Settings
Every Tradeways ATAS indicator option — connection, sync, risk warnings, screenshots, HUD display, and advanced — plus managing the broker accounts it reports.
Settings
Connection
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Enabled | On | Master toggle |
| API Key | (empty) | Your Tradeways API key (starts with tw_). Populates the Tradeways Account dropdown |
| Tradeways Account | (empty) | Where this chart's fills are journaled. Pick a specific account, or Automatic — separate by account to route each broker account on its own. See Setup → routing |
Sync
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Instrument Scope | All Instruments | All Instruments syncs the whole ATAS portfolio; Chart Only syncs just the current chart's symbol |
Risk
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Enable Risk Warning | Off | Show a profit/loss warning line in the HUD |
| Profit Warning Limit | 0 | Warn at this daily profit in account currency |
| Loss Warning Limit | 0 | Warn at this daily loss in account currency |
| Warning Scope | Account | Account counts every tracked symbol; Chart Symbol only the current chart's symbol |
The warning is informational and does not block orders.
Screenshots
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Auto Screenshots | Off | Capture and upload screenshots on trade entry and exit |
| Screenshot Scope | All Displays | All Displays (stitched), Each Display Separately (one per monitor), or Primary Display Only |
Display
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| HUD Style | Compact | Compact or Detailed (adds Sent / Queue / Dropped counters) |
| HUD Position | Top Right | Top Right, Top Left, Bottom Right, Bottom Left |
Advanced
Don't touch these unless support tells you to.
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Use Preview Server | Off | Switch to the Tradeways preview environment |
| Account ID | (empty) | Manual override of the trading account ID — filled automatically by the Tradeways Account picker |
| Indicator Version | (read-only) | Installed indicator version (also shown in the HUD) |
| Reset Local State | Off | Wipe the indicator's local sync files and start fresh |
| Debug Mode | Off | Write detailed logs to disk |
Connected broker accounts
When the indicator runs on Automatic, every broker account it reports shows up under Connected broker accounts in Settings → Integrations. Each row lists the broker account ID, its trade count, and when it was last seen, with a control to decide where its fills go.
Routing changes apply to new fills only. Trades already imported keep the account they were journaled to — changing an account's destination never moves past trades.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Journal account | The Tradeways account this broker account routes to. Change it to send future fills elsewhere, or pick an account another row already uses to merge two broker accounts into one Tradeways account. |
| Ignore | Stop journaling this broker account. New fills are dropped while it's ignored — useful for demo or test accounts you never want imported. Resume turns it back on. Fills dropped while ignored cannot be recovered. |
| Remove | Remove the broker account from the list. The Tradeways account and any imported trades are kept. If the indicator is still reporting this account, it reappears on the next fill — use Ignore to block it for good. |
If your plan's account limit is exceeded, extra accounts show an Over plan limit badge. You can still pick a locked account as a routing target, but its fills stay paused until you upgrade.
One account syncs live at a time
ATAS only streams live data for the account you currently have selected in the platform. So on Automatic, fills are captured in real time only from the account that's active in ATAS right now — that's a limit of what ATAS exposes to an indicator, not a Tradeways setting.
Trades on your other accounts aren't lost: they sync the next time you switch to that account during the same session. But until you switch, their fills don't come in, and any stop-loss / take-profit changes there won't update — open orders on a non-selected account will look frozen until it becomes the active one. Keep the account you're actively trading selected, and switch between accounts to let each one catch up.
One exception: if you restart ATAS before switching back, fills made on a non-selected account before the restart aren't backfilled. Switch to an account before closing ATAS to make sure its trades are in.
See Also
- Setup — install and account routing
- Troubleshooting — syncing, routing, and screenshot fixes
- Integrations — API keys and connected broker accounts