Spectating
Watch an opted-in trader's live terminal read-only - their open positions, equity and P&L as they happen, with no way to act on the account.
Spectating opens a trader's live terminal read-only at /spectate/<handle>. You see the real terminal
they see - open positions, equity, P&L, updating in real time - with the order panel removed.
It is the same terminal component, not a simplified copy, so what you are watching is what is actually happening on the account.
When you'd use it
- From the leaderboard - a ranked row carries a Watch live action for traders who allow it.
- From a trader profile - to move from the track record to what they are doing right now.
- To learn from a live account rather than from a finished result.
What you can and cannot do
| You can see | Open positions, equity, live P&L, and the trader's market view |
| You can do | Nothing to the account - there is no order entry in a spectator view |
| On mobile | The mobile terminal in read-only mode, minus the Trade tab |
If the trader has more than one watchable account, the view can be pointed at a specific one; every read is re-validated on the server, so a link to an account that is not watchable does not resolve.
Spectating is a second opt-in
Live positions are a separate consent from a public profile
A public trader profile shows a size-normalized track record. Spectating shows live positions as they happen, which is far more revealing. So it is a second, independent switch: a trader must turn on both a public profile and live spectating before anyone can watch.
- Turning a public profile off clears live spectating automatically. You cannot end up spectatable with a private profile.
- A trader who has not opted in is unreachable, not merely hidden: the data endpoints refuse to serve a non-spectatable account, so there is no view to reach even with a direct link.
- Spectator pages are not indexed by search engines.
To let others watch you, turn on both switches in settings. To stop, turning off either one is enough.