What is TradingView Paper Trading?

TradingView paper trading offers a simulated trading environment where you can practice trading strategies and test ideas without risking real money. This featu...

Tom Hartman

September 3, 2025

How to Become a Certified Futures & Options Analyst Quickly and Cost-Effectively

TradersPost partners with TrendUp to offer the new CFOA Direct certification. Earn your CFOA in a weekend and save with code TRD20POST25.

Mike Christensen, CFOA

September 3, 2025

Monetize Your Trading Signals: The Ultimate Guide for Trading Communities

TradeBeacon turned their trading Discord into a profitable auto-trading service—without overcharging. Learn how they use TradersPost, transparent pricing, and coupon incentives to grow their trading community.

Mike Christensen, CFOA

April 4, 2025

Streamlining Multiple Prop Firm Accounts with TradersPost Automation

Automation simplifies the management of multiple prop firm accounts by providing centralized control and consistent execution. With TradersPost, traders can efficiently scale operations and maintain compliance across all accounts.

Tom Hartman

November 6, 2024

Successful Automated Strategies in Prop Trading

In prop trading, automated strategies like arbitrage and quantitative models provide efficiency and accuracy. Using TradersPost for fast execution, traders can implement these strategies effectively while monitoring trade performance for continuous improvement.

Tom Hartman

November 4, 2024

Algorithmic Approaches to Prop Trading: Strategies that Work

Algorithmic trading in prop firms requires efficient, rule-compliant strategies. Using TradingView and TradersPost, traders can automate strategies like trend following and mean reversion, maintaining compliance while optimizing for profitable performance.

Tom Hartman

November 3, 2024

Developing Automated Trading Strategies for Prop Firms

Building automated trading strategies for prop firms involves balancing compliance with profitability. Using TradingView for strategy design and TradersPost for automation, traders can develop compliant, high-performance trading systems.

Tom Hartman

November 2, 2024

Leveraging TradingView for Prop Trading: A Guide for Automated Traders

Automated prop traders can now use TradingView and TradersPost to transform TradingView alerts into real-time trades without coding expertise. This integration empowers traders to streamline their strategies and adhere to prop firm requirements efficiently.

Tom Hartman

November 1, 2024

The Pros and Cons of Prop Firm Trading for New Traders: A Comprehensive Guide

Prop firm trading offers new traders access to larger capital and advanced resources, potentially accelerating their trading careers. However, it also involves strict rules, profit-sharing, and performance pressures. Weighing these factors can help determine if this path aligns with your trading goals.

Tom Hartman

October 2, 2024

The Reality of Prop Firm Trading: Navigating the Narrow Path

Tom Hartman

October 1, 2024

Trading Continuous Futures Contracts from TradingView on TradersPost

When algo trading futures contracts, it’s essential to understand how continuous contracts are rolled over on different platforms.

Mike Christensen, CFOA

June 18, 2024

Running Automated Trading as a Serious Business

Approaching automated trading like a business begins with a clear plan that articulates your objectives and defines what success looks like.

Mike Christensen, CFOA

April 16, 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.

Mike Christensen, CFOA

February 21, 2024

Understanding Overfitting in Trading Strategy Development

Overfitting is like walking an unfamiliar path blindfolded, convinced you know every twist and turn, only to fall flat on your face in the first 20 feet.

Mike Christensen, CFOA

February 10, 2024

Hacking TradingView: Multi-Broker and Multi-Asset Trading from TradingView

Having the ability to manage multiple positions across various brokers is crucial for traders looking to maximize their opportunities. However, a notable limitation exists on TradingView, which restricts users to a single broker connection at a time. This constraint can be a significant hurdle for traders aiming to diversify their portfolios across different asset classes like stocks, options, futures, and cryptocurrencies. We cover a hack on how to connect multiple brokers and multiple asset classes from TradingView in this post.

Mike Christensen, CFOA

December 15, 2023

Automated Exit Strategy: Relative Stop Loss and Take Profit

Strategizing entries in trading can be complex enough without the added pressure of calculating exit points. TradersPost simplifies this with a feature that lets your strategy focus on the entry signals, entrusting the exit order calculations to the platform. The Relative Stop Loss and Take Profit feature automates this crucial step, enhancing your trading process with efficiency and accuracy.

