20 on 3 take-profits is exactly those shares. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Max take-profits per signal (per signal): The most take-profits one signal uses. A leg is one take-profit's part of the signal: its own trade in Split, its share of the one trade in One trade; a runner is a leg too. The nearest take-profits are kept. "No cap": this setting sets no cap of its own. When it applies: Only with Split or One trade. With Risk % of equity, Fixed cash or Fixed lots for the whole signal, the signal's size is shared across the legs kept; with Fixed lots for each take-profit, fewer legs mean fewer lots. In Split on a hedging account each leg is also a position, so "Max open positions" and "Max open positions per symbol" can trim a signal further. Example: A signal with 4 take-profits and a cap of 2 uses the two nearest: two trades in Split, or one trade closing a share at each in One trade. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Require full signal (per signal): Yes: if your limits or the lot sizes cannot fit every take-profit the signal should use (all of them, or as many as "Max take-profits per signal" allows), nothing is placed and the story says why. No: whatever fits is placed, keeping the nearest take-profits. When it applies: Only with Split or One trade. In Split on a hedging account both the position caps and the broker's smallest lot can leave take-profits out; a signal held as one position (One trade, or a netting account) only loses take-profits to the smallest lot. Example: Split, 3 take-profits, only 2 position slots left: Yes skips the signal, No places the 2 nearest. With "Max take-profits per signal" at 2 the same signal is complete at 2 and is placed. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Trailing stop: As each take-profit of a signal is reached, the stop-loss of what is still open moves forward by this rule: the other trades in Split, the rest of the one trade in One trade or on a netting account. A stop only ever tightens, and only when a take-profit is reached, never on a stop-out. Options: Off / To the entry / A fixed step from the entry / To the take-profit before / Just behind the take-profit reached. When it applies: Needs a signal with at least two take-profits, traded as Split or One trade. “A fixed step from the entry” is anchored on the entry, so uneven take-profits can land it off the real levels; “Just behind the take-profit reached” is the tightest. “To the entry” and “To the take-profit before” can keep some room behind the stop. Example: A sell at 1000, stop-loss 1100, take-profits 900 / 800 / 700, a pip of 1. To the entry: after TP1 the stop goes to 1000 and stays. To the take-profit before: 1000 after TP1, 900 after TP2. A fixed step from the entry: 900 after TP1, 800 after TP2. Just behind the take-profit reached, 10 pips: 910 after TP1, 810 after TP2. With 50 pips of room behind the stop, to the take-profit before goes to 1050, then 950, then 850. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Pips behind the take-profit: How many pips behind the take-profit just reached the new stop sits. When it applies: Only with “Just behind the take-profit reached”. Example: 10 pips, a sell: when TP2 at 800 is reached, the stop of what is still open moves to 810. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Room behind the stop (pips): How many pips further back than its level the new stop goes: below it on a buy, above it on a sell, so a dip back to the entry or to the take-profit before does not close what is still open. When it applies: With “To the entry” and “To the take-profit before”. Example: A sell at 1000, take-profits 900 / 800 / 700, 50 pips of room: after TP1 the stop goes to 1050, after TP2 to 950, after TP3 to 850. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Max jump between take-profits (per signal): Leaves out a take-profit that is far out of line with the others, because it is probably a typo. The number is how many times bigger than the signal's normal gap between take-profits a gap may be. The take-profits after it are left out too; the rest trade as normal. When it applies: TP1 and TP2 are always kept. The check starts at TP3. Example: A short on gold, with the setting at 5:
Entry 4180
TP1 4175
TP2 4168
TP3 4155
TP4 4142
TP5 4120
TP6 4210 – 90 away, when the others are 5 to 22 apart: left out
TP7 4200 – comes after TP6: left out too
The trade runs with TP1 to TP5. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.

