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There are a lot of ideas for strategies on TradingView (the platform that I used). I started with the leading indicators I liked to use for manually day trading, and then, over time, built them into a strategy in TradingView. The strategy I built has over 100 settings so it is highly...

The only way I have found to validate a trading strategy is not an efficient approach - it is to forward test it for a significant period of time. Automation and other trading technologies needed are simply academic. So far I have only one day trading strategy that has tested over time to be...

I will certainly reach out. Thanks.

I use TradingView strategies to auto-trade and I'd like to use Ironbeam. Is there a prebuilt way to connect Webhook alerts from TradingView to Ironbeam API to place orders? Is there an added charge to use Ironbeam's API? Thank you for posting here. This is very helpful.

A great broker to consider for both Futures and Futures Options is TastyTrade.com

It is misleading when nowhere on your website are the IRA margins mentioned - this leads people to believe they are no different. Also, Ironbeam, AMP, and other futures brokers are offering the same IRA margins for day traders as any other account holders. They have auto-liquidation...

My old account is still the lower rate, however, I opened new IRA accounts with them that are now hit with higher commissions, not to mention the fact that they quadrupled their margin requirements on IRA accounts without notice too. That is why I have to leave Tradovate for good.

I had opened a separate account with Tradovate by taking money from my IBKR account to avail of lower margins. Though IBKR has IRA margins of 3X, Tradovate's new policy states that they can raise margins as much as 8X for IRA accounts. There is no reason now to sacrifice the efficiency and...

It seems to have some good explanations that make a lot of sense.

Ah... The WayBackMachine... I had forgotten about that site. I used to use it years ago. Anyway, the other thing that is terrible about Tradovate is that they mention nothing about their IRA margin hikes on the page you have linked. So there is no telling when they hiked the margins.

Their commissions used to be $1.58 round-trip for ES. Now it is $2.58 for all new accounts - a whopping 63% increase. Inflation has no limits for Tradovate.

Now Tradovate has increased Day Margins for IRA accounts by 300%. See- https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/tradovate-quadrupled-margins-on-ira-accounts-without-notice.374134/ I am done with Tradovate once and for all!!

Tradovate is going sour on many fronts lately. Unreliable with the system being down recently, then they choose to increase commissions, and now they increase margins by 300%. I am done with this broker!

I see. Thank you.

The custodian is Midland Trust.

Today I get this message from Tradovate "It looks like you have an IRA account. With IRA accounts margins are always 4X the day margin. Thank you for using Tradovate! Tradovate, LLC" This is totally not true. I opened IRA accounts with Tradovate because of their low margins. Has anyone...

If you are in SHOP for the long haul then be prepared to keep rolling the weekly Calls until you get a pull-back. Take whatever small premium you can week-after-week and be patient. If you are looking for short-term gains on SHOP then ask yourself, would you buy the stock now at the strike...

@trader99 Are you having issues with tradersync in the last week or two? All my ES and NQ historical trades seem to have been changed by their system - I am seeing trade entry and exit prices being rounded - values of xxxx.25 are rounded to xxxx.20 and values of xxxx.75 are being rounded to...

I like this option for manually checking on a daily basis. I did go ahead and setup my Watchlist on CME. I am still looking for an online data source that my program can query and handle this for me automatically.

Thanks for taking the time to reply @Overnight. You failed to read my OP through to the end... "I have an automated system for trading various Index and Commodity futures and I'd like to program this change so it is handled automatically." Though I have an idea of how the contract switch is...