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Features & Settings Jun 3, 2024

Enhance Your Trading with Customizable Order Types in TradersPost

With the latest update to TradersPost, you can now control the order type directly from webhooks using the new orderType field. This optional field allows you to specify the type of order—market, limit, stop_limit, stop, or trailing_stop—providing greater flexibility and precision in your trading strategies. If not specified, the default order type configured in your strategy subscription settings will be applied. Explore how to use each order type with practical JSON examples, and take your automated trading to the next level.

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Features & Settings May 29, 2024

CM Sling Shot Automated Trading Strategy

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

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Features & Settings Apr 8, 2024

Automating Long and Short Strategies

Automated trading provides an enormous benefit to traders that are looking to remove emotion from a bullish or bearish sentiment they may have on the market. Allowing your strategy to be market neutral and going long and short can provide a much more flexible approach to trading.

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Features & Settings Mar 14, 2024

Office Hours Q&A: Trading Automation

Get answers to common automated trading questions including broker performance comparisons, dynamic position sizing, and platform feature updates.

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Features & Settings Mar 8, 2024

New Indicator: Confluence of Alerts

In the ever-evolving world of trading, where the confluence of multiple technical indicators can signal potent trading opportunities, we're excited to unveil our latest tool for TradingView: the Confluence of Alerts indicator.

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Features & Settings Feb 20, 2024

Fallacies and Biases in Automated Trading

Algorithmic trading and backtesting offer powerful tools for traders, enabling rigorous analysis and execution of strategies at speeds and volumes unattainable by humans alone. However, the human element in the development and interpretation of these systems introduces cognitive biases that can skew results and lead to suboptimal trading decisions. This article explores key cognitive biases to be mindful of in algorithmic trading and backtesting.

Features & Settings Jan 25, 2024

TradersPost's Enhanced Interface: A User-Friendly Upgrade

Introducing the revamped TradersPost: A blend of aesthetic upgrades and functional enhancements to elevate your trading journey. Key updates include a redesigned menu, simplified strategy creation with integrated webhooks, and a persistent save bar for easy form management. With in-app documentation and a new user menu dropdown, navigating TradersPost is now more intuitive than ever. Plus, discover our setup wizard for a seamless start and enjoy clearer help texts and labels for streamlined trading experiences.

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Features & Settings Jan 18, 2024

Trading Windows: Control Exactly When Your Strategies Should Be Allowed To Execute Trades

Take command of your trading strategies with the new Trading Windows feature from TradersPost.

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Features & Settings Dec 7, 2023

Automatic Position Size Calculation with TradersPost

TradersPost users appreciate the feature that allows for relative position sizing, which dynamically modifies your order volume to match your portfolio's performance. This method enhances your potential for greater returns by scaling your risk in proportion to your portfolio's growth or contraction, safeguarding against overexposure. Essentially, as your trading outcomes improve, your position size increases, and conversely, it decreases when the market is not in your favor.

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Features & Settings Jan 19, 2022

Benefits of Automated Trading

Even novice traders know that you must constantly research and monitor the market to profit. However, technology has allowed us to eliminate the most challenging part of the work and have the trades executed automatically based on the algorithms we set while enjoying our well-earned free time.

Features & Settings Apr 18, 2021

Shorting Is Available!

TradersPost customers now have the ability to take the short side when trading automated strategies. When we launched TradersPost in early 2021, we launched long only with plans to release short trading at a later date. Well that date is here!

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Features & Settings Mar 29, 2021

Launching the TradersPost Community

Are you looking for an algo trading community? You came to the right place, my friend! Join the TradersPost community and get knowledge from other experienced traders. As a member of our community, you will have access to free information and educational material to further your trading strategy. You will also be able to chat with other members in our community as well as get answers to any questions you have about trading!

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