The Admin application is delivered in two access levels, and this manual is divided accordingly.

White Label – the WL Manager application, which looks and works like the Admin but covers a limited range. A White Label administrator works with instruments, trading groups and routing. Chapter 2 describes everything available at this level.
Full-server License – the complete application. In addition to everything a White Label sees, it covers platform categories, staff accounts, market data, the hedge, abuse and exposure rules, liquidity provider and FIX connectivity, and the maintenance tools. Chapter 3 describes it.

If you log in with White Label access, the tabs described in chapter 3 are simply not present in your menu. Each chapter is written to be read on its own, so you only need the one that matches your access level.

STARTUP GUIDE #

Before anything else, the application has to be installed and started. Whichever access level you have, this part is the same.
here(Windows) / here(MacOS)

Installation #

The Admin application is installed and updated by the MTR Broker Management application. Install that first, then log in and start the Admin from there. Installation files and login instructions are covered in the MTR Broker Management application manual.

A few things worth knowing about how it behaves day to day.

The window comes back on its own. After you log out of the Admin, the MTR Broker Management window returns to the foreground automatically, so it does not stay hidden behind other windows.

A damaged download repairs itself. Downloaded application files are checked for integrity. If a damaged file is detected you get an error message, the file is removed automatically, and it is downloaded again at your next login. If you see such a message, simply log in again.

An update that cannot finish tells you why. Most often a second copy of the application is still running and holding the files. You get a message explaining that the update will be retried the next time you start it – close every open copy and start it again.

WHITE LABEL FEATURES #

With White Label access you work in the WL Manager – a separate application with its own API. It is started from MTR Broker Management just like the Admin and looks and works the same way; the difference is how much of the system you can reach. The Full-server License level described in chapter 3 covers considerably more: platform categories, staff accounts, market data, the hedge, abuse and exposure rules, liquidity provider and FIX connectivity, and the maintenance tools. None of those appear in your menu.

What you do have is the part that shapes what your own clients trade on: the instrument list, the trading groups, and the routing of your clients’ trades.

Main window #

The main window is split into three areas: the navigation menu on the left, the working area in the middle, and a status bar along the bottom.

Navigation menu. The menu on the left has three tabs – Symbols, Groups and Routing Rules – with Settings and Logout at the bottom. Above the menu you can see the name of the environment you are connected to, together with a button that collapses the menu to icons when you need more room for a wide table.

Top bar. On the right-hand side there is a Login panel link, a bell icon opening the list of system notifications, and the network reliability indicator described below.

Status bar. The bottom of the window shows which account you are logged in as, the name of the token used for the connection, and the version of the application. When you report a problem, this is the information to quote.

What the Wi-Fi icon means. The icon in the top bar reflects the latency between the application and the server, and any automatic reconnection attempts. Green means ping below 100 ms and a healthy connection. Yellow, shown with one grey bar, means ping between 100 ms and 300 ms, so noticeable latency. Red, with two grey bars, means ping above 300 ms or a degraded connection. Hovering over the icon shows the current ping.

When the connection drops, the application keeps trying to reconnect for up to 30 seconds before the session is treated as disconnected, and the icon reflects the retry state during that window – so you can tell temporary latency apart from a real disconnection. If reconnecting fails, you are returned to the login screen with a message explaining why.

How the tables work. All three tabs are tables and they behave the same way, so what you learn in one applies to the others.

Search per column – every column has its own search field directly under its header. Filling in more than one narrows a long list down step by step, which is usually faster than scrolling.
Operators on number columns – number columns accept >, <, >= and <=, so you can look for everything above or below a value instead of an exact match.
Sorting – click a column header to sort by it.
Column configuration – you choose which columns are visible: in Symbols with the “+” icon at the right-hand end of the header row, in Groups and Routing Rules with the columns icon at the top right of the view.

The lists can also be navigated from the keyboard: arrow keys move through a list, Enter opens details or confirms, ESC closes the current window and Backspace goes one step back.

Settings. Settings at the bottom of the menu opens the Local Configuration window, with the settings of the application itself rather than of the environment. They apply to your own installation, and Save applies them.

Time in UTC – shows times in UTC instead of your local time zone. Worth turning on when you compare notes with someone in another time zone.
CSV field separator – the character separating fields in the files you export. Set it to match what your spreadsheet application expects.

Symbols #

The Symbols tab lists the instruments configured in the environment together with their parameters. At this access level the view is read-only – there are no action buttons, only the Filter field and the per-column search. Instruments are added, their baseline parameters changed, and their trading sessions and holidays configured at the Full-server License level.

That does not make the tab less useful. What you set for your own clients in Groups is applied on top of these values, so this is where you check what you are starting from – if a group leaves a field empty, the value shown here is what applies.

What the columns mean.

Symbol – the name of the instrument in the system.
ID – the unique identifier of the instrument in the system.
Sym. Alias – the name shown to traders on the platform. When it is empty, the Symbol name is used instead.
Lot size – the size of one lot, also treated as the contract size. If lot size for XAUUSD is 100 with Multiplier and Divider both at 1, opening 1.00 lot opens 100 ounces.
B.Curr – the base currency, the first currency in a pair: the one being bought or sold. In EURUSD it is EUR.
Q.Curr – the quote currency, the second currency in a pair: it says how much the base currency is worth. For EURUSD it is USD. Base and quote currency are used only for the FOREX calculation type and are ignored for CFDs.
Price Dec. Places – how many digits are shown after the decimal point in the price. In other words, the precision of the instrument.
Vol. Dec. Places – the precision of the order volume. At 2, a trader can change volume in steps of 0.01 contract units.
Calc. Type – the calculation type, which decides how margin, nominal value and swaps are worked out. FOREX for currency pairs, where the default contract size is 100 000 units; CFD for contracts for difference such as indices, commodities and shares; FXCFD for cryptocurrencies; PRED for prediction markets, which settle against the outcome of an event and where leverage does not apply, swaps are always zero and only long positions can be opened.
Vol. Step – the smallest volume increment, offset by the volume decimal places. With Vol. Dec. Places at 0 and Vol. Step at 1, a trader cannot open half a position. For FOREX the default contract size is 100 000 units and the step is 1000, because 0.01 lot equals 1000 units.
Leverage – the default leverage for the instrument. At 100 it is 1:100, meaning 1% of the position’s nominal value is required as margin; at 30 it is 1:30, meaning 3.33%.
Swap Calc Type – how swaps are calculated: Points charged daily, or Percents as an annual rate.
Swap L and Swap S – the swap values for long and short positions.
Multiplier – increases the nominal value of a position by multiplying the lot size by this value. Applies only to CFD and FXCFD.
Divider – decreases the nominal value by dividing the lot size by this value. Applies only to CFD and FXCFD. Lot size multiplied by Multiplier and divided by Divider gives the contract size: with lot size 100 for XAUUSD, multiplier 2 and divider 1, opening 1.00 lot opens 200 ounces.
Mult. Curr. – the currency the instrument is denominated in. For GER30 it is EUR.
Description – the instrument description shown on the trading platform.
Delay Yellow [s] – how many seconds without a new quote before the instrument is marked yellow, meaning the price is getting stale.
Delay Red [s] – how many seconds without a new quote before it is marked red, meaning the price should no longer be relied on.
Termination Type – used for instruments that do not run indefinitely. Expiration means the instrument stops trading on the termination date and settles. Rollover means it rolls over to the next contract on that date instead of ending. Left empty for ordinary instruments.
Termination Date [UTC] – the date on which that happens, chosen from a calendar and given in UTC.

