cTrader Proxy Setup on Windows 11.
One proxy settings. Four values. Your orders stop touching commodity ISP routes.
In cTrader on Windows 11, go to Settings (gear icon, top-right) ? Advanced ? Connection ? Use proxy to connect. Select SOCKS5, paste in your host, port, username, and password from the TradersProxy portal. Restart the platform. Done — under 5 minutes.
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How to configure cTrader on Windows 11
Before you start
You need three things:
- cTrader installed and able to reach your broker without the proxy first — confirm a clean baseline connection.
- Your TradersProxy credentials from the portal: host, port, username, password.
- Five minutes and no active trades open.
Step 1 — Copy your credentials
Log in to the TradersProxy portal. Go to your connection details. Copy the host, port, username, and password for your assigned node. Do not type these — copy-paste. One transposed character breaks the connection.
Step 2 — Open the proxy settings in cTrader
Navigate to Settings (gear icon, top-right) ? Advanced ? Connection ? Use proxy to connect. The proxy dialog opens. On Windows 11, this dialog may require administrator confirmation before changes are saved — accept the prompt if it appears.
Step 3 — Select SOCKS5 and enter the details
Enable the proxy checkbox or toggle. Select SOCKS5 as the protocol. Paste your host into the server/host field. Enter your port number. Fill in the username and password.
If cTrader shows a separate DNS option — resolve DNS through proxy or similar — enable it. This prevents DNS leaks outside the proxy tunnel.
Note: cTrader also supports HTTP proxy. If SOCKS5 fails to connect, switch to HTTP — both protocols use the same host and port from your portal.
Step 4 — Save and restart cTrader
Click OK or Apply to save the settings. Fully quit cTrader — do not just minimise it. On Windows 11, proxy changes do not apply to an existing process. Relaunch the platform.
Step 5 — Confirm the connection
Look for cTrader's connection indicator after relaunch. A successful proxy connection looks identical to a direct connection — green status bars, server connection confirmed, data flowing. If the indicator stays red or the platform throws a connection error, see the gotchas section below.
Known gotchas on Windows 11
These are the issues traders hit most often when setting up cTrader on Windows 11. Check these before contacting support.
cTrader proxy settings are per broker account profile. Configure the proxy in each account profile separately if you connect to multiple brokers.
Windows 11's stricter app isolation can cause cTrader to lose proxy settings after a Windows update. Re-enter the proxy credentials if a Windows update follows and cTrader loses its connection.
Windows Defender Firewall on Windows 11 may require the proxy port to be explicitly allowed. Add cTrader.exe to the allowed apps list in Windows Security.
General rule for Windows 11: run cTrader as the same user account that configured the proxy. Settings saved under an administrator account may not carry over to a standard user session.
Why the proxy settings matter
Most traders use the network path of infrastructure. The platform (cTrader) is the tool — free, from the broker. The idea — signals, analysis, a method — is your trading idea. The connection path is the network path every order packet travels from your machine to the broker's matching engine.
The connection path is the one nobody names. Nobody charges for it. So it defaults to whatever your ISP gives you — shared bandwidth, peering decisions made for Netflix, routing paths designed for web browsing.
The proxy settings in cTrader let you replace that default path. TradersProxy puts a clean network relay — purpose-built for trading traffic — between your platform and your broker. Split TCP buffers separate interactive order flow from bulk chart data. The per-connection congestion algorithm adapts to your path conditions in real time.
Four fields in cTrader is how you access that layer. That's the whole setup.
FAQ — cTrader on Windows 11
Yes. The menu structure — Settings ? Advanced ? Connection — is unchanged between Windows versions. The proxy settings and options are identical.
cTrader Web routes through your browser's proxy or system proxy settings, not cTrader's own proxy dialog. For browser-based cTrader, set a SOCKS5 proxy at the browser or OS level, or use a browser extension that supports SOCKS5 — this is outside the scope of the in-app configuration.
Yes. When the proxy is configured in cTrader's connection settings, all traffic from the application routes through the proxy, including cBot order submissions and data feeds. There is no separate configuration required for cBots.