Notifications & Alerts

MimikTrader keeps you informed with an in-app notification bell and, for the events that matter most, an email as well. This article covers every notification type, which ones email you by default, how MimikTrader avoids flooding your inbox when the same problem repeats, and how to control read state and sound.

What Triggers a Notification

Every notification falls into one of nine kinds. In plain terms, here's what each one means when you see it in the bell panel:

• Risk close-out: a risk rule closed a position on your account automatically.
• Closing-only lock: your account was switched to closing-only — no new opening trades will copy until it's unlocked.
• Follower re-sync: a follower's position was corrected to match the leader.
• Connection down / restored / reconnect needed: a status change on one of your broker connections.
• Order declined: the broker rejected an order MimikTrader sent.
• Order couldn't send: an order failed to reach the broker at all — a different problem than a decline, and worth checking your connection status first.
• Opening trade held back: a new position was intentionally not copied, usually because of a risk rule or group setting.
• General warning: a catch-all "heads up" notice that doesn't fit the other categories.
• Copying update: a status change related to how your groups are replicating trades.

Which Notifications Also Email You

Five of the nine notification kinds email you by default, because they're the ones most likely to need attention away from your screen:

• Risk close-out
• Closing-only lock
• Follower re-sync
• Connection down / restored / reconnect needed
• Order declined

The remaining four — order couldn't send, opening trade held back, general warnings, and copying updates — are in-app only by default. You can turn email on or off for each notification kind individually in Settings, so if you want an email every time an opening trade is held back, you can switch that on there.

Smart Email Suppression for Repeated Rejections

If an account gets rejected for the same underlying reason over and over — say, the broker keeps declining an order for the same reason — MimikTrader does not email you once per attempt. You get one email for the incident, and every subsequent rejection for that same reason still shows up in the bell panel, just without a repeat email.

The suppression re-arms automatically: once an order on that account goes through and is accepted by the broker, the next new problem will email you again as a fresh incident. This keeps your inbox useful — one alert per real problem, not one per retry — without ever hiding the underlying issue from the in-app bell.

Read State

Each notification is either read or unread. Clicking a notification in the bell panel marks it read. If you'd rather clear everything at once, the "Mark all as read" button in the panel clears every unread notification in one click. You can also delete individual notifications you no longer need.

Sounds and Volume

MimikTrader plays a short tone when a new notification arrives, with a different pitch pattern depending on severity — an error sounds different from an informational update. You control the overall volume with a slider in Settings → Notifications, from 0% (silent) up to 100%.

Per-Connection Mute

If you have multiple broker connections and only want alerts from one of them, you can mute notifications for a specific connection from the menu inside the bell panel. Muting a connection suppresses the in-app bell, email, and any webhook notifications for that connection entirely, while leaving your other connections unaffected.