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Use TradersPost to automate TradingView or TrendSpider strategies in your own The Futures Desk brokerage account. Send alerts to TradersPost and we route orders to the account you connect.

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Your strategies. Your accounts. Your rules.

Connect each strategy to your accounts, then choose how it trades in each one.

  • MNQZ2026 Momentum Waiting for alertBuy alert received
  • Mean Reversion Waiting for alertBuy alert received
  • New strategy
  • The Futures Desk 1x MNQZ2026
  • The Futures Desk 2x MNQZ2026
  • The Futures Desk Paused
Strategies connected to The Futures Desk accounts. Each connection has its own size and sides, and each active one places the order in its account.

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One alert, all your The Futures Desk accounts

1. Signal source

2. Sends orders to

The Futures Desk Futures (fixed for this page)

TradingView / Chart alert

TradingView · Create alert

Message

{
  "ticker": "{{ticker}}",
  "action": "{{strategy.order.action}}",
  "price": "{{close}}"
}
TradersPost / via webhook Live

5 orders from one signal

AccountOrderStatus
The Futures Desk account 1Buy 1 ESZ2026Sent
The Futures Desk account 2Buy 1 ESZ2026Sent
The Futures Desk account 3Buy 1 ESZ2026Sent

+ 2 more accounts, same order

A TradingView alert for ESZ2026 reaches TradersPost and becomes a market buy for 1 contract on 5 of your The Futures Desk accounts through ProjectX. The alert also carries a price, because ProjectX sends no quotes.

The Futures Desk at a glance

Connects through ProjectX, so orders follow what ProjectX supports. Automation and copy trading are firm rules and can change.

Platform
ProjectX
Platform features
Assets
Futures
Prop accounts trade futures
Automated trading
Allowed
Set by the firm
Copy trading
Allowed
Set by the firm
Complex orders
Simple only
No bracket, OCO or OTO
Quantity limits
You set them
A maximum for each of up to 25 tickers. An order past it is rejected or reduced to your maximum
Signal sources
Any webhook
Code, automation tools, AI workflows, TradingView

TradersPost sends the orders you configure and does not change or approve a firm's rules. Firm rules from www.thefuturesdesk.com. Connects through ProjectX. Confirm the current policy before you connect. The The Futures Desk automation guide walks through the setup.

Connect ProjectX with an API key

  1. Create an API key

    Create an API key in your ProjectX account and copy it.

  2. Confirm and enter your credentials

    Go to Brokers and choose ProjectX, then tick the box confirming you are authorized to trade the account. Enter your Prop Firm, Username and API Key, pasting the key you copied from ProjectX, then click Connect ProjectX.

  3. Name it and enable your accounts

    You land on the connection page. Name the connection if you like, then enable each account you want TradersPost to trade.

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Search the firms and filter by platform and policy. Automation and copy trading are each firm's own rules, so check a firm's own policy before you rely on it.

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