Spotware Systems has added a feature to its cTrader platform that lets traders attach up to five take-profit orders to a single position, closing parts of a trade in stages instead of all at once. The company said the tool, called advanced take profit, is now live across cTrader's mobile, web and desktop apps.
At each price target, a trader sets how much of the position to close. When the market reaches that level, cTrader shuts that portion automatically and keeps the rest open, according to the company.
The release also adds a break-even stop loss, which shifts a stop to the entry price once a trade moves far enough in the trader's favor.
How the Staggered Exit Works
Traders can add, edit or remove the targets from the order ticket, the position screen or directly on the chart, and they can change them while a trade is running, the company said. A position might close one slice at the first target, more at the second and let the remainder run.
Spotware presented the feature as a way to bank gains at several points without watching the screen, with the platform handling execution. None of the building blocks are new to retail trading, though.
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Partial position closes and break-even stops have circulated through rival platforms and third-party scripts for years, and cTrader has been shipping order and chart tools at a steady clip, including a version 5.2 release earlier this year that bundled risk-reward calculators.
The company tied the additions to trailing stop loss and chart trading already on the platform, and described the package as part of its Traders First approach to product design.
Platform Tool Race Sharpens After MetaQuotes Curbs
The update arrives while the platforms competing with MetaTrader keep adding features to set themselves apart. Much of that pressure traces to 2024, when MetaQuotes restricted MetaTrader use by prop firms serving US clients, pushing the industry to spread onto cTrader, Match-Trader, DXtrade and TradeLocker.
Rivals have been busy. Match-Trade Technologies rolled out a February 2026 update to its Match-Trader Prop product that added full MetaTrader 5 backend integration along with challenge management and verification tools.
Devexperts in January paired its DXtrade platform with Arizet Labs' PropTech suite, bundling CRM, risk management and payout automation with the trading screen, as FinanceMagnates.com reported.
On the specific mechanics, cTrader is catching up to an existing norm as much as breaking ground. MetaTrader 5, still the most widely deployed platform across FX and CFD brokers, has long let traders close part of a position natively, and order-management depth is now a standard line item when brokers and prop firms weigh which platforms to run.
Folding multi-level take-profit and automatic break-even stops directly into the native interface, rather than leaving them to plugins, is where cTrader is positioning the change.
A Steady Cadence of Releases
The take-profit tool fits a pattern of frequent cTrader updates. In January, Spotware shipped cTrader Mobile 5.6, adding equity charts and candle countdowns, and it used last year's version 5.5 to introduce native Python support for algorithmic trading.
More recently, the company opened cTrader to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol, letting tools such as Claude connect to accounts via an official server.
Order-management features like the new take-profit levels sit at the more conventional end of that roadmap, aimed at manual traders rather than automation.
