Getting Started
Getting started with cTrader
Understand accounts, choose an app and practise opening and closing a trade on demo.
The guide library
cTrader Guides
Practical answers, from your first chart to your first custom tool. Choose a topic below or begin with the getting started guides.
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Getting Started
3 guidesGetting Started
cBots and indicators explained
Learn which tools analyse a chart, which can place orders and why a signal is not a trade.
Getting Started
Install a cBot or custom indicator
Open .algo packages on desktop, find the installed tool and resolve common installation problems.
Automated Trading
3 guidesAutomated Trading
Run your first cBot on a demo account
Configure an instance, choose local or cloud execution and check what the cBot actually does.
Automated 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.
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.