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The Kara manual

Every Kara tool, step by step: what it measures, how to set it up, and what it does differently from the software you already know. Written from the application itself, version 1.2.51.

16 chapters · about 66 min of reading · updated 29 September 2026

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Where to start

You just joined Kara.

You want to understand your results.

You are taking prop-firm challenges.

You trade order flow and want to automate.

Contents
Part 1

Getting started

  1. 1Welcome to KaraWhat Kara does, how the application is organised, and the few principles that set it apart from the tools you stack today.3 min
  2. 2Install and subscribeChoose between the desktop application and the web app, create your account, start the 14-day trial and understand what each plan opens.3 min
  3. 3Connect your accountsLink MetaTrader, cTrader, Rithmic or a crypto exchange, understand what each kind of link allows, and follow the connection until live tracking.5 min
Part 2

Analyse

  1. 4Trading journalRead your results account by account or across all accounts, find where you win and where you lose, and spot the habits that cost you.8 min
  2. 5ChartShow a market in order flow, draw with 71 tools, save your styles and find your own trades on the chart where you took them.6 min
  3. 6Economic terminalSee releases coming, measure what each one did to your asset, and read the context: seasonality, company earnings, US markets, options flow.3 min
  4. 7Risk simulatorReplay your own history under a different risk rule, and see what it would have changed before you test it with your capital.2 min
Part 3

Execute

  1. 8Trading terminalSend an order to one or several accounts, the lot sized on your risk, then hand stops, targets and guards over to Kara's risk engine.5 min
  2. 9Position copierReplicate a master account's positions onto your follower accounts, with a size of their own for each, prop-firm protections and limits that stop copying at the right moment.5 min
  3. 10Prop firms and challengesCompare firms and their rules, track the progress of your challenges, and measure what they really earn you, fees included.4 min
Part 4

Automate

  1. 11Automated strategiesBuild a strategy from blocks, in code or with Kara AI, put it to the test on real data, optimise it without overfitting, then connect it to an account with its guards.9 min
Part 5

Improve

  1. 12Leaderboard and ranksUnderstand your rank and what moves it up, share a card that anyone can verify, and see where you stand in the anonymous statistics of Kara traders.4 min
  2. 13Alerts and notificationsGet warned about a price, a condition on a drawing, a challenge limit, a copier outage or a release, wherever you are.2 min
Part 6

Your account

  1. 14Account, subscription and supportManage your profile, your subscription and your invoices, keep the application up to date, know where your data goes and get help.2 min

Appendices

  1. 15Keyboard shortcutsEvery shortcut for the chart, the drawing tools, the strategy builder and the Kara AI assistant.1 min
  2. 16GlossaryThe Kara and trading terms used in this manual, defined in one or two sentences.4 min