Knowledge Base
Guides to the platform and the indicators. Search a topic or browse the categories.
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Getting started
Start-up, orientation and a first tour of the platform.
- Quick start Sign in, connect your Rithmic account and find your way around the Workspace.
- Connect your Rithmic account Add the login from your prop firm or broker with New connection, and what each connection brings to the app.
- First launch on macOS and Windows What to expect the first time you open Trading Konsole, why Windows may still ask for a confirmation, the exact clicks, and how to check the file you downloaded.
- The screen The sidebar, the workspace tabs, the panels and their menus, the widget library, the ready templates, the Guide and Settings.
The platform
The workspace and its panels, settings, themes and cross-cutting tools.
- The composable Workspace Tabs, adding and swapping panels, splitting, windows, link groups and tab templates.
- A dense tab, the Cockpit template The Cockpit page is gone. How to get a dense tab today, from the Cockpit template or from a layout filled with the panels the Cockpit had.
- Themes and shared tools Theme and chart colours, drawing tools, historical GEX, replay and the indicator library.
- The chart: candles, timeframes and drawings Moving around the chart, changing timeframe, using the drawing tools and the right-click menu.
- Alerts and notices How the automatic alerts on the gamma flip and the Net-GEX sign change work.
- Backtest and history Testing a strategy on past sessions from the Strategy builder, and how history reaches the chart.
- Settings Where Settings is, what each section holds (from appearance to the options source) and the settings of a single panel or indicator.
Trading (paper)
Simulated accounts, orders, positions, brackets and risk management.
- Paper trading, introduction What simulated trading is, the SIM accounts and the risk limits.
- Placing an order Adding the trading widgets and sending orders, brackets and chart lines.
- Positions and protections Managing an open position: brackets, trailing, breakeven, closing and recovery on restart.
- Multiple accounts, risk and journal Separate paper accounts, isolated PnL, risk limits with a loss lockout and a trading journal.
Order flow & footprint
Footprint, CVD, the L2 book and the liquidity heatmap.
- The footprint What the footprint bar shows and how to customise its cells and statistics.
- CVD, delta and the L2 book Cumulative delta, reading the depth book and the DOM ladder.
- Liquidity heatmap Reading the L2 book as a heat map to spot liquidity walls.
- Liquidity walls and icebergs How the platform detects large resting orders (walls) and hidden orders (icebergs).
Options & GEX
CME options on ES and NQ, 0DTE on QQQ and SPY: flow, gamma exposure and the levels on the chart.
- GEX and the flip point What gamma exposure is, the flip point, where the options come from (CME or ETF) and the futures ↔ ETF bridge.
- 0DTE options flow Call/put volume, put-call ratio, net premium and bought/sold flow on the 0DTE options, CME (ES, NQ) or ETF (QQQ, SPY).
- Vol Lab and 0DTE Lab The volatility and 0DTE panels on the options, with directional bias, IV and skew, implied against realized volatility, pin and exposure by strike.
Indicators
The indicator library: ICT, footprint, volume and oscillators.
- Indicators overview How the indicator library works and where indicators are configured.
- ICT: market structure (BOS / CHoCH) The two signals that tell you whether the trend continues or is changing character.
- ICT: Order Block and Breaker The zones a move started from, and what happens when they flip.
- ICT: OTE (Optimal Trade Entry) The price band considered "optimal" for entering during a retracement.
- ICT: Premium / Discount Telling whether price is "expensive" or "at a discount" relative to its range.
- ICT: Fair Value Gap and opening gaps The price "voids" left by fast moves, and the gaps between sessions.
- ICT: Killzone and sessions The key time windows of the day and the session-open levels.
- ICT: Key Levels and HTF Candles The reference levels (highs/lows/opens) and the higher-timeframe candles.
- Order flow: CVD, Delta and divergences Buying and selling pressure, measured from aggressive orders.
- Order flow: Absorption and Icebergs Where aggression gets "absorbed", and where reloading orders hide.
- Order flow: Tape Pulse and Whales The speed of the tape and the large "at market" orders.
- Order flow: Stacked Imbalance Sequences of footprint imbalances that signal decisive pushes.
- Order flow: Volume Profile, Magnets and Value Drift Where most volume traded during the session, and how that "value" moves.
- Order flow: Cluster Search and Executions A footprint scanner, and markers for your own trades on the chart.
- Levels: Options and Microstructures (Market Mind) Bringing option levels and multi-timeframe structural zones onto the chart.
- Trend: moving averages SMA, EMA and the other averages, what they are for and which to pick.
- Trend: SuperTrend, Parabolic SAR and Ichimoku Three trend-following indicators, and where they suggest questioning the trend.
- Volatility: bands, channels and VWAP Bollinger, Keltner, Donchian, ATR, standard deviation and VWAP bands.
- Oscillators: RSI, MACD and Stochastic The momentum indicators that measure strength and possible exhaustion.