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Config Profiles ​

Your account settings are the baseline for every trade. A fast Gold scalping channel and a slow swing-trade channel rarely want the same lot size, the same number of entry layers, or the same breakeven rule, and changing your account defaults every time you switch channels is a recipe for mistakes. A config profile is a named set of setting overrides you attach to a channel so its signals run with their own configuration, while every other channel keeps using your defaults.

What a config profile is ​

A config profile is a named, reusable bundle of setting overrides. Each profile has a name, an optional description, a colour, and an icon so you can tell them apart at a glance. Think of your account settings as your default outfit and a profile as swapping a few pieces for one occasion: you change only what needs to differ and the rest stays the same.

Inside a profile, every setting is in one of two states:

  • Overridden — a value you set explicitly. That value is used for signals from any channel on this profile.
  • Inherited — left blank. The setting falls back to your account default, and keeps tracking it if you change the account later.

A profile can override the same groups of settings you see in your account settings — position sizing, entry configuration, take-profit strategy, SL/TP defaults, profit protection, order management, signal-update automation, and per-trade P&L limits. It's the whole trade setup, not a small subset. You don't need to memorise a field count; the Creating Profiles page walks every group. Most traders keep a small handful of profiles — well under the platform maximum — because a profile is only worth building for a channel that genuinely behaves differently from your baseline.

A profile can also carry its own execution schedule (blocked trading hours) — see Profile execution schedules below — and can be shared with other traders as a one-click import link.

How settings get decided (the 2-layer model) ​

Exactly two layers decide a setting's value, in this order:

  1. Your config profile for that channel, if it sets the value.
  2. Your per-account settings, if the profile leaves the value blank.

The rule is one sentence: the profile value is used if you set one; otherwise the account value is used. There is no "system default" layer, no "per-asset" layer, and no "cross-account default" in this decision — just profile, then account. One exception: Risk Limits are account-only — a profile never sets them, so the account's daily-loss halt applies to every channel regardless of which profile is assigned.

Once your effective settings are resolved, the signal's own values are applied — but not unconditionally. The signal's stop loss is used unless Override Signal SL is on; the signal's take-profits are used (subject to your TP behaviour) unless Override Signal TP is on; and safety validators may still fill or correct a missing or clearly-wrong value. So a signal's price is honoured by default, not always.

How signal prices are decided

By default the trade uses the provider's explicit entry, stop loss, and take-profit prices. But Override Signal SL and Override Signal TP — both profile settings — replace them with your own defaults, and safety validators can correct an out-of-range value. "The signal always wins" is not accurate: there is always an override or a validator that can change a signal value.

Blank is not the same as off

Leaving a setting blank (inherited) is not the same as setting it to off or zero. Blank means "follow my account." Off or zero means "force this value on this channel." Get this wrong and a feature you thought you disabled stays on.

For the full walkthrough of how account settings and channel profiles merge, see Settings Inheritance.

Profiles are assigned per channel and per account ​

If a channel feeds only one account, you assign one profile to it and you're done. If a channel broadcasts to several accounts, you can assign a different profile per account — the Channel Settings page has an account selector so you pick which account-assignment you're configuring.

For example: your demo account can run an "Aggressive Test" profile on a channel while your live account runs "Conservative Live" on the same channel. Same signals, two risk personalities, set independently.

There is no "one profile per channel" limit. It's one profile per channel-and-account.

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Configuring a multi-account channel? Pick the account at the top of the Channel Settings page first — each account remembers its own profile, and it's easy to set the wrong one if you skip this.

See Applying Profiles for the full assignment walkthrough.

When to reach for a profile ​

You want…Profile to createKey overrides
Smaller, safer trades on an unproven channel"Conservative – New Channel"Lot Size 0.01, Entry Strategy Front-Loaded, TP Strategy Progressive, Breakeven on from TP1+
Bigger, trend-riding trades on a trusted channel"Aggressive – Trusted"Larger Lot Size, TP Strategy Extended, Open TP Mode Last TP Open (Runner), Trailing Stop on
Different handling for Gold's big pip swings"Gold"Lower Lot Size, wider Default SL/TP pips, wider Trailing Distance, BE Buffer 5 pips
Demo and live on the same channel behaving differently"Demo Test" + "Live Safe"Different Lot Size and Extreme Value Handling per profile, assigned per account

How many profiles you actually need ​

Most traders use two to four profiles. There is a generous per-account maximum — far more than you'll want — but more profiles means more to maintain.

Rely on your account defaults for your most-traded style — that needs no profile at all. Add a profile only for channels that genuinely behave differently from your baseline. Once you have several, the Organizing Profiles page shows how to group, filter, and sort them so the library stays manageable.

Profiles vs per-asset overrides ​

These are complementary, not competing:

  • A per-asset override only changes the fallback stop-loss and take-profit pip distances used when a signal doesn't supply them, and it applies to a whole asset class (for example, Metals) across every channel.
  • A profile changes behaviour and defaults for signals from one channel.

A per-asset override is an SL/TP-default fallback for an asset class, not a settings layer that sits between profile and account. See Per-Asset Overrides.

Profile execution schedules ​

A profile can carry its own execution schedule — the blocked hours during which signals using that profile are paused. This isn't an ordinary setting override; it works by its own rule:

  • If a profile has at least one blocked window, that profile's schedule is used exclusively for signals on that profile — it replaces your account and channel blocked hours.
  • If a profile's schedule is empty, your account and channel blocked hours apply instead (those combine by union).

