The orderbook,
fully operational.

The cockpit is a 3D scene surrounded by floating glass panels. Every panel is independent — drag it, resize it, fade it, or minimise it. Your layout is saved automatically and restored on the next session.

🪟 The panel roster

Every panel can be summoned, moved and saved. Here is what each one does — deep dives follow in their own sections.

✋ Moving & managing panels

🎚 Layout presets & UI zoom

The Settings Hub → Layout → Preset row offers one-tap arrangements that reposition the whole panel set for a given workflow. Independently, the + / − zoom widget (bottom-right of the screen, or Ctrl + / Ctrl − / Ctrl 0) scales the entire UI between 50% and 150% — handy on 4K monitors or when screen-sharing.

The 3D scene is navigated with the mouse; everything else has a hotkey. Memorise the navigation row first — the rest become muscle memory.

🖱 Mouse navigation

⌨ Keyboard shortcuts

🎮 FPS fly-through

The FPS camera preset (see Visual Modes) puts you inside the orderbook. Once active, fly with W A S D, ascend/descend with Q E, and steer with the mouse. Switch to any other preset to exit.

One cockpit, 18+ live data sources — crypto (CEX & DEX), futures, forex, RWA stocks and prediction markets. Crypto venues stream straight into the browser; futures and forex route through a local bridge. Everything is selected from the Controls → Exchange dropdown.

🔌 The Exchange dropdown

These venues are available directly in the in-app selector. Switching exchange reconnects the feed and repopulates the symbol list automatically.

🔎 Choosing your instrument

⚙ Feed tuning

The same order flow, rendered seven different ways. Switch any mode live from Controls → Visualization — no reload. Then frame it with eight camera presets and wrap it in one of four aesthetic skins.

🌌 The 7 visualization modes

🎥 The 8 camera presets

Open the camera selector (bottom-right of the screen, or C). Each preset smoothly animates to a fixed viewpoint:

🎨 The 4 aesthetic skins

Before automation, learn to read what's in front of you. The surface and its support panels expose every dimension of microstructure: resting liquidity, executed flow, net pressure and the speed of the tape.

📊 Surface elements

📋 Time & Sales tape

The full live trade tape, with six columns of microstructure data per print:

Rows are colour-coded by side; gold rows are Tape Bombs — institutional sweeps flagged when execution rate exceeds ~80% of the adaptive maximum with at least 8 trades/sec. Hit ⏸ PAUSE to freeze the tape for review without losing data.

⚡ Power Gauge & Crosshair

🗣 Nexus AI Oracle feed

The Oracle panel streams plain-language pattern callouts — icebergs, spoofs, absorptions, whale walls — as they're detected. Toggle 🔊 VOICE to have them spoken aloud via the browser's speech engine, so you can watch the surface while the cockpit narrates the market to you.

The Scalp Signal Engine watches the order flow for six microstructure patterns and fires directional signals — drawn as 3D arrows on the surface, listed in the Scalp Signals panel, and (optionally) routed to execution. Each signal is confidence-scored and carries a TP/SL.

🎯 The 6 signal patterns

🧭 Reading a signal

Each entry in the Scalp Signals panel carries: the pattern, a direction (BUY/SELL), a confidence %, and suggested TP / SL levels with a validity window. The same signal is mirrored on the surface as a 3D arrow at the relevant price, with a sound alert. The panel keeps running counts and statistics so you can judge each pattern's recent reliability.

You can export the signal journal from the panel for offline review, and configure which patterns are active and how sensitive they are in the signal settings.

The flagship forecasting module. The Oracle runs seven L2 predictive models on the live book and projects the probability of price movement across six simultaneous horizons — from 5 seconds to 2 minutes. Toggle it with O; collapse to compact with Shift O.

🔬 The 7 L2 predictors

🌡 Regime detection

An automatic regime label — NORMAL / ELEVATED / TOXIC — scales the Oracle's confidence per horizon. The regime is driven by the Quant Engine, so the Oracle automatically becomes more cautious as informed-flow risk rises.

