Positions Tab Removed for live trades monitoring
Positions Tab Removed for live trades monitoring
16 Jan 2025, 17:21
In the recent cTrader app 5.1.11 update, when you copy a strategy, the ability to watch the live trades of your strategists has been removed. How can this feature be enable so I can monitor the live trades of my strategists?
Shouldn't that be communicated with the investor and shouldn't that be an option because it is we who invest in our money we should be allowed to view to determine the competency of the strategies?
Also shouldn't we have the ability to contact the strategist but we don't so how can we make demands on how our money is invested? Now don't tell me that we as opposed to invest our money blindly and hope that the strategist makes the right trades without us knowing what he's doing live.
What if the strategies trades are going extremely bad and he is about to blow your account, there is no way to see a monitor in the event we need to stop out. I await a reply on this matter.
Replies
tbssecurett
27 Jan 2025, 15:15
RE: Positions Tab Removed for live trades monitoring
Athena said:
if SP has choen to not show open trades, the open trade tab on SP acct wont be visible.
This concerns the Windows desktop app only. I can understand if that is an option for persons who are not invested in them or who are demo trading. As an investor, you have the right to see how the strategies or any person is investing your money on this platform. You can't just remove that feature and get up every morning to see if you won or you lost, or if the strategist has blown your account. That is not an option he/she should have, to block you from seeing what is doing live. Well at least give us the option to contact the strategist about our concerns.
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Athena
19 Apr 2025, 00:45
( Updated at: 19 Apr 2025, 00:48 )
RE: RE: Positions Tab Removed for live trades monitoring
tbssecurett said:
Athena said:
if SP has choen to not show open trades, the open trade tab on SP acct wont be visible.
This concerns the Windows desktop app only. I can understand if that is an option for persons who are not invested in them or who are demo trading. As an investor, you have the right to see how the strategies or any person is investing your money on this platform. You can't just remove that feature and get up every morning to see if you won or you lost, or if the strategist has blown your account. That is not an option he/she should have, to block you from seeing what is doing live. Well at least give us the option to contact the strategist about our concerns.
Before the changes even if SP chose to not show open trades, investors/subscribers can still view open trades on their OWN subscriber account (copy trade account, that is created by spotware automatically once you chose to copy that signal). After the updates, if SP has chosen to hide open trades, you wont be able to view open trades even on your OWN subs acct. This is very concerning and i have raise this to spotware support.
For MQL ("mother" of MT), SP open trades are automatically hidden. Whats NOT hidden its the floating P/L so that a potential subscriber or current subscriber could view this detail in the SP open trades tab and decide to subscribe, eg, when floating p/l=$0 (meaning all trades are closed), or when floating p/l is very small. This is not so in ctrade copy. Even floating p/l is completely blocked,often resulted in many subscribers subscribed to a signal base off past history to be hit with large batches of long held losing trades. Or subscribers can get hit with trades that were about to be closed and instead of getting profits same as SP, subscriber may lost some money due to spreads/entry prices at time of copy. You also cant even tell about this by looking at SP current equity on SP page, it wont include the current equity even if there were floating trades either.
I have also uploaded a simple screenshot of what it should look like with just floating p/l showed on SP open trade tab instead of hiding everything to help investors. Until then Caveat Emptor. Learn to navigate and monitor your own subscribed/copy account by setting Equity Stop Loss. You can eg set it at 30% of balance if thats what you are ready to lose. Do note that in highly volatile market, this 30% can be breached. One of my copy accounts i set USD100 and when stop out i had USD98.90 left. Learn and practice good habits of moving ESL (equity stop loss) whenever your account gains some profits. Eg if you start off with USD1000 and ESL=$300, and now Balance=USD1100, ESL should be set to USD400. Always be aware and monitored closely by checking at your own balances vs previous ESL. Use Excel if you have a lot of copy accounts
@Athena
tbssecurett
19 Apr 2025, 12:30
RE: RE: RE: Positions Tab Removed for live trades monitoring
Athena said:
tbssecurett said:
Athena said:
if SP has choen to not show open trades, the open trade tab on SP acct wont be visible.
This concerns the Windows desktop app only. I can understand if that is an option for persons who are not invested in them or who are demo trading. As an investor, you have the right to see how the strategies or any person is investing your money on this platform. You can't just remove that feature and get up every morning to see if you won or you lost, or if the strategist has blown your account. That is not an option he/she should have, to block you from seeing what is doing live. Well at least give us the option to contact the strategist about our concerns.
Before the changes even if SP chose to not show open trades, investors/subscribers can still view open trades on their OWN subscriber account (copy trade account, that is created by spotware automatically once you chose to copy that signal). After the updates, if SP has chosen to hide open trades, you wont be able to view open trades even on your OWN subs acct. This is very concerning and i have raise this to spotware support.
For MQL ("mother" of MT), SP open trades are automatically hidden. Whats NOT hidden its the floating P/L so that a potential subscriber or current subscriber could view this detail in the SP open trades tab and decide to subscribe, eg, when floating p/l=$0 (meaning all trades are closed), or when floating p/l is very small. This is not so in ctrade copy. Even floating p/l is completely blocked,often resulted in many subscribers subscribed to a signal base off past history to be hit with large batches of long held losing trades. Or subscribers can get hit with trades that were about to be closed and instead of getting profits same as SP, subscriber may lost some money due to spreads/entry prices at time of copy. You also cant even tell about this by looking at SP current equity on SP page, it wont include the current equity even if there were floating trades either.
I have also uploaded a simple screenshot of what it should look like with just floating p/l showed on SP open trade tab instead of hiding everything to help investors. Until then Caveat Emptor. Learn to navigate and monitor your own subscribed/copy account by setting Equity Stop Loss. You can eg set it at 30% of balance if thats what you are ready to lose. Do note that in highly volatile market, this 30% can be breached. One of my copy accounts i set USD100 and when stop out i had USD98.90 left. Learn and practice good habits of moving ESL (equity stop loss) whenever your account gains some profits. Eg if you start off with USD1000 and ESL=$300, and now Balance=USD1100, ESL should be set to USD400. Always be aware and monitored closely by checking at your own balances vs previous ESL. Use Excel if you have a lot of copy accounts
OK thanks for the detailed explanation
@tbssecurett
Athena
27 Jan 2025, 15:03
if SP has choen to not show open trades, the open trade tab on SP acct wont be visible.
@Athena