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24 cTrader AI prompts that read your indicators and manage the trade

Claude Code connected to cTrader through its local MCP server can do much more than the usual examples. These prompts read three indicators, turn their lines into exact orders, trail the stop, take partial profit and write your journal. A free PDF, step by step, with the full setup.

What these prompts do that cTrader's own examples don't

cTrader's published prompts cover briefings, risk checks, scaling, reviews, screening and chart building. None of them lets Claude trade from an indicator's own plan. These do: Claude reads the indicator values through the MCP, checks them against your rules and places the order with the stop and target the indicator drew.

They also add what cTrader's AI flows don't have built in: a trailing stop, break-even after the first target and partial profit at each target, all built from tools the MCP server already offers.

Inside the book

Eight groups of prompts, from setup to journal

Foundation

Session rules with a risk cap and a demo check, an X-ray of every indicator on the chart, and a desk Claude builds and saves for you.

Flintridge Trader Pro

Claude reads the drawn entry, stop and target and places the exact order, sized to your risk; when price already ran, it waits with a limit order instead.

Hyper Trend PRO

A trend gate that refuses trades against the SuperTrend, a trailing stop that follows its Trailing SL line, and an exit when the trend flips.

Supreme Power House

Only fresh A or B grade plans, a profit ladder that scales out at TP1 and TP2 and moves the stop, and a read of how the last ten plans ended.

Confluence and scanning

A three-indicator vote, a three-timeframe consensus and a six-market scanner that ranks the freshest live signals.

Execution craft

A five-point pre-flight (session, news, spread, margin, rules), the plan drawn as a risk-reward block before you say go, and position size worked out in the open.

Trade management

Break-even at 1R, a time stop, cTrader price alerts on the indicator's levels and a one-line emergency flatten.

Review and journal

A journal Claude writes to a file with what each indicator said at entry and exit, a rule-break audit and an end-of-day handover.

Connect Claude Code to cTrader in six steps

  1. Install cTrader Desktop. Version 5.10 or newer, from your broker or ctrader.com. Log in to a demo account first.
  2. Switch the MCP server on. cTrader: Settings, MCP server. Tick Enable MCP server. Keep Require confirmation for trading operations ticked. Tick Allow trading via MCP only when you are ready to place orders.
  3. Install VS Code and Claude Code. VS Code from code.visualstudio.com, then the Claude Code extension by Anthropic from the Extensions view. Sign in with your Claude account.
  4. Connect Claude Code to cTrader. Make a folder for your trading desk, open it in VS Code and save this as .mcp.json in it: {"mcpServers": {"ctrader": {"type": "http", "url": "http://127.0.0.1:9876/mcp/"}}} (the same text cTrader shows on its MCP server page).
  5. Check the link. Start cTrader first, then Claude Code. Type /mcp: ctrader must show as connected. Then paste P01.
  6. Add the indicators. Flintridge Trader Pro, Hyper Trend PRO and Supreme Power House (1.1.0 or newer) from the cTrader Store, then P03 builds the desk.

The .mcp.json file

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ctrader": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "http://127.0.0.1:9876/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Start cTrader first, then open the folder in VS Code and type /mcp in Claude Code: ctrader must show as connected. Begin every prompt with Using the cTrader local MCP server, so Claude uses cTrader's tools and not a web search.

How Claude reads an indicator

  • cTrader's MCP returns no output names: an output is its index, in the order of the maps below.
  • A line that is not drawn on the latest bar answers getIndicatorValues with an error. Read that as 'not active', never as a failure.
  • A read fails if ANY bar in the window has no value, so read count 1 for the latest bar; Supreme Power House 1.1.0's AI outputs read any count.
  • place_*_order takes the stop and target as pip distances; amend_position takes prices. XAUUSD on most brokers: pip 0.1, 1 lot = 100 oz.
  • Indicators are read on the ACTIVE chart only: focus_chart (or open_chart) first.
  • With 'Require confirmation for trading operations' on, cTrader asks you to approve every order, amend and close. Keep it on until you trust a prompt.
  • Heavy indicators share cTrader's screen thread with the MCP server: keep one chart with the three indicators and close the charts you are not using. If Claude's calls start timing out, close the extra charts first.
  • The server holds a limited number of client sessions (16 measured). Each new Claude Code chat opens one: if Claude reports the server as unreachable while cTrader says Running, untick and tick Enable MCP server to clear them.

The book has the full output map of all three indicators.

Three of the 24, in full

P01 The session rules

One prompt that makes every later prompt safer: an account check, a risk cap, verified fills.

Using the cTrader local MCP server, set up this trading session before anything else.
1. Call get_balance and tell me the broker, the account currency, balance and equity. get_balance does not say whether the account is a demo, so ask me, and make no trading call until I have answered in words.
2. From now until I say "end session", apply these rules to every request: risk at most 1 % of equity per trade (stop distance x pip value x volume), and if even the smallest volume would risk more, say so and place nothing; at most 2 open positions; never move a stop loss away from the price; never open a trade when the spread is more than 15 % of the stop distance; every price you use comes from a tool call in this session, never from memory or a web search.
3. After every trading call, read get_positions or get_pending_orders again and show the stored entry, stop and target next to what you intended. If they differ, say so first.
4. Reply "Session rules active" and the rules in four lines.

P04 Signal to exact order

Claude turns Flintridge's drawn entry, stop and target into a correctly sized order.

