Your TradingView strategy shows a winning trade. The alert arrived at a different time, and your broker recorded a different entry price. Before changing the strategy, find out which part of the trade actually changed. The TradingView backtest vs live difference comes from comparing a historical simulation with a real execution process. A backtest models
The Nitro CRT strategy comes from a 14-minute lesson by Nitro Trades on Candle Range Theory (CRT). The idea fits in one sentence: mark one candle’s high and low, wait for the next candle to poke through one side and close back inside, then trade toward the other side. We coded the Nitro CRT strategy
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,
{{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.
You set up one crossover condition. You get two orders, same symbol, same direction, thirty seconds apart, and your broker account is holding double the size you intended. This is one of the most common tickets traders open with automation tools. It almost always traces back to the same cause: your Pine Script condition is
TradingView alert placeholders are the double-curly-brace tokens, such as {{close}}, that TradingView replaces with live values the moment an alert fires. Every strategy alert starts life as a template full of them. When an order fills, TradingView swaps each token for its value and posts the result to your webhook. Get one token wrong and
On June 24th I connected a TradingView strategy to a funded futures account, turned on the webhook, and closed the laptop. The rule I set for myself was simple and, it turned out, much harder to keep than I expected: no manual trades, no early exits, no “just this once” override. Sixty days later, on
Inna Rosputnia currently leads the futures division of the 2026 World Cup Championship of Futures Trading with a return of 515.9%. She also publishes a trend system built on an 18-day moving average. We coded that published system exactly as she describes it, then ran it through TradingView’s Strategy Tester on gold, silver and Nasdaq
CME futures hit a record 28.1 million contracts in average daily volume in 2025, up 6% year over year. More volume means more noise. And more noise means your indicator choice matters more than ever if you trade ES, NQ, CL, or GC. Picking the best TradingView indicators for futures day trading gets harder once
