A TopstepX API key not working almost always comes down to one of two things: the ProjectX API Access subscription isn’t active, or the username field doesn’t match the ProjectX dashboard. We’ve helped hundreds of traders get their connections green through PickMyTrade’s ProjectX integration, and these two causes account for roughly 80% of the tickets
“Your maximum order quantity has been met” means the order you sent is bigger than what the broker or prop firm allows on that account. The broker refuses it before it ever reaches the exchange. Fix it by lowering the quantity in your alert to a size the account actually permits, then confirming your quantity
Interactive Brokers TWS Gateway automation comes down to one thing: a logged-in TWS or IB Gateway session that stays alive on a machine you control. PickMyTrade, a TradingView-to-broker trade automation platform, sends the orders, but it can only send them into a session that’s open. Most of the setup below exists to keep that session
A Rithmic access denied error on an automation platform almost never means your password is wrong. It means your Rithmic user ID can log in but isn’t cleared to send orders through the API. R|Trader Pro checks the first permission. An automation bridge needs the second, and only the firm that issued your credentials can
“Symbol Mapping Not Found” means PickMyTrade looked up the symbol your alert sent and found no Settings row with that exact string. The order was never built, so your broker never saw it. Send the continuous symbol (MNQ1!), pick it from the alert generator’s list, and confirm the row exists. That fixes the first half
What happens when you turn parts of the Okala 80/20 strategy into explicit trading rules and run them through TradingView? We built an independent Pine Script adaptation and inspected its simulated NQ trades. This case study shows what we tested, how it performed and what the numbers can actually tell us. What this test covers:
The brokers that connect to TradingView for automated trading through PickMyTrade, a TradingView-to-broker trade automation platform, are Tradovate, Rithmic, Interactive Brokers, TradeStation, ProjectX, Ironbeam, Match-Trader, TradeLocker, cTrader and Tradier. That makes ten. MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, dxTrade and NinjaTrader don’t connect, and no setting changes that. TradingView connects to none of them for automation: it
Most traders set an RTH window once and never look at it again. That works until the first Friday after Thanksgiving. The E-mini complex shuts 225 minutes early, and the window keeps waving orders through into a market that has already gone home. The window wasn’t wrong. It was just the only clock in the
Your strategy sends its exit, the position closes at market, and the account reads flat. Twenty minutes later the stop from that trade is still resting below the market, and the target is still waiting above it. Nothing broke. The OCO brackets TopstepX attaches to each entry have exactly one trigger, and your exit wasn’t
You did the thing everyone told you to do. The entry condition is wrapped in barstate.isconfirmed, the alert is set to Once Per Bar Close, and the signal arrow no longer jumps around on the right edge of the chart for non-repainting strategy, Then you check the account: two fills, eight seconds apart, on one
