The Terminal

The trading screen: the watchlist, the chart, the ticket and the blotter.

The Terminal is one screen. The watchlist, the chart and the blotter are panels you can move and resize, and the order ticket is docked beside them. The arrangement is remembered on this device rather than on your account, because a layout made across a desk monitor means nothing on the laptop you open next.

The watchlist

The instruments you are following, with a price, the change since your broker's daily open, and a sparkline. An instrument that has gone quiet gets a freshness dot on its own row, rather than putting the whole cockpit into a warning state. Search adds anything your broker quotes.

The chart

TradingView Advanced Charts, on Propcockpit's own price feed, with your order levels and open positions drawn over it.

The order ticket

Where money leaves. Its own page - it is the densest surface in the product and the one worth reading about before you use it.

The blotter

Open positions, resting orders and closed trades, a tab each. Click a row to manage it, and see Positions.

The safety strip

Above everything: which account the cockpit is pointed at, its account badge, the cross-account risk, how many accounts are protected, the countdown to your Daily reset, and FLATTEN ALL.

The account badge says Demo only when cTrader reports the demo host. Otherwise it shows the firm and Initial capital when known, such as FTMO · $100K, or whichever of those is available. For a live-host account with neither, it shows nothing. It also stays absent until the environment is known. A cTrader live host can serve a prop-firm challenge account; the badge makes no claim that you are trading real money.

Not armed means your plan does not arm rules; see Plans. That answer takes precedence over account status. Otherwise, Unprotected means the gateway reports no rules armed for this account: follow the pill to Accounts to arm them. Not enforced means rules are armed but your broker refuses the account, so nothing can act on them; it leads to Accounts too. The shields count is muted beside any of those warnings. Protected appears once the gateway reports armed rules and evaluated limits. Until it has enough information, no protection pill appears; silence is not confirmation of protection.

If the account you chose is no longer available - disconnected, removed or no longer protected - the cockpit falls back to your oldest Protected account, and every part of it moves together rather than one panel holding on to the old one. With more than one account, the account chip opens a list to choose from. With one, it leads to Accounts, and with none protected it reads None protected and leads to onboarding.

With two or more Protected accounts, the cross-account total refreshes every ten seconds while the tab is visible, and says nothing while it does. A failed refresh removes the old number and shows Refresh failed; a successful refresh restores the total. With one, it is that account's own risk, live.

FLATTEN ALL attempts to close every open position and cancel every resting order on the account the cockpit is pointed at. It carries no list of what to close - the gateway re-derives what is open at the instant you press it, so a position opened in a cTrader app thirty seconds ago is included. Review the result for remaining exposure; follow the missing confirmation guidance if the reply does not arrive.