Automated Trading
Run your first cBot on a demo account
Configure an instance, choose local or cloud execution and check what the cBot actually does.
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Practical cTrader
guides and tutorials.
Understand the platform. Work confidently with cBots and indicators. Learn to build and test your own tools, one practical step at a time.
A clear place to begin
New to cTrader?
Start here.
Follow these three guides in order to get comfortable with the platform before running custom tools.
- 01
Getting started with cTrader
Understand accounts, choose an app and practise opening and closing a trade on demo.
- 02
cBots and indicators explained
Learn which tools analyse a chart, which can place orders and why a signal is not a trade.
- 03
Install a cBot or custom indicator
Open .algo packages on desktop, find the installed tool and resolve common installation problems.
The guide library
Choose your next step.
Automated Trading
3 guidesAutomated Trading
Backtest a cTrader cBot
Set up a historical test, inspect trades and read results without confusing a simulation with a forecast.
Automated Trading
Why is my cBot not opening trades?
Work from instance status to entry conditions, rejected orders and logs using a repeatable diagnosis.
Custom Tools and AI
2 guidesCustom Tools and AI
Turn a trading idea into a cBot specification
Replace vague trading ideas with exact rules for entries, exits, sizing, timing and restarts.
Custom Tools and AI
Create a cTrader indicator with AI
Specify a moving-average marker indicator, generate source with Xen and verify it in cTrader desktop.
Explore ClickAlgo
Free tools for your cTrader workspace.
ClickAlgo offers an extensive collection of free cTrader trading tools, from risk management and automated trading strategies to technical indicators. Explore ready-made tools alongside the guides, or use them as a starting point for your own projects.
Explore free trading toolsRisk management
Position sizing, account monitoring and trade management tools.
Automated trading strategies
cBots and strategy starter kits to explore and test on demo.
Technical indicators
Tools for analysing trends, momentum, volatility and market structure.
Check each product’s platform compatibility, licence and installation requirements. Test any tool on demo before using it with a live account.
Custom tools, carefully built
Have an idea for a cTrader tool?
Start with clear requirements. ClickAlgo Xen can help you create or revise cBots and indicators from written instructions. Build, inspect and test the result in cTrader.