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The AMM user guide

From your first chart
to your whole workflow.

Practical guides for discretionary trading, systematic research, automation and the tools that connect them.

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New to AMM?

Connect an account, find an instrument and build your first workspace.

Start here →

Trade discretionarily

Read charts, use indicators, place orders and manage protection.

Chart to order →

Research & automate

Test a strategy, inspect its risks and configure automated execution.

Follow the workflow →

Build & integrate

Connect REST and MCP tools or extend AMM with C# plugins.

Developer quickstart →

Find what you need

Choose a topic below or search by a feature, broker, instrument type or task. Each guide includes prerequisites, steps, expected results and troubleshooting.

Getting started7 guides

Set up your first AMM session

Connect the installed application, confirm account and data context, and save a useful first workspace.

tutorial · 4 min →

Build your first analysis chart

Load an exact market, add useful indicators and a drawing, then preserve the setup.

tutorial · 4 min →

Practice a complete simulated trade

Follow an order from preparation through protection, fills, adjustment and history in Simulation.

tutorial · 4 min →

Take a strategy from research to operation

Use explicit checkpoints between backtesting, parameter search, validation and automated execution.

tutorial · 4 min →

Connect a tool or build your first extension

Choose the supported integration surface and discover its live contract before making changes.

tutorial · 4 min →

Find every application workflow

Use the application navigation and cross-cutting feature map to reach the right detailed guide.

reference · 3 min →

Understand AMM terminology

Look up the distinctions that matter when configuring charts, research, automation and integrations.

reference · 5 min →

Workspace4 guides

Discretionary trading11 guides

Navigate charts and review trading records

Choose exact markets, move through chart history and connect charts to orders, fills and linked panels.

how to · 5 min →

Choose chart styles and view settings

Set Candles, Heikin-Ashi or Renko and understand which prices and settings the chart represents.

how to · 5 min →

Add, configure and interpret chart indicators

Build study layouts from the installed indicator catalog and keep signals, source data and visibility clear.

how to · 5 min →

Draw, measure and share chart annotations

Place and manage drawing objects, control sharing scopes and preserve annotations during workspace changes.

how to · 5 min →

Place and manage an order with the ticket

Select an exact broker account and instrument, review size and estimates, then submit and verify an order.

how to · 5 min →

Trade from a chart and manage protection

Use chart order bars, price menus and position controls while keeping broker and AMM-local orders distinct.

how to · 5 min →

Monitor positions, orders and broker history

Inspect exact account exposure, manage working orders and export execution history with the right scope.

how to · 5 min →

Use Depth of Market and order-flow tools

Read books, trade prints and queues, place eligible ladder orders and understand depth coverage limits.

how to · 5 min →

Build and use watchlists and screeners

Create a provider-aware universe, add quote and indicator columns, filter results and open linked charts.

how to · 5 min →

Configure screener rules and background monitoring

Choose the right alert lifetime, set explicit conditions and verify actual notification delivery.

how to · 5 min →

Study trading-system rulebooks and historical setups

Use plugin rulebooks, setup galleries and companion templates as decision-support tools.

how to · 4 min →

Research8 guides

Configure and run a backtest

Test an algorithm against a complete historical instrument and account configuration, then retain the evidence needed to repeat it.

how to · 5 min →

Inspect and compare backtest results

Read the report, inspect individual executions and verify the assumptions behind historical performance.

how to · 5 min →

Run and inspect a batch of backtests

Submit a controlled list of complete historical tests and compare their results without losing each child's exact configuration.

how to · 5 min →

Optimise strategy parameters

Search declared strategy parameters while keeping position size and execution assumptions fixed and inspectable.

how to · 4 min →

Evaluate optimisation results and robustness

Compare candidate performance, parameter neighbourhoods and Genetic diagnostics before selecting a historical configuration.

how to · 5 min →

Coordinate batch optimisation and follow-up research

Manage independent strategy searches, distribute whole jobs and hand selected results to Walk-forward, cTrader comparison or saved trading configurations.

how to · 5 min →

Validate a strategy with Walk-forward

Repeatedly fit parameters on past windows and inspect the following out-of-sample tests with explicit fold boundaries.

how to · 5 min →

Practise discretionary decisions in Replay

Prepare a historical session, advance every participant on one causal clock and trade a shared simulated ledger.

how to · 5 min →

Automation5 guides

Configure independent automated strategy instances

Configure algorithms, accounts, feeds and parameters as independent instances, save portable definitions and review every account before starting.

how to · 5 min →

Configure accounts, feeds, instruments and FX routes

Build an explicit execution graph so multi-instrument algorithms use the intended accounts, exact provider symbols and currency conversions.

how to · 5 min →

Control strategy and account trading risk

Configure per-trade sizing and fleet limits, understand pause/stop/flatten behaviour and inspect the recorded result of protective actions.

