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Short guides, step by step, with pictures of the real screen. Start with the basics, go further with the pro tools, or bring your AI app in.

30 guides

Start here

New to Sky Trade? Open a demo account, find your way around the screen and place your first demo trade.

  • Beginner

    Open a free demo account

    Get a Sky Trade account with virtual money in a few minutes, then sign in to it from any browser.

    3 min5 steps
  • Beginner

    A tour of the Sky Trade screen

    Learn what each part of the screen is for, from the header to the AI button, so you always know where to look.

    4 min7 steps
  • Beginner

    Chart basics

    Change the symbol, the timeframe and the chart type, move around the chart, and read any candle.

    4 min5 steps
  • Beginner

    Draw your first trend line

    Draw a trend line, snap it to the candles, change how it looks, and undo or delete it.

    4 min6 steps
  • Beginner

    Add your first indicators

    Open the indicator picker, add RSI and an EMA, change their settings, and hide or remove them.

    4 min5 steps
  • Beginner

    Build your watchlists

    Add the symbols you follow, keep a list for each market or idea, and switch between your lists.

    3 min4 steps
  • Beginner

    Set a price alert

    Get told when the price reaches your level, even while you watch another symbol.

    3 min5 steps
  • Beginner

    Practise with Trading Lab

    Replay real past prices on the chart and trade them with a paper account. No real order is ever sent, and a scorecard shows how you did.

    6 min6 steps
  • Beginner

    Change the look and the language

    Pick a theme, the spacing and the text size you like, switch between English and Arabic, and colour your chart.

    3 min5 steps

Pro

Multi-chart layouts, chart templates, indicators fed into other indicators, trading from the chart and sizing by risk.

  • Pro

    Multi-chart layouts and workspaces

    Put up to 6 charts side by side, arrange the panels the way you work, and save the whole screen as a workspace you can open again.

    6 min5 steps
  • Pro

    Save and reuse chart templates

    Save a whole chart setup: colours for both themes, the chart type, indicators and drawings. Put it on any chart, or take it to another computer in a file.

    4 min4 steps
  • Pro

    Feed one indicator into another

    Smooth RSI with a moving average, or run RSI on the MACD histogram: pick another indicator’s line as the Source. 11 indicators have one, with no scripting.

    4 min4 steps
  • Pro

    Trade from the chart

    Move your take profit, stop loss and pending entries by dragging them on the chart, and see what the trade would make or lose before you confirm.

    6 min5 steps
  • Pro

    Size a trade by risk

    Decide how much you will risk, set your stop loss and let the ticket work out the lots. Then plan with a position tool sized from your balance and leverage.

    5 min4 steps
  • Pro

    Share a chart image

    Make a clean picture of your chart, with your money hidden unless you choose to show it, or turn one trade, or your week, into a card.

    3 min4 steps
  • Pro

    Keyboard shortcuts for the chart

    Pick drawing tools, undo, open the indicators and save your template without reaching for the mouse. The chart answers to 30 shortcuts.

    3 min4 steps
  • Pro

    Read your trading history

    Turn History into a picture of how you trade: your real growth, drawdown, habits and good and bad days, beside every trade, deposit and withdrawal.

    5 min4 steps

AI

Chat with AI inside the app with your own key, or connect Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or ChatGPT, and stay in control of what it does.

Which AI do you use?

Have an API key? Chat here, with nothing to install. Use Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Cursor? You need a computer with Sky Connector or Sky Trade Desktop, then one short guide for your app.

  • I have an API key

    You need
    A key from Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter or Groq, with credit on it.
    Cost
    You pay the AI service per use.
    Where
    Any browser, a phone too. Nothing to install.
    Guide: 4 minStart: Chat with the AI using your own key

  • Claude Desktop

    You need
    Claude Desktop on a Mac or Windows computer, and Sky Connector or Sky Trade Desktop.
    Cost
    Your Claude plan.
    Guide: 3 minStart: Add Claude Desktop, with nothing to copy

  • ChatGPT

    You need
    An OpenAI Platform account for a tunnel ID and an API key, and Sky Connector or Sky Trade Desktop on Mac, Windows or Linux.
    Cost
    Your ChatGPT plan; the free plan works.
    Guide: 5 minStart: Connect ChatGPT

  • Claude Code

    You need
    Claude Code in a terminal, and Sky Connector or Sky Trade Desktop.
    Cost
    Your Claude plan.
    Guide: 3 minStart: Connect Claude Code

  • Cursor, Windsurf or another MCP app

    You need
    An app whose MCP settings take an address and an Authorization header, and Sky Connector or Sky Trade Desktop.
    Cost
    Your AI app’s own plan.
    Guide: 4 minStart: Connect Cursor or Windsurf

On a phone, chat with your key: AI apps connect from a computer.

  • Beginner

    Chat with the AI using your own key

    Paste an API key from Anthropic or an OpenAI-compatible service, let Sky Trade check it, and ask the AI about your chart without leaving the trading screen.

    4 min6 steps
  • Beginner

    Add Claude Desktop, with nothing to copy

    Connect Claude Desktop from the Connection tab. Claude Desktop shows its own install screen, you click Install, and Claude can read your chart and work with it.

    3 min4 steps
  • Pro

    Connect Claude Code

    Paste one line from the Connection tab into a terminal. Claude Code then reads your chart and positions, draws levels and prefills an order you check and send.

    3 min4 steps
  • Pro

    Connect Cursor or Windsurf

    Give Cursor or Windsurf the Connection tab’s address and token. It then reads your chart and positions, draws levels and prefills an order you check and send.

    4 min4 steps
  • Pro

    Connect ChatGPT

    Sky Connector or Sky Trade Desktop runs OpenAI’s secure tunnel for you. Press “Connect ChatGPT” in Sky Trade, paste two OpenAI Platform values, then add the connection in ChatGPT. No Terminal, on Mac, Windows and Linux.

    5 min4 steps
  • Beginner

    Talk to your AI app from inside Sky Trade

    Connected Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor? Send it one start message, then chat with it in the Chat tab without leaving the trading screen.

    3 min5 steps
  • Beginner

    Hear the AI’s replies

    Turn on the AI voice and the AI reads its replies aloud, an Arabic reply in an Arabic voice, so your eyes can stay on the chart.

    2 min3 steps
  • Beginner

    Stay in control of the AI

    The AI stays in check: approval for every real trade, direct demo trading only where you choose it, pause switches, Streamer Mode and a record of what it did.

    4 min6 steps
  • Beginner

    When your AI app won’t connect

    The Connection tab names every problem in a short badge. Find the words you see, and do the one thing that fixes it.

    5 min17 steps

Apps

Install Sky Trade Desktop and Sky Connector, and get them working with your account.

  • Beginner

    Install Sky Trade Desktop

    Download Sky Trade Desktop for Mac, Windows or Linux, install it, log in, and turn on the AI connection that comes built in.

    5 min5 steps
  • Beginner

    Install Sky Connector

    Link the AI app on your computer to Sky Trade in your browser: install Sky Connector, turn on AI access in the web app, and allow the pairing.

    4 min4 steps

Rather explore on your own?

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