Risk management before the first trade

This is the most important of the open chapters. Read it before buying: it answers the "what to expect" question more honestly than any sales copy.

Start on a demo account

The supported brokers offer free demo accounts, and the terminal treats them exactly like real ones: pick the "Demo" account type in the broker profile — and you get the same strategies, the same rules, the same trade history. It is a full training ground: learn the settings, try thresholds, break and fix the configuration — without a single dollar.

Move to a real account when a series of demo sessions shows a stable result and every setting on the tab makes sense to you. Rushing here doesn't save time — it saves your deposit for the broker.

Stake size

The stake is a fixed dollar amount or a percentage of the balance. The terminal highlights risk right in the field: yellow when the stake reaches 10% of the balance, red from 25%. The working range is single-digit percentages: losing streaks happen even with a good win rate, and a quarter-of-the-deposit stake turns one from a nuisance into a catastrophe.

Auto-stops

The terminal has built-in session rules — six auto-stops that halt trading on their own: profit target, stop loss, trailing, minimum balance, trade limit and loss streak. A dedicated paid chapter covers them; the one thing that matters here — before your first real session enable at least the stop loss and the loss streak, and you'll know in advance under what conditions trading stops without you.

What to expect from results

Results depend not only on the settings but on the broker: payout size, execution quality and how far its price lags the market. A win rate means nothing by itself — compare it with the break-even threshold: at an 80% payout you need to win more than ~56% of trades to stay positive. Not every session will be profitable — that is normal; what matters is discipline over the distance.