Getting started

Sign up, connect cTrader, choose which accounts are protected, and arm the rules that gate them.

Setup is one page with three stages, and the page knows which one you are on - close the tab halfway through and come back to it later.

1. Connect cTrader

You sign in on cTrader's own page. Propcockpit never sees your broker password, and the permission it asks for cannot move money.

cTrader shows you every trading account on that ID and lets you tick which ones to grant. When you come back, Propcockpit shows you which cTrader ID it is about to bind and waits for you to press Connect this cTrader ID. That press is not ceremony: cTrader does not echo the anti-forgery token back on its redirect, so the confirmation is what stands between a walked-in authorisation code and somebody else's broker account being attached to your tenant.

2. Choose accounts and set risk rules

Every trading account on the ID is listed. Tick the ones you want to save rules for - accounts on the cTrader live host arrive ticked; new demo accounts are opt-in. Reconnected, disarmed accounts are preselected in either environment, but accounts holding a floating loss require an explicit tick. A ticked account opens its limits underneath it:

• Initial capital - the Initial capital your firm issued. This is the one field you confirm. See the risk model for which limits use it and which use current balance.
• Max daily loss and Max total drawdown - as percentages, with the money each one comes to shown underneath.
• A firm preset, if your firm is one Propcockpit publishes rules for. It fills the fields and sets a ceiling: type looser than the firm allows and the field lands on the ceiling, in the open, with a line under it saying so.

Max open risk starts at 4% per order. Change it here or later on Risk rules.

On Free, press Save rules; configured accounts show Monitoring only. With enforcement available, press Arm rules. See Plans for capabilities. Configured accounts that are not disarmed are shown without being offered again; edit their rules on Risk rules.

3. Open the cockpit

Saving or arming first checks that the gateway can watch and value each selected account. If that check fails, nothing is saved: wait for the connection to recover and try again, or contact support if it stays unavailable.

The recap shows the rules as they were stored, read back from the database rather than from what the form believed it sent - so a clamp that changed a number is visible on it. Then the Terminal.

The recap distinguishes stored rules from active protection, including any Lock or protection winding down after a paid plan ends. See Plans for plan capabilities and Breaches and Locks for restrictions that survive a plan change.