Quick Start: Trade from the Cockpit HUD

Set up your accounts, choose an entry and manage the confirmed position. The detailed onboarding guide includes a current HUD control reference.

1Prepare Your Accounts

Sign in and open Accounts → + Add User to connect an available broker login. Give each account a recognizable short name and review DLL, contract limits and other account settings. Enable its Trade checkbox when setup is complete.

Only non-archived, Trade-enabled accounts can be selected for trading. Missing names display Unnamed account; name them in account administration. Dojo practice accounts belong only to the current practice session and never appear in Live selection. Ordinary live paper accounts can remain eligible.

2Open and Position the HUD

The floating HUD opens when you enter the Cockpit. Drag its background to move it. Use Show HUD / Hide HUD in Open Trades or double-tap Shift to toggle it. Returning to Cockpit or refreshing shows it again at the saved reachable position.

3Check Entry Scope and Defaults

1. Check Live or the intended Dojo session. Click a symbol's price tile in Cockpit.
2. Click HUD account selection areas to include/exclude accounts. Shift-click solos one; Shift-click the sole selection to restore all eligible accounts. Turning off the last account leaves no selection.
3. Read the selected-account line between the Long/Short rows. Choose Scalp, Trend or Open and wait for confirmation.
4. Use each account's SL/TP button to review its Trading settings. Check the modes selected in that editor before saving.
5. Choose a HUD quantity preset 1–6. Check xN on the entry buttons and account multipliers/limits.

4Take a Trade

• Market arrow: Long or Short market entry for the selected accounts; the venue determines the fill price.
• Limit: entry at the fresh current price with zero offset. An accepted order may remain working.
• Custom: offset or exact-price Limit, Stop entry, or a supported Range/Breakout Box. Review the preview, account defaults and any per-order SL/TP or strategy overrides. Boxes require one direct account, quantity one and multiplier one.
• Add: entry based on an eligible existing lane for the selected symbol/direction; unavailable without a suitable lane.

Read the status below the HUD. Sent · waiting for the fill is not a confirmed position. Wait for confirmed position/working-order state and read any refusal; do not resend while the outcome is unknown. Hiding the HUD or closing Custom does not cancel an already submitted order.

5Manage Open Trades

Entry price is display-only: clicking it has no effect. Use the row's inline SL and TP values to edit protection or targets, and its inline strategy controls for SLS/TPS. Pending edits and closed rows are distinct from confirmed open positions; closed rows can remain until dismissed.

• 1/2, 1/4, All, ±N: choose existing contracts for focused management. These selections do not close trades or change entry quantity. Check the selected count, Hi/Lo ranking and runner indicator.
• HUD X: exit focused trades by chasing take profit toward current price. Wait for fills.
• Magnifying glass: open Focused Mode for the HUD's selected accounts.
• Row/account close: act on the named row/account; review the action's scope.
• Flatten: immediately request closure and working-order cancellation across eligible regular accounts in the current environment, including runners. This is broader than HUD selection or focus.

Leaving Dojo with exposure offers Flatten and exit to live or Cancel, and waits for confirmed flat practice positions/orders before switching.

Shortcuts and Teaching Preferences

• Double Shift: show/hide HUD.
• 1–5: choose entry quantity outside text fields and dialogs.
• In the native chart controls drawer, Escape or Shift + Escape closes the drawer without sending a trading command.
• Escape: dismiss the active dialog first. Outside dialogs, menus and text edits, cancel pending orders and dismiss retained closed rows. Twice within two seconds also moves eligible open user-trade TPs to Max.
• Shift + Escape: start TP chase on eligible open user trades; twice within two seconds sends the broader Flatten action.

In Overview → Preferences & Guidance, turn off Expert Mode to use teaching prompts, use Getting Started → Open guide / Restart for the walkthrough, and Explanations → Reset to restore feature help. Expert Mode skips ordinary prompts, not required forms or every safety decision.

Continue with the detailed onboarding guide or keyboard shortcut reference. Practice the workflow in Dojo before using trading shortcuts in Live.