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Trading room: owner's guide

How to create a trading room, show your desk to an audience, go live with recording and YouTube, and earn from the members you bring in.

What a room is​

A room is your space in SpreadFighter. You build a desk — a layout with charts, the order book, screeners — and room members open it on their side and see exactly what you see:

  • lines, shapes and indicators you draw appear for members within 1–2 seconds, without reloading their chart;
  • a member can scroll the chart and change the timeframe, but cannot draw on your desk or change the symbol;
  • next to the desk is the room chat, and when you are live, your video and voice in a circle on top of the platform.

Everyone who signs up for the first time via your room link is attached to you: you get an affiliate commission on their payments for 12 months (rate 10–30%, growing with your turnover).

1. Create a room​

  1. Open app.spreadfighter.com and sign in.
  2. To the right of your layouts or in the "Rooms" widget, click "+ Create room" (creating a room requires the Max plan). You can have up to three rooms: for example, an open one for everyone and a closed one for your students.
  3. Enter a name, an address (/r/your-address — it can't be changed later, so choose it like a channel name), a description, a color and the access type:
    • Open — anyone with the link joins;
    • By request — a person submits a request, you approve it;
    • Closed — invite link only, not listed in the catalog.
  4. Logo — "Room settings" → "Room" → "Logo": PNG, JPG or WebP up to 2 MB, cropped to a square from the center. The logo appears in the catalog, in tabs and in link previews.

2. Build a desk​

  • Open your layout and, in the room menu (the colored button with the room name), click "Publish current layout to the room" — it becomes a desk together with its charts and drawings.
  • Or click "New desk" and build it right in the room.
  • You can have up to 8 desks: "BTC scalp", "Alts", "Liquidations"… Rename, reorder and delete them in "Room settings" → "Desks".

Everything you change on a desk is saved automatically and is visible to members right away.

3. Invite your audience​

  • Room menu → "Copy room link" — for an open room this is app.spreadfighter.com/r/your-address. In Telegram, X, Discord and other social networks the link unfolds into a card: logo, name, description, number of members and how many are online now. A closed room gets a generic card without the name.
  • For a closed room — "Room settings" → "Room" → "Invite links": "instant join" or "join by request". You can revoke a link by creating a new one.
  • If you want people to find the room on their own — "Room settings" → "Room" → "Submit room to the catalog". We will review it and add it to the catalog — the "Rooms" widget in the dashboard widget menu.

New members see the desk right after signing in with Google.

4. Run the room​

  • Live — room menu → "Go live": choose a camera and microphone; you can turn the camera off and use voice only. Members see you in a circle on top of the platform — on any of their layouts and on a phone. Each member moves the circle wherever they like, picks one of three sizes, expands it into a 16:9 window or minimizes it into a bar; the browser remembers this for each room. A member turns on sound with a tap. Members get a notification when you go live — no more than once every 30 minutes, so restarting a live does not flood them with notifications. To end it — the red button under your circle or the room menu. If you close the tab or lose connection for more than 2 minutes, the live ends on its own.
  • Recording and YouTube — in the live window, the "Record the stream" and "Stream to YouTube" switches. For YouTube, paste the stream key into "Room settings" → "Room" → "YouTube stream key" (YouTube Studio → "Go live" → "Stream key"; on a new channel, live streaming is enabled after 24 hours). While recording, the circle shows a REC badge.
  • What goes into the recording — your whole SpreadFighter tab: the desk, the camera circle and everything you open, including positions, balance and orders. At the start the browser asks what to share — pick this tab. If you decline, only the camera and voice are recorded. Room members do not get the tab — they already have the live desk.
  • Hide money in the recording — in the live window the "Hide financial info" switch is on by default: while you are live, balance, PnL, position and order sizes and exchange keys are shown as dots. Trading account names stay visible. After the live everything comes back on its own.
  • Lives — a tab next to the chat. The recording appears there immediately marked "Recording" and can be watched after the live ends. At first only you see it: give it a title and click "Open to members", or delete it. When you open a recording for the first time, members get a notification. Members can watch, like and comment on an open recording; comments can be deleted by their author, by you and by moderators. An open recording can be hidden again; a deleted one cannot be restored: it disappears together with its likes and comments.
  • Chat — to the right of the desk; hide/show it in the room menu. Links in the chat are clickable only for you and moderators.
  • Moderators — "Room settings" → "Members" → "Make moderator". A moderator approves requests, deletes messages, mutes and removes members, but does not touch the desk.
  • Requests — "Room settings" → "Requests". You get an email about each new request.
  • Mute — for 1 hour, 24 hours or forever. Anyone who sends more than 10 messages in 10 seconds is muted for 10 minutes automatically.
  • Ban — the member leaves the room and cannot come back via any link.

Streamer mode​

The same mode that turns on during a live is also available on its own — the eye button in the platform header. It hides balance, PnL, position and order sizes and exchange keys until you turn it off. Useful if you stream through OBS, record your screen or show the platform in a meeting. More in Streamer mode.

What members see​

  • A member opens the room via the link, signs in with Google or MetaMask and immediately sees your desk, the chat and the "Lives" tab. If they are already in the room, the link opens the desk without extra windows.
  • They can scroll the desk and change the timeframe, but not draw on it. To experiment, a member clicks "Copy desk to my layouts" in the room menu and gets their own copy with your drawings. Copying a desk requires the Pro plan or higher.
  • To leave a room — room menu → "Leave room".

Everything a member sees and can do: Trading room: how to take part.

Room rules​

  • No income promises, "guaranteed signals" or pump schemes.
  • The owner is responsible for the room's content. Room materials are not investment advice.
  • We may hide a room from the catalog or freeze it for violations.

What doesn't work yet​

  • Images and files in the chat — next step. Only the owner can go live; members can't talk by voice yet.
  • On a phone — the desk, the chat and "Lives" (the "Chat" button at the bottom), and the room menu opens with the logo button next to the desk name: desks, room link, requests, members, settings, live (on a phone the camera and voice are recorded — browsers don't allow screen sharing there). The logo, desks and YouTube are easier to set up on a computer.

Questions and bugs — in our Telegram chat.