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.

Group cards — One card per copy group with leader, followers, and status.
Positions panel — Open trades across all accounts with quantity, entry price, and unrealized P&L.
Account summary — Per-account balance, daily P&L, and connection status.
Recent activity — Last copied trades, errors, and notifications.

How to Read a Copy Group Card

Each card displays the leader account name, the list of followers, and a live connection indicator. Green means the account is connected and copying. Red or yellow means the account disconnected or hit a risk limit.

Key Metrics on Each Card

Metric	Meaning
Leader	The account whose trades are copied.
Followers	Accounts that receive copied trades.
Ratio	Multiplier applied to follower position size.
DLL	Daily loss limit for the group.
Status	Active, paused, or locked out.

Managing Groups

Click the group name to expand details.
Click the edit icon to change follower ratios, add accounts, or update risk limits.
Use the pause button to temporarily stop copying without deleting the group.
Use the lockout toggle to disable copying after a daily loss limit is hit.

Monitoring Open Positions

The positions panel updates every few seconds. You can sort by account, symbol, P&L, or quantity. Click any position to see the full order history and which group created it.

Real-Time Notifications

The Cockpit streams WebSocket notifications for important events: DLL triggered, DPT (daily profit target) hit, copy failures, and connection status changes. Keep the Cockpit open during trading hours so you never miss a critical alert.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Press G to jump to the first group.
Press P to focus the positions panel.
Press R to refresh connection status manually.

Best Practices

Pin the Cockpit to a second monitor during active trading.
Sort positions by unrealized P&L to spot problems quickly.
Check the Health page before market open to confirm all connections are green.
Export your daily journal before closing positions so analytics are complete.

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