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Guides to automating your trading: TradingView alerts, webhooks, position sizing, stop losses, and what really happens between the alert and the fill.
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Features
Every order EZPZ Trader fills lands in your Trade Journal on its own. Here is what each page is for, how outside trades get in, and the short review we did on one real morning of paper trades, from day notes to playbooks to Journal AI.
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Signals & webhooks
Send an exact contract, or send the stock ticker and let the subscription pick the strike and expiration. Here is how both work, plus the order rules that only apply to options.
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Journal & review
A 51% win rate can still make money, and an 80% one can lose it. Here is how each Journal number is calculated, worked through by hand on 37 real paper trades, and the order to read them in.
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Signals & webhooks
A signal that arrives while its market is closed isn't sent to your broker overnight. It waits in a queue and goes out at the next open. Here are the sessions, the rules and the settings that change them.
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Risk & sizing
Percent, price distance, exact price or position P&L. Here is what each unit means, the price it gives on a real SPY entry, and which accounts hold the orders for you.
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Getting started
Paper is honest about your setup and generous about your fills. Here are the exact fill rules of the EZPZ Trader Paper account, shown on real demo trades, and what only a small live position will show you.
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Signals & webhooks
Most "my alert didn't trade" reports come down to the same short list. For each one, here is what the Signals page shows and the one setting or field that fixes it, with real examples from our demo account.
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Risk & sizing
The same kind of buy signal traded 10 shares of SPY, 7 shares of QQQ and 14 shares of AAPL on our demo account, because each subscription uses a different sizing method. Here is how each method calculates its number, from real paper fills.
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Getting started
Create a strategy, connect an account, paste one webhook URL into a TradingView alert and read the result. The whole path takes about ten minutes, and you can run it on paper first.
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2.0 Topics
Every guide is written by the EZPZ Trader team about the platform you trade on, with real screens from the app.
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Reading your results honestly, strategy by strategy.
Read: Win rate, profit factor and expectancy: how to read your Trade Journal3 articles
How alerts become orders, and what to check when one doesn't.
Read: Trading options from a TradingView alert: contract symbols, auto-picked strikes and the rules that change2 articles
Position size, stop loss, take profit and the maths behind them.
Read: Stop loss and take profit on an automated signal: every way to send them2 articles
From your first TradingView alert to your first live order.
Read: What paper trading proves, what it hides, and how our paper account fills orders1 article
One EZPZ Trader feature at a time: what it does, when to use it and how to set it up.
Read: How to use the Trade Journal: every page, and a 10-minute review after each session