## Settings › Runners
- Protect runners: A runner is a trade with no take-profit: the part of a signal that says to hold (“TP4: hold”, “runner”), or a signal that gives no target at all. With this on, the app follows the runner's stop once it is far enough in profit, so a big move keeps most of what it made instead of riding back to the original stop. When it applies: The stop only ever moves in the trade's favour. While the signal's other take-profits are still being reached, the stop also follows your trailing stop rule above; whichever stop protects more is used. Changes here also apply to runners already open. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Measure in: R is how much the trade risks when it opens: the distance from its entry to its original stop-loss. 1R is that distance, 2R twice it. Because it is measured from each trade, 2R means the same thing on gold and on EURUSD — while 100 pips is a small move on gold and a big one on EURUSD. Options: R — the trade's own risk / pips. When it applies: Pips suit one instrument whose moves you know well. A runner opened before this version, whose original stop the app did not keep, can only be followed in pips. Example: Sell gold at 4316 with the stop at 4324: 1R is 8.00, 2R is 16.00 — the price at 4300. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Start following at: How far in profit the runner must be before its stop starts to follow, in the unit above. Until then the stop stays where it is. When it applies: Must be larger than the distance the stop keeps behind the price. Example: 2 (R): the sell at 4316, where 1R is 8.00, starts being followed when the price reaches 4300. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Keep the stop behind by: Once following, the stop sits this far behind the best price the runner has reached, and moves only when that best price improves — never back. When it applies: Smaller than where following starts, so the very first move already locks in profit. The app changes a stop at most every 15 seconds, and only when the new stop is better by at least a tenth of this distance, so your broker is never flooded with modifications. Example: 1 (R) on that sell: price reaches 4300 → stop 4308; falls to 4290 → stop 4298; bounces to 4296 → stop stays at 4298; rises to 4298 → the runner closes at 4298, keeping 18.00 of the move. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Close runners before the weekend: Forex and metals stop trading from Friday 17:00 New York time until Sunday evening. A runner left open over the weekend pays swap and can reopen on Monday far from where it stopped — past its stop, at whatever price the market opens. When it applies: Timed on New York's clock, so it stays right through daylight saving and whatever time zone your broker's server shows. It closes every runner, including instruments that trade at the weekend. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Minutes before the weekly close: How long before the Friday close (17:00 New York time) runners are closed. When it applies: Leave some room: in the last minutes before the close spreads widen, and some brokers stop gold a few minutes early. Example: 30: runners close from 16:30 New York time — 23:30 on the many brokers whose server clock shows midnight at the close. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Close runners after: Closes a runner once it has been open this many hours, whatever it is doing. When it applies: Counted from when the runner was filled. Useful for channels whose “hold” means a day, not a week. Example: 48: a runner filled on Monday at 10:00 is closed on Wednesday at 10:00. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.

## Settings › Safety limits
- Max open positions (all open at once): The most positions the app may have open at once, from every listener. Pending orders count too, and each trade of a Split signal is a position of its own; a signal held as one trade (One trade, or any signal on a netting account) is one position. Example: Cap 20 with 18 open: a Split signal with 3 take-profits is trimmed to 2, or skipped when "Require full signal" is Yes. A listener can have a limit of its own, under its "Settings of its own": it counts only that group's trades and can never be above your profile's. Both apply; whichever is reached first stops.
- Max open positions per symbol (per symbol): The most positions on the same symbol at once, counted the same way. When it applies: Hedging accounts only. A netting account holds one position per symbol by nature, so it takes no new signal on a symbol until that position is closed. A listener can have a limit of its own, under its "Settings of its own": it counts only that group's trades and can never be above your profile's. Both apply; whichever is reached first stops.
- Max signals open at once (all open at once): How many signals may have trades or pending orders open at once; a new signal is skipped while this many are live. When it applies: Counts signals, not trades: a Split signal with 3 trades is one signal. A listener can have a limit of its own, under its "Settings of its own": it counts only that group's trades and can never be above your profile's. Both apply; whichever is reached first stops.
