Connecting an Account

Connecting a MetaTrader account is the step that lets TTMT actually place trades — until you do it, you're only watching signals. This page walks through connecting an account, reading what the account card tells you, knowing when a connection is healthy versus when to hit Reconnect, and disconnecting cleanly. The same flow works whether it's your first account or your fifth.

When you connect an account

You connect your MetaTrader account right after you choose a subscription during onboarding. The full onboarding order is: Subscription → MetaTrader → Telegram → Channels → Symbols → Settings → Confirm. So the MetaTrader connection is the step that comes immediately after picking a plan, not a generic "step 3."

You can add more accounts any time from the Accounts page at app.telegramtometatrader.com/dashboard/accounts → Add Account. How many accounts you can connect depends on your plan — see Billing management for account entitlements.

What you actually do

Connecting is short. Here's what you see and do:

1. Pick your broker server from the list. If your broker isn't listed, upload the server file your broker provides.
2. Enter your MetaTrader login number and password.
3. Choose the account type — Demo, Live, or Prop Firm. This sets the badge color and applies type-appropriate defaults.
4. TTMT connects and runs symbol discovery automatically, learning which instruments your broker offers.
5. The account appears as a card on the Accounts page.

Two recovery behaviors are worth knowing. If your broker server isn't found, you'll see an "invalid server" message — upload your broker's server file and the connection will go through. And if you recently connected the same login, TTMT recognizes the duplicate and reuses the existing connection rather than creating two.

Setup time

Connecting typically takes 30-60 seconds. Broker-side delays can extend it to a couple of minutes.

If you change your MetaTrader password

Changing your password — or switching between investor and master mode — at your broker breaks the connection. You'll need to reconnect the account in TTMT before signals can execute again.

The account card, field by field

Every connected account shows up as a card. Here's what each row tells you:

• Account name + type badge — Demo (blue), Live (green), or Prop Firm (purple).
• Balance and Equity — Equity is your balance plus the floating profit or loss on open positions.
• Broker + Server + Login — Which broker and server this account is on, and the login number.
• Added — The date you connected the account.
• Trading Active / Trading Paused toggle — The per-account on/off switch. When it's on, signals execute on this account; when it's paused, signals are skipped for this account. The toggle is disabled while the account is disconnected.
• Risk Limits row — A per-account toggle for the daily-loss cap. It shows a red HALTED chip when the cap has tripped, an amber 70% chip when you're nearing the threshold, and an inline Resume trading action when halted. See Risk Limits and halt for how the cap works.
• Symbol Mapping row — Only appears when there's a problem. It reads "No symbols mapped" (red), "N symbols need aliases" (amber, the convention-gap case), or "N unmapped symbols." Clicking it takes you to the symbol settings page. See Symbol mapping.

Connection health (Healthy / Degraded / Disconnected)

The card shows a colored status dot for the connection. A connection is healthy when four things are true at once: TTMT is connected, your broker is reachable through it, live prices are flowing, and your positions are in sync. If prices stop arriving for about a minute, TTMT treats the connection as not trustworthy even if it still "looks" connected — which is why a dot can turn yellow during quiet hours or a reconnect.

Status	Dot	What it means
Healthy	Green	Connected, broker reachable, live prices flowing, positions in sync.
Degraded	Yellow	Connected, but prices have gone stale (no ticks for about a minute) or positions are resyncing.
Disconnected	Red	TTMT can't reach your broker. No trades execute until the connection recovers.

Yellow isn't always a problem

A yellow dot during market-closed hours is normal — with no ticks arriving, quotes go stale and the connection drops to Degraded until the market reopens. The one to worry about is a dot that stays red during market hours.

Without the one-minute staleness rule, TTMT could keep trusting a connection that's silently dead — placing trades against a price that hasn't updated in an hour. The staleness check forces the connection to prove it's still alive.

The Reconnect prompt

When a connection stays red for about five minutes, TTMT shows a Reconnect banner with a button you can click to rebuild the connection yourself. On a healthy account, recovery typically takes around 16.5 seconds.

