cTrader · In development
Depth of market, cBots and a deeper order-type toolkit are what traders come to cTrader for. Our integration is being built, until it ships, the NOVEDOX web terminal is live and needs no download.
cTrader appeals to a particular kind of trader: one who wants to see the book rather than just the top of it, who cares about how an order is worked into the market, and who would rather write a strategy in C# than in a broker-specific scripting language. Bringing NOVEDOX to that platform means more than exposing a login. It means surfacing depth data, supporting a richer order-type set end to end, and keeping one account consistent across cTrader and the web terminal. That work is under way, and nothing is connectable yet.
The NOVEDOX web terminal already covers the full trading workflow: live streaming prices, candlestick charts across five timeframes, market and pending orders, stop-loss and take-profit management, partial closes, and a complete position and history ledger. It runs on desktop, tablet and mobile browsers from the same account.
Background
cTrader, built by Spotware, has carved out its niche among traders who want more transparency about execution than a simple bid-and-ask display provides. Its reputation rests on three things in particular.
A standard quote shows you one number on each side. The best bid and the best ask. Depth of market shows the ladder behind those: how much size is resting at each price level away from the top of the book. For traders sizing larger orders, that view changes decisions. A level with thin liquidity behind it is a very different proposition from one with size stacked at it, even when the headline quote looks identical.
cTrader’s automation framework, cAlgo, uses C# rather than a platform-specific language. That is a meaningful difference for anyone who already writes software: you get a mature language, a real type system, standard.NET libraries and ordinary development tooling. Strategies written as cBots tend to be easier to test, version and maintain than scripts in a bespoke dialect.
Beyond market and limit orders, cTrader exposes finer control over how an order behaves: stop-limit orders that combine a trigger with a price ceiling, configurable slippage tolerance, and execution modes that let you specify what should happen when the market moves between your click and the fill. Traders working around news events or in fast conditions value that precision.
cTrader is also simply pleasant to use. Detachable charts, a well-organised order ticket and clear position management make it a comfortable environment for discretionary traders too, not only the systematic crowd.
In the meantime
Some of what cTrader gives you has a direct equivalent in the terminal today. Some genuinely does not. Here is the honest mapping, feature by feature.
cTrader wants
Today: the terminal streams top-of-book bid and ask prices over WebSocket, updating continuously. A full depth ladder is not exposed.
Practical alternative: read liquidity conditions from price behaviour on the 1m and 5m charts, and size positions with that in mind rather than assuming an unlimited book at your level.
cTrader wants
Today: the web terminal is a manual trading environment. There is no scripting layer and no way to run a strategy unattended.
Practical alternative: pending orders let you pre-commit an entry at a level so you do not have to be watching when it triggers, and stop-loss plus take-profit define the exit in advance. That is rules-based trading without code. It just needs you to place the order.
cTrader wants
Today: market orders and pending orders, both with stop-loss and take-profit attached at entry or added afterwards.
Practical alternative: scaling out with partial closes covers much of what traders use complex order structures for, bank a portion at the first target, move the stop, and let the remainder run.
cTrader wants
Today: the terminal charts candlesticks across five timeframes; third-party indicator packages cannot be loaded.
Practical alternative: price-action reading across the 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h and daily views, with chart history paged in as you scroll back to locate prior structure. Our education section covers multi-timeframe technique.
cTrader wants
Today: the terminal focuses one instrument at a time, remembering the timeframe and layout you left it on.
Practical alternative: because it is browser-based, you can open the terminal in several tabs or windows across monitors and watch a different instrument in each.
Where we already match
Today: modify stop-loss and take-profit on any open trade, close part of a position by volume, flatten the whole book with close-all, or offset an opposing trade with close-by.
Every closed trade lands in the history ledger with its realised result, and demo and live accounts are kept separate under one login.
cTrader questions
Not yet. The integration is still being built, so NOVEDOX does not appear in the cTrader broker list and no NOVEDOX credentials will authenticate in cTrader Desktop or cTrader Web.
That is the intention. One NOVEDOX account, one balance and one position book, visible from whichever platform you open, not a separate registration or a separate wallet.
Not today. cBot support depends on the cTrader integration, which is in development. If you want programmatic access more generally, the Trading API is a second route we are building. It is also not live yet.
We are not committing to an order, because doing so implies dates for both. Both integrations are active projects. The notify forms on this page and on the MT5 page are separate, so sign up for either or both.
31 instruments on the web terminal: seven forex majors, twelve crosses, four exotics and eight crypto pairs, at a default leverage of 200:1 in USD. Register and a demo account is funded with $10,000 in simulated balance automatically, see the web terminal page for the full feature list.
The NOVEDOX web terminal runs in your browser today, live streaming prices, five chart timeframes and full position management, with nothing to install.
Trading involves risk. 74.3% of retail accounts lose money.
