Futures Trading

If you enter MNQ at 25,125.25 and set:

• Take profit offset: 100
• Stop loss offset: 100

Your bracket orders will be placed at:

• Take profit: 25,225.25
• Stop loss: 25,025.25

This 100 represents a price movement, not a P&L amount.

Your actual profit or loss will depend on:

• Contract size
• Number of contracts traded
• The instrument's dollar value per point

If you enter at 25,000 and set:

• Take profit: 1.00 percent
• Stop loss: 1.00 percent

1 percent of 25,000 is:

25,000 × 0.01 = 250

Your bracket orders will be placed at:

• Take profit: 25,250
• Stop loss: 24,750

These levels are calculated directly from the entry price, not from profit or loss in dollar terms.

Your actual P&L will depend on:

• The contract's dollar value per point
• The number of contracts traded

The percentage offset only determines how far the bracket is placed from entry in price terms.

Example: You are long 2 contracts and send the below JSON:

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "sell",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

Scenario 1:

• Allow side swapping

Your 2 contract long will immediately be closed, all open orders cancelled, and you'll be entered into a 2 contract short.

Scenario 2:

• Allow side swapping

Your 2 contract long will immediately be closed and all open orders cancelled. You will be out of all positions and net flat.

Example: You are long 2 contracts and send the below JSON:

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "sell",
    "quantity": "4",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

Scenario 1:

• Subtract exit quantity from signal quantity

All open orders will be closed and 4 contracts will be subtracted from your open long, leaving you net short 2 contracts.

Scenario 2:

• Subtract exit quantity from signal quantity

Your 2 contract long will immediately be closed, all open orders cancelled, and you'll be entered into a 4 contract short.

Example: You are short 2 contracts, have this setting set to "Bullish" and send the below JSON:

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "buy",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

Scenario 1:

• Sides Isolated

Your trade will fail and your short will not be exited.

Scenario 2:

• Sides Isolated

Your 2 contract short will immediately be closed, all open orders cancelled, and you'll be entered into a 2 contract long.

When trading windows are defined, any trading signals submitted outside those windows are ignored by default.

Enabling the Allow exits and cancels outside of trading windows option allows exit or cancel signals to be processed even if they occur outside the defined trading windows. This is helpful if you want to ensure entries happen within your window but still allow exits or cancellations at any time.

Example: You are in a 2 contract long that was entered during a trading window that ends at 4pm. It's now 4:01pm and the following signal is received:

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "sell",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T16:01:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

Scenario 1:

• Allow exits and cancels outside of trading windows

Your 2 contract long will immediately be closed, all open orders cancelled, and you'll be net flat.

Scenario 2:

• Allow exits and cancels outside of trading windows

Your 2 contract long will remain open and your sell trade will reject.

This option allows you to specify a fixed quantity for your entries. For example, if you set the fixed quantity to 5, the strategy will always enter a quantity of 5 contracts when the trade is entered.

Example: You are long 2 contracts and send the below JSON:

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "buy",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

Scenario 1:

• Allow Add To Position

Your 2 contract long will have 2 more contracts added to it, making it a net 4 contract long position.

Scenario 2:

• Allow Add To Position

Your 2 contract long will remain open, your add will reject, and you'll still be net 2 contracts long.

The Signal Quantity Multiplier allows you to scale the quantity provided in a trade signal up or down by a fixed decimal value.

This multiplier is applied only if Allow signal override is enabled. When enabled, TradersPost will take the quantity value from the incoming webhook signal and multiply it by the number you provide here.

Example: You send in the following JSON

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "buy",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

Signal quantity multiplier: 2.5

Result: TradersPost will submit a market order for 5 contracts (2 × 2.5).

Use Cases

• You want to follow a signal provider’s trades, but your account is larger or smaller than theirs.
• You want to scale all trade sizes from a strategy, regardless of what quantity it sends.
• You want to reduce exposure (e.g. use 0.5 to take half-size positions).

Notes

• Supports decimal values like 0.1, 1.5, 2, 10, etc.
• Can be used to scale down as well as up.
• Works with both whole and fractional quantities (if your broker supports fractional trading and Use fractional quantity is enabled).
• If the calculated final quantity results in a decimal and your broker does not support fractional shares/contracts, the value will be rounded down.

Tip

If you don't want to use the quantity from the signal, you can leave Allow signal override disabled and configure your own quantity calculation method instead.

Example: You are long 2 contracts with a stop loss and take profit, and send the below JSON:

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "sell",
    "sentiment": "flat",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

Scenario 1:

• Disable canceling open orders

Your 2 contract long will be exited, but the stop loss and take profit will not be cancelled.

Scenario 2:

• Disable canceling open orders

Your 2 contract long will immediately be closed, all open orders cancelled, and you'll be net flat.

Choose the order type to use for entry orders. Your choices are below:

• Limit
• Market
• Stop Market
• Stop Limit
• Trailing Stop

• Entry Trail Amount (in dollars (market price offset) on the underlying futures ticker)

• Entry Trail Percent (based off the % of the underlying futures ticker's market price). On Tradovate, NinjaTrader and ProjectX the percent becomes a fixed trail; see trailPercent.

