Setting up Relay2Trade
Everything from downloading the app to your first watched signal, in order, with nothing assumed. It takes about twenty minutes, and most of that is MetaTrader logging in. If you get stuck at any step, the app can send us the problem with its log attached.
Before you start
Four things. If you have them, the setup below will not stop you anywhere.
A Windows computer that stays on
The app runs on your machine, not ours. While it is closed, nothing is read and nothing is traded. If you want it running overnight, leave the computer on — or rent a small Windows VPS later.
A MetaTrader 5 account
Live or demo, any broker. You need the account number, its password, and the exact server name your broker gave you. Start on a demo account — you can move to a live one whenever you like.
A Telegram account
The same one you already read your signal groups with. The app signs in as you, on your computer only, so it can see the same messages you see.
A signal group you are already in
The app reads groups you have joined. It cannot join anything for you, and it never posts.
The setup, step by step
Do these in order. Each one is finished before the next matters.
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Download and install
Download the app from your account page and run the file. It installs itself, puts a shortcut on your desktop and adds an icon to the tray near the clock.
- Windows may warn you about a file downloaded from the internet. Choose More info, then Run anyway — the app is signed by Delvarom Systems S.R.L., which you can see in the warning itself.
- There is nothing to choose during the install. It finishes on its own and opens.
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Sign in with your Relay2Trade account
Use the same email and password as this website. Signing in is what activates your licence on that computer.
- No subscription yet? The app will say so and link you to your account page.
- If you have two-factor turned on, it asks for the code here too.
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Give this profile a MetaTrader terminal
A profile is one MetaTrader account and everything around it. On the Profile page, choose how it gets a terminal.
- Its own terminal — the app makes a private copy of MetaTrader for this profile. Best choice, and the one to pick if you are not sure.
- Use an existing installation — point it at MetaTrader you already have. Fine if you only ever run one account.
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Connect your MetaTrader account
Enter the account number, its password and the server name. Then comes the one step only you can do, and the app will stop and explain it.
- MetaTrader can only sign in to a broker server it has looked up before. When it opens, go to File, then Open an Account.
- Type your server name into the search box, click it in the results, and close that window without filling in the form.
- That is it. The app installs the trading bridge in the background while you do it, and signs in once the server is known.
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Connect Telegram
On the Profile page, under Connections, enter the phone number of your Telegram account. Telegram sends you a code — type it in. If your account has a password, it asks for that too.
- This signs in on your computer only. The session file never leaves the machine.
- Each profile signs in separately, so two profiles can read two different Telegram accounts.
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Add your first signal group
Go to Listeners and add one. Pick the group from the list — it shows the groups and channels your Telegram account is already in.
- Watch — the app reads and shows you what it understood, and places nothing. Start here.
- Manual — every signal waits for you to approve it before it reaches your broker.
- Auto — signals are placed on their own, inside your limits. The app asks you to confirm you understand before it lets you choose this.
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Set your limits before you go automatic
Settings is where you decide how much a signal is allowed to cost you. These apply to every signal the app places.
- How each trade is sized — a fixed lot size, a fixed amount of money, or a percentage of your account.
- The most lots one order may use, and the most open at once.
- A daily loss limit and an equity floor: reach either and the app stops opening trades until the next day.
- Whether a signal without a stop-loss is refused, and how much the price may move before an entry is skipped.
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Watch it for a few days
Leave the listener in watch mode and read what the app made of each message. When the readings match what you would have done yourself, move it to manual, then to auto.
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Using it day to day
Once it is running there are four places you will actually look.
The dashboard
Whether MetaTrader and Telegram are connected, what has happened today, and every signal with what the app decided and why.
The bell
Trades opened, trades closed with their result, signals skipped and the reason, and MetaTrader dropping out. Every profile reports here, including the ones you are not looking at.
Stop trading
On the Profile page. It stops new trades and disconnects that profile's listeners, and leaves whatever is already open exactly as it is.
The tray
Closing the window does not close the app — it keeps trading. Double-click the desktop shortcut to bring the window back, or use the icon near the clock.
If something goes wrong
The four things people hit most, and what each one actually means.
MetaTrader will not sign in
Almost always the server. MetaTrader can only reach a server it has looked up: open it, choose File then Open an Account, search your server name exactly as your broker wrote it, click it, and close the window. Server names are case-sensitive.
Signals arrive but nothing is traded
Check three things, in this order: the listener is set to auto rather than watch or manual, trading is on for that profile, and none of your limits has already been reached today. The dashboard names the rule that stopped a signal, next to the signal itself.
The app is not on screen
It is in the tray near the clock, still trading. Double-click the desktop shortcut and the window comes back.
Something else
Open Application, then Help and support, and write what happened. The last part of the app log goes with your message, so we see the failure itself rather than a description of it. There is a Telegram link there too.
Ready to set it up?
Create an account, start a subscription, and download the app from your account page.