Commands introduction .

Description

Commands describe actions to be performed on an account on the platform. Commands are performed on our EA and usually lead to a trade event being created on your account. Commands outline specifics on what the EA will send to your terminal in order to process a trade, including pricing, risk settings etc.

Commands can originate from a number of areas of the system including trade, user, account and copier which they are grouped by.

There are four groups commands fall into; trade, user, account and copier.

• Trade - Created when the account is connected to a copier with the mode on and the lead account performs a trade.
• User - Created when you, the user make a request to create a command on an account via the API.
• Account - Created when an equity monitor has been triggered on the account with the alert_disable_copiers_close_trades action.
• Copier - Created when copy_existing is set to yes prior to changing the copier mode to on and existing trades are copied from the lead account to the follower account.

Commands can be used in conjunction with copiers to determine why a trade did or did not copy the way you intended.

Use case

As a skilled trader you can copy trades from your performant trading account to your friends or clients trading accounts. Allowing you to automatically replicated your trades on their accounts. If trades did not open on your clients accounts, you would use commands to determine why.