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eTrader Help

Short guides to the terminal and the apps, written for traders. Placing orders, reading the charts, signing in with your broker and moving over from another platform.

Getting started

Finding your broker or prop firmHow the broker picker works, what to do when your firm is not listed, the investor password, and holding several accounts in one terminal.Moving to eTrader from another platformWhat carries over, what does not, where the familiar things live in eTrader, and what to do with the robots and indicators you already have.

Trading

Placing orders in eTraderMarket and pending orders, stop loss and take profit, partial closes and the take profit ladder, on the ticket or straight on the chart.

Charts

Charts, indicators and drawingsChart types and timeframes, the indicator list and its settings, the drawing tools, chart layouts and your own indicators from eTrader Code.

Apps

eTrader on Mac, Android, iPhone and the webWhere to get each app, what each one does, how push notifications work and how one account stays in step across all of them.