# DT Terminal > DT Terminal is a trading verification platform built to improve transparency and credibility in the trading industry. We also use that verification system to show a trader's improvement over time through a trading journal, a backtester, and other features. DT Terminal Connect is our MCP connector: Claude, ChatGPT and other AI apps can read and update your journal, backtests and synced accounts, with your consent per scope. Every page listed here also has a Markdown version at the same URL plus .md, for example https://www.thedtterminal.com/pricing.md, and https://www.thedtterminal.com/index.md for the homepage. A request sent with the header Accept: text/markdown gets that Markdown version at the page's own URL. ## DT Terminal - [DT Terminal: Trading Verification, Journal and Backtester](https://www.thedtterminal.com/): DT Terminal is a trading verification platform built to improve transparency and credibility in the trading industry. We also use that verification system to show a trader's improvement over time through a trading journal, a backtester, and other features. - [About DT Terminal · Verified Trading Records](https://www.thedtterminal.com/about): DT Terminal is a trading verification platform for transparency and credibility in trading, with a journal and backtester that show how a trader improves. - [Verified Trading Results and Trader Lookup](https://www.thedtterminal.com/verification): Look up any trader on DT Terminal. Every seal comes from a broker connection or a firm document a person has checked, never typed by the trader. - [Claim Your DT Passport Handle](https://www.thedtterminal.com/claim): Pick the handle your verified trading record will live under, then create the account that keeps it. Free to claim; the seal arrives with your first broker-synced fill. - [Verified Trader Rankings You Can Check](https://www.thedtterminal.com/rankings): Traders ranked on broker-synced results, not screenshots. Verified P&L, prop payouts and journaling streaks, updated every hour. Claim your handle, connect your broker and get ranked. - [All Verified Trader Rankings](https://www.thedtterminal.com/rankings/all): Every verified trader on the DT Terminal board, ranked on broker-synced results, not screenshots. Verified P&L and prop payouts over 30 days or all time, plus journaling streaks, updated every hour. - [Pricing](https://www.thedtterminal.com/pricing): Simple, transparent pricing for DT Terminal. Start free, upgrade to Pro when you're ready. - [Playbook · Master DT Terminal](https://www.thedtterminal.com/playbook): Master DT Terminal, the trading verification platform: plan, trade and review with Edge AI, Backtester sessions and Weekly Focus. - [Free Broker and Prop Firm Finder](https://www.thedtterminal.com/find-your-broker): Answer a few questions and get a shortlist of brokers and prop firms that fit how you trade. Free, no account needed, and every figure is sourced. - [Supported Brokers, Prop Firms and Exchanges](https://www.thedtterminal.com/supported-brokers): Check if DT Terminal supports your broker: 418 brokers, prop firms and crypto exchanges sync automatically, 389 of them with a verified seal. - [DT Scholarships · Free Funded-Account Challenges](https://www.thedtterminal.com/dtscholarships): 10% of eligible Pro and recurring credit-pack subscriptions, adjusted for refunds, funds prop-firm challenge fees for disciplined traders. Not a prop firm: you keep 100% of your payouts. - [Download DT Terminal for Desktop and Mobile](https://www.thedtterminal.com/download): DT Terminal for Windows and macOS, free with any account and signed on both. Linux is next, and the iOS and Android apps arrive at the end of October 2026. - [Trading risk disclosures](https://www.thedtterminal.com/risk-disclosure): Trading risks, hypothetical performance and public trading records. - [Data Sources & Attributions](https://www.thedtterminal.com/legal/data-sources): Where DT Terminal's market and economic data comes from, and the attributions our data providers require. - [Affiliate Program Terms](https://www.thedtterminal.com/affiliates/terms): Terms and conditions for the DT Terminal affiliate program: commission, attribution, payouts, refunds, and acceptable use. - [DT Scholarships Terms](https://www.thedtterminal.com/dtscholarships/terms): Terms and conditions for DT Scholarships, a give-back program that sponsors prop-firm evaluation fees for disciplined traders. DT Terminal is not a prop firm. ## Markets, platforms and tools - [Free Trading Journal, Sync on Verified](https://www.thedtterminal.com/trading-journal): Keep a verified trading record: connect your broker and every fill arrives with proof, free for one account, or log trades by hand. Win rate and expectancy. - [Free Backtesting Tool with Market Replay](https://www.thedtterminal.com/backtesting): Replay a real market bar by bar, place simulated entries and exits, and read the session stats beside your live record. Free to start, unlimited on Pro. - [Free Trading Community with Verified