Most strategies carry a loss cap somewhere in the code. A variable, a counter, a condition that stops sending orders once the day is down enough. It feels like a limit. It isn’t one. A limit written into a strategy is a request. It is evaluated when the strategy evaluates, which on a five-minute chart
You’ve got two indicators you trust. One spots the setup, the other confirms it, and you only want an order when both agree. Then you try to combine indicators in TradingView and hit the real snag. They’re separate scripts. One of them might be an invite-only tool whose code you’ll never see. Until October 2025,
The5%ers spent ten years as a forex firm. Its futures arm is much newer, and the rulebook reads differently enough that traders arriving from the CFD side get caught out. Two answers matter more than the rest. Copiers are allowed, but inside a box far smaller than most people assume. And the automation most traders
{{strategy.market_position}} and {{strategy.market_position_size}} sit side by side among TradingView’s 11 strategy placeholders, and they look like two answers to the same question. They aren’t. The first sends a word: long, short or flat. The second sends a number, the absolute size of the position. Both describe the strategy after the order has filled, which is
We backtested the TJR Asia session sweep strategy on NQ futures: 348 out-of-sample setups, profit factor 1.35. Rules, settings, and how to automate it.
Tradovate demo trading comes with a hard stop: the free demo lasts 14 days. Any 14 days in a row contain exactly 10 weekdays, so you get about 10 trading sessions to decide whether a TradingView strategy deserves real money. If it trades three times a session, that’s 30 trades. Thirty trades say very little
Every auto trail stop futures traders run through PickMyTrade comes down to three numbers: a trigger, a distance and a frequency. Most people set them once and picture a stop that hugs price one tick behind. That isn’t what happens. The stop moves in steps. On PickMyTrade’s day-trading preset, a 10-tick distance with a 5-tick
Type alertdragon.com into a browser today and you won’t land on a Tradovate automation dashboard. You’ll get a blank “Loading…” page, then a bounce to a redirect domain that has nothing to do with trading. The client login does exactly the same thing. We checked on September 14, 2026, and that result changes what a
FunderPro’s help center says high-frequency trading and automated bots are allowed, as long as they operate fairly. Its Challenge Terms and Conditions say something else. Clause 13.9 prohibits high-frequency trading outright. Both pages are live on the firm’s site today, so which one decides whether your bot keeps the account? The gap matters more than
The decision that makes or breaks Tradeify webhooks happens at checkout, weeks before you ever write an alert. Tradeify sells three broker connections at exactly the same price. You pick one, and you can’t change it later without buying a new account. Most guides skip straight to the JSON. They assume you’re on Tradovate, because
