A Day of a Chief Dealer
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A Day of a Chief Dealer
Every trading session carries risk. Most of it forms quietly — in overnight exposure, in a three-second news spike, in seven accounts that trade together but look unrelated.
All times UTC
07:00 UTC — Morning Check
The day starts before the market opens
The Chief Dealer's first question of the morning is simple and immediate: did we lose money overnight? Asia closed an hour ago. Three client accounts were active between 02:00 and 04:00 UTC. Before London opens, every point needs a clear answer.
Without Brokerpilot
5–7 MT4 Manager windows
Manual hedge account review
Excel exposure sheet
Phone call to night shift
40–60 min to get the picture
With Brokerpilot
One consolidated dashboard
Aggregated exposure — live
Alerts already categorized
Overnight activity flagged
Full picture in under 5 min
Скрин: Dealing Desk Dashboard — overnight exposure, alerts, session PnL
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CRITICAL · 07:00 UTC
Latency Arbitrage Detection
- Trade duration under 3 seconds, 80–90%+ win rate
- Entries within quote gaps on thin overnight liquidity
- Accounts with no other trading behaviour
Without detection: profits withdrawn before morning review.
Explore Anti-Fraud & Abuse Detection →
09:00 UTC — London Open
The market wakes up
London open changes everything. EUR/USD, GBP/USD, Gold — all three start moving. The book that looked balanced at 07:30 UTC is now under pressure on two instruments simultaneously.
±3.2M
Net exposure USD
68%
Gold long book
4
Margin alerts
$127k
Hedge gap open
Скрин: Exposure Overview — символьное давление и крупные объёмы
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⚠ WARNING · 09:00 UTC
Exposure & Margin Control
- Net exposure by symbol and asset class — live
- Threshold alerts before concentration risk builds
- Top risk accounts identified automatically
React too late → emergency hedge → slippage → P&L damage.
See Exposure & Margin Control →
12:30 UTC — High-Impact News
Three seconds can change the whole session
CPI is scheduled for 12:30 UTC. The release comes in at 0.4% above consensus. EUR/USD drops 65 pips in under three seconds. Manual controls are too slow.
⚡ High impact event
US CPI (MoM) · 12:30 UTC · Expected volatility: HIGH
Automated response: Spread widening ACTIVE · Leverage cap ACTIVE · Order monitoring ON
⚡ AUTOMATED · 12:30 UTC
Leverage & Spread Controls
- Pre-scheduled spread widening before release
- Automatic leverage reduction for high-risk accounts
- Auto-restore after event window
News traders exploit slow brokers. Automation removes the window.
See Leverage & Spread Controls →
14:35 UTC — Something Is Wrong
The pattern no one wants to miss
Seven accounts. Different names. But the same IP subnet, same CID group origin, correlation coefficient above 0.91. Each account looks normal individually. As a group — they're coordinated.
ГЛАВНЫЙ СКРИН: Anti-Fraud Dashboard — группы, корреляция, поведенческий анализ
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CRITICAL · 14:35 UTC
Anti-Fraud & Abuse Detection
- Organized group: shared IP, CID, session correlation
- Coordinated trade entries across accounts
- Behavioural scoring — continuous, not snapshot
- Alert before group withdraws — not after
One coordinated group can generate $100k+ in losses within days.
See Anti-Fraud Detection →
16:00 UTC — Routing Decisions
Not every profitable trader is toxic
After detection comes decision. A profitable trader isn't automatically a problem. The question is whether profitability comes from skill — or from exploiting execution conditions.
B-Book
Standard retail flow
Normal distribution, low win rate
No group activity signals
No execution exploitation
A-Book
Legitimate profitable traders
Skill-based, confirmed by scoring
No abusive patterns detected
Routed to hedge
Watch List
Requires investigation
Unusual win rate pattern
Group correlation suspected
Pending manual review
⚙ OPERATIONAL · 16:00 UTC
Dealing Operations
- Live A/B book monitoring and net volume tracking
- Client scoring by behaviour and profitability type
- Routing decision support — structured, not intuitive
Wrong routing = wrong risk. Every session.
See Dealing Operations →
18:00 UTC — End of Day
The day ends. Visibility doesn't.
The CEO wants a summary. The risk committee wants incident detail. The operations team needs tomorrow's overnight parameters. Brokerpilot generates session reports automatically — available the moment the session closes.
Скрин: Metabase Daily State Dashboard — PnL, события, итог сессии
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AUTOMATED · 18:00 UTC
Reporting & Analytics
- Session PnL summary — automated, by symbol and group
- Risk events log with full context
- Executive dashboard — management-ready
Decisions based on yesterday's Excel delay tomorrow's response.
See Reporting & Analytics →
Behind the day: the platform that keeps it connected
Platform Modules
Dealing Desk · Risk Management · Anti-Fraud · Automatic Controls · Reporting · Dashboard
Integrations
MT4 · MT5 · cTrader — direct API, no plugins, no interference with trading servers
Deployment
SaaS or On-Premise. Both with 24/7 technical support and resource monitoring.
Situation
Without Brokerpilot
With Brokerpilot
Morning setup
40–60 min, multiple systems
Under 5 min, one dashboard
Fraud detection
Noticed after P&L impact
Flagged before withdrawal
News protection
Manual — often too late
Pre-scheduled automation
End-of-day report
Manual, 30–60 min delay
Auto-generated at session close