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Following Channels
Enabling a channel tells TTMT to start trading its signals on your account. You manage every channel from one place — the Channel Hub at /dashboard/channels — where channels are grouped by whether you've enabled them, can enable them, or need to join them on Telegram first. Enabling is one click; you tune the channel afterward, not before.
The Channel Hub
The Channel Hub is your command center. It groups channels into three sections:
- Enabled — channels you've turned on. Each card shows its current status (Running, or Stopped) and, for multi-account users, which account or accounts it trades.
- Available — library channels you're already a member of on Telegram and can enable with one click.
- Not a Member — a collapsed list of library channels you haven't joined on Telegram yet. Join one in Telegram and it moves into Available.
A paused channel does not get its own section. It stays under Enabled with a paused indicator, so your enabled channels never scatter across the page when you stop one.
A search box at the top filters across all three sections, and a "Browse the Channel Library" link takes you to Explore.
Enabling a channel
Click Enable on any card in the Available section. TTMT links the channel to your account so signals start flowing, and the channel moves into the Enabled section.
You set the channel's execution mode, config profile, symbols, and trading hours afterward, on the channel's settings page — enabling does not open a settings dialog. Turn it on, then click Settings when you're ready to tune it.
Enable now, tune later
Enabling is one click. Set the execution mode, profile, symbols, and hours afterward on the channel's settings page. You don't have to configure anything to start.
Channel card states
A card's status comes from your assignment for that channel on the account currently selected in the account context bar:
- Running — enabled and actively trading on this account.
- Stopped — enabled but not trading, because the assignment is paused or the channel isn't assigned to the selected account yet.
- Not a member — you're enabled in TTMT, but you've left or never joined the channel on Telegram, so no messages reach TTMT. The card flags this with a membership warning.
- Available — in the library, you're a member on Telegram, but it isn't enabled.
Each card also shows the channel's symbols, win rate, signal frequency, verification, and — if the channel trades on first alert — a "two-phase" posting-style hint. The way a card's Running/Stopped status is derived comes straight from the channel assignment model.
Quick actions on a card
Each card gives you per-channel controls without leaving the Hub:
- Start / Stop — toggle this channel's assignment on the selected account.
- Settings — open the channel's Execution tab.
- Performance — open the channel's Overview tab.
- Remove — unfollow the channel entirely.
For multi-account users, Start / Stop applies only to the account currently shown in the account context bar — stopping a channel on your live account leaves it running on demo.
Pause one channel, keep the rest
Stop a single channel for a quiet week and its trades pause while every other channel keeps running. Start it again when you're ready.
The resume warning (default settings gate)
If you try to Start a channel while you're still on TTMT's default trading settings, a banner and a confirmation appear. You get two choices:
- Continue — trade with the defaults as they are.
- Configure — jump to
/dashboard/settings/sizingto set your position sizing first.
This prompt exists to stop a brand-new user from trading real money on settings they've never reviewed. Without it, a day-one user could enable a live channel and have the first signal fire at a lot size they didn't choose. It's a safety prompt, not a block — Continue still works if you've decided the defaults are fine.
Still on default settings?
The resume warning means TTMT hasn't seen you set your own sizing yet. Choose Configure to set it before trading real money, or Continue to trade with the defaults.
Multi-account: where a channel trades
If you've connected more than one account, each Enabled card shows an account-target label — for example "LIVE · Pepperstone", "LIVE + DEMO", or "3 accounts" — telling you which accounts the channel is assigned to. A channel can be Running on one account and Stopped on another at the same time.
Start / Stop always applies to the account selected in the account context bar. The full story of trading one channel across several accounts at once lives on Account Broadcasting; the per-channel multi-account controls live on Channel Settings.
Membership is required
TTMT only sees a channel's messages if you're a member of it on Telegram. A "Not a member" card receives nothing until you rejoin the channel there.
Removing a channel
Remove unfollows the channel: it deletes all of that channel's account assignments and stops signal processing for it. The channel drops out of Enabled and, if it's a library channel, reappears under Available.
Removing a channel does not touch trades already open from it — those positions keep being managed normally (stop loss, take profit, breakeven, trailing). Remove only stops new signals.
Removing keeps open trades
Unfollowing a channel stops new signals but does not close positions already open from it. If you want those positions closed, close them yourself before or after removing the channel.
Requesting a new channel
Can't find your provider in the library? Use the Request Channel button in the Hub header and submit the Telegram channel's name or link.
The team reviews the channel, tunes signal reading for its format, and adds it to the library. You're notified when it's ready — typically 1-3 business days, faster for channels with a clean, consistent signal format.
Related pages
- Discovering Channels — find channels to enable
- Channel Settings — configure a channel after enabling
- Execution Modes — Wait for Full Signal vs Trade on First Alert
- Account Broadcasting — trading one channel across multiple accounts