The table scrolls sideways, and the “+” icon lets you hide the columns you do not need so the ones you do fit on screen.

Groups #

A trading group is the set of conditions your clients trade on: deposit currency, leverage, commissions, stopout levels, reporting and which instruments are available. Every trading account belongs to exactly one group, so this is where you shape your offer – a demo group, a retail group and a professional group are the same platform with different group settings.

At this access level you configure existing groups but do not create them. The main view has Download for exporting the list; new groups are created at the Full-server License level. To change a group’s settings, double-click it, or right-click it and choose Edit group. With several groups ticked, the right-click menu offers Bulk edit group instruments, Bulk edit EOD/EOM and Bulk edit swaps config, which apply the same settings to all of them at once.

What the group list shows.

Group Name – the name of the group.
Dep. Curr. – the deposit currency of the group.
Comm. / MM – the default commission per million USD traded.
Pending mult. % – the percentage applied as margin for pending orders. Applies only to accounts in FIFO mode.
Default lvg % – the leverage percentage every account created in the group starts with. It works together with the instrument leverage: with instrument leverage 30 and this value at 100, final leverage is 1:30 (3.33% margin); at 200 it becomes 1:60 (1.67%).
S/O level – the level at which accounts in the group reach stopout.
Routed – whether trades from this group are hedged with a liquidity provider.
Manager, Admin, WL Manager – whether accounts in this group hold the Manager, Admin or White Label Manager role. These are the groups used for staff accounts rather than clients.
Demo Execution Mode – whether the group executes orders without consuming liquidity. Explained below.
Equity Range Emitter – has to be enabled for prop trading groups so that trading rules can be monitored.
Company – the broker company the group belongs to.

Double-clicking a group opens Group Details, organised into tabs: Main Configuration, Swaps, EOD/EOM, Restrictions and Archiving. Two buttons at the top open separate windows – Configure Instruments and Configure SMTP – and Save and Cancel apply or discard everything you changed across the tabs.

Two fields are shown for reference and cannot be edited at this access level: Group Name and Company. The change history of a group is also not available here – the Group History and Instruments History tabs exist only at the Full-server License level.

Main Configuration.

Group Name – the name of the group. Not editable.
Currency – the deposit currency of the group.
Currency Decimal Places – the precision used for the deposit currency.
Commission per Million – the commission charged for one million of turnover in this group.
Agent Commission per Million – the part of that commission which goes to agent accounts. It is included in the broker commission: set 10 as Commission per Million and 2 here, and the broker receives 8 while the agent receives 2 per million.
Pending Multiplier in % – the percentage applied as margin for pending orders. Applies only to accounts in FIFO mode.
Default Leverage % – the leverage percentage assigned to every account created in the group. See Leverage configuration for the full calculation.
Stopout/Margin Call Type – how stopout is calculated. ABSOLUTE EQUITY USD triggers stopout when equity falls to a fixed amount: a trader with a balance of $5000 whose equity, meaning balance including open positions, drops to $3000 or below – with the level set to 3000 – has positions closed after roughly 2 seconds, beginning with the largest loss. MARGIN LEVEL PERCENTAGE triggers when the ratio of equity to used margin falls to the configured percentage: with the level at 30%, positions are closed until the level is back above 30% or all positions are closed.
Stopout Level in % – the level at which stopout is triggered, in the unit set by the type above.
Margin Call in % – the level at which clients receive a margin call notification. At 50, accounts are notified when their margin level drops to 50% or lower.
Price Feed Filter Interval [ms] – delays execution of trades in milliseconds. Used against scalping.
Routing enabled – allows orders from this group to be routed to a liquidity provider. The group also has to be covered by a routing rule.
Coverage Mode – used when hedging exposure with an external provider, so that netted exposure is reflected correctly in the position summary. When you are fully hedged, the summary should show no exposure.
Manager Role, Admin Role, WL Manager Role – whether users in this group hold the Manager, Admin or White Label Manager role.
Commission Upfront – charges the whole commission when the trade is opened, rather than splitting it between opening and closing.
Demo Execution Mode – orders are executed at market prices without affecting the order book, so they do not consume liquidity. Orders are processed under the Fill or Kill rule: filled completely or rejected. If an order exceeds available liquidity the system cannot determine a price and returns a Not enough liquidity error. Execution prices use the volume weighted average price. With order book lines of 5, 10 and 15 lots, an order for 40 lots is rejected, while one for 29 lots is executed and the order book stays unchanged.
Equity Range Emitter – has to be enabled for prop trading groups in order to monitor trading rules.
Stopout Fully Hedged Accounts – stops out clients whose positions have a total margin of 0 and equity below 0. Available only when Hedge Margin Calculation Type is set to NETTING, which is why the option appears inactive on groups configured the other way.
Default Retail Mode – when enabled, accounts newly created in this group work in retail mode; when disabled, they are created in FIFO mode. Existing accounts are not affected. In FIFO mode, First In First Out, positions cannot be opened in opposite directions on the same instrument: with a 1.0 lot buy on EURUSD, opening a 0.3 lot sell partially closes the buy and leaves 0.7 lot. Take Profit and Stop Loss are also unavailable in FIFO mode.
Margin Calculation Type – UNREALIZED LOSS ONLY means free margin equals equity counting unrealised loss, minus margin; UNREALIZED PROFIT LOSS counts both unrealised loss and unrealised profit.
Hedge Margin Calculation Type – NETTING calculates margin after positions are netted, so 2 lots of EURUSD buy against 1 lot sell is margined on 1 lot; LARGER_LEG takes the side with the larger total margin, so the same case is margined on the 2 lots bought.
Company – the broker company the group belongs to. Shown for reference, not editable.

