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FAQ
Answers to common questions about MoonTerminal: connecting cores, charts, orders, strategies and settings.
Connecting cores
- How do I connect a Moonbot core to the terminal, and where do I get the key?
- The core won’t connect: the port is open, the key is pasted, but there is no link. How do I find the cause?
- Why can’t I tick Kernel (VPS) in Moonbot, and do I need a referral?
- How do I delete a core from the terminal and wipe its data from the computer?
- Can I look at exchanges that Moonbot doesn’t have in the terminal, for example through a read-only API?
- How do I enter a core’s address or port by hand, and how do I see which port each core uses?
- How do I connect a core running on the same computer or on the local network?
- How do I change a core’s V0/V1/V2 connection mode if it won’t connect?
- What is a core group, and why does the terminal open several windows?
- What should I write in the core’s “Name” field, and why does the name reset after a restart?
- How do I install a new core on a Linux server straight from the terminal?
- I changed the exchange or the key in the bot, but the terminal shows the old exchange. What do I do?
- How do I move a core to another group, or add a new core to an existing one?
Installing and updating
- How do I update MoonTerminal itself to a new version?
- How do I update a core (including Linux) to a test build, for example MoonBot-L5?
- How do I move MoonTerminal with its cores and settings to another computer?
- How do I install MoonTerminal on a Mac if it won’t open?
- Where can I see the MoonTerminal version?
- How do I update several cores at once without going to each server?
General questions
Core settings
- How do I see which blacklists a coin is on, and where to find the full list?
- How do I reset the loss stop, and what does “Now: —” mean?
- Can I set up the follower (hang protection) through MoonTerminal?
- How do I manage a core’s leverage and margin type from the terminal?
- Where can I see the expiry date of API keys per core?
- Why is the exchange ping shown as a dash in the core status?
- How do I set my own order sizes, TP and SL for one core without overwriting the shared ones?
- How do I edit the settings of several cores at once in the expert window?
VPS and Linux
- How do I move a running Moonbot core to a Linux server?
- What server do I need for a Moonbot core on Linux?
- A warning about strategies appeared when I moved the core to Linux. What does it mean?
- What do I do if the core install on Linux ends with a red line?
- The connection wizard shows a red line at “Check the server”: what do I enter as the login, and do I need an SSH key?
- How do I restart a Linux core, view its log, or change its exchange and keys from the terminal?
Chart
- I moved the chart back into history, and it jumped back to the current price on its own. How do I turn that off?
- How do I quickly hide the strategy and filter list on the chart?
- How do I send the detects of different strategies to separate chart tabs or windows?
- How do I change the size of trades (crosses), candles and volumes on the chart?
- What are the AddToChart strategy chart tabs called, and can I merge the cores into one?
- How do I apply the chart drawing settings to all tabs, or make them the defaults?
- How do I show the prices of this coin on other exchanges on the chart (arbitrage, spot vs perp)?
- What do the lock and the broom on the chart do in comparison mode?
- On daily candles the current candle is empty, and the ticks don't reach the left edge. Why?
- How do I remove the trail of order repricing from the chart (the path, the snake)?
- How do I remove the extra lines from the chart: Last price, Mark price, the order history?
- What do the captions on the sell line mean, and why are some visible only on hover?
- How do I bring the chart captions back to the standard set?
- How do I find out how much time fits on the chart screen?
- What are the chart tabs with numbers at the top, and what does double-clicking the chart do?
- Where on the chart are the settings for candles, volumes, captions, the order book and lines?
- I set a number in “Tab layout”, and the charts were squeezed into thin strips. How do I set three columns?
- How do I stretch the chart in time and in price?
- How do I open one coin on several cores at once?
- The coin is not found in the search on the chart tab bar. Why?
- What does the delta label in comparison mode mean, and how is it different from arbitrage?
- Why doesn't the grid on the chart change when I change the scale, and can I change its density?
- How do I remove the price axis from the mini charts in the charts tab?
- Can I keep the open coins after restarting the terminal?
- How do I turn off the captions on the order lines on the chart, or change their size?
- How do I automatically close idle Main charts?
- How do I open a coin's chart on the core I need, not the active one?
- How do I change the thickness of order lines?
- What is the order zone next to the order book, and where on the chart does double-click open Main?
- In the “Edit module” window a caption was added a second time. How do I remove the extra one?
- How do I rename a tab with a coin I opened myself (set, comparison)?
- Can I scroll a long list of filters on the chart with the wheel, like in Moonbot?
- How do I put the Temporary BL lock on the chart?
- Why do the latest ticks slide under the order book at maximum zoom?
- How do I remember a time scale so new charts open with it?
- What does the “Per-trade volume bars” scale mean?
- How do I bring the 24h and 1h volume captions back onto the chart?
- How do I turn on the bottom band of buy and sell volumes on the chart?
- Does the mouse wheel zoom the chart toward the cursor or toward the right edge?
