Hero image: archival broadcast still of the trader publicly known as BNF, used here for editorial identification only. The “buy 20–35% below the 25-day MA” rule everyone quotes is a regime-specific number from 2001–02 that BNF himself said had already decayed by 2004 — and he said the rule alone doesn’t work. Here’s what the
Most automated strategies treat a rejected order like a hiccup. Log it, maybe fire an alert, and move on. That habit is the reason otherwise sound strategies quietly blow up. When an order is rejected mid strategy, the bot often has no way of knowing it happened. If it never reconciles its internal state against
Search “prop firm EA allowed” and you’ll get a wall of contradictory answers. One forum thread says a firm bans bots outright. Another says the same firm welcomes them. Both can be true at once, because most prop firms don’t give EAs a single yes-or-no answer — they give a yes, with three paragraphs of
How to automate an Opening Range Breakout (ORB) strategy on Interactive Brokers using TradingView alerts and PickMyTrade, with ORB rules and setup steps.
How to automate an Opening Range Breakout (ORB) strategy on Rithmic using TradingView alerts and PickMyTrade, with ORB rules and setup steps.
How to automate an Opening Range Breakout (ORB) strategy on Tradovate using TradingView alerts and PickMyTrade, with ORB rules and setup steps.
Every PickMyTrade and broker error-code guide in one place: Tradovate order rejections, Rithmic AutoLiq, webhook timeouts, ProjectX, and Interactive Brokers errors.
CrossTrade vs PickMyTrade compared for 2026: pricing, broker support, and whether you actually need NinjaTrader 8 to automate your TradingView alerts.
Every PickMyTrade guide on using Claude AI for trading in one place: MCP setup, Pine Script strategy building, model comparisons, and real prop-account results.
Here’s the trap nobody warns you about: you can be green on the day and still lose room on your account. That’s trailing drawdown. Industry estimates put trailing drawdown violations behind an estimated 20 to 30% of funded futures account failures, second only to daily loss limits. This guide is trailing drawdown explained the way