EOD/EOM controls the daily and monthly reports sent to clients in this group. Always Generate Account Snapshot captures snapshots regardless of the report settings; EOD Reports Mode and EOM Reports Mode decide whether the reports are sent; Account Snapshot Generation Time sets the time of day; and Exclude Empty EOD Report and Exclude Empty EOM Report stop reports going to clients with no trading activity in the period.

Restrictions caps how many positions a client may hold at once. Under Maximum number of open positions for retail clients, Open Positions Limit Enabled switches the limit on and Open Positions per Client sets how many open positions each retail client may have. With the limit off, the value is ignored.

Archiving deletes trading accounts that have submitted no orders within the inactivity period you set, and can be limited to accounts with selected access rights. Before an account is deleted, its pending orders are cancelled, its open positions are removed and its balance and credit are set to zero – so switch it on only where that is acceptable, typically on demo groups.

Configure SMTP opens a separate window where you set the mail server used for this group’s reports and notifications – end of day and end of month reports, stopout and margin call messages. You set SMTP host and SMTP port, the Login and Password of the mailbox, Mail from as the sending address, Copy to for an address receiving a copy of every report, SSL and TLS for the encryption, a Signature added to outgoing mail, and Delay between mails in milliseconds for providers that rate-limit sending. A Test e-mail button checks the settings before you rely on them, and a second tab, Email Notification Setup, controls whether messages about deposits, withdrawals and credit in or out are sent.

Configure instruments #

The Configure Instruments button in Group Details opens the instrument settings for that one group. This is where a group stops being a set of general conditions and becomes a concrete offer: which instruments the group can trade at all, and on what terms.

An empty field means “inherit”, not “zero”. This is the single most important thing to understand about this window, and it saves a lot of confusion later. Leave Commission Type or Agent Commission Type empty and the commission is taken from the group configuration. Leave Swap Long, Swap Short or Leverage empty and the values are taken from the instrument’s own configuration, the one visible in the Symbols tab.

Fill a field in and it overrides the inherited value for this group only. This is the mechanism that lets you set your own terms without being able to change instruments globally: you cannot edit the instrument in Symbols, but you can override its values here for your own group. The application shows the same reminder at the bottom of the window.

Deciding whether an instrument is available.

Enabled – whether the instrument is quoted and tradable in this group at all. This is the master switch.
Disable Trading – keeps sending live prices for the instrument but blocks trading on it. Use this rather than Enabled when you want clients to keep seeing the market but not act on it.
Close Only Mode for Retail – existing positions can be closed but no new ones opened. Applies to retail accounts.
Long Only Mode for Retail – only buy positions can be opened on the instrument. Applies to retail accounts. It is switched on automatically when an instrument of the PRED type is added to the group.

Price and volume.

Bid Markup – the markup applied to the bid price, in whole points. It is entered as a negative value, because lowering the bid is what widens the spread on that side: -2 lowers the bid by 2 points.
Ask Markup – the markup applied to the ask price, in whole points, entered as a positive value: 2 raises the ask by 2 points.
Total Markup – how much the two markups widen the spread together, calculated for you as Ask Markup minus Bid Markup: with -2 and 2 it is 4. It is the widening of the spread the client actually sees. Note that a markup may already be applied at provider level before yours, so the client’s spread is the raw spread plus that markup plus this one.
Min. Vol. – the smallest position size, in lots. At 0.1, a trader cannot open less than 0.1 lot.
Max. Vol. – the largest position size, in lots. At 1, no single position may exceed 1 lot. This caps individual positions, not the total: a trader can still open several of them. To cap the total, use Max Exposure below.

Commission.

Comm. Type – how the client commission is calculated on this instrument. The available types are USD / $1M, USDc / Contract, USDc / Lot, 1/10% (permills) and Points, each explained with its formula and a worked example in Commission configuration below.
Commission – the value of the commission, in the unit implied by the type.
Min. Comm. $ – a floor on the commission. If the calculated amount comes out below this, this value is charged instead.
Agent C. Type and Agent Comm. – the same two settings for the agent’s share. Setting the agent commission per instrument here is one of two possible methods; the other is per group. Use only one method per group.

Leverage.

Leverage – custom leverage for this instrument in this group. Left empty, the value from the Symbols tab applies. At 100 leverage is 1:100, meaning 1% of the position’s nominal value is required as margin; at 30 it is 1:30, meaning 3.33%.
Fixed Leverage – decides whether the value above is final or still multiplied by the account’s Leverage %. With account Leverage % at 200 and instrument leverage at 30: unchecked gives a final ratio of 1:60 (1.67%), checked gives 1:30 (3.33%). Check it when you need a hard limit on an instrument regardless of the account setting.

Swaps.

Swap C. Type – how swaps are calculated for this instrument in this group: Points daily or Percents annually.
Swap Long and Swap Short – the swap values for long and short positions. Left empty, the values from the Symbols tab apply.
Swap Markup (%) Long and Swap Markup (%) Short – a percentage markup applied on top of the swap value. Negative values down to -100% are allowed, so the field can reduce swaps as well as increase them. The formula and worked examples are in Swaps and swap markups below.
Total Swap Long and Total Swap Short – the resulting swap after the markup is applied, calculated for you.
Swaps multipliers – whether the per-day multipliers from the group’s Swaps tab apply to this instrument. If this box is not checked, those settings are ignored for it – the most common reason a configured three-day swap does not appear.
Swap Schedule Type – whether swaps are charged every given number of Days or Hours.
Swap Schedule Value – how many days or hours, in the unit chosen above.
Swap Free Days – how many days after a position is opened no swaps are charged. At 7, the first swap is charged on the eighth day after the trade was opened.

Risk. Max Exposure sets the maximum exposure a single client in this group may hold on this instrument. Above this value the client cannot increase the position further.

Changing many instruments at once. Editing a few thousand instruments one by one is not realistic, so the window has three tools for it. All of them respect the per-column search fields, and that is what makes them safe: filter the list first, confirm you are looking at exactly the instruments you mean, then act.

Edit all visible instruments – sets one column to the same value for every row currently displayed. Because it works on what is displayed, the filter you applied beforehand defines the scope.
Export (CSV) – downloads the current configuration. Worth doing before any bulk change, both as a starting point for editing and as something to fall back on.
Import (CSV) – uploads an edited file to apply the changes.

Save applies everything; Cancel discards it. Nothing takes effect until you save.

Swaps and swap markups #

A swap is the financing cost of holding a position overnight. Three separate things decide what a client is actually charged: the swap value, the markup applied to it, and the schedule saying when it is charged. They are configured in different places, which is why swaps are the setting most often reported as “not working”.