Drawing tools
- How do I quickly measure the percentage and time on the chart without leaving a figure?
- How do I delete a drawn figure on the chart?
- Does the Zone tool show percentages, like the ruler in Moonbot?
- How do I take a chart snapshot, and why doesn't it work on Mac?
- What does the “Cursor” choice in the drawing tools list do?
- How do I snap a figure being drawn to candle prices?
- How does the tool's gear differ from a right-click on a figure?
- How do I tell that an alert is on for a figure, and where is the alerts table?
- What is the “Figures” panel, and where is the long and short position tool?
Order book
- How do I switch the order book view on the chart between bands and a ladder?
- How do I open one coin on several exchanges and cores at once?
- How do I change the colors of the order book and the level lines?
- How does the “Ladder” order book view work, and how are large levels highlighted?
- Where do I set the order book width?
Orders and trading
- How do I quickly add a coin to a core's or a strategy's blacklist?
- What does MAX next to leverage mean, and where do I see the maximum position at that leverage?
- What does the Order button next to an asset in the “Assets” tab do?
- Where do I place the Panic Sell and Cancel Buy buttons on the chart?
- How do I put a coin on the temporary blacklist?
- How do I go from an order line on the chart to the strategy it was placed by?
- How do I set a take-profit above 100%? Is there a ×10 switch?
Hotkeys
- How do I quickly cancel an entry order right from the chart?
- How do I stop placing an order by clicking the detect chart or the order book, to avoid misclicks?
- Why doesn't a hotkey from Moonbot work in the terminal, and how do I transfer hotkeys?
- How do I cancel buys on all cores at once with a hotkey?
- How do I center the chart on the current price with a hotkey?
- Can I assign a hotkey to a single key with no combination, for example Alt for cancelling a buy?
- When importing settings from Moonbot, a hotkey says “no core command”. What does that mean?
- How do I assign placing a short from the order book to a mouse gesture, for example Ctrl + double-click?
- Is there a hotkey to switch between Live and Pause?
- Why is the zone called “Zone” in the figures menu but “Channel” in the hotkeys?
Strategies
- Where do I turn on manual trading by strategy and pick a manual strategy?
- Why does the Strategies window show only one core in AUTO mode? How do I see all of them?
- How do I change a parameter for many strategies at once if search takes only one name?
- How do I make the strategy tree show only a dot for a core, instead of the “running” badge?
- I turned a strategy off and it disappeared from the list. How do I see it?
- How do I change the alert sound in all strategies on all cores at once?
- How do I move a strategy folder up or down?
- How do I append keys to a list field for several strategies without overwriting the old ones?
- How do I clear the “Deleted” folder in the strategies window?
- How do I turn many strategies on or off at once on all cores?
- How does the “WL distribution” tab in the strategies window work?
- Can I copy a parameter section from one strategy to another (Copy Chapter)?
- I copied a strategy folder in the terminal, and the clipboard has text with [Strategy] in it. Where do I paste it?
- How do I bring back a deleted strategy together with its version history?
- How do I roll a strategy back to an earlier version after a bad edit?
- How does a strategy's version history work?
- How do I create a strategy folder and move or copy strategies?
Analytics and tuner
- A deleted core is still shown in Analytics. How do I remove it?
- In Entry/Exit I see “few usable trades”, or some trades have no tape. What do I do?
- How do I filter Analytics by strategy name?
- What is “Prints around a trade” in Storage, and how do I tell that the tape is still loading?
- What does the “dur.” column in Entry/Exit mean?
- How do I use Entry/Exit and write the result to a strategy?
- What does Entry/Exit tune in the tuner, and which strategies does it work for?
- What does “Strategy tuning” in Analytics do, and how do I apply the result?
- What does the “Enabled only” checkbox do in Strategy tuning?
- What is Analytics, and how do I open it?
- How do I see the profit of all strategies on all cores over a period?
- How do I switch Analytics from USDT to percentages (Profit %)?
- What does the Worst column in “Strategy tuning” mean?
- How do I tell how closely Entry/Exit matches the real trades?
- How does Entry/Exit work: is it a backtest?
- What do WorkingTime and WorkingWeekTime mean, and how do I tune them in the tuner?
Reports and statistics
- “Report” and “Analytics” don't work: “Access to the reports replica is closed” or “DB read error”. What do I do?
- The Report shows old or unclosed trades, although everything is closed in Moonbot. What should I do?
- “Analytics” or “Profit Monitor” says that the Conversion to USDT is not finished or has stalled. What should I do?
- How do I delete a trade from the Report, and how do I bring it back?
- The Report is missing some trades or has no history at all. How do I download it again?
- How do I open a trade chart from the Report?
- Will the terminal pull old reports from the core, and does it download them again at every start?
- How do I set up the trade window: other trades, the Mark price and Last price lines, the MoonShot zone?
- Where can I see the full balance of all bots when orders are open?
- Why is there no “% of avg. order” line in the Report's “Total”?