- Max total lots (all open at once): Cap on the lots the app has open across all symbols, pending orders included. A signal whose trades together would push it over is skipped. When it applies: Bounds size, where the position caps above only bound count. Example: 2.5 lots open, cap 3.0: a signal of 0.40 lots in all goes in, one of 0.60 is skipped. Fixed lots of 0.20 for each of 3 take-profits make a signal of 0.60. A listener can have a limit of its own, under its "Settings of its own": it counts only that group's trades and can never be above your profile's. Both apply; whichever is reached first stops.
- Max lots per symbol (per symbol): Cap on the lots the app has open on one symbol, pending orders included. A signal whose trades together would push that symbol over is skipped. A listener can have a limit of its own, under its "Settings of its own": it counts only that group's trades and can never be above your profile's. Both apply; whichever is reached first stops.
- Max traded signals per day (per day): The most signals traded in a day, from every listener. A signal counts once it has placed a trade or a pending order, however many trades it opens. When it applies: The day starts again at midnight on the broker's server clock, and the count survives an app restart. Example: Cap 5: five signals with 3 take-profits each can open 15 trades; a sixth signal that day is skipped. A listener can have a limit of its own, under its "Settings of its own": it counts only that group's trades and can never be above your profile's. Both apply; whichever is reached first stops.
- Max daily loss (per day): Circuit breaker: once today's result is this far in the red, no new trades open until the next day. It counts the trades closed today (losses minus wins), and with "Count open trades" what the app's open trades float at too. The switches under it say what else happens at the limit: delete the pending orders, close the trades in loss, close the trades in profit. The next setting says whether this figure is money or a percent of the account's value at the start of the day. When it applies: Net, so a win earlier in the day buys back room. It counts every trade the app closed today, from every listener, and survives an app restart. Example: Breaker 200: after −150, −100 and +80 (net −170) trading continues; one more −40 (net −210) stops it for the day. A listener can have a limit of its own, under its "Settings of its own": it counts only that group's trades and can never be above your profile's. Both apply; whichever is reached first stops.
- Daily loss limit is in: Type the daily loss limit as money (200) or as a percent of what the account was worth when the day started (2). A percent limit is worked out again each day, so it follows the account up and down. Options: account money / percent of the account's value at the start of the day. When it applies: That value is taken at the broker's server midnight, the moment the day's counters restart, and it includes what was floating then. Until a terminal has connected on a new day there is no opening balance, so a percent limit does not stop anything. Example: 2% on an account that opened the day at 10,000 stops trading at −200 for that day; if tomorrow opens at 12,000 the line is −240.
- Count open trades: Read the limit on today's closed result plus what the app's open trades are floating at, each time MetaTrader reports them. Off: only the trades closed today count, and what is still open does not. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- At the limit: delete pending orders: When the day reaches the limit, the app deletes its pending entry orders (limit and stop orders still waiting to open), so none of them opens a trade later that day. The take-profits a netting position keeps are left. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- At the limit: close trades in loss: When the day reaches the limit, the app closes each of its open trades that is in loss, at market. While the day stays at or past it, a trade that turns into a loss later is closed then. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- At the limit: close trades in profit: When the day reaches the limit, the app closes each of its open trades that is in profit (or at nought), at market, keeping what they made. While the day stays at or past it, a trade that turns into a profit later is closed then. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Daily profit target (per day): Once today's result is this far in profit, no new trades open until the next day. It counts the trades closed today (wins minus losses), and with "Count open trades" what the app's open trades float at too. The switches under it say what else happens at the target: delete the pending orders, close the trades in loss, close the trades in profit. The next setting says whether this figure is money or a percent of the account's value at the start of the day. When it applies: Net, so a loss later in the day takes the target back out of reach. It counts every trade the app closed today, from every listener, and survives an app restart. Example: Target 300: after +150, +120 and −40 (net +230) trading continues; one more +90 (net +320) stops it for the day. A listener can have a limit of its own, under its "Settings of its own": it counts only that group's trades and can never be above your profile's. Both apply; whichever is reached first stops.