The Swaps tab. The Swaps tab in Group Details holds swap multipliers for individual days of the week. This is how a three-day swap is set up: enter 3 in the multiplier field for Friday and 0 for Saturday and Sunday. The weekend is then charged in one go on Friday and nothing is charged while the market is closed, so clients do not get margin calls or stopouts over the weekend because of swaps. All days start at 1, which charges the normal daily swap. Swap Calculation time sets the time of day at which swaps are charged on client accounts.

If a three-day swap does not appear, check this first. For the multipliers to work, the Swaps multipliers box has to be checked for the instrument in Configure Instruments. Without it the day multipliers are ignored for that instrument.

Islamic swaps, when enabled, present swaps to the client as a deposit or withdrawal with the comment storage fee, containing the position and the instrument, instead of as a swap.

How the swap markup is calculated. Swap markups are set per instrument in the group’s instrument settings, in Swap Markup (%) Long and Swap Markup (%) Short. The final swap charged to the trader is:

Final Swap = Swap – (|Swap| × SwapMarkup / 100)

The absolute value in the formula is the part that matters. It means the direction of the markup stays the same whether the underlying swap is positive or negative. A positive markup always works in the broker’s favour – it reduces the swap paid to the trader, or increases the swap charged to the trader. A negative markup always works in the trader’s favour – it increases the swap paid to the trader, or reduces the swap charged to the trader.

Four examples, covering both signs of both values:

Swap = 1000, markup = 20% → final swap = 800
Swap = 1000, markup = -20% → final swap = 1200
Swap = -1000, markup = 20% → final swap = -1200
Swap = -1000, markup = -20% → final swap = -800

Markups act as a multiplier on the swap value taken from the group or instrument configuration – they never change the base swap value itself, which is why Total Swap Long and Total Swap Short are shown separately in Configure Instruments. Negative values are accepted down to -100%, so the same field can both widen and discount swaps.

When swaps are charged. Swap Schedule Type and Swap Schedule Value in Configure Instruments decide the frequency, and the group’s Swap Calculation time decides the starting point. With Schedule Type HOURS, Schedule Value 3 and Swap Calculation Time 00:00, swaps are charged every 3 hours starting from midnight. With Schedule Type DAYS and the same value and time, they are charged every 3 days at midnight.

Swap Free Days delays the first charge: at 7, a position opened today is charged its first swap on the eighth day. This is separate from the schedule, which governs the rhythm once charging has begun.

Commission configuration #

There are two commissions in the system and it is worth keeping them apart from the start. The broker commission is what you charge the client. The agent commission is the share of it that goes to an introducing broker. The agent commission is not added on top – it is taken out of the broker commission.

Put 10 in Commission per Million and 2 in Agent Commission per Million, and per million traded the broker receives 8 and the agent receives 2.

Setting the commission your clients are charged. Open Groups, double-click the group, enter the value in Commission per Million and save. The commission is calculated as:

(commission per million / 1 000 000) × (nominal value of instrument × lots traded × exchange rate to USD)

The exchange rate only comes into it when the nominal value is in a currency other than USD.

For example, a client trades 1 lot of AUDUSD. The nominal value of AUDUSD is 100 000 AUD, the AUD rate to USD is 0.73, and Commission per Million is set to 10:

(10 / 1 000 000) × (100 000 × 1 × 0.73) = 0.73

That is the commission for opening the trade. The same calculation runs again when the client closes it, so the total on the round trip is 1.46. The difference between what you charge your clients and what you are charged on the hedge side is your margin on those clients – charge 20 USD per million while being charged 10, and the remaining 10 is yours.

Two warnings before you set up the agent commission. Both of these cause real problems in practice.

Do not set the agent commission in both Client Office and here. If you do, the agent is paid twice. Pick one application and configure it there only.
Use only one method per group. The agent commission can be set for the whole group or per instrument, and mixing both within one group is not supported.

Method one – for the whole group. Open Groups, double-click the group, enter the value in Agent Commission per Million and save. It is calculated with exactly the same formula as the broker commission, so 1 lot of AUDUSD with the rate at 0.73 and the value set to 10 gives 0.73 on opening and 1.46 on the round trip.

Method two – per instrument. Open Groups, double-click the group, then click Configure Instruments. For each instrument you can set Agent C. Type, which decides how the commission is calculated, and Agent Comm., which is the value. Save to confirm.

The five commission types. The same five are available for both the client commission and the agent commission. The difference between them is what the value is measured against – turnover, contract size, lots, nominal value or points – and that changes the order of magnitude of the number you enter, which is where mistakes happen.

USD / $1M – set per one million USD traded by the client.

(commission value / 1 000 000) × lots traded × nominal value of instrument × exchange rate to USD

Example: the type is set to 10. The client opens 1 lot of EURUSD, nominal 100 000 EUR, with the rate at 1.18 USD per EUR. (10 / 1 000 000) × 1 × 100 000 × 1.18 = 1.18 on opening, and another 1.18 on closing if the rate has not moved.

USDc / Contract – set in US cents per contract, meaning per instrument lot size traded.

commission value × instrument lot size × lots traded

Do not use this type for forex instruments. Their lot size is 100 000, so the smallest possible commission on 1 lot would be 1000 USD.

USDc / Lot – set in US cents per lot traded.

commission value × lots traded

Example: the type is set to 3 for AUDCAD, so 3 cents per lot. The client opens 1 lot: 0.03 × 1 = 0.03 USD.

1/10% (permills) – set at 0.1% per nominal value traded.

commission value × 0.1% × lots traded × nominal value of instrument × exchange rate to USD

Example: the type is set to 5 for GBPNZD. The client opens 1 lot and the GBP rate to USD is 1.3111. 5 × 0.1% × 1 × 100 000 × 1.3111 = 655.55. Note how large this comes out – this type is easy to misjudge.

Points – set as a points value per lot traded.

commission value × instrument point value × lots traded

Example: the type is set to 3 for AUDCAD, whose point value is 0.75641. The client opens 2 lots: 3 × 0.75641 × 2 = 4.54 USD. The easiest way to check an instrument’s point value is on the trading platform itself, through the information button on the instrument.

Leverage configuration #

Leverage is not set in one place. Three settings combine into what the trader actually gets, which is why the leverage on an account rarely matches any single number you can see on screen:

Leverage on the instrument, visible in the Symbols tab – the baseline for that instrument everywhere.
Leverage on the instrument within a group, in Configure Instruments – overrides that baseline for your group only.
Leverage % on the trading account, taken from the group’s Default Leverage % when the account is created.

The Fixed Leverage checkbox in Configure Instruments decides whether the third setting is applied at all. Checked, the instrument leverage is final and the account’s Leverage % is ignored. Unchecked, the two are combined as below.

