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Setup Wizard
TTMT has dozens of settings, but you do not need to learn them all on day one. The setup wizard asks three quick questions — how much to trade, how to enter, and how to take profit — and turns your answers into working defaults. A live trade preview updates as you choose, so you can see the effect of each option before you commit.
TIP
No wrong answers. The wizard maps your preferences to settings; you can fine-tune anything later.
Where the Wizard Appears
The wizard shows up in three places:
- During onboarding — as a stepped 1 → 2 → 3 flow, right before the final confirmation.
- On the settings page — as a collapsible card titled Reconfigure fundamentals. Open it any time to redo the three choices.
- When you add a second MetaTrader account — it opens already expanded so the new account gets its own defaults.
The Three Choices
1. How much to trade per signal (lot size)
The wizard sets a fixed lot size — the single biggest driver of how much you risk per trade. It pre-selects a recommendation based on your account balance, and you can change it.
| Option | Lot size |
|---|---|
| Conservative | 0.06 |
| Moderate | 0.12 |
| Standard | 0.18 |
| Confident | 0.24 |
| Aggressive | 0.36 |
| Maximum | 0.48 |
2. How trades enter the market (entry style)
This controls how your total volume is split across the entry orders within your default layer structure.
| Option (in-app label) | Entry style | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| One entry, full size | Single | Your whole size enters at once. |
| Front-load, then scale in | Front-loaded | Most volume enters first, the rest scales in deeper. |
| Spread evenly across layers | Even (default) | Volume is split evenly across the layers. |
| Scale in heavier on dips | Martingale | A small slice enters first, with progressively larger slices waiting at deeper retracement prices. |
INFO
Single and martingale are the two extremes — single fills everything at once, martingale waits and adds the most at the deepest prices. Even and front-loaded sit between them.
For the full layering deep-dive, see Order Execution.
3. How you take profit (take-profit style)
This sets how your volume is distributed across the take-profit levels.
| Option (in-app label) | TP style | Distribution (TP1–TP6) |
|---|---|---|
| Secure profits early | Progressive | 30 / 23 / 18 / 13 / 10 / 6 |
| Balance across all targets | Balanced | ~17% each |
| Let winners run | Extended | 6 / 10 / 13 / 18 / 23 / 30 |
Flip from Progressive to Extended and most volume shifts from TP1/TP2 to TP5/TP6: the trade needs price to run further, but it pays more when it does.
Balance-Based Recommendations
The wizard pre-fills your three choices from your account balance. These are starting points you can override.
| Balance | Suggested lot | Entry style | TP style |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under $600 | 0.12 | Single | Progressive |
| $600–$999 | 0.18 | Front-loaded | Progressive |
| $1,000–$1,999 | 0.24 | Even | Balanced |
| $2,000+ | Calculated (scaled to balance, capped at 2.0 lots) | Martingale | Extended |
The Live Trade Preview
As you pick options, a preview shows a sample XAUUSD buy with:
- Total volume
- Maximum risk in dollars and as a percentage of your balance
- Number of active orders
- Reward-to-risk at TP3
If your lot size is too large for the chosen layering, the preview warns that some orders may be skipped because they fall below your broker's minimum lot size. For example, bumping the recommended 0.18 up to 0.48 (Maximum) pushes the max-risk percentage up and can trip this warning — the preview catches the oversized choice before it ever trades.
Re-Running the Wizard
Open the Reconfigure fundamentals card on the settings page whenever your approach changes — a shift in market regime, adding a scalping channel alongside a swing channel, or a change in risk tolerance.
WARNING
Changing settings only affects future trades. Open positions keep the settings they were executed with.
What the Wizard Does Not Set
The wizard sets three fundamentals: lot size, entry style, and take-profit style. It does not set your layer count, breakeven or trailing rules, per-channel overrides, or SL/TP override modes — those live in the full settings and config profiles. During onboarding only, the wizard also quietly turns on auto-breakeven from TP1 as a safe default.
Next Steps
Your defaults are set. Now watch them in action.
Related: Order Execution · Order Setup · Config Profiles