TradersPost vs PickMyTrade: Broad Routing or Tradovate-Focused Automation?

At a glance

What TradersPost is built for

TradersPost sits between a signal source and a brokerage account. A Strategy defines the asset class, tickers, and settings and comes with its own webhook URL; a Subscription connects that strategy to one broker account, with account-level settings such as position size. TradersPost doesn't execute, clear, or settle trades or hold your funds: the connected broker-dealer fills the order in your account. It routes across futures, stocks, options, and crypto, and its paid tiers scale by the number of live and paper accounts and asset classes.

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What PickMyTrade is built for

PickMyTrade turns a TradingView alert into an order: it reads the JSON message in the alert and places the order, with any take-profit, stop-loss, and sizing rules attached, on a broker account you connect. Its terms describe it as "not a registered broker or investment adviser." It runs two sites split by broker: Tradovate accounts connect on pickmytrade.trade, and all other brokers on pickmytrade.io, each with its own app, webhook address, and documentation. On pickmytrade.trade, one subscription covers one Tradovate login and its sub-accounts; on pickmytrade.io, each subscription is assigned to a specific broker connection. Whether one login or subscription carries across both sites isn't documented, so a trader using Tradovate and another broker should ask PickMyTrade before paying.

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Signal flow and sources

TradingView is the most prominent signal source for both, but our reviews document different breadth. TradersPost names TrendSpider, QuantConnect, Zapier, IFTTT, and custom webhook workflows as other ways to trigger a strategy. Our PickMyTrade review documents its TradingView workflow in detail: strategy alerts take the action from the strategy, and indicator alerts set buy, sell, or close explicitly. Other signal sources aren't documented in our PickMyTrade review, so this page doesn't compare non-TradingView sources.

Whichever tool you use, TradingView's webhook alerts need Essential or above (see our TradingView review). PickMyTrade's own checklist also warns against "unsupported TradingView plans" without naming them.

Futures brokers and connections

Tradovate and ProjectX are the futures connections both list. Beyond those, the lists differ:

• TradersPost: its futures connections also include TradeStation, NinjaTrader, and tastytrade.
• PickMyTrade: it documents futures on Rithmic (a non-trial account is required), Interactive Brokers (Trader Workstation must stay open and logged in), and Ironbeam. Its pickmytrade.trade site labels Ironbeam, Tradier, and cTrader as Beta, while its .io and .com pages list them without that label. It lists TradeStation as a connection, but TradeStation isn't among the connections it documents for futures. NinjaTrader isn't listed, and tastytrade appears only as upcoming.

Depth matters as much as the list. PickMyTrade documents Tradovate, Interactive Brokers, and ProjectX in detail and its other connections with a few setup or alert guides. Our TradersPost review doesn't grade its documentation broker by broker, so the two aren't compared on that.

Sizing, brackets, and risk controls

This is where the two differ most for futures, though not every feature can be compared.

• Sizing: TradersPost sizes futures by Fixed Quantity only; risk-based and percent-of-equity sizing aren't supported. PickMyTrade's JSON reference documents a fixed quantity or a risk percentage, from which it calculates the quantity using the stop loss and account balance; without a stop loss, a risk-percentage alert fails. That reference is built around the Tradovate workflow.
• Take profit and stop loss: TradersPost calculates futures take-profit and stop-loss levels as price offsets from the entry, not dollar targets. PickMyTrade sets them in points, dollars, or percent, and can update an existing take-profit or stop-loss order rather than place a new one.
• Attached legs on TradersPost: Tradovate and NinjaTrader support every listed type, including stop-loss, take-profit, and trailing-stop legs. TradeStation has stop-loss and take-profit legs but no trailing-stop legs, and tastytrade has stop-loss and take-profit legs but no trailing stops. ProjectX has no attached legs: TradersPost says it doesn't yet support bracket orders. Tradovate and ProjectX don't provide quotes, so limit and bracket orders sent to them need a price in the signal.
• Trailing and breakeven on PickMyTrade: trailing stops take a distance, a trigger, and a frequency, in points or dollars, percentage, ticks, or total profit/loss. Breakeven moves the stop to the entry, or beyond it by an optional offset. On ProjectX, PickMyTrade allows one take profit and one stop loss per symbol. Breakeven isn't documented in our TradersPost review.
• Account risk limits: PickMyTrade has daily and weekly loss and profit limits for each connected account, separate from the broker's own risk settings. Our TradersPost review doesn't document equivalent limits.

