How to Use the Signal Trade App Cockpit

Category: App Pages | Last updated: 2026-06-15 | Reading time: 7 min read

Signal Trade App Cockpit dashboard showing copy groups, open positions, and account P&L.

What Is the Cockpit?

The Signal Trade App cockpit showing a copy group with a leader account, three followers, live P&L, balances and open positions — The cockpit: monitor every copy group, leader, follower, balance and live P&L in one view.

The Cockpit is your mission control center. It shows every copy group, open position, account balance, and real-time P&L in one screen. Whether you run two accounts or fifty, the Cockpit is where you monitor execution and catch problems before they become expensive.

Cockpit Layout

How the cockpit monitors copy trading: one leader account mirrored across multiple follower accounts — The cockpit monitors this copy topology — your leader and every follower in one view.

Summary stats — Combined equity, combined open and closed P&L, total open positions, number of copy groups, and connected accounts.
Toolbar — Enable All Follow, Cancel All Orders, and New Group.
Group tables — One table per copy group: the leader and every follower, with positions, P&L, balance, and copy settings.
Orders panel — Today's orders across your accounts, with status (Open, Filled, Cancelled, Failed), the group that placed them, and a filter by symbol or account.

How to Read a Copy Group Table

Each row is one account. The dot next to the account shows its broker connection: green means connected, red means not connected. A follower that is not connected cannot receive copies.

Columns in Each Group Table

Column	Meaning
Role	LEADER (the account whose orders are copied) or FOLLOWER.
Positions	What the account holds right now.
Open PnL / Day PnL	Unrealized P&L on open positions, and today's P&L.
Balance / Equity	Account balance, and balance plus open P&L, live.
Follow	On: the follower receives copies. Off: copying to it stops, without removing it from the group.
Protect	On by default. When the leader goes flat in a contract, the follower's position in that contract is closed and its working orders there are cancelled.
Inverse Copy	Beta: the follower trades the opposite direction of the leader.
Ratio	Follower order size = leader order size × ratio (whole numbers 1 to 100).

Managing Groups

Click Edit Group / Accounts to rename the group, add or remove accounts, or delete the group.
Change a follower's Ratio, Follow, Protect or Inverse Copy directly in its row. With two or more followers, Bulk Edit changes them all at once.
Turn Follow off to stop copying to one follower without deleting the group.
Click Flatten on an account row to close that account's positions.
To stop an account trading for a while (for example, after a bad day), lock it on the Risk Mgmt page. Locking closes its positions and it receives no copies until the lock ends.

Monitoring Open Positions

Positions, P&L and balances update live. The Orders panel lists today's orders; type a symbol or account name into its filter to narrow the list, and use Export today's trades for a CSV. A Failed order shows the broker's message, so check it right away.

Notifications

The notification bell in the app collects alerts such as the drawdown alerts you set on the Risk Mgmt page and warnings when a follower may be out of sync with its leader. By email you get "Copy failed" notices, and, if you turn them on in Settings, broker connection-loss and trade execution alerts.

Best Practices

Pin the Cockpit to a second monitor during active trading.
Watch the Orders panel for Failed copies and check that follower in your broker right away.
Check the Health page before market open to confirm all connections are green.
Review the day's trades in the Journal after the session.

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