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-====== Trade Edit ======
+====== Editing Traders ======
+**Personal Data** — The trader's contact information and the IP address from which they registered.
-**Personal Data** – personal trader's data and signup IP.
+**Site Name and Site Description** — Used to display the trader in your top list.
-**domain**: the domain of the site you're starting a trade with.
+**Status** — "Feeder" is a special status for traffic sources. Feeder clicks don't affect rotation stats (so they don't skew statistics against main traders), and feeders appear in a separate table in the Trade section.
-**url**: the url where you're going to send traffic to. The domain must appear in the url.
+**Ratio** — The percentage of traffic you send to this trader. When "VIP trade - keep ratio" is enabled, the script strictly maintains the ratio you set: increasing sends if needed, or suspending if you're sending too much.
-**icq**: the icq number of the other webmaster. if you select 'icq option' at Settings-> CJSettings Display config you can see icq preset messages popup near each trader and send preset icq messages with 1 click.
+**Hourly Force** — Sends a minimum number of hits per hour.
-**Ratio** is self-explained but I have to add about "VIP trade - keep ratio". That means script tries to hold ratio for this trade - forces if trade needs more hits and suspend trade if trade gets more hits than ratio.
+**Fast Force NOW** — Send a specific number of hits immediately (useful for starting a new trade). You can also do this from the main screen by clicking the trader's values.
+**IN Trade Type** — Determines which incoming traffic to count for debt calculation:
+  * Row — All hits
+  * Unique — Unique visitors only
+  * Average — Average of all and unique hits
+**Recommended:** Unique
-**Site Name and Site Description** - for toplist templates.
+**Trade Type** — Determines how the script calculates debt owed to/from the trader:
+  - Normal — debt = in * ratio * prod – out
+  - Capped — debt = in * ratio – out
+  - Real Prod — debt = in * ratio * prod (only trade clicks count, content clicks don't) – out
+  - TD type — debt = (in+click)/2 - out
-**Fast Force NOW** - traders gets max priority and script trys to send this amount of hits ASAP.
+**Recommended:** Normal
-**IN Trade Type** - what kind of data should we take for 'owed' formula:
+**Include in Toplist** — When unchecked, the trader won't appear in your top list (useful for sponsors or PPCs).
-  * Row
-  * Unique
-  * Average - an avareage between row and uni.
-Recommended  - Unique.
+**Skip trader in Anticheat** — When enabled, the script doesn't monitor this trader for cheating, meaning you fully trust them.
-Trade Type - actually this is formula used to calculate anmount of owed hits.
+**Eligible for Exout hits** — Whether to send traffic to the trader even if they owe you hits. Example: Trader A owes you, Trader B you owe. A surfer clicks; the first click goes to Trader A, and the second could go to Trader B (even though they owe you) or to exout. Generally, sending to the trader makes sense. When "Eligible for Exout hits" is enabled, traffic goes to them. Use "Stop sending Exout Hits" and "Start sending Exout Hits" to control this based on hourly traffic thresholds.
-  - Normal -  owed  = in * ratio * prod – out.
-  - Capped - in * ratio – out
-  - Real Prod - in * ratio * prod (click to trade only) – out
-  - TD type = (in+click)/2 - out
-Recommended - Normal.
-**Include in Toplist**  -  you can exclude from top list some urls like TDS, pay-per-click sponsors and so on
+**Advanced Traffic Settings**
-**Use Limit Ratio**   hereis simplу example how it works
+**Trade Start Limit (Min to start trade)** — Minimum hits needed to start trading with this trader. This threshold is measured per hour (not spread over days).
-in, 2500% prod. ratio - 130
+**Eligible for Exout hits** — Whether this trader can receive exout hits (traffic sent when they owe you hits). Controls whether you send extra traffic if they're over-delivering.
-	trade type capped at 130% (10*1.3) = 13 out
+**Stop sending Exout Hits** (if less than hits/hourly) — Stops exout traffic if hourly hits fall below this threshold.
-	trade type normal at 130% = (10*1.3*2.5) 32.5 out
-	limit ratio at 200% + normal trade = (prod > 200%  mean we have to use limit ratio) - 20 out
+**Start sending Exout Hits** (if more than hits/hourly) — Resumes exout traffic when hourly hits exceed this threshold.
-**Personal Trade Scheme** – u - send to url, t - to trade. For example, uttuut – means first click goes to url, 2 and 3 trade, 4 and 5 - to url, 6 - trade.
+**Use Limit Ratio** — A useful feature for capping traffic. Consider this example:
-**Send info about visited traders** – this is very usefull feature for some niches. Using it 2 copies of SmartCJ can send info about visited traders. For example, you have 2 domains : domain1.com and domain2.com, that trades between each other. And for example domain trader1.com trades both with domain1.com and domain2.com . Surfer goes to domain1.com and makes few clicks. Script sends it to trader1.com. Surfer makes one more click and script decides to send him to domain2.com. But script add some piece of informtion to url, so script at domain2.com knows that this surfer already visited trader1.com.
+incoming hits, 2500% productivity, 130% ratio
+- Capped at 130%: (10 * 1.3) = 13 hits out
+- Normal at 130%: (10 * 1.3 * 2.5) = 32.5 hits out
+- Limit ratio at 200% + normal: Since prod > 200%, use limit ratio: (10 * 2) = 20 hits out
+Three modes are available:
+- **Strict** — Send traffic normally until limit ratio is reached. After that, send zero hits. Trader disappears from top list.
+- **Inexact** — After hitting the limit ratio, trader doesn't receive thumb clicks but stays in the top list and can get some traffic above the limit.