- Daily profit target is in: Type the daily profit target as money (300) or as a percent of what the account was worth when the day started (3). A percent target is worked out again each day, so it follows the account up and down. Options: account money / percent of the account's value at the start of the day. When it applies: That value is taken at the broker's server midnight, the moment the day's counters restart, and it includes what was floating then. Until a terminal has connected on a new day there is no opening balance, so a percent target does not stop anything. Example: 3% on an account that opened the day at 10,000 stops trading at +300 for that day; if tomorrow opens at 12,000 the target is +360.
- Count open trades: Read the target on today's closed result plus what the app's open trades are floating at, each time MetaTrader reports them. Off: only the trades closed today count, and what is still open does not. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- At the target: delete pending orders: When the day reaches the target, the app deletes its pending entry orders (limit and stop orders still waiting to open), so none of them opens a trade later that day. The take-profits a netting position keeps are left. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- At the target: close trades in loss: When the day reaches the target, the app closes each of its open trades that is in loss, at market. While the day stays at or past it, a trade that turns into a loss later is closed then. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- At the target: close trades in profit: When the day reaches the target, the app closes each of its open trades that is in profit (or at nought), at market, keeping what they made. While the day stays at or past it, a trade that turns into a profit later is closed then. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Max margin use % (MetaTrader account): Skip a signal whose trades, all together, would push the account's margin in use above this share of equity. When it applies: Checked after sizing: (margin already in use on the account + margin the signal's trades need) / equity × 100. It cannot be turned off; 100 lets margin in use reach your whole equity. Example: Equity 10 000, margin in use 2 000, the signal needs 1 500: 35%. Fine under a 50% cap, skipped under 30%.
- Lowest equity to trade (MetaTrader account): Kill-switch: no new trades while account equity is below this amount. Open positions are left alone. When it applies: Equity is read live from MetaTrader, so floating losses count.
- Pause between signals (seconds): Minimum seconds between entries: a signal arriving within this window of the last placed one is skipped. When it applies: Across all listeners; a signal's trades go in together and count as one entry. A listener can have a limit of its own, under its "Settings of its own": it counts only that group's trades and can never be above your profile's. Both apply; whichever is reached first stops.
- Max spread (points) (per signal): Skip a market entry when the current spread (ask minus bid) is wider than this many points; a guard against thin, news-driven conditions. When it applies: Market entries only, a limit that turns into a market order included; a resting limit does not cross the spread. Example: EURUSD quoted 1.10000 / 1.10012 is a 12-point spread: skipped with a cap of 10. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Max slippage (points) (per trade): Sent to the broker with every market order: a fill further from the quoted price than this is rejected by the broker itself. Example: 20 points on EURUSD is 2 pips of tolerance. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.

## Settings › The group's messages after a signal
- Exits and stop moves: Instructions that protect a trade already open: close it (“close”, “exit”, “stop the trade”), cancel an order that has not filled yet (“cancel the pending”), move the stop-loss to the entry (“SL to BE”) or closer to the price, or have it follow the price (“trail your SL 100 pips behind the price”). Followed, the app carries them out on this group's trades; ignored, it notes them and leaves the trade to your settings. A stop is only ever moved closer, never further away; a move to a price the market is already past would close the trade at once, so the stop stays and the app says why. A move given only in pips (“SL 20 pips”) is left to your trailing stop and runner settings. Options: Follow them / Ignore them. When it applies: Ignored unless you turn them on. Follow them for a group you trust to look after its trades: a group that says “close now” usually sees something coming, and ignoring it can cost the whole stop-loss. Leave them ignored if you want only your own settings to decide. Example: You hold a gold buy from the group and it posts “Close gold now”. Followed: the app closes that trade and cancels its orders still waiting. Ignored: the trade stays open with its stop-loss and take-profit. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Partial closes and target moves: Instructions that manage the profit of a trade already open: close part of it (“close 20%”, “take half”) or move its take-profit. Your own settings already decide this: how a signal is shared across its take-profits, how the stop moves at each one, and runners. Followed, the group's instruction is carried out as well; ignored, it is noted and your settings keep managing the trade. Options: Follow them / Ignore them. When it applies: Leave them ignored unless you trust how a group manages its trades more than your own settings. Both at once can surprise you: a partial close from the group on top of the share your settings already close at TP1. Example: The group posts “TP1 hit, close 20% and move SL to breakeven”. With these ignored and exits followed, the app moves the stop to the entry and closes nothing more: what closes at TP1 is what your settings put there. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.

