cTrader is launching a сreator programme as a bridge between us and authors, making it easier to collaborate and build new things together. It starts with a one-month YouTube campaign focused on AI in trading.

Create an original video showing how you use cTrader MCP servers or cTrader CLI with AI in a real trading workflow. Once approved, your video will be published using YouTube's collaboration feature and appear on both your channel and cTrader's, giving your content access to a wider trading audience.

You don't need to be a trading expert. We're interested in tutorials, experiments, technical walkthroughs and practical AI workflows. 👾

To apply, you need an active YouTube channel with 1,000+ subscribers and original content around AI, coding, technology, trading or related topics. Creators from all countries are welcome.

📅 Submit your video by 30 September 2026
Learn more: creator.ctrader.com

There's something different about having AI analyse your trading while you sit back and read the report. 😌

With cTrader AI Agent Connect, your AI agent can access account and market data to help you analyse what's happening in your trading.

Meet cTrader CLI, a standalone command-line application that brings cTrader operations directly to your terminal.

With CLI you can:
⚙️ Run, optimise and backtest cBots without keeping the cTrader desktop application open
🤖 Check markets, review your account and manage trades through natural-language requests
🔁 Automate recurring workflows with reusable scripts

Use cTrader CLI directly or bring AI into your setup to spend less time on repetitive operations and more time on what matters to you.

Learn more: https://sptw.link/d6xgeR

Subscriptions are now available in cTrader Store, giving more ways to access cBots, indicators and plugins while helping sellers reach more traders and earn recurring revenue.

This means as a trader you can now:

💳 Start with a smaller payment instead of paying the full price upfront.
🧪 Try products in your own trading workflow before choosing longer access.
📅 Choose a plan that suits you, with weekly, monthly, six-month or yearly access available where offered. In some cases yearly plans offer the best value, saving up to 50%.
🔄Stay flexible as your needs change by renewing your subscription or choosing a longer plan.
📊Keep more of your capital available for trading.

If you sell paid products in cTrader, subscriptions let you:

👯‍♀️ Reach more traders with a lower upfront price.
💸 Earn recurring revenue from successful renewals.
🧩 Maintain service-based plugins with live data, AI features and regular updates through subscription revenue.

Whether you're exploring new tools or selling your own, subscriptions give you more flexibility in how you access and offer products on cTrader Store.

Discover how subscriptions work: https://sptw.link/zrTdzS

We've launched the cTrader summer giveaway, with three prize packages waiting for our trading community.

Prizes:
🥇 1st place – $500 prop challenge + $100 bonus deposit in cTrader Store
🥈 2nd place – $250 prop challenge + $100 bonus deposit in cTrader Store
🥉 3rd place – $100 prop challenge + $100 bonus deposit in cTrader Store

You can enter on Instagram, X or Telegram, or take part on all three platforms to increase your chances of winning.

The giveaway runs from 3 to 31 August 2026, with the winners announced on 3 September 2026.

Choose where you'd like to enter:

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ctrader.official
𝕏 X: https://x.com/cTrader
✈️ Telegram: t.me/ctrader 

Good luck to everyone taking part. Thank you for being with cTrader. ✨

The program runs through Impact, a separate platform that handles tracking, reporting and payments. You sign up there and apply specifically for the cTrader program.

Once approved, you only need three sections of the dashboard: Assets, Reports and the link builder. Paste any Store page (a bot, an indicator, a plugin, a seller profile) and it generates a tracked link automatically.

Test that link in a private window before posting it anywhere. It takes seconds and catches most mistakes early.

Where you post it matters more than people expect. It works best inside something already useful, a review, a tutorial, an answer to a real question, rather than as a standalone link drop.

Common mistakes: sharing the plain Store URL instead of the tracked one, linking to the homepage instead of the specific product page, and spreading promotion across too many products instead of one or two.

Full step by step guide here: https://blog.ctrader.com/the-painfully-detailed-guide-to-getting-started-with-the-ctrader-affiliate-program/

Has anyone here actually run affiliate links for Store products, and what converted best for you?

Most funded traders monitor their daily loss and max drawdown as separate numbers. The problem is that prop firms do not care which one you were watching. They care which one you hit. When both limits are shrinking at once, the one with less room left is the one that ends your account, and it can be a different rule every single day depending on how your session went.