Calls](https://www.thedtterminal.com/trading-community): Read trading calls with entries, stops and targets that resolve in public, join verified prop firm rooms, and post from a free account. No signup to read. - [Free Funded Trading Account: DT Scholarships](https://www.thedtterminal.com/funded-accounts): DT Scholarships pays your prop firm evaluation fee. Ten logged trades, one backtest and a 14-day streak is the whole application, and you keep 100% of payouts. - [For Prop Firms: Verified Rooms and Records](https://www.thedtterminal.com/for-prop-firms): Run a verified room for your funded traders, post official updates without a login, and let synced records carry a Firm-Verified seal read from your servers. - [For Trading Communities: A Verified Room](https://www.thedtterminal.com/for-trading-communities): Run your Discord or Telegram group in a room where calls carry an entry, stop and target, resolve in public, and members prove results from the broker. - [For Trading Mentors: See the Improvement](https://www.thedtterminal.com/for-trading-mentors): Show a trader they improved: a public record read from their broker, a Reviewed mark on every trade checked, and a board that ranks the rise. - [Day Trading Journal with Session Stats](https://www.thedtterminal.com/day-trading-journal): Day trade on a verified record: results split by Asia, London and New York, a mid-session check-in to catch your state, and a review to close each day. - [Scalping Journal: Many Trades, Real Costs](https://www.thedtterminal.com/scalping-trading-journal): Thirty verified trades a day without typing them: sync the broker, keep commission and swap on every fill, tag the setup and replay the ones that got away. - [Swing Trading Journal with Research Built In](https://www.thedtterminal.com/swing-trading-journal): A verified record for traders who take a few positions a month: keep the thesis with the trade, read seasonality and positioning beside it, and track goals. - [For Trading Influencers: Prove the Record](https://www.thedtterminal.com/for-trading-influencers): Send your audience to a public record read from your broker, with a seal, a share card and a badge for your bio, plus a referral link that pays you. - [For Signal Providers: Verified Calls](https://www.thedtterminal.com/for-signal-providers): Disclose a call from a broker-synced position, let it settle in public as Win, Loss or Expired, and hand buyers a record carrying a seal they can check. - [Binance Trading Journal with Verified Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/binance-trading-journal): Verified Binance records: a read-only API key syncs spot and USDT perp fills as verified trades, with fees, funding and results by pair and hour. - [Bitget Trading Journal with Verified Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/bitget-trading-journal): Verified Bitget records: a read-only API key with its passphrase syncs spot and USDT perpetual fills with a seal, fees and funding attached. - [Bybit Trading Journal with Verified Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/bybit-trading-journal): Verified Bybit records: a read-only API key syncs every live fill with its fees and funding, so the seal proves the record and the journal shows what to fix. - [Coinbase Trading Journal with Verified Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/coinbase-trading-journal): Verified Coinbase records: link a read-only Advanced Trade API key and each spot fill arrives sealed, fees included. Win rate and expectancy by pair. - [Kraken Trading Journal with Verified Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/kraken-trading-journal): Verify your Kraken record: a query-only API key syncs every spot fill with its fee and a verified seal, and the journal shows which pairs and hours pay. - [KuCoin Trading Journal with Verified Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/kucoin-trading-journal): Verify your KuCoin record: a read-only API key with a passphrase seals every spot fill and fee as verified, free for one account. See which pairs pay. - [OKX Trading Journal with Verified Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/okx-trading-journal): Verify your OKX trading: a read-only API key and passphrase sync your fills, fees and funding into a journal where each live trade carries the verified seal. - [Economic Calendar with Alerts for Traders](https://www.thedtterminal.com/economic-calendar): Cut the week down to the releases that touch the pairs you trade, and get told before they land. COT, seasonality and news sit on the same board. - [Market Research: COT, Rates and Seasonality](https://www.thedtterminal.com/market-research): Trend, carry, positioning, econ, news and seasonality scored in one place for the instruments you save, in the same terminal that holds your trades. - [Trading Analytics: Filters, Compare, Reports](https://www.thedtterminal.com/trading-analytics): Win rate, expectancy and drawdown sliced by setup, session or account, with monthly reports on Verified and Trade Replay on Pro. - [Trading