Balances look wrong, trades do not appear on your dashboard, or your evaluation progress is not moving despite trading.
You are logged into a different account than you think, most often a demo or an old evaluation left over from before.
One login can hold several accounts, and the platform will happily open whichever it selected last. Because the interface is identical for every account, nothing on screen tells you that you are on the wrong one except the account number itself.
This is worth checking early in any troubleshooting: a surprising number of missing trades, wrong balances and stalled evaluations are simply the wrong account being open.
The account number in the platform matches the dashboard, and a trade you place appears in the dashboard's history for that account.
Check the account number every time you log in, before your first trade of the session. Ask the firm to remove accounts you no longer need if the list gets long.
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