Connections & cTrader sign-in

How Trada groups your trading accounts under the login you connected, and how cTrader connects and re-authorizes through its own secure sign-in.

When you add an account, Trada saves the login you used as a connection. This page explains what a connection is, the actions on a connection's row, and how cTrader connects through its own secure sign-in instead of a password.

Trada is software; you retain trading responsibility. A connection only lets Trada read the accounts under it and, where you set up a copier, place the copied trades. Your accounts stay with your broker or prop firm.

Connections in the Nested view — one row per login, with its actions on the right. Sample values are illustrative.

Understand connections

A connection is one login to one platform: the credentials you entered, or for cTrader the authorization you gave on cTrader's sign-in page. There is no separate page for connections — you create one each time you use Add Account, and you see them on the Accounts page in the Nested view.

One connection can hold several trading accounts. A TradeLocker, DXTrade, MatchTrader, or cTrader login often gives access to more than one account, and you choose which of them to import. A MetaTrader 4 or MetaTrader 5 login holds one account.

Read the Nested view

Open Accounts and select Nested (the default view). Each row is a connection:

• Connection Name — the Name you gave when you added it. If you left it blank (cTrader only), the row reads the platform followed by "Connection", for example cTrader Connection.

• Platform — the platform the login belongs to.

• Validation — whether Trada could log in with the saved details: Valid, Pending while the check runs, or Invalid. An invalid connection also shows a red alert icon next to its name.

• Accounts — how many trading accounts you imported from this login. A red number beside it counts the ones that read Disconnected.

Select the arrow next to a connection's name to expand it and see its trading accounts, each with its own Connection status and actions. See Connect a Forex or CFD account.

Use the connection actions

The icons at the end of a connection's row act on the whole login:

• Refresh accounts — checks the login for trading accounts that were added since you connected. Not shown for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, which hold one account per login.

• Re-authorize — cTrader only. Sends you back to cTrader's sign-in page to renew Trada's access. See Re-authorize cTrader below.

• Import accounts — opens Import Accounts for this login, so you can add accounts you did not import the first time. The icon shows how many are waiting; it is greyed out when there are none.

• Delete connection — removes the login and every trading account under it.

Delete connection has no confirmation step, and it removes every trading account under that login at once. To remove a single account, expand the connection and use Delete on that account's row instead, which asks you to confirm.

Connect cTrader with secure sign-in

cTrader connects through secure sign-in (OAuth). Instead of typing your cTrader password into Trada, you approve Trada on cTrader's own sign-in page.

1

Open the Add Account dialog

Open Accounts, stay on the Forex tab, and select Add Account. A Name is optional for cTrader.

2

Pick cTrader and your server

Choose cTrader as the Platform, then pick your broker's server under Server.

3

Authenticate on cTrader

Select Authenticate cTrader. Trada sends you to cTrader's sign-in page. Sign in there and approve Trada's access.

4

Import your accounts

cTrader sends you back to the Accounts page, and Import Accounts opens with your cTrader accounts ticked. Untick any you don't want and select Import N Account(s).

If you already had a connection for the same cTrader login, Trada reconnects that one instead of adding a second. Import Accounts then says: "You already had this connection, so we reconnected it instead of adding a new one."

If the sign-in does not complete, a red OAuth Authorization Failed banner appears at the top of the Accounts page with the reason. Dismiss it and start again from Add Account.

Re-authorize cTrader

If your cTrader accounts stop syncing because cTrader no longer accepts Trada's access — for example, you revoked it on cTrader's side — renew it without deleting anything:

1

Find the cTrader connection

In Accounts, switch to the Nested view and find your cTrader connection.

2

Select Re-authorize

Select Re-authorize (the key icon) on the connection's row. Trada sends you to cTrader's sign-in page.

3

Approve Trada again

Sign in and approve Trada's access. You come back to the Accounts page. The connection and its accounts stay as they were — nothing is deleted or imported again. If an account still reads Disconnected, select Connect on its row.

Connect with credentials

Every other platform connects with the login your broker or prop firm gave you, entered directly in the Add Account dialog: MetaTrader uses an Account ID and Password, TradeLocker and MatchTrader an Email and Password, and DXTrade a Username and Password. The full steps, including TradeLocker's server and account-type fields, are in Connect a Forex or CFD account.

Change a saved login

You can't change a connection's saved login in Trada. Edit on an account's row changes only its Name and Broker. If your platform password or login changes, contact support. For cTrader, use Re-authorize instead — there is no password to change.

Related

• Connect a Forex or CFD account

• Supported platforms

• Syncing, status & troubleshooting