AphnaYour dashboard
Your dashboard, at aphnatrade.com/app, is where you connect your accounts, approve your strategies and see every trade. Sign in with your email: Aphna sends you a code, with no password to remember.
This page says what each part is for. The menu is on the left; on a phone, it's the dropdown at the top.
Home
Your day at a glance.
- Notices from Aphna, such as a change to a trading rule, at the top.
- Needs your attention: anything you should act on. A strategy waiting for approval, a broker symbol that isn't on its account, a paused account, a trade that failed, or an Aphna EA that has stopped checking in.
- Trades open now and closed today.
- Getting started: the steps from your first sign-in to your first trade. Most tick themselves.
Accounts
The trading accounts Aphna places your strategies' trades on.
- Connect cTrader (Aphna Link): sign in with cTrader and tick only the accounts Aphna may trade. To add a new challenge later, connect again and tick just the new account: accounts already connected keep working.
- MetaTrader 4 or 5: install the Aphna EA with your key. The account appears here by itself when the EA starts.
Open an account to set:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Pause trading on this account | No new trades on this account until you untick it and save. Open trades are left as they are |
| Protection (cTrader) | Account size, daily drawdown limit, maximum drawdown and an optional daily profit target, and what happens when a limit is reached. Set each limit a little inside your prop firm's own. Choose the account type (FTMO 2-Step, 1-Step or Instant) and Aphna measures the maximum drawdown the way FTMO does; the account shows the exact level Aphna protects |
| Maximum risk per trade | A ceiling for this account: no strategy trades above it here |
| News and NFP | No new trades close to high-impact news, and on NFP day or around its release |
| FTMO funded account rules (cTrader) | Tick when a challenge becomes a funded FTMO Account. Aphna closes its trades before the weekend or any market break over 2 hours, and a few minutes before high-impact news, and opens nothing new close to either |
Press Save. A message at the top of the screen confirms it: green when saved, red when something needs fixing.
Base
Starting settings for a symbol, ready for you to finish. See guide 5.
Strategies
Every strategy whose alert has introduced itself, grouped as waiting for your approval, paused, trading and stopped. A new strategy appears when its chart's next candle closes after you create the alert.
To approve one: tick the account or accounts it trades on and enter the broker symbol for each. Aphna checks the broker symbol against that account's own list, suggests the right one if it isn't there, and won't approve a name the account doesn't have. Enter how many losses in a row the chart shows since its latest win (0 if its latest trade won). Then press Approve: start trading.
On each strategy you can also:
- switch on the kill rule, which pauses it on the 4th loss in a row, counting the chart's losses at approval (guide 6);
- Pause or Stop it. Either way it opens no new trades until you approve it again, with its accounts still ticked. Its open trades are left as they are. Use Pause for a break, Stop when you're done with it;
- Delete a stopped strategy.
If you change a strategy's settings in Aphna Builder and recreate its alert, it pauses until you approve the new settings.
Trades
Choose the last 7, 30 or 365 days, or all:
- Open now: every trade still open, and which strategy opened it.
- Closed: each closed trade with its result.
- Not traded: every signal that wasn't traded, and why. A trading rule (news, NFP, the 21:00 window, a limit) is the rules working, not a fault; a failure at the broker shows its reason.
Settings
- Your name and TradingView username. Your username is how your access to Aphna Builder is given.
- Emails: when a signal isn't traded, and, if you want them, one for every trade.
- Your key: it proves your alerts and your EA are yours. For your security, it's shown only within 15 minutes of signing in. If you replace it, update every alert and your EA.
- Your webhook address: paste it into the Webhook URL box of every alert in TradingView. It ends with your key.
Downloads
The tools you install yourself: Aphna Builder, Aphna Search and the Aphna EA.
On your phone
The dashboard works in your phone's browser. To open it like an app: in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; in Chrome, tap the menu, then Add to Home screen.