Journal App: Web, Windows and macOS](https://www.thedtterminal.com/trading-journal-app): One verified trading record in the browser and in a desktop app for Windows and macOS, with the mobile app on its way. Log or sync once, read it anywhere. - [DT Terminal Connect](https://www.thedtterminal.com/mcp): Let your preferred AI companion read your verified trading record. You pick every permission and it never places a trade. - [Stock Trading Journal, Free to Start](https://www.thedtterminal.com/stock-trading-journal): Stock records are logged by hand or CSV, not broker-verified, as no stock broker syncs yet. Tag the setup and review every position with notes and screenshots. - [Options Trading Journal, Free to Start](https://www.thedtterminal.com/options-trading-journal): Options records are kept by hand or CSV, not broker-verified. Log each leg with the reason and the review, and read the record by setup. No chains, no Greeks. - [Gold Trading Journal with Broker Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/gold-trading-journal): Verified XAUUSD records from any MT4 or MT5 broker, synced read-only. Results by London and New York session, with COT positioning and seasonality beside them. - [Indices Trading Journal with Broker Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/indices-trading-journal): Verified US500, NAS100, US30 and GER40 records from any MT4 or MT5 broker. Broker spellings folded into one instrument, results by index and session. - [Forex Backtesting with Bar by Bar Replay](https://www.thedtterminal.com/forex-backtesting): Replay real forex candles bar by bar, place simulated entries and exits, and read the session stats. 2 free sessions at a time, unlimited on Pro. - [Crypto Backtesting with Bar by Bar Replay](https://www.thedtterminal.com/crypto-backtesting): Replay real crypto candles bar by bar, around the clock, and place simulated entries and exits. 2 free sessions at a time, unlimited on Pro. - [Futures Backtesting with Bar by Bar Replay](https://www.thedtterminal.com/futures-backtesting): Replay real futures candles bar by bar with contract sizing and per-contract commission in the sim. 2 free sessions at a time, unlimited on Pro. - [Trade Replay: Replay Your Trades Bar by Bar](https://www.thedtterminal.com/trade-replay): Open any trade from your journal and watch the market move through it, entry, stop and exit drawn where they were. Then test what another exit would have done. - [AI Trading Coach That Reads Your Journal](https://www.thedtterminal.com/ai-trading-coach): Edge is the AI coach inside DT Terminal. It reads your trades, notes and backtests, answers with your numbers and suggests what to test next. It never trades. - [Prop Firm Trading Journal, Firm-Verified](https://www.thedtterminal.com/prop-firm-trading-journal): A funded record read from the firm’s server: connect the MT4, MT5 or TradeLocker account, journal every trade, and earn a free evaluation. - [MT5 and MT4 Trading Journal with Auto Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/mt5-trading-journal): Verified MT5 and MT4 records: connect with a read-only login and every fill lands in your journal as a verified trade. Works with any MetaTrader broker. - [Forex Trading Journal with Broker Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/forex-trading-journal): Verified forex records synced from your MT4 or MT5 broker, with results by pair and session and an economic calendar and backtester beside the journal. - [Futures Trading Journal and Backtester](https://www.thedtterminal.com/futures-trading-journal): Futures records synced read-only from Tradovate and NinjaTrader logins, or imported by CSV. Journal ES, NQ and CL and replay the session bar by bar. - [Crypto Trading Journal with Exchange Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/crypto-trading-journal): Verified crypto records: connect Binance, Bybit, OKX and more with a read-only API key and every fill lands as a verified trade. Analytics by pair and hour. - [CFD Trading Journal with Broker Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/cfd-trading-journal): Verified CFD records for index, gold, oil and share CFDs, synced read-only from any MT4 or MT5 broker, with results by instrument and session. - [Trading Journal for Beginners, Free](https://www.thedtterminal.com/trading-journal-for-beginners): Start a trading record free, and verify it from your broker when you go live. Learn win rate and expectancy, and practise in the backtester. - [Advanced Trading Journal for Serious Traders](https://www.thedtterminal.com/advanced-trading-journal): Verified records across multiple accounts and strategies, with Trade Replay, full strategy breakdowns, monthly reports, exports and a desktop app. - [Trading Discipline, Tracked Daily](https://www.thedtterminal.com/trading-discipline): Discipline you can measure: a logging streak, daily check-ins, rules checked in the backtester, self-updating goals, and a record of whether you kept the plan. - [cTrader Trading Journal with