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CM Sling Shot Automated Trading Strategy

We cover how to turn the CM Sling Shot system into an automated TradingView strategy.

Mike Christensen

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In this post, we cover how you can turn the CM Sling Shot indicator by Chris Moody into a fully automated trading strategy with TradersPost.

Key Takeaways:

We'll break down the process into three steps:

  1. Rigorously test and verify your strategy will work and maintain consistent profits. See our posts on overfitting and bias in backtesting to ensure you're not falling into common traps.
  2. Set up your broker, strategy and subscription on TradersPost.
  3. Create your alerts and attach your webhook URL.

Testing for Robustness

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Creating the Strategy and Subscription

Setting up an Options Strategy
Subscribing TradeStation to the Strategy

Setting up Alerts and Attaching the Webhook URL

Creating the Buy Alert
Creating the Sell Alert

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