On both, these are instructions sent to the broker, not guarantees about the fill. TradersPost's terms say it doesn't guarantee a signal will be transmitted or executed, and stop and trailing orders on either fill at whatever price the market gives them.

Multiple accounts and trade copying

Both can send one signal to more than one account, under different structures. Every TradersPost paid tier includes parallel execution across connected accounts, with 1, 2, 3, or 6 live accounts by tier and up to 50 add-on accounts at $10/month per live account or $5/month per paper account. PickMyTrade can place one alert's trade on several Tradovate accounts, sub-accounts under the same login or accounts under other logins added with their own token, each with a quantity multiplier or its own risk percentage. Its subscription covers unlimited sub-accounts under one broker login, and each additional login is a separate subscription.

PickMyTrade also has a Manual Trade Copier for trades placed by hand: you trade on one admin Tradovate account from TradingView, and the copier repeats the trade on linked accounts with a quantity multiplier. Only one admin account is supported, and copying to a different Tradovate login needs a separate PickMyTrade account. On pickmytrade.io, a separate ProjectX copier copies from a ProjectX account to other ProjectX or Tradovate accounts. PickMyTrade's documentation says fills and stop-loss exits can differ by a tick or two between copied accounts, and it advises against strategies targeting only 1–2 ticks. Manual trade copying isn't documented in our TradersPost review, so this page doesn't compare it.

Contract rollover

Neither rolls open futures positions; closing or rolling a position before expiry is left to you. Both only move a continuous contract symbol to the next contract, on different schedules. TradersPost switches two days before the current contract expires, based on expiration date rather than volume, so TradingView may point to a different front-month contract around roll periods. PickMyTrade moves its mapping four days before expiry, with a notice six days before, and recommends trading exact contract symbols because its timing may differ from TradingView's or the broker's.

Automation limits

Our reviews document different limits for each, and they aren't like-for-like. TradersPost isn't intended for scalping or high-frequency strategies below the 1-minute timeframe, and its webhooks are rate-limited. It doesn't give strategy logic any broker order IDs, position state, or account information, so the strategy has to track its own state, and avoiding conflicting signals is your responsibility.

On PickMyTrade, Interactive Brokers automation needs Trader Workstation to stay open and logged in during trading hours. With pyramiding off, the default, a new buy or sell alert closes any open position first. Timeframe and rate limits aren't documented in our PickMyTrade review.

Prop-firm accounts

Both publish prop-firm lists, and neither guarantees that a firm allows automated trading. TradersPost calls its firm summaries its "best-effort summary of each firm's published rules — not a guarantee." Its prop-firm documentation names Tradovate and ProjectX as the supported platforms and says you "must verify that your trading approach complies with that firm's rules and restrictions." ProjectX accounts need their own ProjectX API subscription before linking, and ProjectX prop-firm accounts don't support bracket orders.

PickMyTrade says it supports a list of firms plus any firm on a broker it connects to, but answers "No" to whether it guarantees a firm allows automated or copy trading. Its own Rithmic guide says Bulenox accounts aren't supported through Rithmic. Whichever tool you use, confirm with your firm, for your account type and connection, that automated or copied trades are allowed before connecting an account.

Pricing, trials, cancellation, and refunds

The two structure pricing differently, by account tier on one side and by broker login on the other, so this page lists each one's published prices rather than saying which is cheaper.

• TradersPost: Starter $49/month, Basic $99, Pro $199, and Premium $299, or $41.65, $84.15, $169.15, and $254.15 a month billed yearly. Starter includes 1 live and 4 paper accounts across 1 asset class, Basic 2 live and 6 paper across 2, Pro 3 live and 8 paper across 3, and Premium 6 live and 10 paper across all asset classes.
• PickMyTrade: one plan with no feature tiers, at $50/month or $500/year on pickmytrade.trade, with unlimited trades, strategies, and sub-accounts under one broker login. Its .io and .com pages also list $135 a quarter. Each additional broker or prop-firm login is a separate subscription.