## Settings › Repeated, late and opposite signals
- Duplicate window (min): How far back to look for a duplicate. A signal whose resulting trade matches one placed recently, from any listener (same symbol and side, every level within the tolerance below), waits for your review on the Dashboard instead of trading. Example: Two "buy XAUUSD 2400 sl 2390 tp 2410" messages 3 minutes apart with a 5-minute window: the second one waits for you.
- Duplicate tolerance (pips): How close two signals' levels must be to count as the same trade: every level within this many pips. When it applies: Only with a duplicate window above 0.
- Max signal age (min): A message that reaches the app more than this many minutes after it was posted is never traded. From 1 to 60 minutes; there is no "no limit". When it applies: Only delayed and replayed messages; a live message is seconds old. One posted while the app was off, asleep or offline is picked up only if it is still within this limit, and then it waits for your approval instead of trading by itself. Older ones are left out entirely. One that Telegram delivers late while the app is connected is listed as stale, with the delay. Example: A 20-minute outage with the limit at 5: the signals posted in the last 5 minutes of it wait for your approval, the earlier ones are not picked up.
- Opposite-direction signals (per signal): What a signal does when its listener already has trades or waiting orders on the symbol the other way: open it beside them, ask you first (it waits in Approvals), skip it, close them and then trade it, or only close them (read as an exit). Options: Open it beside them / Ask me / Skip it / Close them, then trade it / Close them only. When it applies: Only that listener's own trades and orders on that symbol count; another group's trades are not its own. Closing is at market, and waiting orders are cancelled. Example: Holding three buys on gold from a group that now posts a sell: with "Ask me" the sell waits for you; with "Close them, then trade it" the buys close and the sell goes in. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.

## Settings › Trading days and hours
- Trading days: Days when the app may open trades, on your broker's server clock: mon, tue, wed, thu, fri, sat, sun. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.
- Trading hours: Only open trades inside this window, on your broker's server clock, e.g. 08:00-22:00. Empty = always. An overnight window such as 22:00-06:00 works too. When it applies: Signals outside the window are skipped, not queued. A listener can set this for itself, under its "Settings of its own"; the others keep your profile's.

## Settings › Symbols
- Symbol names at your broker: For an instrument your broker calls something else. On the left the word signals use (GER40, US100, GOLD), on the right the symbol exactly as MetaTrader shows it (DE40, USTEC, XAUUSD.pro). The app then trades that symbol whenever a signal names the word. When it applies: Add a row only when a signal is skipped with "your broker has no symbol…". Endings such as .s, .pro or m are found by the app itself and need no row. A row covers every spelling of the word: US100, NAS100 and NASDAQ are one instrument. Example: Signals say GER40, your broker lists DE40: row GER40 → DE40. The mark next to the symbol says whether your broker has it.
- Allowed symbols: If set, only these symbols may ever be traded, from any listener. Empty = no restriction. Write each one as the Signals page shows it (XAUUSD for gold) or as your broker spells it (XAUUSD.s), separated by commas.

## Listener settings
- Name: How this listener shows up across the app. Change it freely; history stays attached.
- Group / channel: The group or channel to read. Click Choose… to pick from your Telegram groups, or type @handle for a public channel.
- Topics: This group has topics: one chat split into several threads, such as signals, results and discussion. "All topics" reads every message in the group; click Choose… to read only the topics you tick. When it applies: Tick only the topic where signals are posted. In a discussion topic any member's message is read like the provider's, and "close all" written there can close your trade. Example: Two listeners on the same group can split it: one on "Gold signals" in Auto, one on "Forex signals" in Manual. A message goes to the first listener that reads its topic.