Calculating the final leverage.

final leverage in % = (100 / (account Leverage % × instrument leverage)) × 100%

The result is the percentage of the position’s nominal value taken as required margin. To express it as a ratio, divide 100 by that percentage.

Take BTCUSD, with the account’s Leverage % at 200 and the instrument leverage in the client’s group at 10:

(100 / (200 × 10)) × 100% = 5%

5% of the nominal value is required as margin, which corresponds to a ratio of 1 : (100 / 5) = 1:20.

What that means for a real position. Taking the same configuration – account Leverage % 200, instrument leverage 10, so an effective 1:20 – and opening 1 lot of BTCUSD, meaning 1 BTC, at a price of 65 679 USD:

margin required = nominal value × effective margin percentage = 65 679 × 5% = 3 283.95 USD

So roughly 3 284 USD of margin is held for that position.

Reading it the other way round. It is often easier to sanity-check a configuration from the instrument value alone. With the account’s Leverage % at 100, the instrument leverage translates directly into the familiar ratio: 100 gives 1:100, meaning 1% margin; 30 gives 1:30, meaning 3.33% margin.

Raising the account’s Leverage % above 100 loosens leverage, lowering it tightens leverage. With instrument leverage at 30: an account Leverage % of 100 gives 1:30 (3.33%), while 200 gives 1:60 (1.67%). This is the mechanism to use when you want one client on tighter or looser terms than the rest of their group without touching any instrument settings.

Routing rules #

Routing rules decide which trades are sent to an external liquidity provider. This tab lists the rules that apply to your groups, so you can see how your clients’ trades are being handled.

Why the list may look empty. You see the rules that were assigned to your group at the Full-server License level, through a rule’s Broker Group setting. A rule with no such assignment does not appear here – so an empty list does not mean nothing is being routed, it means no rule has been made visible to your group.

What the columns show.

Sequence – the order in which rules are evaluated. Lower numbers take precedence over higher ones.
Group Pattern – the groups the rule covers.
Symbol Pattern – the instruments hedged under the rule. * means all of them.
LP ID – the liquidity provider the trades are sent to.
Status – whether the rule is currently active.
State – whether the rule is enabled in the system.
Coverage Percent – what percentage of the trades is covered on the provider’s side. 100 means the provider covers them one to one.

What you can and cannot change. New rules are created at the Full-server License level, not here. On the rules you can see, two fields are locked: LP ID and Group Pattern. That is deliberate – they decide which provider is used and whose trades are affected, so they stay with whoever owns the liquidity relationship. What is left to you is the part that concerns your own offer – above all which instruments you want hedged, and the schedule saying on which days and at which hours your clients’ trades should be routed.

Routing only one direction. Routing Side limits the rule to one trade direction: Both, the default, Long Only or Short Only. Orders in the other direction can still be opened on the client account, they are just not routed, and closing positions on the provider’s side works regardless of this setting. Routing Side works correctly only for retail client accounts – on B2B accounts it leads to incorrect routing, which the tooltip next to the field also warns about.

Why an order can be rejected for no apparent reason. Routing rules use the before-execution model: a client’s position opens only if there is enough margin to open the hedging position on the provider’s account. If there is not, the client cannot open the position at all – so the cause may be on the provider’s side rather than on the client’s account.

Also note that the group itself has to have Routing enabled switched on in its configuration. A routing rule alone does not route anything if the group is not set up for it.

FULL-SERVER LICENSE FEATURES #

This chapter covers the complete application. Everything described in chapter 2 is available here as well, with fewer restrictions – groups can be created, instruments edited, trading sessions configured, routing rules created – and on top of that come the tabs that do not appear at White Label level at all: platform categories, staff accounts, market data, the hedge, abuse and exposure rules, liquidity provider and FIX connectivity, and the maintenance tools.

Main window #

The main window is split into three areas: the navigation menu on the left, the working area in the middle, and a status bar along the bottom.

Navigation menu. The menu opens with the tabs used most often, each leading straight to a single view: Symbols, Platform categories, Groups, Special accounts and Market watch. Below them the remaining tabs are gathered into collapsible sections, so the menu stays short until you need them.

Rules Management – the risk and routing rules: Hedge rules, Routing rules, Abuse rules, Exposure rules and Holidays.
Connectors Management – liquidity provider and FIX connectivity: LP configuration, LP connectors management, FIX messages, FIX connectors API, FIX connectors management, FIX sessions monitoring and Non-FIX sessions monitoring.
Tools – maintenance and diagnostics: Candles maintenance, Candle engine, Logged users, Manager sessions, System journal, Audit logs, Failed accounts, Global configuration and Automations.
Migrations – used by the Match-Trade support team when environments are being set up or moved. It is not covered in this manual, and the section is hidden when the underlying service is not running in your environment.

Above the menu you can see the name of the environment you are connected to, together with a button that collapses the menu down to icons when you need more room for a wide table. Settings and Logout sit at the bottom of the menu. At the top of the working area you see the name of the tab you are in, with arrows for going back and forward between the views you have opened.

Top bar. On the right-hand side the application shows the most recent system notification in plain text – for example that a group was updated or a special account edited – next to a bell icon that opens the full list of notifications, and the network reliability indicator described below.

Status bar. The bottom of the window shows Logged as – the special account you are logged in as, Logged with – the name of the token used for the connection, and System version – the version of the system you are connected to. When you report a problem, this is the information to quote.

What the Wi-Fi icon means. The icon in the top bar reflects the current latency between the application and the server, and any automatic reconnection attempts. Green means ping below 100 ms and a healthy connection. Yellow, shown with one grey bar, means ping between 100 ms and 300 ms, so noticeable latency. Red, with two grey bars, means ping above 300 ms or a degraded connection. Hovering over the icon shows the current ping.

When the connection drops, the application keeps trying to reconnect for up to 30 seconds before the session is treated as disconnected; during that window the icon reflects the retry state, so you can tell temporary latency apart from a real disconnection. If reconnecting fails, you are returned to the login screen with a message explaining why.

The trading accounts counter. The main window shows how much of the server’s trading account limit is already used, in the form Trading accounts: {number of accounts}/{account limit}. The value is refreshed when you log in and then every 5 minutes. Accounts whose login and trading are blocked are not counted. On forex servers only real accounts count, on prop servers demo accounts count as well. The limit itself is changed by the Match-Trade support team.

Once the limit is reached, the system stops accepting new accounts and blocks changing an existing account’s status to active. The limit itself cannot be edited in the Admin – it is set by the Match-Trade support team – but the counter is there so you can see a limit approaching before it starts rejecting accounts.

