Signal Tracker Guide — Growth Capital Group

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A schematic of the Signal Tracker layout — each pin is explained in the steps below.

Step by step

Follow the pins in order to get from a blank screen to your first live simulation.

1

Set your starting capital and risk per trade

This is entered in the left panel and is what makes every simulated position size realistic — it's the same number the paper-trading engine uses to calculate £ profit and loss.

2

Build a watchlist and choose a timeframe

Search and add any stock, ETF, crypto, forex, or futures symbol you want to track. Timeframes range from 1-minute charts up to weekly candles — a shorter timeframe means more, faster signals; a longer one means fewer, more considered ones.

3

Turn on the indicators you want driving decisions

RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands and moving averages are the core four; toggle on any of ~25 extended indicators for more nuance. Each one has its own trigger mode (e.g. "overbought/oversold" vs "signal cross") — you don't need to use them all, two or three well-understood ones beats twenty you don't.

4

Press Run Strategy and watch the chart

Signals fire live as conditions are met — a green ▲ marks a simulated buy, a red ▼ marks a simulated sell. This updates in real time without you needing to refresh the page.

5

Watch the Open Positions table

Every simulated trade the engine takes shows up here with a running profit/loss — this is paper trading only, no real orders are ever placed and no money changes hands. You can also enter a manual paper trade yourself if you want to test your own timing against the engine's.

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Save your setup once it feels right

Click Save My Defaults to store your indicator/watchlist/risk configuration to your account, or save it as a named strategy to switch between several setups. Both live on your account, so they're there next time you sign in from anywhere.

Reading a signal

The terms you'll see most often on the chart and in confidence scores.

RSI (Relative Strength Index)

Measures how fast and how far price has recently moved. Readings above 70 are usually called "overbought" (may pull back); below 30, "oversold" (may bounce). Not a guarantee either way.

MACD

Tracks the relationship between two moving averages. When the faster line crosses above the slower one, that's often read as a bullish signal — and vice versa for a bearish cross.

Bollinger Bands (BB)

A price channel that widens and narrows with volatility. Price touching the outer band is sometimes read as stretched and due to revert — again, a tendency, not a rule.

Confidence score

A single number combining how many of your active indicators agree right now. Higher confidence means more indicators are pointing the same way — it doesn't mean the trade is certain to work.

Trigger mode

How an indicator decides to fire — e.g. "overbought/oversold" (a threshold crossing) versus "signal cross" (one line crossing another). Each indicator can be set independently.

Paper trade

A simulated position with no real money — used purely to track how a strategy is performing, right now, without any financial risk.

Common mistakes to avoid

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Turning on every indicator at once. More indicators doesn't mean more accuracy — it usually means slower, more conflicting signals. Start with two or three you understand.

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Treating a high confidence score as certainty. It only measures agreement between your chosen indicators, not the probability the trade actually works out.

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Forgetting this is paper trading. Nothing here places a real order. Treat a strong run here as a reason to backtest the same setup against history before ever considering it with real capital.

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Step by step

Reading a signal

Common mistakes to avoid

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