Verified Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/ctrader-trading-journal): Verified cTrader records: authorise view-only access with your cTrader ID and every fill lands as a verified trade. One account verifies free. - [TradeLocker Journal for Prop Firm Accounts](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tradelocker-trading-journal): Verified TradeLocker records: connect the prop firm or broker account and every fill syncs with a seal. One account verifies free, or journal by CSV. - [TradingView Trading Journal and Backtester](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tradingview-trading-journal): For TradingView traders: verify the broker account that fills your trades, or log by CSV, and backtest bar by bar with jump-to-time. - [Futures Platform Imports](https://www.thedtterminal.com/futures-platform-imports): NinjaTrader accounts on a NinjaTrader or Tradovate login sync read-only. Or import the Trade Performance CSV, cost it per contract, and backtest ES and NQ. - [Tradovate Trading Journal with Read-Only Sync](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tradovate-trading-journal): Tradovate accounts connect read-only and sync. Verify one free, keep each evaluation account apart, import a Performance CSV, and backtest futures. - [Prop Firm Tracker: Spend, Payouts and ROI](https://www.thedtterminal.com/prop-firm-tracker): Track every prop firm challenge from Phase 1 to funded, set what you spent against what you were paid, and prove each payout from the firm’s server. - [Position Trading Journal for Long Holds](https://www.thedtterminal.com/position-trading-journal): A verified record for trades held for months: the thesis kept with the position, carry and positioning beside it, every partial exit and the cost of the hold. - [Live Account Trading Journal, Broker-Verified](https://www.thedtterminal.com/live-trading-journal): For traders on their own capital: sync a live account and every fill arrives Broker-Verified, ready to publish on a public record anyone can check. - [Multi-Account Trading Journal, One Record](https://www.thedtterminal.com/multi-account-trading-journal): Run several accounts in one journal: live, funded and demo kept in separate lanes, every stat filterable by account, and broker sync on up to three. - [Demo and Sim Trading Journal](https://www.thedtterminal.com/demo-trading-journal): Journal a demo or sim account and backtest setups bar by bar before you trade them live, all kept apart from your real results. - [Losing Money Trading? Find Where It Goes](https://www.thedtterminal.com/losing-money-trading): Most traders lose money, and most never find out exactly where. A verified record shows the setups, sessions and habits the losses come from, trade by trade. - [Breaking Even Trading? Find the Missing Edge](https://www.thedtterminal.com/breakeven-trading): Stuck at breakeven: see what fees take from gross, whether your exits give back the edge, and which setups carry the rest, in a record the broker wrote. - [Claude MCP: Connect Your Verified Record](https://www.thedtterminal.com/mcp/claude): Connect Claude to your verified DT Terminal record over MCP: add a custom connector, sign in, choose what Claude may read or change, and disconnect any time. - [ChatGPT MCP: Connect Your Verified Record](https://www.thedtterminal.com/mcp/chatgpt): Connect ChatGPT to your verified DT Terminal record over MCP in Developer mode, choose what it may read or change, and see every call it makes. - [Claude Code MCP: Connect Your Verified Record](https://www.thedtterminal.com/mcp/claude-code): Add DT Terminal to Claude Code with one command, authenticate from /mcp, and let it read your verified record and update your journal as you allow. - [Cursor MCP: Connect Your Verified Record](https://www.thedtterminal.com/mcp/cursor): Install DT Terminal in Cursor from a link, sign in, and let Cursor read your verified record and update your journal with the permissions you choose. - [VS Code MCP: Connect Your Verified Record](https://www.thedtterminal.com/mcp/vs-code): Install DT Terminal in VS Code from a link, allow the sign in, and use your verified record and journal from Copilot Chat with the permissions you choose. ## Guides - [How to Find Your Broker: Types and Checks](https://www.thedtterminal.com/how-to-find-your-broker): Why your broker choice matters, the types of broker (market maker, STP, ECN, futures) and what to check before you open an account. Plus a free finder. - [How to Find Your Prop Firm: Types and Checks](https://www.thedtterminal.com/how-to-find-your-prop-firm): Why your prop firm choice matters, the types of prop firm (two-step, one-step, instant, futures) and what to check before you pay. Plus a free finder. - [Trading Guides and Tool Comparisons](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides): Comparisons of trading tools, ours included, and plain how to guides on journalling a prop firm challenge, backtesting a strategy and funded accounts. - [10 Best Backtesting Tools in 