- How do I find exactly one coin in the Report, for example IO, without BIO and IOTA?
- How do I see all trades for a coin from the Report on a chart?
- How do I put several cores into a group for the Report?
- Why does the “This week” period in the Report show only today's trades?
- The Report is empty or shows the wrong trades. What should I check?
- How do I save the Report to CSV or Excel?
- How do I go from the Report to the strategy the trade was made with?
- Do liquidations appear in the Report?
- Why does the Report for today show a different number of trades than Moonbot?
- The reports database has grown to several gigabytes, and the reports are closed at every start. What should I do?
- Why doesn't sorting by a column in the Report move the open trades?
- Where is the ProfitAbs column in the Report, and what about the other names as in Moonbot?
Settings and interface
- Panels have come apart or torn off into separate windows. How do I restore the previous layout?
- Trade times in the terminal don't match Moonbot. How do I change the time zone?
- How do I detach a panel into a separate window and bring it back?
- How do I transfer settings (hotkeys, sizes, colors) from Moonbot to the terminal?
- How do I set up columns in tables and reset their widths?
- What are the AUTO and MANUAL modes in the terminal header?
- How do I maximize a window to full screen?
- How do I change the colors of buys, sells and liquidations, and enter my own color in HEX?
- How do I change the interface theme and turn on Graphite?
- How do I copy a page's settings and share them with another user?
- Does the terminal ask for confirmation when I close the main window?
- Chart windows don't come to the front over other windows when I click the main window. How do I gather them?
- Everything is too small. How do I enlarge the interface?
- Where are the terminal logs if the “Log” tab is empty?
- Does the terminal clean up logs by itself, and does it keep the trade history?
- Where can I see the size of the local databases and make a backup?
- The toolbar has no “Analytics” and “Settings” buttons. Where are they?
- Where does the terminal keep its databases and settings?
Screener and panels
- The Assets panel is empty or shows zeros. Where can I see the balances across all cores?
- Where can I see server load: CPU, memory, ping?
- Why does “Total” in Assets count the same balance twice (one exchange account shared across several cores)?
- How do I remove the logo or crowd statistics from the empty Main chart?
- How do the Market and Vol. fields at the bottom of the Screener work?
- In the Screener a coin repeats for every core. How do I show it once?
- What does the Session column in the Screener show, and why is there a dash?
- How do I tell in coin search which cores are already trading it?
- Coin search finds nothing when the Russian keyboard layout is on. What should I do?
- How do I sort core problems by time so the newest are on top?
- How do I put my own set of coins into one tab or window?
- How do I filter the tabs by the selected core and save core sets?
- Why do the delta columns in the Screener show only positive values?
- How do I see the leverage of coins across all cores?
- How do I group the wallet list by exchange instead of by core?
Detects and sound
- Why is there no detect card in the “Detects” feed?
- How do I add my own sounds to the terminal?
- How many seconds does the card of a triggered figure (alert) stay in the “Detects” feed, and how do I change it?
- How do I mute sounds for the night but keep the important ones?
- Where do I manage alerts on lines and change the alert sound?
- How do I change the abbreviation and colour of a detect type badge?
- How do I set how many seconds a detect card stays, and can I pin it?
- What do the percentages on a detect card mean, and how do I set up the card view?
- How do I make detect cards more compact so that several fit in a row?
- A chart opened from a detect closes by itself even when I'm using it. How do I keep it open?
- How do I limit the number of charts that detects open, and turn off the frame flash?
- How do I make a detect's coin open on a chart by itself?
- How do I get rid of the “Sound not found” notifications?
- Where do I change the sounds for opening and closing a trade?
- How do I lower the volume of trade sounds?
News
Telegram bot
- Why doesn't the Telegram Mini App open even though Telegram works?
- Can I use the terminal from my phone?
- How do I change the order of core groups in the profit monitor and in Telegram reports?
- How do I enable the Telegram Mini App and open it?
- Why do Telegram reports arrive every hour when the hourly report is turned off?
- Do I need to keep the terminal running for the Telegram bot to send reports?
- How do I set up the Telegram bot with reports?
- How do I manage cores, blacklists and trading from the Telegram bot?
- After moving the core to Linux, the Telegram channel commands stopped working. How do I get them back?
Station
- What server does the station need?
- The station on a cheap VPS keeps going up and down, the processor is at 100%, and the status says “running 0 min”. Why?
- How do I add a new core to a station that is already installed?
- Can I install the station on a server that already runs something (for example, a Linux core)?
- How are the Telegram Mini App and the station different, and does one need the other?
- The station is installed but does not see the cores (“done 0 of N”). What do I do?
- What do “Catch up automatically” and “Tuner trades only” do on the station?
- The station keeps the trade history on the server — do I need a bigger disk?
- How do I update the station?
- The station service has stopped, and “Update the service” doesn't help. What should I do?
- What is the station and how do I install it?
- How do I connect an AI (Claude, ChatGPT) to the Station?