Trading terminal
Place orders, set up your charts, and manage your trades.
23 articlesTerminal basics
Orders and execution
- The order panelWhere you place trades, what each order type does, and which one to use when.
- Mouse-click tradingPlace orders straight from the chart. Left-click buys, right-click sells, at the price under your cursor.
- Order previews and the lines on your chartWhat the lines on your chart mean, and how buy and sell orders are colored.
- Take profit and stop loss bracketsWhat a bracket is, why you want one, and how it resizes itself as your position changes.
- OCO linkingLink your take-profit to your stop, so when one fills, the other cancels itself.
- Moving a stop into profit, and which side a stop takesYou can pull a stop into profit to lock in gains. Stops also pick their side from where you place them.
- Use the DOM price ladderTrade from the ladder beside your order ticket, with one-click entries, exits and flatten.
- Why an order was rejectedThe checks every order passes before it is sent, and how to work out which one stopped yours.
Charts and indicators
- Reading the chartTimes, prices, contract labels, and how candles line up with the trading session.
- Chart settingsWhere to control what shows on your chart and how it looks.
- Add indicators to your chartThe 30 built-in indicators, how to put them on the chart or in their own pane, and what the legend lets you do.
- Use multi-chart layoutsRun up to four charts side by side, each with its own contract and timeframe, and choose what stays in sync.
- Set a price alertDraw alerts on the chart, choose the condition, and understand when they will and will not reach you.
- Replay the market bar by barPractise a setup on historical data with no lookahead, using play, step and speed controls.
- Write your own indicator with Hyperprop ScriptsBuild a custom indicator in the terminal, declare its inputs.
Drawing tools
Copy trading
- Copy Trading: Lead and Follower AccountsLink accounts so followers mirror a lead, all from one place. Optional, there when you want it.
- Copy Trading: Shared Limits and Follower ProtectionHow linked accounts close together on a shared limit, and how each one stays protected.
- How to connect Hyperprop to TradesyncerCreate a Hyperprop API key to connect your accounts to Tradesyncer, and see how Hyperprop handles copied trades.