Quick Start Guide

Atlas watches the markets you give it and decides, at the close of every bar, whether there is a trade worth taking. Most of the time the answer is no — and that is the point. It is built to find reasons not to trade, and to tell you which one applied.

Several independent approaches look at the same market at once: order flow, market structure, breakouts, volume, session timing and others. They rarely all agree. Atlas weighs what they say, discounts the view when they disagree, and then puts the result through a series of safety checks. Any one check can stop the trade, and no later check can overrule an earlier refusal.

It runs entirely on your computer. Your positions, your account and your settings do not leave the machine. The only thing Atlas sends us is a licence check.

1. 1

   Open Atlas and leave it alone

   The engine warms up on recent market history, then begins evaluating. You do not need to configure anything to watch it work.

2. 2

   Watch the Dashboard for an hour

   You will see conviction rise and fall, the market condition change, and checks pass and fail. Most bars produce no trade.

3. 3

   Open the Trade Journal

   Read three refusals. This is the single most useful thing you can do on day one — it tells you what Atlas is protecting you from and whether you agree with it.

4. 4

   Set your prop profile

   Once you know how it behaves, give it your evaluation's real limits so its refusals match the account you actually care about.

5. 5

   Let it run a full day on paper

   Then compare Analytics against what you expected. Arm it only when the answer stops surprising you.

Thirteen screens. You will use three of them daily and the rest when something specific comes up.

Every decision Atlas makes is recorded with the reasoning behind it. There are four things worth understanding on that screen, and none of them require any mathematics.

Conviction

How strongly Atlas believes in the trade, from 0 to 1. Above roughly 0.6 it is interested; below that it is watching. This number has already been adjusted for how well its past predictions at this level actually turned out — so 0.7 means 0.7, not 0.7 in theory.

Market condition

Whether Atlas reads the market as ranging, trending, or disorderly. The same evidence means different things in each, and a disorderly reading blocks trading outright.

Agreement

How much the independent approaches concur. Strong agreement raises the conviction; a split lowers it, even when the loudest voice is very sure.

R — your risk unit

Results are shown in "R", which is multiples of what you risked on that trade. A +2R win made twice what you were prepared to lose. It lets you compare a Gold trade to a Nasdaq trade honestly, since the dollar amounts are meaningless side by side.

A refusal is not a fault. Atlas records every one with the specific reason, and these five cover almost all of them.

Autonomous execution is the switch that lets Atlas place orders without asking. It is off when you install, and turning it on is a deliberate act.

Once armed, Atlas places entries, attaches protective stops and targets, moves stops to break-even when a trade earns it, and closes positions when its exit conditions are met. You keep full manual control throughout: you can adjust stops and targets on the chart, close a position yourself, or disarm at any moment.

It also disarms itself. If its recent predictions stop performing, Atlas drops back to advisory and tells you why. It will not turn itself back on. That is intentional — recovering statistics fluctuate, and software that re-arms the moment it looks better spends the day switching on and off.

If you are trading an evaluation or a funded account, this is the most valuable thing you can configure. Prop-firm rules are not risk management — they are pass/fail conditions, and one breach ends the account no matter how well you have been trading.

Daily loss limit

Set your firm's number, then set a safety buffer beneath it. Atlas stops at your buffer, not at the cliff edge, so a single bad fill cannot take you over.

Maximum drawdown

Set whether it trails. Most firms move the floor up as your balance peaks, which means giving back profit consumes drawdown even on a day you never lost money. Atlas tracks the live floor and shows the distance to it at all times.

Consistency

Most firms reject an account where one day produced too much of the profit. Atlas warns as you approach the ceiling, with the arithmetic shown, so you can spread the remaining gain out.

Minimum trading days

Counted for you, so hitting the profit target early does not look like finishing when it is not.

Flat before close

Where required, Atlas stops opening positions near the close and flattens in time.

For the current state of broker connectivity, see the prop-firm setup page.

Change how much I risk per trade

Settings → Risk. Set it as a percentage of account equity. Atlas sizes every position from your stop distance so the loss is the same whatever the instrument.

Stop trading right now

Turn off autonomous execution in Settings, or use the flatten control to close everything at market immediately. Both take effect on the next tick.

Move a stop or target

Drag it on the chart in Markets. Stops can only be tightened while automation is running — Atlas will not let a stop be widened underneath a live position.

Trade different instruments

Settings → Instruments. Four are configured by default; you can run up to twenty at once.

Understand a specific decision

Open it in the Trade Journal and read the reasoning, or ask the AI Copilot about it directly.

Move Atlas to a new computer

Request a hardware reset from your client portal. An operator clears the lock, usually the same day, and your key then activates on the new machine.

Turn the sounds off

Settings → Audio. The opening and closing bells, fill alerts and warning tones can each be silenced independently.

Atlas going quiet is usually Atlas working. Check these in order.

Is autonomous execution on?

Settings will tell you. If Atlas disarmed itself, the reason is on the Dashboard and in the journal.

Is the market open?

Atlas trades within the session hours you configured and stands aside outside them.

Has a prop limit been reached?

Prop Profiles shows your remaining headroom. If the day's allowance is spent, Atlas is done until the next session — which is the correct behaviour.

Is there a banner across the top?

A licence problem shows as a message naming the reason. Trading halts; everything else keeps running so you can still see your positions. Your client portal will say what to do.

Is it simply not seeing anything?

Quiet markets produce no trades. The journal will show the refusals, and the reasons will usually be obvious once read.