+- **Smooth** — Script gradually reduces the ratio as it approaches the limit. Trader remains in top list.
-**Eligible for Exout hits** exout hits is hits over owed hits. let's say we have 2 traders: A - we owe us some hits, B - he owes us some hits.
+**Send Cheat Hits to other URL** — Routes cheat traffic to a different URL instead of the trader.
-Surfer's first click - we send him to trader A. When surfer clicks a second time - we can send him to trader B (but he already owes us) or to exout url from settings. If trader has 'Eligible for Exout hits' on - he will get hits even if he owes us, you can switch on\off this depending on trader's traffic.
+**Send Proxy hits to other URL** — Routes proxy traffic to a different URL instead of the trader.
+**Hourly Out Limit** — Maximum clicks sent to the trader per hour. Once exceeded, the trader is blocked for the rest of that hour.
-**Trader Groups - Special Urls**
+**Personal First click** — Sets a custom first-click behavior for this trader.
-You can select trader's groups using checkboxes. Also there is very usefull feature to multiniche sites. Fo example, you have a page teen.html at your multiniche site and there's a trader alnothersite.com, that also has page like teen.html. If you send hits from your teen page to his teen page - that grows your external productivity.
+**Personal Trade Scheme** — Removed (duplicated existing functionality). Use personal skimming instead; for example, entering `100,0,0,100` sets the traffic pattern.
-Here is how to use this:
-  - at teen.html setup links using group parameter, for example out.php?group=teen&url....
-  - Edit trader and add personal url for group teen (traderdomain.com/teen.html)
-So if you send w\o group parameter - script sends to main trader's url. If there's group parameter in request - script checkes if there's personal page for this trader and this group.
+**Send info about visited traders** — Useful for narrow niches and multi-site operations. This allows two SmartCJ installations to share information about which traders a surfer has visited. Example: You have domain1.com and domain2.com, both running SmartCJ. Traders overlap (e.g., foreigndomain.com gets traffic from both). Normally, when domain1.com sends a surfer to domain2.com, domain2.com doesn't know where that surfer has already been. This feature tells domain2.com about the surfer's visit history, so domain2.com can avoid sending them back to traders they've already visited. This increases the quality and uniqueness of traffic leaving your sites.
-===== Specials =====
-There are some site type you can select for each trader in Edit - Other options - Specials.
+===== Trader Groups - Special URLs =====
-**Site type - CJ**
+Assign traders to groups using checkboxes. This is especially useful for multi-niche sites. If you operate multiple niches and trade with another multi-niche site, targeting matching niches (e.g., your teen page to their teen page) significantly increases productivity compared to just sending to their homepage.
-SmartCJ can fetch your stats from trader's script and display at Trade screen in trader's popup (when you move your mouse over trader's domain name).
-**Toplist** - SmartCj tries to calculate reset time for this toplist and displays it in trader's popup
+**How to use:**
+  - Add the group parameter to all URLs on your teen page: `out.php?group=teen&url=...`
+  - Edit the trader and set a special URL for this specific group (e.g., `traderdomain.com/teen.html`)
-**Tube**
+**Algorithm:** If no group parameter exists, send to the main URL. If a group parameter is present, check for a custom URL for that group. If one exists, send there; otherwise, send to the main URL.
-This option affects both trade and rotation and could be useful for master-slave site, at least give it a try.
-here's what it does: When surfer clicks at thumb at site1 he expects to see content. Be due to skimming sometimes he sees another trader. If you run master-slave scheme you can show expected content at another site of your network. So if surfer clicks at some thumb of embedded content (custom gallery) and script decides to send him to trade and this trader is a part of your network - script can send him to content but at trader's site.
-Surfer gets to be more loyal to you + he can click at "related thumbs" at custom gallery at one of you network sites. For sure this will give you lower external productivity (ie yoursite1.com will show less productive traffic from another_yoursite.com) but you compensate it by setting higher return ration for your sites.
+===== Trade Support/Suspend System =====
-How it works: when surfer clicks at any thumb and script decides to send this click to trade it checks Trader Edit - Other settings - Specials (Site type) and it it's a 'tube' - script sends this hit to trader as trader.com?try=content_id. Script at trader.com sees that 'try' parameter and checks DB for that it. If it has it (for sure it has it if it's a master-slave site) it shows content.
+Controls automatic trader support and suspension. The key is ensuring your conditions don't overlap (e.g., one rule enabling while another disables simultaneously).
+See also [[Trade Activation]]
+===== Site Types =====
+Different site types have different behaviors:
+**Toplist** — When marked as a toplist, SmartCJ automatically calculates the reset time. This appears in the trader's popup and in the edit panel.
+**Tube** — The script passes the movie ID to the trader when a redirect occurs after a video click. This works best between your own sites or in a master-slave setup. Here's how: You have an embed site. A surfer clicks on movie ID 123, and the script redirects them to the trader's site (link: `domain/?try=123`). If the trader also runs SmartCJ, the script recognizes the ID and shows that specific movie page instead of the homepage. This improves conversion (user wanted to see a movie, got it) and allows them to click related thumbnails on the trader's site.
+This requires:
+  - The trader also runs SmartCJ
+  - Either a master-slave setup (IDs match exactly) or overlapping content
+If the trader doesn't have that movie ID, the homepage displays.
+===== Trader Thumb =====
+The **Thumb Shift** option skips the first X thumbnails when grabbing trader thumbnails. This is useful if a trader's first thumbnails are toplist images or other non-content images that you want to exclude.