Introduction¶
Before you start trading with cTrader, it is important to understand the core trading concepts the platform is built on. This section provides an overview of the essential trading mechanics, market basics and broker conditions used across all cTrader apps.
For a quick reference, visit our trading glossary.
Trading with cTrader in one minute!
- cTrader delivers a high-performance, secure and premium trading experience across its Mobile, Web, Windows and Mac apps.
- cTrader supports a variety of order types including market, limit, stop and stop-limit orders.
- cTrader offers ultra-fast order execution due to sub-millisecond processing.
- cTrader provides advanced protection tools such as stop loss and take profit, including server-side and trailing protections.
- cTrader equips users with powerful trading tools, including Quick Trade, risk-reward, price alerts, signal links and more.
- cTrader safeguards traders with detailed deal history and transparent transaction records, ensuring honest trading practices.
Help structure¶
Trading with cTrader involves understanding several core concepts:
- Markets represent the instruments you can trade in cTrader and the price information that defines their behaviour.
- Orders are instructions you place in cTrader that tell your broker to execute a trade when certain conditions.
- Positions and deals are fundamental to cTrader’s trading structure, as deals record how orders are executed and positions represent the combined exposure from those executed deals.
- Dynamic leverage explains how cTrader calculates the margin used for open positions.
- Depth of market (DOM) in cTrader shows the available buy and sell orders at different price levels, giving you real-time insight into liquidity.
- Trading conditions describe the broker settings that define how trades are executed in cTrader.
Traders Firstâ„¢¶
cTrader is founded on uncompromising trading values, delivering transparency, fair trading and absolute trust. Only reputable brokers qualify to offer cTrader, making it a hallmark of integrity and ensuring that traders operate in a secure, scam-free environment.
Why cTrader is a Traders Firstâ„¢ platform
- Regulated and ethical brokers only
- No server plugins to manipulate trades
- No price injection and stop-loss hunting
- No requotes and rejected trades
- No amended trades without the trader knowing
- Never banned from app stores
- Detailed trade receipts for accountability
- Advanced risk management for traders
- Regulator-accessible servers
- Proxy cloud for secure connections