Tom Hartman

December 8, 2023

Automate Trading Options on TradingView with TradersPost

TradersPost brings options trading within reach for every trader by automating the buying and selling process based on the underlying asset's price action. With no coding required, users can streamline their options strategies, whether bullish or bearish, using TradersPost's intuitive interface.

Tom Hartman

December 8, 2023

What is repainting in TradingView and how do I find it and avoid it?

Repainting is a Pine Script behavior in TradingView causing historical vs real-time calculations or plots to behave differently. It is widespread and can be caused by many factors. Most existing indicators repaint, including widely used indicators like MACD and RSI. TradingView’s documentation states that, “[...] our estimate is that more than 95% of indicators in existence repaint.”

Mike Christensen, CFOA

March 8, 2023

TradingView Strategy vs Indicator - The Differences and Meaning

Confused about the difference between TradingView strategies and indicators? In this post, we will explain the main differences and help you choose the right tool for your trading needs. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced trader, understanding the distinction between these two tools is crucial for successful technical analysis.

Jonathan Wage

January 11, 2023

Automating Your Trading Strategy: Platforms vs. Low-Level Broker APIs

When it comes to automating your trading strategy, you have two main options: using a platform like TradersPost and TradingView, or using a low-level broker API and a custom programming language.

Jonathan Wage

January 9, 2023

Comparing TradeStation vs NinjaTrader vs TradersPost

TradeStation, NinjaTrader, and TradersPost are all popular platforms among active traders and investors looking to improve their trading strategy and execution. All three platforms offer advanced automation capabilities, but they differ in terms of their focus and target audience.

Jonathan Wage

January 2, 2023

TradingView Automated Trading using TradersPost and Alert Webhooks

TradingView is a popular platform for technical analysis and trading. One of the great features it offers is the ability to set up custom alerts that trigger when certain conditions are met on a chart. These alerts can be configured to send notifications via email, SMS, or even send a request to a webhook. In this post, we will look at how to use TradingView alerts and the TradersPost service to automate your trading.

Jonathan Wage

January 2, 2023

Automated Trading vs. Manual Discretionary Trading: Which is Better?

When it comes to trading, there are two main approaches: automated trading and manual discretionary trading. In automated trading, the trader uses computer algorithms to make trades based on predefined rules, while in manual discretionary trading, the trader makes trades based on their own judgment and analysis.

Jonathan Wage

January 2, 2023

Important TradersPost Webhook URL Updates

As TradersPost continues to grow, we are constantly working to improve our infrastructure. To improve our system further, we are migrating our webhook URLs from traderspost.io to webhooks.traderspost.io

Jonathan Wage

December 7, 2022

TradersPost Adds Support for Trailing Stops in TradeStation Integration

We are excited to announce that we have added support for trailing stops in our TradeStation broker integration. This new feature will allow our users to maximize their profits and minimize their risks.

Jonathan Wage

December 5, 2022

The Journey of an Automated Trader

So you want to get into automated trading? This article aims to share with you my experiences going through the journey of becoming an automated trader and building TradersPost.

Jonathan Wage

November 16, 2022

Can you trade options on TradingView through TradersPost?

Recently, a customer asked if they could trade options from TradingView signals like price alerts and strategy signals. The quick answer is yes!

Mike Christensen, CFOA

September 16, 2022

No Code Trading Bots Using TradersPost and TrendSpider

Using TrendSpider with TradersPost you can easily build fully automated trading bots without having to write a single line of code. This is a huge advantage compared to TradingView where you have to write Pine Script to build a strategy. Develop and backtest your strategy in TrendSpider and deploy it to your live or paper broker using TradersPost.

Jonathan Wage

August 17, 2022

Why You Need to Backtest Your Trading Strategy

Manual or systematic analysis of the past performance of a trading strategy or concept is known as backtesting. By backtesting the strategy manually or by using backtesting software, a trader can determine whether the strategy is most likely a waste of time and money or if it shows promise and profitability across a variety of markets.

Jonathan Wage

February 17, 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.

Jonathan Wage

January 20, 2022