Setup guide

Set up the copier in about 15 minutes

Do the first run on a demo account. When trades land the way you expect, switch to your live account.

1. Create your account

Sign up and open the confirmation link we email you; that starts your 7-day trial. In Settings, enter the phone number of your Telegram account with the country code. The cTrader package and older app versions find your license by this number, so it must be the same number you log in to Telegram with.

2. Add your trading accounts

In Trading accounts, add the login number of every MetaTrader, cTrader, DXtrade or TradeLocker account the app may trade on. The app downloads this list when it starts.

3. Install on Windows

On the PC or VPS that runs your trading platform, download the installer for your platform and run it. If Windows warns about an unknown publisher, choose "More info", then "Run anyway". For MetaTrader, TradeLocker and DXtrade it installs the copier app with the MetaTrader Expert Advisors; for cTrader, the cTrader package installs the app and the cBot.

4. Log in to Telegram and link the PC

Start the copier app and log in with your Telegram phone number. Telegram sends a login code to your other Telegram apps; enter it, plus your Telegram password if you set one. The app then asks you to link the PC to your account: sign in with the email and password of this website, or enter a pairing code from Dashboard, Devices. It checks your license with the PC's own key from then on and loads your trading accounts. To unlink a PC, disconnect it on the Devices page.

5. Connect your trading platform

MetaTrader 4 or 5

In the copier app, click "Manage MT4 and MT5 accounts", select your terminal and click "Install EA" (or "Install All EAs").
Open the terminal of the account you added in step 2. In Tools → Options → Expert Advisors, tick "Allow algorithmic trading" and "Allow WebRequest for listed URL", and add http://127.0.0.1:45100.
Drag the TSCRestEA Expert Advisor onto any chart (one chart per terminal is enough) and make sure the AutoTrading / Algo Trading button is on.

Trade size. MetaTrader 5: the app opens one position per take profit (up to three) and splits the signal's size between them, 0.10 lots by default. Set it in the app under "Manage MT4 and MT5 accounts", in the "Lot size per signal" box: per account, or as the default for all of them; it applies from the next signal. When the first take profit is hit, the app moves the stop of the other positions to the entry. MetaTrader 4: the lot size is the Expert Advisor's InpLots input, and its breakeven options apply.

cTrader

Add the TSCRestBridge cBot to a chart of the account and start it.

DXtrade or TradeLocker

Enter your platform login in the app's settings, and for TradeLocker the lot size (DXtrade trades 0.01 lots for now). The app trades these accounts directly; no add-on is needed.

6. Choose channels and map them to accounts

In the app, pick the Telegram channels to copy and assign each one to a trading account. From now on, new signals in those channels are placed on the mapped account. Your plan sets how many channels and accounts you can use.

7. Watch the first trades

Leave the app and the terminal running. When the channel posts its next signal, check that the trade opened with the right entry, stop loss and take profits. If something looks wrong, email us the message text and what was opened; that is how the reader gets better.

Stuck? See the FAQ.