Each scope keeps its own timezone. A signal that arrives inside a blocked window is skipped, not queued for later — it does not replay when the window reopens. You build a profile's schedule in the profile editor; see Creating Profiles for the 7×24 grid, the mobile day-block editor, and the reference clocks. Account- and channel-level blocked hours live on the channel's Hours tab — see Channel Settings.

Profile performance ​

Limited preview

Profile performance is in limited preview and is enabled per account on request. Availability, behavior, and naming may change before general release. Contact support if you'd like to take part.

Where it's enabled, a performance view lets you compare how your profiles are actually doing — a per-profile scoreboard, a profile-by-channel matrix, and side-by-side comparison by profile, account, or channel — so you can tell which recipe is earning its place. It measures results, not adoption; for adoption of a shared profile, see the community stats in Profile Sharing.

Sharing profiles ​

Once you've tuned a profile, you can share it as a one-click import link, or import someone else's. What gets shared is the settings, fully resolved into concrete values — and now the profile's execution schedule travels with it too (the recipient can preview it and choose whether to import it). What does not get shared is your accounts or your channel assignments — the recipient applies the imported profile to their own channels. See Profile Sharing.

Ideal Settings & Trading Strategy ​

Scenario 1 — Capital-Preservation Beginner ​

Setup: New trader, $2,000 personal live account, following one mixed forex-and-Gold channel they don't fully trust yet.

Settings (one "Cautious Start" profile assigned to that channel):

  • Volume Mode: Fixed Lot Size; Lot Size: 0.01
  • Number of Layers: 4; Entry Strategy: Front-Loaded
  • TP Strategy: Progressive; Active TP Levels: Keep Signal Settings
  • Open TP Mode: Disabled (no runners)
  • Breakeven: On; Auto BE from TP Level: TP1+; BE Buffer: 3 pips
  • Trailing Stop: Off
  • TP Redistribution: On; L1 Safety Lock: On
  • Extreme Value Handling: Reject Signal
  • Invalid SL Behavior: Use Default SL
  • Everything else: inherited

Why: The minimum position size caps the cost of learning. Front-Loaded gets a small market fill plus cheaper limit entries. Breakeven at TP1 means the trade can't turn into a loss once it works. Rejecting extreme values keeps a fat-fingered signal from ever executing.

Watch for: With Lot Size 0.01 split across 4 layers, deeper layers may round below your broker's minimum lot and not place at all — that's fine here, but it's why you won't see every order fill. (TTMT decides how many orders each layer needs from your size and the broker's rules; see Order Execution.)

Switch when: After a few weeks of clean execution you trust the channel — move to a Balanced profile, or remove the profile and use account defaults.

Scenario 2 — Balanced Multi-Channel Trader ​

Setup: Experienced trader, $25,000 personal account, three channels — one trend forex, one Gold, one general.

Settings (account defaults cover the general channel; two profiles for the others):

  • Account defaults: Lot Size 0.10, 4 layers, Front-Loaded, Progressive, Breakeven TP1+, Trailing off, Redistribution on, L1 Lock on.
  • "Trend Forex" profile: TP Strategy Extended, Open TP Mode Last TP Open (Runner), Trailing Stop On at 30 pips. Everything else inherited.
  • "Gold" profile: Lot Size 0.05, Default SL 300 pips, Default TP1/TP2/TP3 100/200/300 pips, BE Buffer 5 pips, Trailing Distance 30 pips. Everything else inherited.

Why: Most trades just use account defaults, so maintenance stays low. The trend channel gets a runner and a trailing stop to ride extended moves; the Gold channel gets sizing and pip distances tuned for Gold's larger swings without touching the other two channels.

Watch for: If you later change an account default — say, the breakeven trigger — both profiles inherit it. Re-check that the inherited values still make sense.

Switch when: A channel's win rate or behaviour changes enough that its profile is fighting the channel — then re-tune that one profile only.

Scenario 3 — Prop-Firm Drawdown Discipline ​

Setup: Prop trader, $100,000 funded account with a strict daily-loss limit, plus a $5,000 personal account, both following the same fast Gold channel.

Settings (two profiles, assigned per account on the same channel):

  • "Prop – Tight" (on the funded account): Lot Size 0.10, TP Strategy Progressive, Active TP Levels 2 TPs, Breakeven On at TP1+, BE Buffer 4 pips, Fast Market Protection Close Position, Cancel Limits from TP TP1+, Open TP Mode Disabled, Trailing Stop Off.
  • "Personal – Loose" (on the personal account): Lot Size 0.20, TP Strategy Extended, Open TP Mode Last TP Open (Runner), Trailing Stop On at 25 pips, Cancel Limits from TP Never.

Why: Same signals, two risk personalities. The funded account takes profit early, kills unfilled limits fast after TP1 so it can't accumulate exposure into a reversal, and closes rather than holds when a breakeven move turns unfavourable — all to protect the daily-loss limit. The personal account is free to chase the move. Per-account profile assignment is what makes this possible from one channel.

Watch for: This is risk shaping, not a hard cap. Pair it with the per-account daily-loss Risk Limits for an enforced ceiling.

Switch when: You pass the challenge and the daily-loss limit relaxes — loosen "Prop – Tight" toward the Balanced profile.

Next steps ​