• Allow entry extended hours

Choose the entry time in force to use for entry orders. Your choices are below:

• Good For Day: The order is valid for the trading day and will be canceled if not executed by the end of the trading day
• Good Until Cancelled: The order is good until canceled and will remain active until it is executed or canceled. Fill Or Kill
• Immediate Or Cancel: The order is immediate or canceled, meaning it must be executed immediately or canceled.
• Fill Or Kill: The order is fill or kill, meaning it must be executed immediately in its entirety or canceled.

For TradeStation (or other futures firms which support quotes) if you don't include a price and want to send a limit order or send a bracket with your entry, your choices are below for how you want TradersPost to estimate the signal price:

• Bid-ask midpoint
• Use ask for buys and bids for sells
• Always use ask
• Always use bid
• Use last price

Choose the order type to use for exit orders. Your choices are below:

• Limit
• Market
• Stop Market
• Stop Limit
• Trailing Stop

• Exit Trail Amount (in dollars (market price offset) on the underlying futures ticker)

• Exit Trail Percent (based off the % of the underlying futures ticker)

• Allow exit extended hours

Choose the exit time in force to use for entry orders. Your choices are below:

• Good For Day: The order is valid for the trading day and will be canceled if not executed by the end of the trading day
• Good Until Cancelled: The order is good until canceled and will remain active until it is executed or canceled.
• Immediate Or Cancel: The order is immediate or canceled, meaning it must be executed immediately or canceled.
• Fill Or Kill: The order is fill or kill, meaning it must be executed immediately in its entirety or canceled.

For TradeStation (or other futures firms which support quotes) if you don't include a price and want to send a limit order or send a bracket with your exit, your choices are below for how you want TradersPost to estimate the signal price:

• Bid-ask midpoint
• Use ask for buys and bids for sells
• Always use ask
• Always use bid
• Use last price

Tradovate, TradeStation, and Tastytrade are the only futures brokers on TradersPost that support bracket orders (take profits / stop losses / trailing stops) that are attached with your entry or exit.

For take profits, you can have one of three choices:

• Take Profit Percent (based off the % of the underlying futures ticker)
• Take Profit Amount (based off of dollars (market price offset) on the underlying futures ticker)
• Take Profit PnL Amount (the dollar profit you want on the whole position, converted to a price offset; see Bracket Orders, Take Profit, and Stop Loss)

Scenario 1:

You send this signal with a take profit % as 5% in your subscription settings.

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "buy",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

You will be entered into a 2 contract long with a 2 contract limit sell at 25000 on MNQ.

Scenario 2:

You send this signal with a take profit amount as 250 in your subscription settings.

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "buy",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

You will be entered into a 2 contract long with a 2 contract limit sell at 24060.25 on MNQ.

Tradovate, TradeStation, and Tastytrade are the only futures brokers on TradersPost that support bracket orders (take profits / stop losses / trailing stops) that are attached with your entry or exit.

For the stop loss order type, there are three choices:

• Stop Market
• Stop Limit
• Trailing Stop

As far as where the order will be placed relative to your entry, you have three choices:

• Stop Loss Percent (based off the % of the underlying futures ticker)
• Stop Loss Amount (based off of dollars (market price offset) on the underlying futures ticker)
• Stop Loss PnL Amount (the dollar loss you want to cap on the whole position, converted to a price offset; stop market and stop limit only; see Bracket Orders, Take Profit, and Stop Loss)

Scenario 1:

You send this signal with a stop loss % as 5% in your subscription settings.

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "buy",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

You will be entered into a 2 contract long with a 2 contract sell (stop market, stop limit, or trailing stop) at 22619.75 on MNQ.

Scenario 2:

You send this signal with a stop loss amount as 250 in your subscription settings.

{
    "ticker": "MNQU2025",
    "action": "buy",
    "quantity": "2",
    "price": "23810.25",
    "time": "2025-09-09T14:07:08Z",
    "interval": "5"
}

You will be entered into a 2 contract long with a 2 contract sell (stop market, stop limit, or trailing stop) at 23560.25 on MNQ.

When TradersPost executes a trade, the first thing it does is communicate with the broker to fetch the state of the broker account and "plan the trade". This includes fetching current open positions, open orders, account balances, and any other information required to execute the trade. TradersPost then uses this information to determine the plan for executing the trade, which includes deciding whether to cancel any open orders for the ticker, exit the open position if it exists, or enter a new position. If there were any problems communicating with the broker or processing the trade plan, you will see this message.

Here is a list of the available retry settings:

• Max retries - The maximum number of times the system will retry the trade. If the trade fails after the maximum number of retries, the trade will be marked as failed.
• Delay in milliseconds - The delay between each retry attempt. The system will wait for this amount of time before retrying the trade.
• Delay multiplier - The multiplier to apply to the delay between each retry attempt. The system will multiply the delay by this value after each retry attempt. For example, if the delay is set to 1000 milliseconds and the delay multiplier is set to 2, the system will wait 1000 milliseconds before the first retry, 2000 milliseconds before the second retry, 4000 milliseconds before the third retry, and so on.
• Max delay in milliseconds - The maximum delay between retry attempts. If the delay calculated by the delay multiplier exceeds this value, the system will use this value as the delay.