This is deliberately user-in-the-loop: TTMT won't silently rebuild your connection out from under open trades. For example, a London-region account that loses its broker link for six minutes shows the Reconnect banner; the trader clicks it and the connection rebuilds in about 16.5 seconds. Without the prompt, the trader would sit waiting and miss signals. For deeper diagnosis, see Connection issues.

Account states beyond health

Health answers "is it working right now?" Lifecycle state is a different question — it's about whether the account is set up to route signals at all. There are four states:

• Provisioned — Live and routing. Signals execute.
• Disconnected — Temporarily down. Signals queue, and your channel assignments stay in place.
• Undeployed — You removed it. Its channel assignments auto-pause and no signals route to it.
• Inactive — Deactivated for billing or admin reasons.

Connection history

The Accounts page includes an Account Connection History view — a log of connect, disconnect, and reconnect events for the account. It's the place to look when you're asking "why did my account drop last night."

Disconnecting an account

To remove an account:

1. Go to the Accounts page (app.telegramtometatrader.com/dashboard/accounts).
2. Click the account card to open its details.
3. Click Disconnect and confirm.

Before disconnecting

Disconnecting an account will:

• Stop trade execution for every channel assigned to this account
• Auto-pause this account's channel assignments, so signals stop routing to it immediately
• Leave any open trades already on your broker unmanaged — TTMT can no longer move their stop loss or take profit

That last point is why the warning exists: a trader who disconnects an account that still has a TTMT-managed position open will find TTMT can no longer touch that trade's SL or TP. Close or hand off open positions before disconnecting.

Ideal Settings & Trading Strategy

Scenario 1 — Demo first-connect (capital preservation)

Setup: Brand-new user connecting a single demo account during onboarding.

Settings:

• Account type: Demo
• Trading Active toggle: ON
• Risk Limits: ON, to learn the halt behavior risk-free
• Symbol Mapping: let discovery run on connect; if a Symbol Mapping warning appears, resolve it before assigning channels (see Symbol mapping)

Why: A demo connection is the cheapest way to confirm the whole flow works — connection healthy, symbols mapped, signals executing — without risking capital.

Watch for: A green health dot but a Symbol Mapping warning, with zero trades after signals arrive. That's the convention-gap trap: the channel is fine, but your broker names the symbol differently and it needs an alias. Check the symbol row before assuming the channel is quiet.

Switch when: The flow is clean and you trust a channel → connect a live account (Scenario 2).

Scenario 2 — Personal live account (balanced)

Setup: Trader connecting a $5k-$10k personal live account after demo validation.

Settings:

• Account type: Live
• Trading Active toggle: ON, but assign only proven channels
• Risk Limits: ON with a daily-loss threshold equal to a loss you could absorb in one bad day
• Confirm the connection shows Healthy and Symbol Mapping shows no warnings before the first live signal

Why: Live capital deserves a deliberate first connection — confirm health and symbols are green, keep size small, and let Risk Limits backstop a bad day.

Watch for: A Degraded connection during your channel's most active hours means missed or late executions. If it persists, use Reconnect.

Switch when: You add a second account or a funded challenge → Run multiple accounts, Prop firm setup.

Scenario 3 — Prop-firm account (rule-bound)

Setup: Trader connecting a funded prop-firm account (for example, FTMO or The5ers).

Settings:

• Account type: Prop Firm (gets the purple badge and prop-appropriate defaults)
• Use the broker server file the prop firm provides — prop servers are often not in the default list
• Risk Limits: ON, with a daily-loss threshold set BELOW the firm's daily-loss rule
• Assign only low-drawdown channels; do not mirror your live account's full channel set

Why: A prop account fails on rule breaches, not slow losses. Connecting with the right server file and a Risk Limit under the firm's own cap means TTMT halts you before the firm does.

Watch for: Prop servers sometimes use unusual symbol suffixes — check Symbol Mapping immediately after connecting.

Switch when: You pass the challenge or the firm changes its rules → re-tune the per-account Risk Limit threshold.

Related pages

• Accounts overview
• Run multiple accounts
• Symbol mapping
• Account details
• Connection issues
• Risk Limits and halt