How the tables work. Almost every view in the Admin is a table, and they all behave the same way. What you learn in one tab works in all of them, including the corresponding views in the Manager and White Label applications.

Search per column – every column has its own search field directly under its header. Filling in more than one narrows a long list down step by step, which is usually faster than scrolling.
Operators on number columns – number columns accept >, <, >= and <=, so you can look for everything above or below a value instead of an exact match.
Sorting – click a column header to sort by it.
Column configuration – you choose which columns are visible in one of two ways, depending on the table. Where there is a “+” icon at the right-hand end of the header row, it opens a list with a checkbox for every column, together with Show all, Hide all and Reset table filters, which clears all the search fields at once. Where there is a columns icon at the top right of the view, you switch between the Default view and your own Custom view, saved with Save as custom view.
Date fields show an indicator when a date is already set, so it is obvious whether a date filter is active.
Grouping – instrument lists in Symbols and Configure instruments are grouped by symbol group. The arrow next to a group collapses or expands it.

The lists can also be navigated from the keyboard: arrow keys move through a list, Enter opens details or confirms, ESC closes the current window and Backspace goes one step back.

Settings. Settings at the bottom of the menu holds the settings of the application itself. They apply to your own installation, not to the environment; settings that affect the whole environment live in Global configuration under Tools. Save changes applies them.

Time in UTC – shows times in UTC instead of your local time zone. Worth turning on when you compare notes with someone in another time zone or read logs alongside a colleague.
CSV field separator – the character separating fields in the files you export. Set it to match what your spreadsheet application expects, otherwise an export opens as a single column.
FIX sessions refresh [s] – how often, in seconds, the list in FIX sessions monitoring refreshes.
Max FIX messages – how many FIX messages are kept in the view at once.
Non-FIX sessions refresh [s] and Max non-FIX messages – the same two settings for Non-FIX sessions monitoring.

Symbols #

The Symbols tab is where instruments are configured. Everything set here is the instrument’s baseline: trading groups can override many of these values for their own clients, but if a group leaves a field empty, the value from this tab applies.

Changes made to an existing symbol take effect as soon as they are submitted and affect open positions. Treat edits on a live instrument accordingly.

What the columns mean.

Symbol Group – the symbol group the instrument belongs to. The list is grouped by it – see What a symbol group actually is below.
Symbol – the name of the instrument in the system.
ID – the unique identifier of the instrument in the system.
Sym. Alias – the name shown to traders on the platform. Leave it empty and the Symbol name is used instead. Up to 100 characters; special characters and different alphabets are accepted, and leading or trailing spaces are removed automatically.
Lot size – the size of one lot on the platform, also treated as the contract size. For example, if lot size for XAUUSD is 100 with Multiplier and Divider both set to 1, opening 1.00 lot opens 100 ounces of XAUUSD.
B.Curr – the base currency, the first currency in a pair: the one being bought or sold. In EURUSD the base currency is EUR, so you are buying or selling euros.
Q.Curr – the quote currency, the second currency in a pair: it says how much the base currency is worth. For EURUSD the quote currency is USD, showing the price of 1 EUR in USD. Base and quote currency are used only for the FOREX calculation type and are ignored for CFDs.
Price Dec. Places – how many digits are shown after the decimal point in the instrument’s price. In other words, the precision of the instrument.
Vol. Dec. Places – the precision of the order volume. Set to 2, a trader can change position volume in steps of 0.01 contract units.
Calc. Type – the calculation type of the instrument. See below.
Vol. Step – the smallest volume increment, offset by the volume decimal places. If Vol. Dec. Places is 0 and Vol. Step is 1, a trader cannot open half a position. For FOREX the default contract size is 100 000 units and the volume step is 1000, because 0.01 lot equals 1000 units.
Leverage – the default leverage for the instrument. Set to 100, leverage is 1:100, meaning 1% of the position’s nominal value is taken as required margin. Set to 30, leverage is 1:30, meaning 3.33%.
Swap Calc Type – how swaps are calculated: Points (charged daily) or Percents (annual rate).
Swap L – the swap value for long positions.
Swap S – the swap value for short positions.
Multiplier – increases the nominal value of a position by multiplying the lot size by this value. Applies only to CFD and FXCFD.
Divider – decreases the nominal value of a position by dividing the lot size by this value. Applies only to CFD and FXCFD. Lot size multiplied by Multiplier and divided by Divider gives the contract size: with lot size 100 for XAUUSD, multiplier 2 and divider 1, opening 1.00 lot opens 200 ounces.
Mult. Curr. – the currency the instrument is denominated in. For GER30, for example, it is EUR.
Description – the instrument description shown on the trading platform.
Delay Yellow [s] – how many seconds without a new quote before the instrument is marked yellow in Market watch, meaning the price is getting stale.
Delay Red [s] – how many seconds without a new quote before the instrument is marked red, meaning the price should no longer be relied on.
Termination Type – used for instruments that do not run indefinitely. Expiration means the instrument stops trading on the termination date and settles. Rollover means it rolls over to the next contract on that date instead of ending. Leave it empty for ordinary instruments.
Termination Date [UTC] – the date on which that happens, chosen from a calendar and given in UTC.

The calculation types. The Calc. Type value decides how margin, nominal value and swaps are worked out for the instrument.

FOREX – currency pairs. Base and quote currency are used, and the default contract size is 100 000 units.
CFD – contracts for difference, for example indices, commodities or shares. Nominal value comes from lot size together with Multiplier and Divider.
FXCFD – used for cryptocurrencies.
PRED – prediction markets, where the instrument settles against the outcome of an event rather than a market price. Instruments of this type work differently from the rest: leverage does not apply, swaps are always zero, only long positions can be opened and settlement follows its own process. They are traded on retail accounts, and Long Only Mode for Retail is switched on automatically when a PRED instrument is added to a group. B2B accounts can trade them only to hedge the exposure of retail clients: they can buy, and sell only to close the buy positions they hold. PRED instruments cannot be added to Platform categories.

The toolbar.

New – opens the New Symbol window to add an instrument.
Edit – changes the instruments you selected, one or several at once – see Changing many instruments at once below. Edit and Copy Session become available once an instrument is selected.
Submit – saves the changes made in the table. Nothing is applied until you submit.
Copy Session – copies the trading session of one instrument onto other instruments, which saves setting the same hours repeatedly.
Configure Symbol Groups – manages symbol groups, described below.
Import – uploads a configuration from a CSV file to the server.
Export – downloads the whole configuration to a CSV file. Exporting before a bulk change gives you something to fall back on.