Three institutional microstructure metrics run live in the browser. They don't just display — they actively modulate your signal confidence and auto-trader cooldowns, and feed the Prediction Oracle's regime detector. Toggle with Q.

🧮 The three metrics

⚙ How it modulates your trading

• VPIN kill switch: in a TOXIC regime, all signals except delta_spike are suppressed.
• Kyle Lambda penalty: high R² cuts signal confidence by up to 40%.
• Hawkes CASCADE: shortens cooldowns in momentum markets so you don't miss the run.
• CALM market: applies a ~15% confidence boost — signals are more reliable in quiet flow.
• Spread alert: when VPIN crosses the danger threshold, you're prompted to widen entries.
• Feeds the Oracle: the composite regime label scales Prediction Oracle horizon weights.

Each metric has a live sparkline so you can watch regime shifts happen. The composite regime output (e.g. ELEVATED · +1.0×) is what flows downstream into the Oracle and Auto-Trader.

An autonomous AI swarm reads the order flow alongside you. Each agent is a specialist; the Consensus Overlord synthesises them into one live probability verdict. It runs on Cerebras (primary) with automatic Groq fallback.

🤖 The agents

🔑 Activating the swarm

The SIE closes the loop on the signals pipeline. It is a quality gate that learns which signals actually work and filters out the ones that don't — before they reach your screen, the surface, the voice, or execution.

🧠 How it learns

• Triple-barrier outcome tracking: every fired signal is followed to one of three outcomes (target hit / stop hit / timeout), labelling whether it was actually good.
• Per-symbol online logistic regression: a lightweight model updates continuously from those outcomes — it adapts to the instrument you're trading right now, not a static rulebook.
• Quality gate: incoming signals are scored by the model; low-quality ones are filtered before they propagate to the UI, map, voice, or auto-execution.

🔬 The Signal Lab

The SIE injects a Signal Lab into the Scalp Signals panel, where you can watch the engine's live quality scoring and learning state. The result: over a session, the signals that survive to your screen are the ones the model has learned are worth acting on for that symbol.

The headline module of V8.5. Crypto and futures behave very differently — futures books are deeper, slower and more deliberate. The Futures Intent Engine retunes the entire cockpit per instrument, surfaces a live pipeline-health readout, and adds intent-aware tools so signals behave correctly on NQ, ES, GC or DAX, not just BTC.

🎛 Instrument profiles

Pick a profile from the Futures Intent panel and the engine reconfigures depth targets, signal confidence floors, Oracle hold times, cooldowns and flip limits to match that market's microstructure:

🛠 Intent tools

The cockpit reads public market data with no keys at all — open it and a live book streams instantly. Keys are only needed when you want to place real orders on a crypto exchange directly from NEXUS. The API Credentials panel holds those keys, and they live in your browser session only.

🔑 The two crypto venues

🛡 How your keys are stored

The Execute panel is a full order ticket welded onto the orderbook. You see the wall, you click, you fill — no alt-tabbing to a separate terminal. It routes to whichever venue is active: a crypto exchange via your keys, or a futures broker via a bridge.

🧭 The three order types

🏷 Venue awareness

The panel shows a badge for the active venue so you always know where an order will land. A Binance Perps order, a Bitget order and an order routed to your MT5 bridge all flow through the same ticket — only the destination changes. Configure crypto venues in API Credentials; configure futures venues in the bridge sections.

The auto-trader closes the loop: a qualified signal becomes a live order, complete with a real two-step take-profit and stop-loss, position management and hard risk limits. It is the most powerful — and most dangerous — part of NEXUS. Read this whole section before you arm it.