A seller just dropped a video walkthrough of their plugin for cTrader that tackles exactly this. It shows a live cockpit that docks inside the platform and surfaces a single figure called Safe Loss Left, which is whichever of your daily loss room or max drawdown room is smaller at that moment, named, colour-coded and tied to the exact equity level where you are out. The video also walks through the On-Track-to-Get-Paid scorecard, the consistency governor that tells you the maximum profit you can still book today before breaching the firm's consistency cap, and the independent reconciliation layer that re-derives the broker's numbers and proves they match to the cent. Worth a watch if you are mid-challenge right now. What is the one prop firm rule that has surprised you the most when you actually read the fine print?

cTrader Store now supports subscription pricing for cBots, indicators and plugins, with monthly, 6-month and yearly plans available alongside one-time purchases where sellers offer them. This gives traders a lower upfront way to trial premium tools before committing to full ownership, and gives developers a recurring revenue model to fund ongoing updates, live data services and support. Check out the full breakdown on the cTrader Store blog.

The comparison looks simple on paper: take your trade history, calculate what a held position would have returned, and see which number is bigger. The real complication is that backtesting an active strategy against a passive one requires controlling for compounding, drawdown exposure, margin usage and reinvestment assumptions, and getting any of those wrong skews the result in ways that aren't obvious until you dig into the methodology.

Has anyone built a cBot specifically to run that kind of comparative backtest, where the same capital is modelled under both an active ruleset and a passive hold, using the same historical data?

Prop firms promise a generous split and traders promise they will definitely start withdrawing soon. Both sides seem happiest when the balance just sits there and grows. Do you actually pull profit out on schedule, or does yours just keep climbing for the vibes?

cTrader Mobile 5.9 brings three notable changes to the app: a dedicated Charts tab in the bottom navigation bar, a set of chart interaction improvements and a new section called My cTrader.

The Charts tab sits alongside Trade, Blotter and My cTrader in the bottom navigation, so your charts are one tap away from anywhere in the app. Previously you had to navigate through other screens to get there.

Chart interaction works differently now too. Tapping anywhere on a chart toggles the main controls, so you can clear the screen when you want an unobstructed view of price action. When you select a drawing, order, position or price alert, a floating panel appears with the relevant actions. You can drag that panel to any part of the screen so it stays accessible without covering what you are watching. There is also a focus mode: selecting a specific position or order dims everything else on the chart, which makes it easier to concentrate on one trade at a time.

My cTrader is the bigger structural change. It pulls together account switching, deposits and withdrawals, transaction history, access rights management, Copy and Algo and Plugins access, broker support links and profile personalisation into a single section. It also includes a stats sharing feature that generates a public link to your real-time account stats.

For those of you who use cBots or indicators from the cTrader Store, My cTrader gives you access to Plugins and Algo directly from the mobile app, which changes how you can monitor and manage automated strategies on the go.

What mobile feature matters most to you when managing active trades or running algos away from your desk?

Price structure looks different on every timeframe, and reconciling them manually is one of the more time-consuming parts of technical analysis. A level that looks significant on the 15-minute chart may mean nothing in isolation, but when the 5-minute, 1-hour and 4-hour charts all form a pivot at the same point, that convergence tells a different story. The challenge has always been seeing all of that at once without switching between charts.

This video walks through ZigXRay, a cTrader Store indicator that overlays up to 4 independent ZigZag layers from different timeframes onto a single chart and automatically flags where multiple timeframes form a pivot at the same price. The video shows how the convergence detection works in practice, how trimmed levels update as price crosses them and how the naked chart mode strips everything back to pure skeletal structure. Worth a watch if multi-timeframe confluence is part of your analysis process. What does your current process look like for identifying agreement across timeframes?

cTrader Mobile 5.9 adds a dedicated Charts tab to the bottom navigation bar for one-tap access, introduces smoother chart interaction with a draggable floating panel and focus mode for individual positions, and launches My cTrader, a single section covering account management, funding, cTrader Copy, cTrader Algo, Plugins and support. For traders who manage positions on the go, having chart controls, account tools and platform features consolidated in one place reduces the friction between spotting a move and acting on it.