Changing many instruments at once. Select the instruments in the list – one or several – and click Edit to open Symbols Bulk Edit. It holds the fields that can be changed this way: Lot size, Base currency, Quote Currency, Volume Step, Leverage, Swap Calculation Type, Swap Long and Swap Short, Multiplier and Divider, Multiplier Currency, Description, both quote validity delays, and Termination Type and Termination Date. Tick the checkbox next to each field you want to change: only ticked fields are applied, and the button at the bottom – for example Apply to 3 instruments – says how many instruments the change will reach.

The New Symbol window asks for the basic definition of the instrument: Symbol ID and Autogenerate ID, Symbol name, Symbol alias, Price Decimal Places, Volume Decimal Places, Calculation Type, Base Currency, Quote Currency, Multiplier Currency, Volume Step, Lot Size, Leverage, Description, Quote Validity Delay Red [s], Quote Validity Delay Yellow [s] and Instrument group. Swaps, multiplier and divider, and termination are set afterwards – in the table or with Edit.

Fields marked with an asterisk – Symbol ID, Symbol name, Price Decimal Places and Volume Decimal Places – cannot be changed after the instrument is created, so check them before saving; the window reminds you of that at the bottom. Calculation Type cannot be changed afterwards either, even though it has no asterisk. Autogenerate ID lets the system assign the identifier for you, and Instrument group assigns the instrument to a symbol group straight away.

What a symbol group actually is. A symbol group is simply a label you put on a set of instruments – Forex, CFD, Crypto, or whatever grouping suits your offer. It changes nothing about how those instruments trade. Its only purpose is to let you pick out a whole asset class in one click instead of scrolling through the full list.

This matters once an environment has a few thousand instruments. Rather than searching for every crypto symbol by name, you assign them all to a Crypto group once, and from then on the group works for you wherever instruments are listed: Symbols and Configure instruments are grouped by it, the instrument filter in Market watch can narrow the list to chosen groups, and a whole symbol group can be assigned to a client group at once.

Symbol groups are managed with the Configure Symbol Groups button on the toolbar, which opens Instrument Groups Management. New adds a group, Edit renames it and Delete removes it. Instruments opens the Available and Selected lists for the selected group, where you assign instruments to it – the arrow buttons move the highlighted instruments or the whole list, and the Filter field helps find them. An instrument belongs to one symbol group at a time. The assignment is also part of the configuration exported and imported with Export and Import on the toolbar, which is the practical way to sort a large batch of instruments at once. Instruments you have not assigned anywhere are listed under Unassigned, which appears only while it holds instruments and makes it easy to see what is still left to sort. Deleting a symbol group moves its instruments there.

Trading sessions and holidays. Double-clicking an instrument opens the Sessions and Holidays window, where its trading hours are defined.

The Session Schedules tab lists the periods during which the session is open. Each line has a From Week Day and From Time, and a To Week Day and To Time – so a single line can span several days, for example Sunday 00:00:01 through Saturday 23:59:59 for an instrument that trades around the clock. Add Line, Change Line, Delete Line and Copy Line manage the entries; a new line is entered in the New Schedule Entry window as Start Day, Start Time, End Day and End Time. All times are in UTC.

The Holidays tab shows the exceptions that apply to this instrument – the days when it does not trade, or trades on shortened hours. Holidays override the normal schedule. The rules themselves are created and edited in the Holidays tab under Rules Management, where one rule can cover many instruments at once.

Right-clicking an instrument in the list lets you open or close its session manually, without touching the schedule. This is the quick way to react to an unplanned market closure.

Platform categories #

Platform categories decide how instruments are grouped for traders on the platform. A category is a named set of instruments – Popular, FX, Crypto, Commodities, Indices, Stocks and so on – and both the order of the categories and the order of instruments inside them is what the trader sees in the platform’s instrument list.

This is presentation only. Putting an instrument in a category does not change any of its trading parameters, and it is separate from symbol groups: symbol groups are an internal filter for your own work in the Admin, platform categories are what the trader browses.

The view is split in two. Platform Category Name on the left lists the categories, Instrument Name on the right lists the instruments of the category you selected. Both lists have their own Filter field.

Creating and editing categories. New opens the Create Platform Category window. Enter a Platform Category Name, then move instruments from the Available list to the Selected list with the arrow buttons – single arrows move the highlighted instruments, double arrows move the whole list. The Filter field above the lists helps when there are a few thousand instruments to choose from. Instruments of the PRED type are not listed and cannot be added to a category.

Edit changes the name of the selected category or the instruments in it. Delete removes the category, and its instruments go back to Unassigned. Submit confirms your changes – nothing reaches the platform until you submit.

Moving a finished layout to another environment. Import JSON and Export JSON move a complete category configuration between environments, which is the practical way to replicate a finished layout instead of rebuilding it by hand. The order of categories and instruments is preserved on both export and import.

Ordering. Categories and the instruments inside them are reordered by dragging them. The Unassigned category always stays at the end of the list and cannot be moved – it collects every instrument you have not placed in a category, so it doubles as a checklist of what is left to sort. Category names accept different alphabets and special characters.

Groups #

A trading group is the set of conditions a client trades on: deposit currency, leverage, commissions, stopout levels, reporting and which instruments are available. Every trading account belongs to exactly one group, so in practice the group is where you shape your offer – a demo group, a retail group and a professional group are the same platform with different group settings.

What the group list shows.

Group Name – the name of the group.
Dep. Curr. – the deposit currency of the group.
Comm. / MM – the default commission per million USD traded.
Pending mult. % – the percentage applied as margin for pending orders. Applies only to accounts in FIFO mode.
Default lvg % – the leverage percentage every account created in the group starts with. It works together with the instrument leverage: with instrument leverage 30 and this value at 100, final leverage on that instrument is 1:30 (3.33% margin); with this value at 200, it becomes 1:60 (1.67%).
S/O level – the level at which accounts in the group reach stopout.
Routed – whether trades from this group are hedged with a liquidity provider.
Manager, Admin, WL Manager – whether accounts in this group hold the Manager, Admin or White Label Manager role. These are the groups used for staff accounts rather than clients.
Demo Execution Mode – whether the group executes orders without consuming liquidity. Explained below.
Equity Range Emitter – has to be enabled for prop trading groups so that trading rules can be monitored.
Company – the name of the broker company the group belongs to.

More columns. The columns icon at the top right lets you add columns that are hidden by default – Dep. Curr. Dec. Places, Agent Comm, Proc. delay and Assigned Symbol Groups – and keep the layout as your Custom view.

New creates a group. Download exports the list. Double-clicking a group opens Group Details, where everything else is configured. Right-clicking a group ticks it and opens a menu with Edit group, Copy group and Delete group. With several groups ticked, the menu offers Bulk edit group instruments, Bulk edit EOD/EOM and Bulk edit swaps config instead, which apply the same settings to all of them at once.

