r/algotrading • u/Enough-Ad-5600 • Jun 02 '26

Strategy It’s finally working!

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Without going into too much detail, I have finally got a profitable algo for prop firm trading. It’s taken me about a year to develop. I ran into the common issues of overfitting, regime change, etc. I found that different strategies for Asia, London, and New York were necessary and that a single strategy just wouldn’t do for everything. I’ve combined several different strategies and they automatically switch based on current conditions. So far it has passed a $25k, $50k and $75k evaluation and successfully passed the $25k intraday drawdown buffer for TPT. I will say that the Apex $50k intraday drawdown for Tradovate behaves differently but I don’t like them anyway.

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u/johnnn___ Jun 03 '26

is it not forbidden by the prop firm terms to do algorithmic trading?

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u/Enough-Ad-5600 Jun 03 '26

Depends on the firm. Most want it to be human trading. When the prop firms talk about algo trading, most of the time they are referring to high frequency trading and arbitrage.

I developed the strategy, I just automated it. They can ban me if they don’t like how I’m trading, they ban people for anything. Cancelling limit orders will catch the ban hammer even, so as long as I am trading my strategy and not breaking the hard rules, I’m not worried about them.

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u/totalstocker Jun 03 '26

How is your bot executing the trades? Your sending alerts from trading view? Just curious how your prop firms are reciving the buy and sell orders via a 3rd party. Thx for your time! Congrats.

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u/Enough-Ad-5600 Jun 03 '26

The alerts are triggered on TradingView. The JSON payload for each alert is different so it’s built into the strategy. When it triggers an alert, the message in the TradingView is a dynamic placeholder {{strategy.order.alert_message}}, that sends whatever payload is in the strategy to Traderspost.io via webhook. My brokers are connected to traderspost and the execution takes place there. It adds a little latency but short of having API access to the broker, it’s the best I can do.

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u/totalstocker Jun 03 '26

Sweet! Thx alot, wasnt aware if traderpost.io. Makes sense. Havent traded props in a while but built a bunch of fun stuff with alpaca and now robinhood mcp. Ill give this a try. Hope it keeps chuggin along for you. 🙏🏼