If you searched “trailing stops” on this blog before today, you probably landed on something about trailing drawdown. That’s a different animal. Trailing drawdown is a prop-firm risk rule that shrinks your account’s maximum loss ceiling as your balance grows. A trailing stop is an order-management tool: a stop-loss that follows price in your favor
You’re already in the trade. Price moved, your stop is sitting in the wrong place, and you need to move it now without closing the position. If you run TradingView alerts through PickMyTrade into Tradovate, one webhook does this, but three things about how that update behaves will bite you if nobody warns you: it
You set a limit order on your TradingView strategy for a better entry. Price runs 15 points past your level without touching it. Your strategy tester still shows a clean, filled trade. In Tradovate, there’s a resting order that never became a position. Nothing closed, nothing opened, and the next signal has no idea which
Blue Guardian Futures runs an end-of-day trailing drawdown, a flat 90% profit split on funded accounts, and a copy-trading policy that allows only same-owner accounts. If you’re trying to figure out whether you can automate a Blue Guardian account with a TradingView strategy, the short answer is: partially, and only if you stay hands-on. Here’s
If you searched “how to copy trade on Tradovate,” you’re probably not asking about TradingView. You just want to know if Tradovate itself can mirror trades from one account into others, and if not, what actually works. Fair question, and it deserves a straight answer instead of an article that assumes you already picked a
If you’ve typed {{strategy.order.action}} into a TradingView alert box and gotten a blank message back, you’re not alone. Placeholders look simple. They’re just curly braces around a name. But TradingView ships more than twenty of them, they behave differently depending on whether your script is a strategy or an indicator, and the official documentation explains
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
Nine of the twenty prop firms we checked let you run a trade copiers across your own accounts with no special restriction beyond their usual risk rules. Another nine allow it too, just with a catch: an approved-vendor list, an evaluation-only window, or accounts that have to match in type and size. One firm bans
By PickMyTrade Andrea Cimitan calls the opening range breakout his “go-to” starting strategy, in his own words, on record, in a two-hour podcast interview. He also says that trading it without his order-flow overlay leaves money on the table. This guide covers both: his published rules for the base ORB setup, the Pine Script implementation
A Tradovate demo account is free for 14 days and opens with $50,000 in virtual funds, real-time futures data included, no card required. That part is well advertised. What surprises most traders is the clock running underneath it: the trial cannot be paused, reset, or extended, and once it lapses, the account simply stops letting
