How real traders use Dome Terminal.
A discretionary trader and a quant trader use it completely differently. So does a prop firm trader sitting on a daily limit. Here's what a real session looks like for each of them.
Discretionary Trader
You've got a chart and an opinion. The question is whether your opinion is backed by anything real — or whether you just want the trade to work.
// A realistic trading day
Before you form a view
Before you touch the chart, open Quant Brain and check what the structure actually looks like across timeframes. Check Market Intelligence for overnight news and any HIGH-impact events today. You're not looking for confirmation — you're looking for reasons your idea might be wrong before you're attached to it.
Read the chart — honestly
Open Trade Desk and work through multiple timeframes. Mark your levels: resistance, support, AVWAP anchors, overnight highs and lows. Check the Orderflow delta to understand how price arrived at the current level — was it aggressive buying, or did it drift there on thin air? That difference matters before you pick a direction.
Challenge your own thesis
Now you have a view. Before you trade it, ask ORACLE to argue against it: "I see a potential breakout above 67,400 with rising delta. What does the Quant Brain state say against this? What am I likely missing?" ORACLE reads your live chart context, Quant Brain output, and journal history. You're not asking it to confirm — you're asking it to poke holes. That's the point.
Take the trade — log it while it's happening
You enter. While the position is open, log your reason, your emotional state, and your risk sizing in the Trade Journal overlay. Not after the trade closes — now, while it's live. Memory distorts. After the outcome you'll already be rationalizing. Session Management shows your live PnL and remaining daily loss room in the same view.
Review the week — find what keeps repeating
Pull the session summary from Trade Journal. Look at the mistake tags you applied across the week. If "FOMO" keeps showing up on Fridays, that's not random — that's a pattern you can work on. Compare your ORACLE consult transcript with what actually happened. Over time this calibrates your judgment. That's the feedback loop.
Systematic / Quant Trader
You want to know if your edge is real before you run it with money. That requires an honest research loop — not one good backtest on the data you were looking at.
Research — does this hold up?
- Python Lab: run the numbers, not just the story
- Rolling Sharpe to see if performance is stable or lucky
- Correlation and drawdown profiling across regimes
- Quant Brain for regime context — does this work in all conditions?
- ORACLE to challenge the hypothesis before you code it
Write the rules, test honestly
- Dome Script turns your logic into exact, testable rules
- Walk-forward validation — does it hold on data it hasn't seen?
- Out-of-sample splits so you know you're not curve-fitting
- Monte Carlo: how bad could the drawdown actually get?
- PBO scoring: is this edge or luck at a specific sample size?
Deploy and watch it honestly
- Paper bot first: see how it actually behaves vs. the backtest
- Smart Alerts when bot state changes — don't miss it going sideways
- Session Management: live PnL vs. what the backtest projected
- Portfolio daily loss gate so one bad bot day doesn't wreck the account
- Journal auto-log on all bot trades so you can review the real behavior
Prop Firm Trader
You have rules you have to follow. One bad day — one news trade you didn't mean to take, one session where you chased losses — can cost you the account. The tools here are about discipline, not just edge.
Daily Loss as a Hard Gate
Your daily loss limit isn't a guideline — it's a wall. Set it before the session starts and let the terminal enforce it, not your willpower.
- Soft warning at 70%: slow down, review what's happening
- Hard alert at 90%: stop and think before the next entry
- Automatic session lock if the limit is hit — not a pop-up you can dismiss
- Daily reset with overnight summary so you know where you stand
Consistency via Your Journal
Many firms want consistency — not just profitable trades, but a process that holds up day after day. Your journal tracks whether you're actually consistent or just lucky this week.
- Per-day PnL log with consistency score over rolling periods
- Flag days where you made too much — some firms penalize outliers
- Rolling average and variance so you can see drift before it compounds
- Weekly report: is your process repeatable, or are you improvising?
Catch Violations Before They Happen
Rule violations are usually accidental. You didn't realize a news event was 10 minutes away. You forgot the market closes early today. The terminal flags these before you act, not after you've already submitted the report.
- News trading detection: know a HIGH-impact event is close before you enter
- Session window alerts: get warned if you're approaching a restricted period
- Position size anomaly: flag anything that doesn't fit your evaluation stage
- Weekend holding warning before close on Friday for instruments where it matters
Don't Trade During Chaos
Some sessions are higher risk — macro announcements, early open volatility, thin overnight sessions. You can filter them out or get warned before you trade into them.
- Configurable session windows by market: only trade when you've decided it's OK
- Pre-session checklist you actually complete before the first trade of the day
- Calendar overlay: see what's restricted before you even open the chart
- First-trade-of-day alert: a moment to confirm the rules before you're in
Portfolio / Multi-Asset Trader
You've got multiple positions and you want to know if you're actually diversified — or if you're just making the same bet five times with different ticker symbols.
See Your Actual Exposure
Before you add a new position, see what you're already holding. All open positions across crypto, forex, and futures in one view — so you know whether you're adding opportunity or stacking the same risk again.
- Gross and net long/short exposure by asset class
- Dollar-value exposure per instrument, not just lot size
- Leverage-adjusted view: what you're actually risking, not what you think
- Risk-weighted comparison so you can see which position is dominating the portfolio
The Correlation Check
BTC and ETH moving together doesn't give you two positions — it gives you one position with double the size. The correlation view shows which of your holdings are actually the same bet in disguise.
- Rolling correlation matrix across your watchlist: updated as market conditions change
- Correlation-adjusted exposure: what your portfolio actually looks like after you account for overlap
- Regime-aware: correlations that spike in a crisis are different from normal-day correlations
- Python Lab correlation notebook included to dig deeper
Portfolio-Level Loss Gate
A per-trade stop doesn't protect you when multiple positions are all moving against you at once. The portfolio daily loss gate is set at the account level — when the total crosses the threshold, bots pause and manual entries require confirmation.
- Portfolio daily loss gate in Session Management: one number, covers everything
- Aggregate unrealized PnL tracked across all open instruments in real time
- Intraday alerts at 50%, 75%, and 90% of your limit so you're not surprised
- End-of-day summary with R-multiple tracking across the full book
Monitor Everything at Once
Watch 20+ instruments simultaneously without opening 20 charts. Quant Brain state is computed for each symbol so you can scan the whole watchlist and jump to whatever has the strongest setup right now.
- Compact watchlist with Quant Brain bias per symbol: one number that tells you where each market stands
- Sort by volatility, trend strength, or volume anomaly to surface what's moving
- One click opens any symbol directly in Trade Desk
- Alerts on any watchlist symbol so you don't have to watch them all manually
Start with the workflow that fits where you are.
Whether you're reading charts by hand, building systematic rules, managing prop firm risk, or watching a multi-position book — Dome Terminal gives you the tools to work with discipline, not just intention.