- What does this group usually trade?: When a message from this group names no instrument (“I'm buying - 4134”), it is traded on this one. Pick it from your broker's list. A message that names its instrument is always traded on the one it names. Empty: a signal with no instrument is not traded. The lists of allowed symbols still decide.
- Read calls without a number: Some groups post a call as a few words with no price at all: “GOLD BUY NOW”. The app normally sets every message without a number aside unread, because in most groups such a line is talk. On, a short message that names an instrument and a side (buy, sell, long, short) is read as a signal and traded at the market by this listener's and the profile's rules. Off, it is set aside and its record says why. When it applies: Only for a group that really trades on such lines. Each one read counts as a reading of your plan's day, and a call with no stop-loss is refused while “Require stop-loss” is on. Example: “GOLD BUY NOW” or “SELL EURUSD”: read with this on. “Gold looks strong today” names no side and “buy now guys” names no instrument: neither is ever read.
- Enabled: No pauses this listener: its messages are ignored until you turn it back on.
- Mode: What happens to a signal from this group. Options: Auto — trade immediately / Manual — wait for my approval / Watch — record only. When it applies: Start a new group in Watch to see how its signals would have done, move to Manual to confirm each one on the Dashboard, and to Auto only once you trust it.

## Listener settings › Entry
- Entry mode: Market enters right away at the current price. Limit places a pending order at the entry price stated in the signal and waits for the market to come to it. A limit waits only for the entry or a better price: a buy at the entry or lower, a sell at the entry or higher. When the price is already better, "If the price is already better" decides. Options: Market / Limit (at the entry or better). When it applies: A Limit listener still enters at market when the signal states no entry price; there is nothing to rest the order on.
- Where in an entry range: When a signal gives an entry range (“BUY GOLD 2400–2405”), the limit waits at one price inside it. The best price (the low edge for a buy, the high edge for a sell) gets the best fill but is reached least often; the worst is reached first, so it fills most often; the middle sits between. Options: The best price / The middle / The worst price, fills most often. When it applies: Limit entry only, and only for a signal that gives a range; a single entry price is used as it is. Example: BUY GOLD 2400–2405 with the price at 2410: the best price waits at 2400, the middle at 2402.5, the worst at 2405.
- Stop orders: When a signal says BUY STOP or SELL STOP, place it at your broker as a stop order at its entry: it waits until the price rises to a buy stop or falls to a sell stop, and enters then. Off, the app reads such a signal like any other entry. When it applies: Whatever the entry mode. If the price is already at or past the level when the signal comes, it enters at market, within the entry deviation. A stop that has not filled after the waiting order expiry is cancelled, never turned into a market order: the price never got there. A buy stop and a sell stop in one message (a straddle) trade one side only unless you let both sides trade below. Needs the MetaTrader expert 1.19, which comes with this version. Example: BUY STOP US30 44100 with the price at 44020: a buy stop waits at 44100 and enters if the price breaks up through it.
- Let both sides of a straddle trade: A straddle is a buy stop above the price and a sell stop below it in one message, so the trade follows whichever way the price breaks. Off, only the first side to enter trades: the moment it fills, or enters at market because the price was already past it, the app cancels the other side's stop, and an order of that message the other way that comes after is refused. On, each side waits on its own and both can fill. When it applies: Only with Stop orders, and only for the stops of one message on this listener: two separate messages are two separate trades. Stops the same way as the side that entered keep waiting. Example: BUY STOP US30 44100 and SELL STOP US30 43900 with the price at 44000. The price rises to 44100: the buy enters and the sell stop at 43900 is cancelled. With this on, the sell stop stays, and a fall to 43900 later opens the sell too.
- Cancel a limit or stop order not filled after: A limit or stop order that waits at your broker and has not filled after this many minutes is cancelled. A signal waiting for your approval is not an order yet: it waits 10 minutes, whatever is set here. When it applies: With Limit entry, with Stop orders, when a Market listener waits at the entry because the price already passed a take-profit, and when you place a signal by hand as a limit. Orders placed before a restart keep their clock.
