TradersPost

TradersPost is automation middleware, not a broker: it receives a trading instruction — typically a webhook sent from an external strategy or signal source — and routes the resulting order toward a broker account the trader already owns and controls. TradersPost doesn’t execute, clear, or settle trades itself, and it doesn’t hold trader funds or securities; the broker-dealer on the other end of the connection does that.

What TradersPost is

At its core, TradersPost sits between two things a trader already has: a source of trading signals and a brokerage account. It doesn’t generate signals or recommend trades, and it isn’t a charting or analysis platform. What it does is receive a signal, translate it into an order according to rules the trader configures, and send that order to a connected broker. Its own terms of service are direct about the boundary: TradersPost “does not execute, clear, or settle trades and does not hold User funds or securities. All securities transactions are effected by User’s broker-dealer in User’s brokerage account.”

The core workflow: signal, webhook, broker

The documented model has three parts. A Strategy in TradersPost defines the asset class, tickers, and settings for a given automation, and comes with a unique webhook URL. An external signal source — most commonly TradingView, but not exclusively — sends a JSON message to that webhook URL when its own alert conditions fire. A Subscription then connects that strategy to one specific broker account, applying account-level settings like position size and auto-submit preferences, and TradersPost routes the resulting order to that broker. TradersPost describes this as no-code, in the sense that no software or programming knowledge is required to wire this together — but configuring the webhook message format, strategy rules, and per-account settings correctly is still real setup work, not something that happens automatically.

TradingView and other signal sources

TradingView is the most prominently featured signal source, but it isn’t required. TradersPost’s own documentation names TrendSpider, QuantConnect, Zapier, IFTTT, and custom webhook workflows as other supported ways to trigger a strategy. These aren’t equivalent to one another — they’re different products serving different roles — the point of listing them is that TradersPost’s execution layer isn’t locked to any single upstream source. If TradingView is the chosen source, its webhook alerts specifically require a paid TradingView plan (Essential tier or above); that’s a TradingView requirement, not something TradersPost adds, but it’s a real cost to account for if TradingView is the trader’s chosen path.

Execution and custody: where the trade actually happens

TradersPost’s own security documentation states that when a trader authorizes a broker connection, TradersPost encrypts and stores the access token the broker provides, and that brokerage usernames and passwords are never stored on or passed through TradersPost’s systems. The order itself is still filled by the connected broker-dealer, in the trader’s own account — TradersPost’s role ends at instructing that broker what to do. TradersPost’s terms also state plainly that it does not guarantee a signal or instruction will actually be transmitted, received, processed, or executed by the receiving broker.

Futures automation and its specific limits

Futures is a directly documented, first-class part of TradersPost, with broker connections including Tradovate, TradeStation, ProjectX, NinjaTrader, and tastytrade. Two futures-specific limits are worth knowing before relying on this for futures automation. First, position sizing for futures is currently documented as Fixed Quantity only — risk-based and percent-of-equity sizing are listed as not supported for futures, and futures take-profit and stop-loss levels are calculated as price offsets from the entry, not as dollar profit or loss targets.

Second, what can be attached to an entry depends on the broker. TradersPost’s futures table lists separate rows for stop losses, take profits and trailing stops, and for the “legs” attached to an entry order:

• Tradovate and NinjaTrader: every listed type, including stop-loss, take-profit and trailing-stop legs.
• TradeStation: stop-loss and take-profit legs, but no trailing-stop legs.
• tastytrade: stop-loss and take-profit legs, but no trailing stops.
• ProjectX: no attached legs. TradersPost’s documentation says ProjectX doesn’t yet support bracket orders, and that Tradovate and ProjectX don’t provide quotes, so limit and bracket orders sent to them need a price in the signal.

TradersPost also doesn’t do anything special with futures positions as they approach expiration — rolling or closing a position ahead of expiration is left to the trader. What it does change is the continuous contract symbol: it switches to the next contract 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.

