The Settings tab is the cross-cutting platform configuration surface. It's where you do the one-time wiring that everything else depends on.
Trading-account management lets you add or remove broker accounts. Symbol mapping captures the per-broker translations — "EUR/USD ECN" → "EURUSD" — so cross-broker reporting actually reconciles. Asset-class default drives which news and economic events surface. Anlage-KAP tax export generates the German tax form ready for submission. AI-features toggle opts you in or out of the platform's analytical layer. Theme controls the dark/light feel.
A tab-layout refactor is queued. The current single-page form will split into focused sub-tabs, but the underlying configuration model isn't changing — what you set today survives the redesign.
- Asset class is a high-leverage setting — it filters News and Economy at the same time, so getting it right cleans up two tabs.
- Symbol mapping is invisible until it isn't — one missed mapping splits a single instrument into two reports.
- Trading-account list is your reality model — every account you actually trade should live here.
- Anlage-KAP export is jurisdiction-specific — German users get a finished form; everyone else gets the underlying CSV.
- AI toggle is opt-in — privacy-conscious users keep the platform fully deterministic if they want.
- Theme is taste — but consistent dark mode across review sessions matters more than people admit.
Day one, Settings is the second tab you open after Profile. Add your broker accounts, set asset class, and the rest of TradeOnyx falls into line — News filters itself, Economy filters itself, Briefing scopes events to your market.
During the year, Settings is mostly idle. The exception is symbol mapping — when a new instrument shows up unmapped, fixing it here once propagates the canonical name everywhere: Trades, Calendar, Overview, Charts all start treating the symbol consistently. That's why the cross-broker view in TradeOnyx actually reconciles instead of being three disconnected stories.
Year-end, Settings earns its keep. The Anlage-KAP export turns a year of trades into a German tax form ready for submission — the kind of jurisdiction-specific work that no generic journal does. AI-features and theme are personal toggles you'll set once. Once the queued refactor splits this tab into sub-tabs, the same fields will live in clearer rooms; nothing about your data or your habits has to change.