ONE ENGINE.
THREE SURFACES.
ZERO CUSTODY.
SentryQ is not a signal group, a copy-trading pool, or a managed fund. It is a trading engine you install and own — running validated strategies on your own brokerage account, under twenty-six independent risk guards, with a command console on your desk and full control in your pocket.
THE WHOLE SYSTEM,
IN ONE VIEW.
Most retail trading products give you one surface and hide the rest. SentryQ gives you the engine itself, the console that commands it, the phone app that follows it, and the account layer that licenses it — and tells you exactly what each one can and cannot touch.
The Engine
A .NET trading engine that runs on your Windows machine (or your VPS). It scans your pairs every minute, applies your enabled strategies, sizes each trade from your stop distance, and manages positions tick by tick. It holds no funds and needs no inbound ports.
The Console
The desktop command centre: live equity and positions, the risk rail, per-strategy health, the safety panel, and the signal tools with their synopsis. Three things open in their own windows so they can live on a second monitor — the Trading Desk (twenty-nine indicators, six drawing tools, a full order ticket), Community, and Market Analysis, which now also holds the day summary and CFTC positioning. Everything the engine knows, visible.
The Companion
iOS and Android. Streams your engine's state wherever you are, and sends commands back — pause, resume, kill, close a position, adjust risk, place a signal. Broker credentials never touch the phone.
The Account Layer
sentryq.co.uk holds your licence, subscription, notification preferences and the remote kill-switch. It relays commands and snapshots between your devices — it never touches your broker.
Your money never moves through SentryQ. Trades are placed by software you run, on a brokerage account in your name, using a permission your broker grants and you can revoke in one click. We are a software vendor — not a broker, not a fund, not a money-transmitter. That single architectural choice is why there is no version of "SentryQ ran off with the deposits."
THE COMMAND CONSOLE.
This is the real dashboard — not a mockup. Every number below is produced by the engine itself: account state, risk posture, per-strategy health, exposure, and the trades it is holding right now.
EVERY ORDER CARRIES
A LABEL.
Each position the engine opens is tagged with the strategy that produced it. Nothing is pooled, nothing is anonymous. You can see that the EURUSD long came from Mean Reversion, the GBPJPY short from Swing, and the USDCHF trade from a signal you entered yourself.
That labelling runs all the way through: open positions, pending orders, trade history, the day summary, per-strategy performance and the monthly report card. If a number moves, you can trace exactly which system moved it.
YOUR ENGINE,
IN YOUR POCKET.
The companion app is a full terminal, not a notification feed. It reads your engine's live state and sends real commands back — every one of them confirm-first.
THE ACCOUNT LAYER
THAT HOLDS NOTHING.
Your sentryq.co.uk account manages the licence, the subscription, notification routing and the devices you've linked. It is deliberately thin: it knows your email, your plan, and the last state your engine reported.
It does not hold broker credentials. It cannot place a trade on its own. Its most powerful capability is the remote kill-switch — a command your engine picks up within seconds and executes locally.
Notifications fan out from here: trade opens and closes, guard events and engine health, delivered by push, email or Telegram — your choice, per channel.
WHAT TOUCHES
WHAT — EXACTLY.
Trust in trading software should be structural, not promised. Here is the honest map of every component, what it can reach, and what it is architecturally incapable of doing.
| Component | Runs where | Can do | Cannot do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trading engine | Your PC or VPS | Read prices, place/amend/close orders on the account you authorised, enforce every risk guard locally | Move funds, change withdrawal settings, or trade an account you didn't select |
| Desktop console | Your PC (localhost) | Command the engine, tune parameters and guards, show charts and reports | Reach your broker directly — every action goes through the engine |
| Mobile app | Your phone | Read engine snapshots, send user-confirmed commands via your account | Store broker credentials, or act while you're signed out |
| Account backend | UK VPS | Licensing, subscriptions, notification fan-out, command relay, signal scoring | Place a trade, hold funds, or see your broker password |
| Broker connection | cTrader OAuth / MT5 terminal | Grant scoped trading permission to one chosen account | Persist after you revoke it — you hold the off switch, independent of us |
Your broker password is never entered into SentryQ. cTrader authorisation happens on cTrader's own pages; the MetaTrader 5 link talks only to a terminal you are already logged into on your own machine. Revocation is done from your broker or MT5's Algo Trading switch — it works even if our servers are offline.
WHY THERE ISN'T
REALLY ANYTHING LIKE IT.
Retail traders are usually offered one of three things: someone else's calls, someone else's account, or a bare robot. Each fails in a predictable way. SentryQ was built by refusing all three trade-offs at once.
All three also share an assumption worth naming: that what you need is a decision. What actually decides whether an account survives is the work around the decision — how it is sized, what refuses it, whether anyone competent has looked at your reasoning, and whether you can tell afterwards what your own protection cost you.
Signal groups
- Results are self-reported and unauditable — screenshots after the fact
- Position sizing is left entirely to you, so identical calls ruin some accounts and not others
- No guard against over-exposure when five calls land on the same currency
- You execute manually, so you get the entries you were awake for
- Losing months quietly disappear from the pinned message
Copy trading & managed pools
- Your capital sits in someone else's strategy, at their sizing, on their timing
- You inherit the master's drawdown with no ability to intervene mid-trade
- Little visibility into why any trade was taken
- Often wrapped in custody or profit-share structures that carry real counterparty risk
- Exit means unwinding a position you never controlled
The SentryQ model
- Strategies validated out-of-sample before release — and failures published, not buried
- Every trade sized from your stop distance at your risk percentage, automatically
- Twenty-six independent guards, including correlated-currency and per-pair exposure caps
- Runs while you sleep, and reports what it did — and what it refused to do
- Your account, your funds, your revocable permission; one tap to flat from any device
- Third-party signals scored against real prices and ranked honestly — including the bad ones
Automation without risk control is a fast way to lose money. Risk control without automation still needs you awake at 3am. Signals without sizing are just opinions. SentryQ is the only place we know of where validated automation, institutional-style risk guards, your own custody, and honestly scored third-party signals all live inside one engine — and where the software tells you, every single day, which opportunities it deliberately turned down to keep you safe.
FOUR PARTS.
THE STRATEGIES ARE ONE OF THEM.
People arrive for the automation and stay for the other three. Each stands on its own, and each is documented to the same standard.
| Part | What it does for you | The evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Risk & trade management | Twenty-six guards sized and enforced on every trade — automated or your own — with positions managed to their stops and targets whether you are watching or not. | Every refused entry replayed at the strategy's real stop. What they cost → |
| A desk that argues back | Twenty-nine indicators, six drawing tools, and an agent that reads your chart — your window, your indicators, your drawings — and critiques the reasoning. It will not tell you whether to trade. | Design rationale, stated as such. Why it refuses to advise → |
| People who can see what you see | Chart-scoped rooms, markup anchored to bar time and price so it redraws on the other trader's own bars, and trades shared with their numbers attached — still subject to your guards, not theirs. | Community, and what we deliberately left out → |
| Ideas from anywhere | Paste a signal in whatever state the provider wrote it, or follow a Telegram channel. Same parser, same guards, and the source is scored afterwards so you learn whether it is any good. | Signals and the leaderboard → |
| Automated strategies | Seven of them, two on by default. Useful, documented, and the part you could switch off entirely and still have a platform. | All seven, with their numbers → |