Prop-firm relevance — and why to verify it yourself

TradersPost publishes a list of prop trading firms alongside its broker connections, framed around routing systematic strategies to funded or evaluation accounts. This is worth knowing about, but it shouldn’t be read as a blanket guarantee: TradersPost’s own listing states that its automation and copy-trading policy summaries are “TradersPost’s best-effort summary of each firm’s published rules — not a guarantee,” and that policies “change frequently and may differ for your specific account or evaluation stage.” A trader considering this route should confirm directly with their specific firm — and for their specific account type, evaluation or funded state, and broker connection — before assuming an automated strategy is permitted.

TradersPost’s prop-firm documentation names two supported platforms for prop-firm accounts, Tradovate and ProjectX, and puts the responsibility on the trader: before linking any firm, you “must verify that your trading approach complies with that firm’s rules and restrictions.” ProjectX accounts also need their own ProjectX API subscription before they can be linked to TradersPost, and ProjectX prop-firm accounts don’t support bracket orders.

Pricing, trial, and the real cost stack

TradersPost doesn’t have a permanent free plan; what it offers is a 7-day free trial (“Free to get started with a 7-day trial. No commitment”), covering manual submission on live accounts and automated submission on paper accounts. After that, four paid tiers apply. Billed monthly, they run Starter at $49/month, Basic at $99/month, Pro at $199/month, and Premium at $299/month. Billed yearly, the same tiers work out to a lower monthly-equivalent rate — $41.65, $84.15, $169.15, and $254.15 respectively, a 15% discount for committing annually rather than a separate cheaper plan. Plan limits scale together: Starter includes 1 live and 4 paper accounts across 1 asset class; Basic, 2 live and 6 paper across 2 asset classes; Pro, 3 live and 8 paper across 3 asset classes; and Premium, 6 live and 10 paper accounts across all asset classes. Every paid tier allows up to 50 add-on accounts beyond those limits, at $10/month per additional live account or $5/month per additional paper account. All paid tiers include unlimited tickers and trades, manual and live auto-submit, and parallel execution across connected accounts.

The subscription price itself is rarely the trader’s whole cost, though. Depending on the workflow, a trader may also be paying for an upstream signal source — a paid TradingView plan, if that’s the chosen source — plus whatever the connected broker itself charges, and any market-data subscription that broker or platform requires. None of those are included in the TradersPost price, and not every trader will incur every one of them; it depends entirely on which signal source and broker a given setup uses.

TradersPost’s terms are strict on refunds: it “does not offer refunds, returns, or other credits for any payments, including for partial or unused months of a subscription.” Subscriptions renew automatically each month or year, and cancelling is the trader’s job: it has to be done from the Billing section of the account, and the terms say that asking support by email or phone doesn’t count as cancelling. After cancelling, the service stays active until the renewal date. The terms then say an unpaid subscription is moved to “a free plan, subject to the terms of TradersPost’s then-current Pricing Plans” — but the pricing page itself shows only the 7-day trial as a free option, and doesn’t describe what a free account can do after the trial.

Where TradersPost falls short

The most structural limitation is that TradersPost is only as useful as the signal source feeding it — it has no strategy or signal-generation capability of its own, so a trader without an existing alert-producing system gains nothing from it directly. Futures traders specifically lose access to dynamic position sizing and, on some brokers, attached bracket orders. There’s no ongoing free tier to fall back on after the 7-day trial, and payments aren’t refunded. Forex isn’t supported.

TradersPost’s own documentation also lists limits on the kind of automation it suits. It 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 the trader’s responsibility. And prop-firm automation compatibility is explicitly not guaranteed by TradersPost’s own published information, which means real verification work falls on the trader rather than being solved by the product itself.

Who TradersPost is best for

TradersPost fits traders who already have a working, alert-generating strategy somewhere else — most commonly TradingView, but not necessarily — and want that specific signal routed automatically to a broker account they already hold, including futures traders using one of the documented broker connections and traders who want one strategy executed in parallel across multiple accounts.

Who should look elsewhere

Traders looking for the signals or strategy ideas themselves, rather than a way to execute signals they already have, should look elsewhere — that’s not what TradersPost does. The same goes for traders who want charting, analysis, and execution bundled into one product, traders whose broker isn’t on TradersPost’s documented connection list, and anyone expecting automation to mean they no longer need to monitor or validate their setup.