2026, Compared](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides/best-backtesting-software-2026): TradingView, FX Replay, Forex Tester, NinjaTrader, MT5, QuantConnect and four more: data coverage, price, one real limitation and who each one suits. - [10 Best Trading Journals in 2026, Compared](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides/best-trading-journal-2026): TradeZella, TraderSync, TradesViz, Tradervue, Edgewonk and five more: broker sync, replay, backtesting, price and one real limitation for each. - [How to Journal a Prop Firm Challenge](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides/how-to-journal-a-prop-firm-challenge): Track the daily loss and drawdown rules that end most challenges, what to log on every trade, the daily review, and how a funded record gets verified. - [How to Backtest a Forex Strategy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides/how-to-backtest-a-forex-strategy): Write the rules, pick the period, replay bar by bar, log every trade, read expectancy in R, then run it on a demo account before you risk money on it. - [Trading Journal Template: Free CSV](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides/trading-journal-template): A free CSV trading journal template with the fourteen columns explained, filled sample trades, and headers that import straight into DT Terminal. - [How to Get a Funded Account for Free](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides/how-to-get-a-funded-account-for-free): The routes that cost nothing: free trials, free entry competitions, fee rebates and scholarships, with what each one actually gives you and where the catch is. - [How to Verify Your Trading Track Record](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides/how-to-verify-your-trading-track-record): Prove your trading results with a record read from the broker: which account to use, connecting read only, prop payouts, sharing it, and its limits. - [How to Check if Trading Results Are Real](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides/how-to-check-if-trading-results-are-real): Seven checks to tell whether a trader, guru or signal seller has real results: where the numbers came from, the account type, drawdown and payout proof. - [How to Prove a Prop Firm Payout Is Real](https://www.thedtterminal.com/guides/how-to-prove-a-prop-firm-payout): Why a payout screenshot or certificate proves little, what to keep, and how a payout is checked against the funded account it came from before it goes public. - [Myfxbook Alternative: Verify Trading Results](https://www.thedtterminal.com/compare/verification): Myfxbook, FX Blue, MQL5 Signals, Darwinex Zero, Kinfo and Collective2 against DT Terminal: how each verifies results, what owners can hide, and price. - [Trading Journal Comparison, Side by Side](https://www.thedtterminal.com/compare/trading-journals): TradeZella, TraderSync, TradesViz, Tradervue, Edgewonk and more against DT Terminal: markets, auto sync, replay, price and which publish a verified record. ## DT Academy - [Free Trading Courses for Beginners and ICT · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy): Free trading courses for beginners and a free ICT course on Inner Circle Trader concepts, in short lessons. Prove your progress with a broker-verified record. - [Free Trading Course for Beginners: The DT Intensive · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/courses/dt-intensive): A free 26 day trading course for beginners: candlesticks, orders, risk, sessions, structure, liquidity and backtesting, one short lesson and quiz a day. - [ICT Concepts: A Free Inner Circle Trader Course · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/courses/ict-concepts): A free ICT course on Inner Circle Trader concepts: killzones, liquidity, fair value gaps, order blocks and the Silver Bullet, each as a rule you can test. - [Getting started with DT Terminal · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/getting-started): Connect your broker, let DT Terminal pull in your trades, and see your first broker-verified record. Then take a quick look at the journal and backtester you will use to get better. - [How to Start Trading: What You Need and Costs · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/what-you-need-to-start): What you need before a first live trade: broker, platform, charts, a journal and money you can afford to lose, plus the easy to miss costs. - [How to Read Candlestick Charts for Beginners · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/how-to-read-candlesticks): Learn to read a candlestick chart: what the open, high, low and close mean, how bodies and wicks form, and how timeframes nest. - [Market, Limit and Stop Orders Explained · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/types-of-orders): Market, limit and stop orders explained: when each one fills, what the spread costs, and how a stop loss and take profit protect a trade. - [Position Sizing for Beginners: Risk per Trade · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/how-to-choose-your-risk): Pips, lots and spread