🔁 The execution loop

A signal must clear the SIE quality gate and your confidence floor before it ever reaches the engine. Then:

⚙ Core parameters

🧨 Risk & behaviour modes

🔌 Where it runs

The auto-trader executes on Binance Perps and Bitget via your API keys, and on futures via the bridges: MT5 (single & dual), Rithmic and Tradovate. The two-step TP/SL works identically across all of them.

This is how NEXUS trades futures and CFDs. The MT5 Bridge is a small Python program that runs on your Windows machine, connects to one or two MetaTrader 5 terminals, and streams the Level-2 order book to the cockpit over a local WebSocket — then routes your orders back to MT5. It's the single most important integration for futures traders, so this section spoon-feeds every step.

🗺 How the data flows

🔀 Single vs. Dual mode

The bridge runs in one of two modes. Pick based on whether your broker's MT5 gives you real depth-of-market.

📦 Step 1 — Install

You need Python on Windows and the two libraries the bridge depends on. Open a terminal in the bridge folder and run:

# MetaTrader5 is Windows-only — run this on the same PC as MT5
pip install MetaTrader5 websockets

# or, if a requirements.txt ships with the bridge:
pip install -r requirements.txt

▶ Step 2 — Launch the bridge

Double-click the script or run it from the terminal. By default it opens a small control window (Tkinter GUI) titled “3D NEXUS META — MT5 Bridge V9”:

# launch with the GUI (default)
python mt5_nexus_bridge_dual.py

# headless / no window
python mt5_nexus_bridge_dual.py --no-gui

# force single-terminal mode on a specific symbol
python mt5_nexus_bridge_dual.py --single --symbol ES

# custom port + verbose logging
python mt5_nexus_bridge_dual.py --port 5555 --debug

The bridge auto-scans your machine for MT5 installations (it looks for terminal64.exe), so in most cases it finds your terminal with no path configuration. It also auto-detects each symbol's tick size and point value.

🔗 Step 3 — Connect NEXUS

🧬 Symbol mapping

Brokers name the same contract differently — your data terminal might call it EPM26 while your exec terminal wants ES. The bridge resolves this with a 3-level fallback, trying progressively more generic names until one matches:

# front-month code → root → generic → index alias
EPM26  →  EP  →  ES  →  SP500

📋 Supported instruments

The bridge ships with built-in tick-size / point-value handling for the major futures and a few FX/metal CFDs:

🛑 Safety systems

The bridge is the layer closest to your money, so it carries several independent safety mechanisms:

🏗 Under the hood

⚙ Dual-mode config

Dual mode reads a small JSON file (nexus_dual_config.json) describing each terminal. Fill in the path, login and server for your DATA station and your EXEC station:

{
  "data_path":   "C:\\Program Files\\AvaTrade MT5\\terminal64.exe",
  "data_login":  12345678,
  "data_server": "AvaTrade-Real",

  "exec_path":   "C:\\Program Files\\ICMarkets MT5\\terminal64.exe",
  "exec_login":  87654321,
  "exec_server": "ICMarkets-Live"
}

🩺 Troubleshooting

MT5 is the most-used path, but NEXUS speaks to a whole stable of professional futures and DeFi venues. Each is a small local bridge or a direct connection that hands the cockpit an L2 book and takes orders back. Pick the tab for your platform.

Liquidity for a crypto pair is scattered across many venues. Aggregate mode fuses several books into one consolidated orderbook, so you see the true market depth — not just one exchange's slice of it.

🧩 What it merges

Up to five venues are combined into a single surface:

🛡 Integrity safeguards

Naively summing books is dangerous — a stale or mis-priced feed would poison the merge. V2 defends the consolidated book with:

Almost everything visual lives behind the ⚙ gear. The Settings Hub is the central control room — tune the surface, toggle features and effects, and manage your layout. It's grouped into four tabs.

The quick answers to the things people hit most often. For bridge-specific issues, see the troubleshooting block in 16.

⚡ Getting started & access

🖥 Performance & display

🤖 Intelligence & trading

📚 Going deeper

Companion guides on the MetaQuantUniverse site: