A tour of the app
Five minutes here saves you hunting later. The app is one sidebar, one topbar, and the engine command strip — everything else hangs off those three.
The sidebar
Pages are grouped by what they're for:
- TRADE — the daily drivers. Overview (engine state, recent activity, the week at a glance) and Trade Desk (open positions, working orders, per-position close).
- TRADE SETTINGS — things you configure, then mostly leave alone. Accounts (broker connections and their discovered accounts), Copy Rules (groups, followers, sizing), and Risk Management (daily loss limits, profit targets, locks, and the optional confirmations).
- RESOURCES — analysis, not controls. Journal, with seven sub-pages: Dashboard, Weekly Review, Trades, Daily, Weekly, Strategy, and Manage Data. Then Economic Calendar and Prop Firm Discounts.
- At the bottom: Affiliate and Settings.
The topbar
Left to right:
- Engine pill — the copier's state from any page: Stopped, Starting, LIVE, Reconnecting, Stopping, or Error.
- Open-positions chip — appears whenever anything is open: a count plus up to three contract symbols, so a forgotten position is visible from every page.
- Feed dot — the live event feed: "Feed live", "Feed reconnecting...", or "Feed off".
- Market clock — the CME Globex equity session, in Chicago time. Globex opens Sunday 17:00 CT, closes Friday 16:00 CT, and halts for maintenance 16:00–17:00 CT Monday through Thursday. If the dot says the market is closed, no fill is coming.
- Alerts bell — in-app notifications: disconnects, rejected orders, errors, fills, risk events.
- Theme toggle — a quick light/dark flip. The three-way choice (system, light, dark) lives in Settings under Appearance.
- A help icon and your avatar menu (account and sign-out).
The engine command strip
Start copying, Stop, Flatten all, and Resume live on a strip at the top of Overview, Trade Desk, Accounts, Copy Rules, and Risk Management. Same controls, same order, on every page where you'd need them — you never have to navigate somewhere else to stop. The strip's status line is also where an armed kill switch shows itself: after Flatten all it reads "Kill switch armed — mirroring is paused until you press Resume." Details in engine controls explained.
On your phone
Below 720px wide, the sidebar becomes a slide-out drawer and a bottom tab bar carries the primary pages. A slim strip under the topbar keeps the feed state and market clock visible. It's the same app — nothing is desktop-only.
Quick answers
Where do I start and stop the copier?
On the engine command strip — top of Overview, Trade Desk, Accounts, Copy Rules, and Risk Management. Any copy of the strip controls the same engine.
Why is the market clock in Chicago time?
CME Globex runs on Central Time, and the session boundaries move with Chicago's daylight saving — a fixed offset would drift twice a year.
How do I know the kill switch is armed?
The engine command strip says so: "Kill switch armed — mirroring is paused until you press Resume." That is what Flatten all leaves behind — the engine is up but placing nothing until you press Resume.