explained, where to set a stop loss and take profit, and how to size a position so one loss stays small and fixed. - [Forex Market Sessions and Trading Hours · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/market-sessions): When the Asia, London and New York forex sessions open in your time, why the London and New York overlap is busiest, and the weekly open. - [High Impact News Events: NFP, CPI and FOMC · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/key-news-events): Which economic releases move forex most, what a news spike does to spreads and stops, and how to check the calendar before you trade. - [How to Place a Trade in MT5, Step by Step · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/placing-your-first-trade): Placing a trade in MetaTrader 5 step by step: instrument, direction, size, stop loss and take profit, all set before you click. - [How Long Does It Take to Learn Trading? · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/setting-expectations): How long consistency takes, why most new traders lose money, realistic returns versus social media, process goals, and the road from demo to funded. - [Trading Math: Win Rate, Risk Reward, Expectancy · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/the-math-behind-trading): Win rate, risk to reward, breakeven win rate and expectancy in R explained, and why a run of losses is normal for a sound approach. - [Market Structure in Trading: Trend and BOS · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/market-structure): Read market structure: swing highs and lows, trend, a break of structure that confirms it, and the shift that warns it may have turned. - [How to Draw Supply and Demand Zones · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/supply-and-demand): How traders find and draw supply and demand zones, and what tends to make a zone more or less useful when price returns to it. - [What Is a Fair Value Gap (FVG) in Trading? · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/fair-value-gaps): What a fair value gap is, how to spot the three candle pattern, how it is commonly marked, and what traders watch when price returns. - [Liquidity in Trading: Sweeps and Stop Hunts · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/liquidity): Where liquidity builds above old highs and below old lows, what a liquidity sweep looks like, and how it differs from a real break. - [Multi-Timeframe Analysis for Beginners · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/multi-timeframe-analysis): Read a higher timeframe for direction and a lower one for detail: how timeframes nest, how to pair them, and what to do when they disagree. - [How to Read Volume in Trading (Tick Volume) · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/why-volume-matters): What volume tells you about a move, why forex only has tick volume, and how to read it at breakouts, fakeouts and liquidity sweeps. - [How to Build a Trading Entry Model · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/the-entry-model): What an entry model is, one common model built step by step from bias, sweep, shift and gap, the trade math, and when not to take it. - [Fibonacci Golden Zone: How to Draw and Use It · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/the-golden-zone): How to draw Fibonacci retracements, what the golden zone is, premium versus discount, and why the zone needs structure and a trigger. - [Breakeven, Partials and Trailing Stops · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/managing-a-trade-after-entry): Breakeven, partial profits, trailing stops and early exits, with the R math behind each, and why management rules come before the entry. - [Risk Management: Daily Loss Limits and Drawdown · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/managing-risk-in-the-strategy): Daily loss limits, max drawdown, correlated positions, cutting size in a drawdown and risk of ruin: build a risk plan that fits prop firm rules. - [How to Backtest a Trading Strategy · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/backtesting-your-trades): How to backtest a trading strategy: testable rules, bar replay without looking ahead, sample size, expectancy and drawdown, and the common traps. - [Trading Lessons I Wish I Knew Sooner · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/what-i-wish-someone-told-me): Seven trading truths most traders learn the expensive way: fewer setups, following the plan, sizing up slowly, sample size and protecting the downside. - [How to Be a Disciplined Trader: A Rule System · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/discipline): Discipline as a system, not willpower: a written plan, a pre-trade checklist, if-then rules for losses and wins, and scoring rule adherence over P&L. - [Trading Psychology: Fear, Greed and Revenge · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/the-emotions-that-wreck-your-trading): Fear, greed, revenge trading, FOMO, overconfidence and boredom: how each shows up on the chart and in your record, and one counter-rule for each. - [How