Typing “buy 5 shares of AAPL at market price” into a chat window and watching a real order land in your brokerage account still feels like a magic trick. That’s exactly what Alpaca official MCP server does. It wires Claude directly into Alpaca’s trading and market data APIs, so placing an order, checking a position,
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
Your alert log shows a green checkmark. Your chart shows the entry. Your account shows nothing. That gap is the most common support ticket in retail trading automation, and almost nobody diagnoses it correctly the first time. Traders assume the alert broke. But in our queue, the alert is the culprit less than a third
Roughly 70% of daily U.S. equity trading volume now comes from algorithmic systems, not human hands on a mouse. That single number answers the headline question before we go any further. Automated trading legal status in the U.S. was settled long ago, and the market itself is the proof. But “it’s legal” isn’t the same
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
There’s no IRS form that grants trader tax status. No checkbox, no application, no confirmation letter. Instead, the IRS applies a “facts and circumstances” test built from decades of Tax Court rulings, and getting it wrong can cost you thousands in disallowed deductions. That ambiguity is exactly why so many active traders, including the ones
PickMyTrade × 0110 StratCoreAlpha Quick answer: StratCoreAlpha is an independent Pine Script and MQL4/MQL5 development studio run by Arnold Holm (Germany). PickMyTrade and StratCoreAlpha are running a small, unpaid, 30-day pilot. Do your TradingView alerts or trading rules need custom Pine Script, MQL, or TradingView-to-MetaTrader engineering? StratCoreAlpha can build that piece before it connects into
Supertrend automation delivers 55-65% win rates in trending futures markets. If you trade MNQ or ES and you’re still eyeballing the ATR band to catch a trend flip, you’re already a few ticks late. Automating the flip closes that gap. This guide wires the Supertrend indicator on a TradingView MNQ or ES chart directly into
Quick answer: “Trader Kane” (publicly named by Business Insider as Kane Simons) is an NQ futures day trader and co-founder of The Lab, a trading education community. His system, “The Lab Model,” combines standard ICT/Smart Money concepts (SMT divergence, inversion Fair Value Gaps, premium/discount) with three things that are distinctly his: NQ-only execution with ES
Retail prop trading has grown into a market worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Pass rates on most evaluations run between 5% and 15%. Do the math and most funded traders pay for more than one challenge before an account ever goes live. That raises a real question every April. Can any of