Using the cTrader local MCP server, on the active XAUUSD H1 chart that carries Flintridge Trader Pro:
1. Read output 3 (Signal) with count 150 and find the most recent non-zero value: its side (+1 buy, -1 sell) and how many bars ago it printed.
2. Read outputs 1 (Entry line), 2 (SL line) and 0 (TP1 line) with count 1. If any of them errors, the plan is no longer drawn: stop and tell me.
3. Get the live quote (get_spot_prices) and the symbol details (pipSize, lotSize, minVolume, volumeStep).
4. Check: the signal is at most 3 bars old; price has not already covered more than 30 % of the way from Entry to TP1; the spread is under 15 % of the stop distance. If a check fails, say which and stop.
5. Size the trade to risk 1 % of equity on the distance from the current price to the SL line, rounded down to the volume step.
6. Place a market order on the signal's side with stopLossPips and takeProfitPips converted from the SL and TP1 prices at the current price, label "flintridge-ai".
7. Re-read get_positions and show the entry, stop and target next to Flintridge's lines, with the difference in pips.

P07 Trailing-stop pilot

cTrader's AI flows have no trailing stop; this loop trails yours along Hyper Trend's own Trailing SL.

/loop 5m Using the cTrader local MCP server: for my open XAUUSD position (label flintridge-ai, or the single XAUUSD position), read Hyper Trend PRO output 6 (Trailing SL) with count 1 on the active XAUUSD chart. If it errors, change nothing. If it is a valid stop (below the bid for a buy, above the ask for a sell, at least 1.5 x the spread away) and it is better than the current stop (higher for a buy, lower for a sell), move the stop loss there with amend_position and keep the take profit exactly as it is. Never move the stop backwards. Report the old stop, the new stop and the pips now locked.

All 24 prompts

  1. P01 The session rules: One prompt that makes every later prompt safer: an account check, a risk cap, verified fills.
  2. P02 Indicator X-ray: Turns three paid indicators into a plain-English state card Claude can reason with.
  3. P03 Build the AI indicator desk: Claude opens the chart, loads all three indicators and saves the layout in one go.
  4. P04 Signal to exact order: Claude turns Flintridge's drawn entry, stop and target into a correctly sized order.
  5. P05 Don't chase: the pullback order: When price already ran, Claude parks a limit order on Flintridge's entry instead of chasing.
  6. P06 The trend gate: Claude refuses any trade against Hyper Trend's SuperTrend and tells you how old the trend is.
  7. P07 Trailing-stop pilot: cTrader's AI flows have no trailing stop; this loop trails yours along Hyper Trend's own Trailing SL.
  8. P08 Flip exit: Closes the trade the moment Hyper Trend's trend turns against it.
  9. P09 A-grade entry filter: Claude trades only fresh A or B grade plans that agree with Power House's own trend ribbon.
  10. P10 The profit ladder: Scales out at Power House's TP1 and TP2, moves the stop up behind you, exits on its plan end.
  11. P11 What happened to the last 10 signals: Reads the chart's own history of plans and how each one ended, graded A to C.
  12. P12 The three-indicator vote: Trades only when Flintridge, Hyper Trend and Power House all point the same way.
  13. P13 Multi-timeframe consensus: Claude reads Hyper Trend on H4, H1 and M15 and sets the one direction you may trade.
  14. P14 Fresh-signal scanner: Scans six markets with Power House and ranks the freshest live plans.
  15. P15 Five-point pre-flight: Session, news, spread, margin and rules checked before the order is allowed to leave.
  16. P16 Draw it before you trade it: The plan appears on the chart as a risk-reward block, and nothing is sent until you say go.
  17. P17 Risk-exact position size: The size worked out in the open, from the indicator's stop, with the margin it needs.
  18. P18 Break-even at 1R: Moves every stop to entry once the trade is one risk unit in profit, once, never backwards.
  19. P19 The time stop: Closes trades that go nowhere, so the risk is free for the next signal.
  20. P20 Alerts on the indicator's levels: Puts cTrader price alerts on Power House's targets and stop, each telling you what to do.
  21. P21 Flatten with a reason: One prompt to stop everything, proven empty afterwards and logged on screen.
  22. P22 The indicator journal: Claude writes today's journal to a file, with what each indicator said at entry and exit.
  23. P23 Rule-break audit: Grades the session against your own rules and names the one habit to fix.
  24. P24 End-of-day handover: Saves the desk, cleans up and writes three lines for tomorrow from the indicators.

Questions

Is the prompt book free?

Yes. Enter your email and the PDF opens on the next page; the same link arrives by email. After it I send one short email a day for 40 days, each about one of my cTrader tools, and you can unsubscribe from any of them in one click.

Which AI does it use?

Claude Code in VS Code, connected to cTrader Desktop through cTrader's local MCP server. The prompts use plain MCP tools, so other MCP clients can run most of them; the repeating prompts use Claude Code's /loop command.

Do I need the three paid indicators?

For the prompts that read them, yes: Flintridge Trader Pro, Hyper Trend PRO and Supreme Power House 1.1.0 or newer, all on the cTrader Store. The session rules, the pre-flight, position sizing, break-even, the time stop, flatten, the journal and the audit work on any chart.

Will it trade on its own?

Only if you tick Allow trading via MCP in cTrader. Keep Require confirmation for trading operations ticked as well: then cTrader shows you every order, amend and close in its own window and nothing is sent until you approve it.

Is this financial advice?

No. The prompts are tools for your own decisions. No indicator predicts the market, an AI agent can misread a value, and trading carries risk of loss. Start on a demo account and check every result the prompts show you.

Which broker and markets?

Any broker that offers cTrader Desktop 5.10 or newer. The examples use gold (XAUUSD) on H1; every prompt says where to change the symbol and the timeframe.