The Group Details window is organised into tabs: Main Configuration, Swaps, EOD/EOM, Restrictions, Archiving, Group History and Instruments History. Two buttons at the top open separate windows – Configure Instruments, available once the group has been saved, and Configure SMTP – and Save and Cancel apply or discard everything you changed across the tabs.

Main Configuration.

Group Name – the name of the group. It cannot be changed after the group is created.
Currency – the deposit currency of the group.
Currency Decimal Places – the precision used for the deposit currency.
Commission per Million – the commission charged for one million of turnover in this group.
Agent Commission per Million – the part of that commission which goes to agent accounts. The agent commission is included in the broker commission: set 10 here as Commission per Million and 2 as Agent Commission per Million, and the broker receives 8 while the agent receives 2 per million.
Pending Multiplier in % – the percentage applied as margin for pending orders. Applies only to accounts in FIFO mode.
Default Leverage % – the leverage percentage assigned to every account created in the group. See Leverage configuration for the full calculation.
Stopout/Margin Call Type – how stopout is calculated. ABSOLUTE EQUITY USD triggers stopout when equity falls to a fixed amount: a trader with a balance of $5000 whose equity, meaning balance including open positions, drops to $3000 or below – with the level set to 3000 – has positions closed after roughly 2 seconds, beginning with the largest loss. MARGIN LEVEL PERCENTAGE triggers when the ratio of equity to used margin falls to the configured percentage: with the level at 30%, positions are closed after roughly 2 seconds, starting with the largest loss, until the level is back above 30% or all positions are closed. OFF switches stopout and margin call off for the group.
Stopout Level in % – the level at which stopout is triggered, in the unit set by the type above.
Margin Call in % – the level at which clients receive a margin call notification. Set to 50, accounts are notified when their margin level drops to 50% or lower.
Price Feed Filter Interval [ms] – delays execution of trades in milliseconds. Used against scalping.
Routing enabled – allows orders from this group to be routed to a liquidity provider. The group also has to be configured in Routing rules.
Coverage Mode – used when hedging exposure with an external liquidity provider, so that netted exposure is reflected correctly in the position summary. When you are fully hedged, the position summary should show no exposure.
Manager Role, Admin Role, WL Manager Role – whether users in this group hold the Manager, Admin or White Label Manager role.
Commission Upfront – charges the whole commission when the trade is opened, rather than splitting it between opening and closing.
Demo Execution Mode – orders are executed at market prices without affecting the order book, so they do not consume available liquidity. Orders are processed under the Fill or Kill rule: they are either filled completely or rejected. If an order exceeds available liquidity the system cannot determine an execution price and returns a Not enough liquidity error. Execution prices use the volume weighted average price. For example, with order book lines of 5, 10 and 15 lots, an order for 40 lots is rejected, while an order for 29 lots is executed and the order book stays unchanged.
Equity Range Emitter – has to be enabled for prop trading groups in order to monitor trading rules.
Stopout Fully Hedged Accounts – stops out clients whose positions have a total margin of 0 and equity below 0. Available only when Hedge Margin Calculation Type is set to NETTING, which is why the option appears inactive on groups set to another type.
Default Retail Mode – when enabled, accounts newly created in this group work in retail mode; when disabled, they are created in FIFO mode. Existing accounts are not affected. In FIFO mode, First In First Out, positions cannot be opened in opposite directions on the same instrument: with a 1.0 lot buy on EURUSD, opening a 0.3 lot sell partially closes the buy and leaves 0.7 lot. Take Profit and Stop Loss are also unavailable in FIFO mode.
Margin Calculation Type – UNREALIZED LOSS ONLY means free margin equals equity counting unrealised loss, minus margin. UNREALIZED PROFIT LOSS means it counts both unrealised loss and unrealised profit.
Hedge Margin Calculation Type – how margin is calculated when an account holds opposite positions on the same instrument. NETTING calculates it after positions are netted, so with 2 lots of EURUSD buy and 1 lot of EURUSD sell open on the account, margin is calculated on 1 lot. LARGER_LEG takes the side with the larger total margin, so the same case is margined on the 2 lots bought. BOTH_SIDES adds up the margin of every position, even opposite ones: a 1 lot buy margined at 1,000 USD and a 1 lot sell margined at 1,100 USD require 2,100 USD. It is not applied to B2B accounts. Changing the type recalculates margin on all accounts in the group.
Company – the name of the broker company the group belongs to.

EOD/EOM controls the daily and monthly reports sent to clients in this group.

Always Generate Account Snapshot – captures and stores account snapshots regardless of the report settings below.
EOD Reports Mode and EOM Reports Mode – whether daily and monthly reports are sent, and in what form: 0=Off, 1=Basic or 2=Extended.
Account Snapshot Generation Time – the time of day the reports are generated, in UTC.
Exclude Empty EOD Report and Exclude Empty EOM Report – stop reports being sent to clients who had no trading activity in the period.

Archiving deletes trading accounts that have been inactive for too long. Delete Inactive Accounts After sets the period – a day, a week, a month, three months, half a year or a year – or switches archiving off with disabled. An account counts as inactive when it has submitted no orders within that period. Accounts with access rights to archive narrows it down to accounts with the selected access rights – Full access, Login & Trading Disabled, Trading disabled, Close only and Locked close only; accounts with a right you have not selected are left alone.

Archiving runs once a day. Before an account is deleted, its pending orders are cancelled, its open positions are removed and its balance and credit are set to zero – so switch it on only where that is acceptable, typically on demo groups.

Group History shows what was changed on the group within the period set in From and To – Get data loads it – with Event type, Message holding the details of the change, Admin ID identifying the admin or system that made it, and Token Name. Instruments History shows the same for changes made to individual instruments within the group. These two tabs are the quickest way to answer “who changed this group, and when” without going through the logs.

Configure SMTP opens a separate window where you set the mail server used to send this group’s reports and notifications – end of day and end of month reports, stopout and margin call messages.

SMTP host and SMTP port – the mail provider’s host and port.
Login and Password – the mailbox credentials.
Mail from – the address the messages are sent from.
Copy to – an address that receives a copy of every report.
SSL and TLS – which encryption the connection uses.
Signature – the signature added to outgoing mail.
Delay between mails [ms] – the pause between messages, in milliseconds. Useful when the provider rate-limits sending.

A Test e-mail button at the bottom checks that the settings work before you rely on them. A second tab, Email Notification Setup, controls whether messages about deposits and withdrawals, credit in and out, and margin calls are sent.