AutoTrader
Your strategy, embedded and running — with stop-loss, target and trailing stop handled by the engine rather than by your nerve.
What it does
AutoTrader is a container for a strategy rather than a strategy in itself. Whatever predefined logic you want automated can be embedded in it, and everything around that logic — how much it trades, where the stop sits, where the target sits, how the stop trails — is driven from a configuration file rather than buried in code.
That separation is the point. The strategy is yours and it stays put; the risk parameters are yours to change between sessions without anyone recompiling anything.
What you control from the config file
- Stop-loss — the level and how it is measured
- Take-profit — the target, on the same basis
- Trailing stop-loss — tracked continuously once the position moves in your favour
- Strategy selections — the parameters your embedded logic exposes
Command-line engine, browser dashboard
The engine runs on the command line, which keeps it lean and predictable while it is tracking positions and managing exits. What you look at is a browser dashboard, refreshed every few seconds, showing the current state of whatever the engine is doing. Two processes, one job each — a stalled interface never gets in the way of an exit.
Telegram alerts
The dashboard is for when you are at the screen. Telegram is for when you are not. AutoTrader sends an alert when the engine starts, when it enters a position and when it exits — so you can leave it running and still know what it did, from your phone, without opening anything.
That matters more for an automated system than for a manual one. The thing you want to know about an engine trading on your behalf is not the running P&L, it is did it do what I expected, and when. Three events, pushed as they happen, answer that.
Sandbox mode
AutoTrader includes a sandbox testing mode. It runs the full strategy against live market data and produces the trades it would have taken, without any order reaching your broker. Run it there first. A strategy that looked right on paper and a strategy that behaves correctly when live prices arrive out of order are two different things, and sandbox mode is where you find out which one you have.
Who it is for
Traders with a strategy they have already tested by hand and no appetite for sitting in front of it. The honest prerequisite is that you know your rules well enough to state them, including the exits — if the rules are still forming, automating them will only make the uncertainty faster. Our guide to specifying a strategy covers what that means in practice.
What is listed here is what we have confirmed working, not the full extent of the tool. Testing is still running and there is more in it than this page claims — we would rather add each item once it has passed than publish a feature list we have to walk back.
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