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
OneUp Trader changed its lineup on September 16, 2026. A new Pro Evaluation lets you qualify in as few as 5 trading days instead of 10, at about 1.5 times the monthly price. Express Funding now needs 3 trading days, but only within 24 hours of losing a funded account. Underneath sits a rulebook that’s
On September 17, 2026, we sent the ProjectX API a login with a username that doesn’t exist. It answered HTTP 200 with this body: On the login endpoint, errorCode: 3 means InvalidCredentials. The same 3 from Order/place means InsufficientFunds, and from Auth/validate it means ExpiredToken. So which one just hit your bot? That’s the trap
The IBKR API cost is zero. It’s also the least useful number on your statement. We priced a micro futures bot trading four round turns a day, line by line, from Interactive Brokers’ published rates. The month came to $207.42, and only $42.00 of it was IBKR’s own commission. So where does the rest go?
Blue Guardian Futures now takes a 3% processing fee on every payout, up from 2% in early August. Its late-payout guarantee shrank from $1,000 to a 10% bonus, and its Express accounts got new limits on September 2. There was no big announcement for any of it. So which rules apply to the account you’re
Ping Tradovate’s API from a Chicago VPS and you’ll typically get a reply in 0 to 1 millisecond. Ping Rithmic from the same machine and the number barely moves. So is the Rithmic vs Tradovate speed question a tie? Not quite. When we tested where each hostname resolves, only one of those replies came from
Almost every Funded Futures Family guide online went stale on September 9, 2026. That’s the day the firm rewrote its Premier+ plan. It added a consistency rule where there wasn’t one, then cut how many contracts a funded trader can hold. If you bought a Premier+ account on September 8, none of this touches you.
Running an automated strategy on Interactive Brokers isn’t free, and the number on IBKR’s homepage isn’t the one that ends up on your statement. What matters is what happens after a TradingView alert fires 40 times a day for a month straight. Commissions, market data subscriptions, and account fees all behave differently once a strategy
If you’re running a copier across several Apex Trader Funding accounts, the rules aren’t buried in fine print. Apex publishes them in plain language on its own help center, and most traders who lose an account never read that page. They read a Reddit thread instead, or copy what a Discord group says is fine,
