Shadow mode: look before you risk

Shadow mode does exactly what live mode does — reads the message, applies your risk, works out the lot, places the stop loss and the take profits — with one difference: it sends no order to your account.

Where it is: Channels: each one shows whether it is in shadow or active.

Then it follows the price. It asks your terminal what the market did minute by minute from that moment on, and tells you how it would have ended: to take profit, to stop, or still open.

Why this is the important part

The numbers come from your broker's real candles, not from a reference price nobody trades. That way you see how each signal would have ended in your account, before putting money in.

And you see two things at once: whether the channel is good and whether your configuration is good. They are not the same. A decent channel with badly set risk loses money all the same.

How ties are counted

If one candle touches the take profit and the stop loss within the same candle, we cannot know which came first. In that case the stop loss wins, and the outcome is marked as unclear.

It is on purpose: we count the worse of the two cases. Your real result, with slippage and spread, will almost never be better than the shadow.

How long to leave it

Until you have twenty or thirty settled signals. With five you cannot tell a good channel from a lucky one.

Shadow mode comes with your plan and with the trial: you can keep channels in shadow as long as you like, even while you trade others for real.