- If the limit order expires: What to do when the pending order expires unfilled: cancel it, or enter at market instead, but only while the price is still within the entry deviation below. The market entry is placed only while your other rules still allow a new trade. Options: Cancel it / Enter at market if still close. When it applies: Only with Limit entry.
- If the price is already better: A limit waits on the far side of the market. When the signal's entry is already past the current price — you would pay less than asked — no limit can rest there. Enter at market instead, never worse than the entry, or skip the signal. Options: Enter at market, never worse than the entry / Skip the signal. When it applies: Limit entry only, and only while the price is within the entry deviation; further than that the signal is skipped as a runaway. The market order's allowed slippage is capped at the distance to the entry, so the broker refuses any fill worse than it. Example: BUY GOLD @ 2400 with the ask at 2395: Enter at market fills at 2395, capped at 2400; Skip records the signal and does nothing.
- Max entry deviation: Skip the signal if the price has already moved further than this from the stated entry, in either direction; you would be chasing. A signal with no stated entry is never checked. When it applies: Checked on Market entries, and on a Limit that turns into a market order: one that expired and may enter at market, or one whose entry the price has already passed. Measured in the unit below. Example: Stated entry 52 500 on US30, price now 52 580 (0.15% away): skipped with the default 0.10%, taken with 0.25%. In pips: entry 1.1000, price 1.1030 (30 pips away): skipped with 20, taken with 50.
- Deviation unit: Percent is relative to the entry price and the default: it means the same on every instrument, indices and crypto included, where a pip means little. Pips is a fixed price distance, the traditional measure on forex and metals. Options: Pips / Percent of price. Example: On forex a pip is 10 points on 3- and 5-digit symbols; on gold it is 0.10 and on silver 0.01. 20 pips = 0.0020 on EURUSD and 2.00 on gold. 0.5% is about 55 pips on EURUSD at 1.10 and about 12 dollars on gold at 2400.
- If the price already passed a take-profit: A signal can arrive after the price already went through its first take-profits. Skip it, open the trade now with only the take-profits still ahead, or wait at the entry, with every take-profit, for the price to come back. Options: Skip the signal / Trade the take-profits still ahead / Wait for the price to come back to the entry. When it applies: Market entry only, and only while the price is within Max entry deviation; further than that the signal is skipped as a runaway. With every take-profit passed there is nothing ahead to trade, and only waiting helps. Example: SELL GOLD 4172–4180, SL 4184, TPs 4170 / 4168 / 4166, arriving with the price at 4167.53: Skip does nothing; the take-profits still ahead sell now with 4166 only; waiting places a sell limit at 4172 with all three.

## Listener settings › Symbols
- Symbols: Only trade these symbols from this group. Empty = all symbols the global whitelist allows. Write each one as the Signals page shows it (XAUUSD for gold) or as your broker spells it (XAUUSD.s), separated by commas.

## Listener settings › Settings of its own
- Settings of its own: Any of the profile's trading settings, set differently for this group's signals: its own size (risk %, fixed lots or cash), how its take-profits are traded and trailed, its runners, its stop-loss rules, its spread and slippage limits, the days and hours it trades. And limits of its own: the profile's daily, open-position and lot limits counted on this group's trades only, such as a daily loss of 250 for this group within the profile's 500. Whatever is not set here follows the profile, and changes when the profile changes. When it applies: A limit of its own counts only this group's trades and is never above the profile's: both apply, and whichever is reached first stops. When the profile's limit is reached every group stops, since it counts them all. A limit above the profile's is refused, and so is lowering the profile's below a group's own. What belongs to the account's money as a whole (margin use and the equity floor) and duplicate signals stay the profile's alone. Example: Profile: 1% risk and a daily loss of 500. A gold group: fixed lots 0.05, trading 08:00-17:00, its own daily loss 250. After the gold group loses 250 today it stops; the others trade on until the whole profile reaches −500.

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Source: https://relay2trade.com/features/settings · Updated 2026-10-16