how to · 6 min →

Create and manage background indicator alerts

Run persistent completed-bar monitors across exact feeds, instruments and timeframes, and manage their full delivery and recovery lifecycle.

how to · 6 min →

Monitor, stop and recover automated trading

Read session and feed health, manage exact account-owned exposure and recover strategy operation without assuming that stopping closes positions.

how to · 5 min →

Portfolio and risk4 guides

Markets and connections16 guides

Choose instruments across asset classes

Apply the same workflow to equities, FX, indices, commodities, futures and crypto while preserving their distinct contracts.

reference · 4 min →

Choose execution, live data and historical connections

Connect the right account and assign each market-data role without losing contract identity.

how to · 5 min →

Connect cTrader accounts and use account-specific markets

Link cTrader identities, select the correct trading account and work with exact broker contracts.

how to · 5 min →

Connect Interactive Brokers through Client Portal

Authenticate the gateway and use only AMM-supported contracts, orders and history.

how to · 4 min →

Use Massive equity data for charts and research

Configure Massive entitlements, acquire local history and keep delayed data separate from execution.

how to · 4 min →

Use Alpaca equities and spot crypto

Configure Paper or LIVE credentials and distinguish equity, crypto, quote and fee contracts.

how to · 5 min →

Check market sessions, holidays and overrides

Compare exchange schedules and manage explicit calendar overrides with clear timezone context.

how to · 4 min →

Use Binance Spot profiles, data and execution

Keep Global, US and Testnet isolated and trade exact spot quantities in the configured quote asset.

how to · 4 min →

Connect Rithmic and work with futures contracts

Use the correct Rithmic system, exchange permissions, contract month and protection settings.

how to · 4 min →

Follow economic events and release history

Filter scheduled releases, inspect source-specific values and set event reminders beside your charts.

how to · 5 min →

Connect CQG futures and verify account access

Authenticate a CQG WebAPI account, preserve concurrent sessions and use exact futures contracts.

how to · 5 min →

Practice with Simulation and replay

Choose repeatable synthetic prices or file-backed replay and understand the model limits.

how to · 4 min →

Inspect contracts, trading hours and instrument groups

Review exact contract values, apply reversible overrides and build reusable market universes.

how to · 5 min →

Select futures contracts and manage continuous rolls

Review expiry, price mode, roll ownership and Chicago-time automation before changing a futures position.

how to · 6 min →

Download, inspect and repair historical market data

Build a provider-correct local data library and distinguish coverage from file presence.

how to · 5 min →

Use live depth, tape and recorded order-flow data

Discover stream capabilities, interpret DOM data and record supported L2 history with honest coverage.

how to · 4 min →

Developers8 guides

Discover and use the AMM REST API

Use runtime OpenAPI discovery, inspect operation contracts and verify asynchronous outcomes.

how to · 4 min →

Connect an agent client to AMM MCP

Configure local Streamable HTTP or stdio, discover tools and verify real workflow outcomes.

how to · 4 min →

Automate connected charts, workspaces and windows

Discover desktop commands, invoke scoped controls and distinguish accepted work from completed UI actions.

how to · 4 min →

Install, inspect and update plugins

Configure a watched workspace and load manifest-backed algorithms, indicators and reusable assets.

how to · 4 min →

Create a manifest-backed trading algorithm

Build against the public SDK, handle lifecycle and warmup correctly and validate exact instrument routes.

how to · 4 min →

Create streaming chart and screener indicators

Declare stable types, emit causal samples and package renderer metadata with the plugin.

how to · 4 min →

Reuse charts, screeners and workspace templates

Import complete plugin assets, rebind account routes and maintain a reproducible configuration package.

how to · 5 min →

Find indicators, trading systems and algorithm families

Navigate the installed content catalogue and distinguish decision support, executable strategies and research.

how to · 5 min →

Operations8 guides

Configure appearance, safety and saved preferences

Find settings by task, understand their scope and safely export, reset or restore them.

how to · 6 min →

Trace trades, orders and broker history

Use Audit and history to reconcile what AMM requested with what the broker actually reported.

how to · 7 min →

Activate licensing and understand entitlement status

Activate an installation, refresh its offline lease and diagnose limits, binding or integrity failures.

how to · 5 min →

Understand and inspect Broker Manager

Check the relay independently from the API and upstream venue without disrupting shared connections.

explanation · 3 min →

Back up settings, workspaces and research

Preserve the right objects and recover deliberately without resetting account or execution state.

how to · 4 min →

Manage notifications and Telegram or Discord alerts

Review notification history, configure delivery channels and authorise optional exact reply actions.

how to · 5 min →

Diagnose common application problems

Separate connectivity, data, configuration, execution and resource failures before retrying a workflow.

how to · 4 min →

Operate remote workers and platform services

Connect prepared compute workers, inspect jobs and diagnose hosted calendar services while keeping execution and service responsibilities clear.

how to · 5 min →
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