Neither price includes TradingView, broker, or market-data costs. Both offer a 7-day free trial. TradersPost's covers manual submission on live accounts and automated submission on paper accounts. Its terms say an unpaid subscription moves to "a free plan," but its pricing page shows only the trial as free and doesn't describe what a free account can do. PickMyTrade's pricing pages say no card is needed, and a trial account can be bound to only one broker account.

Both sets of terms say no refunds, including for unused or partial months. TradersPost renews automatically and must be cancelled from the Billing section, since asking support by email or phone doesn't count; service continues until the renewal date. PickMyTrade can be cancelled from the dashboard, with access to the end of the billing period. Its pickmytrade.io homepage nonetheless advertises a "5-Day Money Back" offer, so a trader shouldn't count on a refund after paying until PickMyTrade reconciles the two.

Where PickMyTrade's documentation disagrees

Several of PickMyTrade's current official pages contradict each other. Our review reports each conflict rather than choosing a side, and so does this page:

• Quarterly plan: pickmytrade.trade lists only $50/month and $500/year; pickmytrade.io and pickmytrade.com also list $135 per quarter.
• Trial length: the pricing pages say 7 days. A docs FAQ entry, last updated November 7, 2025, says the standard trial lasts five days. The pricing pages are more recent, but both are still published.
• Refunds: the terms and FAQ say no refunds; the pickmytrade.io homepage advertises "5-Day Money Back."
• Limit orders from strategies: one guide says Tradovate strategy signals are always sent as market orders and that limit and stop orders aren't supported for strategies. Another explains how to automate TradingView strategies with limit orders on Tradovate, and the JSON reference says passing a price makes an order a limit order. How strategy limit orders are handled today is unclear.
• Copier brackets: the Manual Trade Copier guide says brackets work only with market entries, then walks through a limit entry with take profit and stop loss attached.
• Two sites: whether one login or subscription carries across pickmytrade.trade and pickmytrade.io isn't documented.
• Beta labels: pickmytrade.trade labels Tradier, cTrader, and Ironbeam as Beta; pickmytrade.io and pickmytrade.com list them without that label.

Which fits which trader

TradersPost fits if

• Your signals come from more than TradingView. TradersPost names TrendSpider, QuantConnect, Zapier, IFTTT, and custom webhook workflows as signal sources alongside TradingView.
• Your futures broker is NinjaTrader, TradeStation, or tastytrade. All three are on TradersPost's futures broker list. PickMyTrade doesn't list NinjaTrader, lists tastytrade only as upcoming, and TradeStation isn't among the connections it documents for futures. Check which bracket legs your broker gets.
• You route one strategy across several accounts or asset classes and can work with fixed futures sizes. Every paid tier includes parallel execution across connected accounts, with live accounts and asset classes scaling by tier; futures sizing is Fixed Quantity only.

PickMyTrade fits if

• You trade futures on Tradovate, especially several accounts under one login. One subscription covers unlimited sub-accounts under one broker login, and one alert can trade several accounts with a quantity multiplier or risk percentage for each.
• You want risk-percentage sizing, breakeven, and trailing set in the alert. Its JSON reference documents all three for the Tradovate workflow; sizing by risk percentage requires a stop loss.
• You place trades by hand in TradingView and want them copied. The Manual Trade Copier repeats trades from one admin Tradovate account on linked accounts, with the bracket conflict described below.

What this comparison doesn't cover

This isn't a setup guide, and it doesn't test either tool's order handling or fills against the other. For how a TradingView alert becomes a broker order step by step, see our guide How TradingView Alert Automation Works. It makes no claim about execution speed. On the TradersPost side, it doesn't cover manual trade copying, breakeven, or account loss limits, which our review doesn't document; what a free account can do after a subscription lapses; or standalone orders on ProjectX. On the PickMyTrade side, it doesn't cover non-TradingView signal sources, timeframe or rate limits, sizing and bracket behavior beyond its main documented connections, or whether one login carries across its two sites. It doesn't add up an all-in cost for either, and it doesn't say whether any specific prop firm allows automated trading. For TradingView's own plans and alerts, see our TradingView review.