to Review Your Trades to Improve · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/reviewing-your-trades-to-improve): How to review your trades: what to record, daily and weekly reviews, grading execution over outcome, and finding the leaks in your trading. - [Prop Firms vs Brokers: Costs and Evaluations · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/prop-firms-and-brokers): How brokers and prop firms differ, what each one costs, how a prop firm evaluation works, and the rules to read before you pay for one. - [How to Improve at Trading: A 30 Day Plan · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/the-loop-that-makes-you-profitable): The trading improvement loop: practise, trade small, review, and prove progress with a verified record. Plus a plan for your next 30 days. - [What Is ICT Trading? Inner Circle Trader Basics · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-what-is-ict): Who the Inner Circle Trader (ICT), Michael J. Huddleston, is, how ICT differs from SMC, what is and is not proven, and how to test it as rules. - [ICT Killzones: Session Times in New York Time · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-sessions-and-killzones): ICT killzones in New York time: the Asian range, the London and New York opens, the midnight open, and the daylight saving shift that moves them. - [ICT Market Structure: Swing Points, BOS and MSS · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-market-structure): ICT market structure: short, intermediate and long term swings, break of structure, the market structure shift with displacement, and CHoCH. - [ICT Liquidity: Buy Side, Sell Side and Sweeps · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-liquidity): ICT liquidity: buy-side and sell-side, PDH and PDL, a sweep versus a run, the draw on liquidity and IRL to ERL rotation, as rules you can test. - [ICT OTE, Premium and Discount Dealing Ranges · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-dealing-ranges-and-ote): Pick a dealing range you can defend, mark equilibrium and ICT's OTE levels at 0.62, 0.705 and 0.79, and know when to redraw the range. - [ICT Fair Value Gaps (FVG): BISI, SIBI and CE · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-fair-value-gaps): BISI and SIBI, consequent encroachment, volume imbalance, inversion gaps and balanced price ranges: ICT's fair value gap toolkit as testable rules. - [ICT Order Blocks Explained: How to Mark Them · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-order-blocks): What an ICT order block is, how to mark it and its mean threshold, valid vs invalid blocks, and how to test it in a backtester. - [ICT Breaker Blocks vs Mitigation Blocks · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-breaker-and-mitigation-blocks): ICT breaker blocks and mitigation blocks: what a failed order block becomes, how the two differ, and how to test them yourself. - [ICT Daily Bias and the Draw on Liquidity · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-daily-bias): ICT daily bias as a written call, not a forecast: pick the draw from PDH, PDL, PWH and PWL, name what proves it wrong, and score it after. - [ICT Power of Three (AMD) and the Judas Swing · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-power-of-three): ICT power of three (AMD) and the Judas swing as a rule you can test live: a quiet open, a false move past the midnight open, a close back, the run. - [ICT Turtle Soup: Fading a Liquidity Sweep · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-turtle-soup): Turtle soup explained: Connors and Raschke's Street Smarts rule, how ICT uses the name, and how to tell a failed break from a real one. - [ICT SMT Divergence: Correlated Pairs Explained · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-smt-divergence): ICT SMT divergence: when correlated markets disagree at the same swing. EURUSD and GBPUSD, ES and NQ, and why it confirms rather than triggers. - [ICT Silver Bullet Strategy: Times and Rules · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-silver-bullet): The ICT Silver Bullet as written rules: 03:00, 10:00 and 14:00 New York windows, a sweep, a gap that forms inside the hour, or no trade at all. - [Build Your ICT Trading Model as Written Rules · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-building-your-model): Turn ICT's 2022 model (sweep, displacement, MSS, FVG entry) into a written checklist with stop, target and no-trade rules you can test in a backtest. - [ICT Trading Psychology: Traps to Avoid · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-psychology): The traps of studying ICT: hindsight marking, believing "the algorithm will deliver", forcing killzone setups. How to test instead of believing. - [How to Backtest ICT Concepts and Measure Them · DT Academy](https://www.thedtterminal.com/academy/ict-testing-concepts): Test an ICT concept properly: write a rule a stranger could mark, replay bar by bar, log every setup, check sample size and beat a control first. ## Product demo - [Product Demo: Trading