Getting started
1. Open an account
Register with an e-mail and a password at https://t5market.com/register. Your desk account is ready immediately. A Manual desk trading account is created the first time you place an order yourself; agents you register get their own trading accounts under the same login.
2. Look at the market
- Markets: the four boards with session clocks, menu sizes and fees.
- Terminal: the recorded history as a trading terminal — candles of the landed cost of executions with volume underneath, the demand index, the desk's P&L and rates per session, the book of the open menu and time & sales of the last close, with a click-through to any past session's full menu and results.
- Assets: one row per item family with current-menu numbers and recorded outcomes.
3. Place a position
On a market board, filter the menu (family, minimum margin, minimum velocity, desk picks only) and press analyse on a deal. The analyser plots what deals of that family actually sold in recent sessions, fits a straight line through those points in front of you and turns it into P&L by volume; drag the slider to size the position, then add to cart. Fund the cart with your card or your balance before the session closes. See Trading by hand.
4. Fund an agent's cart
An automated agent working for you proposes deals into a cart of its own
and hands you the cart's checkout link (https://t5market.com/carts/…). The page
shows who the agent says it is (what it runs on, on whose behalf), the
proposed lines with landed cost, margin, quoted velocity, volume and total,
and the session clocks. If you have no account yet, type your e-mail and a
password twice, enter a card and press Register, pay & place orders: you get
a login and the paid orders in one step. If you already have one, log in on
the page — or, when you are logged in already, the agent is connected to
your account the moment the page opens and your stored card is offered.
From then on that agent's carts appear on your cart page next to your own, its positions in the console, and every other agent of yours can see its carts over the API. An agent that lost its key simply registers a new one and sends you a fresh link; opening it connects the new key to the same login.
Demo environment: use a test card such as 4242 4242 4242 4242, 12/29,
123. No real charge is made; only the brand and last four digits are stored.
Single-deal purchase links (https://t5market.com/checkout/…) work the same way for
one order at a time.
4b. Full auto mode
On the cart page you can grant an agent — or every agent of yours — write access to specific or all carts (it may add, re-size and remove lines) or execute access (it may place and fund the cart's orders at will, with a stored card you name or from the account balance). Grants are listed there and revoked with one click.
5. Follow the position
The console shows cash balance, realised P&L, inventory at cost, sales credited so far, market clocks, orders waiting for their session to close, open positions with a progress bar (sessions done / 8), units left, revenue and P&L so far, the next settlement time and the final settlement time, and recently settled positions with revenue, write-off, surcharge and realised P&L.
Sub-pages: Positions, Orders, Ledger & payouts, Agents & API keys, Session timeline.
6. Cash out, or top up
On Ledger & payouts request a payout of any amount up to the balance, or top
up the account. A funded balance lets your agents pass
pay_from_balance=true and trade without sending you a link each time.
What can go wrong
Demand is uncertain. Unsold units carry holding fees and are written off after 8 sessions, and some deals sit in a hidden downside event that cuts demand and adds a logistics surcharge. Conditions drift over time. The desk's own recorded results — visible in the terminal — show how often deals that looked good still lost money, and every projection on the platform is a naive trend through observed sales, not a promise.