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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!

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Mike Christensen

TradersPost has been accepted into the Newchip Series Seed Accelerator Program!

TradersPost will be joining the ranks of other fast-growing companies in the September 2022 cohort. We're well on our way to raising a seed and developing an incredible platform for automated trading.

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Mike Christensen

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.

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Jonathan Wage

08/02/2022 Webinar - Connecting a TradingView Strategy to TradersPost

In this webinar we show you how you can setup automated trading strategies on the futures asset class powered by TradingView alert webhooks.

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Jonathan Wage

TradersPost adds Mike Christensen as Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer

Adding to the leadership team, TradersPost has added Mike Christensen as a late Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer. Mike brings 20 years of engineering experience, over a decade of startup experience as a founder, and combined discretionary and algorithmic trading to TradersPost.

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07/05/2022 Webinar - New Features and Functionality

In the July webinar we show you how you can use TradersPost to setup automated trading strategies using webhooks to send signals from platforms like TradingView and TrendSpider.

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Jonathan Wage

The Boom of Retail Trading

U.S. stocks have experienced a steady increase in trading volumes over the past two years, with volume consistently topping 10 billion shares a day. Retail investors conduct a greater portion of trading. An estimated 20 million novice traders have started trading in the market over the last two years. Their decisions, behaviours and market sentiment can only mean investment opportunities.

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Jonathan Wage

06/07/2022 Webinar - Connecting External Platforms to TradersPost with Webhooks

In this webinar we cover some new functionality that makes it easier to connect TradingView strategies to TradersPost and seamless handle swapping sides from long to short or short to long in one signal.

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Jonathan Wage

05/03/2022 Webinar - Connecting Brokerage Accounts and Setting Up Strategies

In this webinar we show you how you can setup automated trading strategies in paper brokers to forward test your automated trading strategies.

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Jonathan Wage

04/05/2022 Webinar - How to Set Up and Use TradingView Webhooks for Options Trading

In this webinar we show you how you can setup automated trading strategies in stocks, options and futures using TradingView and TradersPost.

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Jonathan Wage

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.

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Jonathan Wage

The Stock Market Sees High Levels of Automated Trading

The financial markets have been changing rapidly in response to converging forces such as globalization, competition, geopolitics, and demographic shifts. As a consequence of rapid technological change, many new products and services have been developed, which have significantly altered the dynamics of financial trading.

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Jonathan Wage

02/01/2022 Webinar - New Features for Options and Futures Trading

In this webinar we reviewed the upcoming beta functionality in TradersPost which enables the ability to paper trade options and futures.

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Jonathan Wage

What is Pine Script?

Pine Script is a programming language created by TradingView to back test trading strategies and create custom indicators. You can begin trading with no setbacks by creating custom trading alerts, analysis tools and strategy scripts – all of which will help you gain an edge over other traders. Enhancing your edge and taking your trade to the next level is possible with Pine Script. Keep reading this blog to find out how.

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Jonathan Wage

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.

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1/04/2022 Webinar - TradersPost Introductory Webinar

In this webinar we reviewed how to configure TradingView to send alerts to TradersPost as webhooks and trigger orders in your broker.

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Jonathan Wage

Affiliate Program

We are excited to announce the TradersPost affiliate program. Get 20% of all payments made by customers you refer to us for up to 3 years. Get your unique URL and start earning!

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Algo Trade Fractional Shares With Alpaca and Robinhood

You can now buy and sell fractional shares with both Alpaca and Robinhood. You can trade in notional dollar amounts or with a fractional quantity. This feature is useful for smaller accounts that want to trade more expensive names like AMZN.

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Jonathan Wage

Reset TradersPost Paper Account

Set your account balance to something other than the default $100000 account size. It is now possible to reset the balances and delete order history on TradersPost paper accounts without having to delete and recreate the entire account.

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Jonathan Wage

TradeStation Now Supports Take Profit and Stop Losses

It is now possible to use take profit and stop loss orders attached to your entries when using TradeStation! This feature is useful for strategies that require a percentage take profit and or stop loss order attached to their entry orders.

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