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
Your TradingView alert fires, your automation tool sends the order, and instead of a fill you get a JSON blob with an errorCode field that isn’t 0. That’s the whole problem with ProjectX errors: the API tells you exactly what went wrong, but the message is buried in a field most traders never look at.
Update (October 2026): Since 28 February 2026, ProjectX is available only through Topstep as TopstepX. Other prop firms that previously used ProjectX have moved to different platforms, most commonly Tradovate or Rithmic. The guide below may be outdated for non-Topstep firms. Still searching for a way to connect Bulenox to ProjectX? That door closed months
Ask three AquaFunded traders what the rules like drawdown limit is and you can get three correct answers. One’s on Instant Funding Standard with a single 3% trailing cap. Another’s on 2-Step Pro with a 5% daily line and a 10% trailing line. The third assumed their friend’s rules applied to their own account and
Trader Workstation has no webhook listener. There’s no URL you can paste into TradingView that TWS will ever answer directly, and that single fact is why more setup guides for this pairing get abandoned halfway through than for almost any other broker. Interactive Brokers built TWS around a local socket API, not an inbound HTTP