Verification, Journal, Backtester](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tour): A live demo of DT Terminal, the trading verification platform, one workspace at a time in real screenshots. Nothing here needs an account. - [Trading Journal Demo: Broker Sync and Trade Replay](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tour/journal): Log trades by hand or sync them from your broker, with the reasoning on every fill. Win rate, expectancy and drawdown from your own record. - [Backtester Demo: Bar-by-Bar Market Replay](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tour/backtester): Replay a real market bar by bar, place simulated entries and exits, and test an idea before real money is on it. - [Broker-Verified Track Record](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tour/proof): A track record checked against what your broker says actually happened, with badges that say exactly what was verified. - [Trading Community Demo: Verified Calls in Action](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tour/community): Calls that carry entries, stops and targets and resolve in the open, beside a forum of traders running the same loop. - [Market Research, Economic Calendar and News](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tour/research): Trend, carry, positioning, seasonality, econ and news scored in one place for the pairs you trade, beside your journal instead of across six tabs. - [Trading Scholarships and Affiliate Programme](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tour/programs): DT Scholarships put capital back into the community, and the affiliate programme pays for the traders you bring. - [AI Coach Demo: Edge Inside the Journal](https://www.thedtterminal.com/tour/edge): The coach inside all six workspaces. It reads your trades, journals and sessions, suggests backtests and answers with your own numbers. ## Playbooks - [DT Terminal Scalper/Day Trader Playbook](https://www.thedtterminal.com/playbook/scalper-playbook): A step-by-step scalping and day-trading workflow built around broker auto-sync: connect once, journal the thinking before the fill, let every execution arrive with its own numbers, and spend your energy on review instead of data entry. Each step says what you do and what sync does for you. - [DT Terminal Swing Trader Playbook](https://www.thedtterminal.com/playbook/swing-trader-playbook): A process-focused swing trading workflow built around Structured Analysis periods and broker auto-sync. The period holds the plan, the sync holds the numbers, and multi-day positions are managed from a mirror of the broker rather than from memory. Built to reduce impulsive decisions and compound learning over time. - [DT Terminal Pro Playbook](https://www.thedtterminal.com/playbook/dt-journal-pro-playbook): Four chapters covering AI, Analytics, Journal and Backtester: what each Pro feature does, when to use it, and how it makes you a better trader over time. ## Free calculators - [Free Trading Calculators: Position Size, Pip Value, Margin and More](https://www.thedtterminal.com/calculators): Six free trading calculators for forex, futures, indices and crypto. Size a position, value a pip, check margin, work out P/L and read the session clock. No account needed. - [Position Size Calculator for Forex, Futures, Indices and Crypto](https://www.thedtterminal.com/calculators/position-size): Free position size calculator. Enter your balance, risk percentage, entry and stop to get the lot size that keeps your loss at the stop equal to the risk you chose. - [Pip Value Calculator: What One Pip Is Worth on Your Position](https://www.thedtterminal.com/calculators/pip-value): Free pip value calculator for forex, futures, indices and crypto. See what a single pip, tick or point is worth at your position size, in your account currency. - [Margin Calculator: Required Margin at Your Leverage](https://www.thedtterminal.com/calculators/margin): Free margin calculator for forex, futures, indices and crypto. Enter size, price and leverage to see the margin a position requires in your account currency. - [Forex Profit Calculator: P/L Between Two Prices](https://www.thedtterminal.com/calculators/profit-loss): Free profit and loss calculator for forex, futures, indices and crypto. Enter entry, exit, size and direction to see what a trade returns in your account currency. - [Risk Reward Ratio Calculator with Breakeven Win Rate](https://www.thedtterminal.com/calculators/risk-reward): Free risk to reward calculator. Enter entry, stop and target to get the R multiple and the win rate that setup needs just to break even. - [Forex Market Hours: Live Session Clock and Overlaps](https://www.thedtterminal.com/calculators/market-sessions): Free forex market hours clock. See which of Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York is open now, when the next one opens, and where the overlaps fall on your clock. ## Policies - [Terms of Service](https://www.thedtterminal.com/terms): DT Terminal Terms of Service. 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