Getting Started

Your first 30 minutes with Dome Terminal.

You're going to install the app, connect a data source, read your first chart, set a risk limit, and write your first journal entry. That's it. The goal isn't to explore every feature — it's to have a working setup you can actually trade with today.

Download and install the app

Go to dometerminal.com/download, grab the installer, and run it. Takes about 2 minutes. The app sets itself up — no technical steps required. When it opens for the first time, you'll see the main workspace load automatically after a brief 10–20 second initialization.

Download from the official site only — not from mirrors or third-party sources

Run the installer and let it finish — usually under 2 minutes

Launch from the desktop shortcut — give it a few seconds on first open

Connect your first data source

A data provider is how Dome gets live prices. Think of it like choosing which feed to plug into the chart. Open Settings → Data Providers. For crypto, the default provider works right away — no setup needed. For stocks or futures, you'll need to add your broker or data service and paste in an API key.

Once connected, the status dot turns green. Green means live data is flowing. Orange means it's connecting — wait 30 seconds. Red means something's wrong — check your internet or the provider's status page.

Market Data · LIVE BTC/USDT · 4H · Ready WebSocket · Connected

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Start with one symbol. Get one chart loading cleanly first. Once that works, add more. Trying to set up five feeds before anything is working just makes problems harder to track down.

Open a chart and actually read it

Go to Trade Desk and pick a symbol from your watchlist. Start with 4H or 1D — those timeframes give you enough context to understand what the market is doing. Let the candles finish loading before you form any opinion. A chart that's still building its history isn't ready to trade off.

// BTC/USDT · 4H · LIVE

Once the chart loads, open the Quant Brain panel. It tells you: which direction the market is trending, how wild it is right now, where buyers and sellers have been most active, and what the price structure looks like. If a reading shows "Unavailable", that's honest — it means there isn't enough data to calculate it yet. It's not a bug.

Candles loading confirms your data connection is working

Read Quant Brain before forming any view on direction

Mark your key levels and the price where you'd know you're wrong

Set your daily risk limit

Do this before you do anything else in the platform. Go to Settings → Risk and set a daily loss limit as a percentage of your account. Start at 2–3% if you're not sure. When you hit that number, Dome automatically blocks bot execution and shows a clear warning. It's the one setting that can save your account on a bad day.

Set this first — before your first real session

This isn't decoration. A bad day without a hard stop doesn't stay a bad day — it becomes a week of recovery. Set the limit now, while it's easy, not after you've already taken a bad loss and your judgment is impaired.

Write your first journal entry

Open the Journal module and create a new entry. Even if you didn't take a trade today, write down what you saw and what you thought. That's where the learning actually starts — not in the trades you took, but in why you considered them.

The fields to fill in: what setup you saw, why you thought about acting, how you felt, what risk you considered, and what happened. Over time, this becomes your most honest performance record. Memory rewrites itself. Your journal doesn't.

Log setup, reason, and emotion — even for trades you sat out

Use consistent tags from day one — "breakout", "reversal", "news" — so you can filter later

Come back and update the outcome after the session closes

You're set up. Now build the habit.

The most valuable thing you can do this week isn't exploring every feature — it's running the same loop every session: check Quant Brain, read the chart, verify your risk, journal the decision. Do that consistently and everything else in the platform will start making more sense.

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