The5%ers built its name on forex and CFD prop challenges, so a lot of traders assume its futures side runs on the same rulebook. It doesn’t. The futures program has its own evaluation targets, its own end-of-day drawdown logic, and its own copy-trading policy that trips up traders who assume “copying my own account” works […]
You add a Bollinger Bands cross and an EMA cross to your chart, set up two alerts, and now your phone buzzes twice for what is really one trade idea. One buzz means “price crossed the band.” The other means “price crossed the EMA.” Neither one alone means “both conditions lined up, take the trade.”
A daily loss limit sounds simple until you automate around one. You set a number and assume your bot will enforce it the way you would. Most setups don’t, and that gap is where funded accounts get blown. A human trader who sees the account down $480 on a $500 limit hesitates before the next
Most “TrendSpider vs TradingView” articles compare charting tools, indicator libraries, and AI scanners. That’s the wrong fight if what you actually want is a trade landing in your broker account without you clicking a mouse. Here’s the question nobody answers cleanly: can either platform send an order to a broker by itself? The honest answer
FundingPips allows automated trading, but not freely. Third-party Expert Advisors are permitted only when they act as a trade or risk manager, not as an autonomous strategy engine, and any other use triggers denial of the evaluation and account closure. If you built the EA yourself, full automation is allowed with proof of ownership. Here
Moving your stop-loss to breakeven feels like the responsible move. Price runs in your favor, you protect your capital, you sleep easier. But ask any trader who got stopped out at exactly $0.00 minutes before the market ran another 20 points their way, and you’ll hear a different story. Trading educators call this the breakeven
Key Takeaways• PickMyTrade’s Active Hours setting restricts trading to a start and end time entered in Eastern Time (ET), with options to leave positions open, close one account, or close all accounts when the window ends.• PickMyTrade’s documentation does not explicitly state whether its ET field auto-adjusts for Daylight Saving Time — verify this yourself
If your TradingView alert fires but PickMyTrade rejects the payload or sends the wrong contract count, the cause is often one mixed-up placeholder. {{strategy.market_position}} and {{strategy.market_position_size}} look almost identical in the alert editor, but they return completely different data types. A third relative, {{strategy.position_size}}, adds a signed-number trap on top. Pick the wrong one for
If you’re trading TopstepX or thinking about starting a Combine, three things decide whether the account survives and pays out: how the drawdown floor moves, how the payout split actually works, and whether your automation setup is even allowed. Get any one of those wrong and you can pass an evaluation and still lose the
The Topstep API costs $14.50 a month with the promo code. A market order takes exactly four HTTP calls: log in, find your account, find the contract, place the trade. So why do so many traders stall before the first order ever leaves their machine? Because the pieces live in three places. You buy the
