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Getting started
Create an account, pick an instrument and timeframe, and learn the pages: Overview, Chart, Signals, Learning, Positioning, Macro, Alerts, Journal, Settings and System.
- Create an account with Google, or with your email and a password.
- Open the Overview. It shows the market in one view.
- Open the Chart. Use the Indicators menu to show or hide each layer and pane.
- Open Account and connect Telegram if you want alerts on your phone.
The pages
- Overview: the Tactiq Flag on every timeframe, the verdict, evidence on both sides, key levels.
- Chart: price with all layers, the footprint, the panes and the Flag.
- Signals: trade ideas with entry, stop and targets, the analyst's review, and how past ideas ended.
- Learning (owner only): the analyst's playbook and Tactiq's market knowledge, with scorecards.
- Positioning: open interest, funding, basis and spot ETF flows.
- Macro: global markets, the dollar index, Bitcoin dominance and the economic calendar.
- Alerts: what Tactiq noticed, in time order.
- Journal: your own trade notes. Only you can see them.
- System: the health of every data stream.
- Settings: your workspace, indicator parameters and alerts. Reference pages show the rules Tactiq runs on.
- Learn & Connect: short videos on using Tactiq, and links to the Tactiq Traders community.
- Account: your name, avatar and title, Telegram alerts and password.
- Docs: this documentation.
The speech-bubble button at the top right sends feedback to the Tactiq team. Once a day, after a few minutes of use, Tactiq may ask how it is working for you.
Instruments
Pick the instrument beside the timeframe: BTCUSDT and ETHUSDT (perpetual and spot) or XAUUSDT (gold, perpetual only). Each has its own data, thresholds and signals. The Overview, Signals, Learning and Alerts pages show all of them on one desk.
Keyboard
Press ? to see all shortcuts. Press Ctrl+K to search. Press 1 to 8 to change the timeframe on the Chart. Press g and then a letter to go to a page.
Last updated 2026-10-31. This page as Markdown: /docs/getting-started.md

