Receiver Configuration
The receiver side of Signal Share is intentionally light. Accept an invite and pick a target account. From there on, every signal lands on your account through your normal order pipeline, behind whatever risk controls and prop-firm rules you already have set up.
Accepting an invite
Broadcasters send invites by email or by link. The first time you accept any Signal Share invite, CrossTrade shows you the Risk Release Agreement. You read it, tick the two acknowledgements, and sign your name before the subscription becomes active.
The Risk Release covers:
- Service scope. Signal Share is signal-relaying infrastructure. CrossTrade does not endorse, evaluate, or verify any broadcast.
- Strategy Sync. Your receiver runs CrossTrade's Strategy Sync execution logic when the broadcaster asks for it, which is responsible for mapping the broadcaster's intent into orders on your account.
- No financial advice. Signal content is generated entirely by the broadcaster.
- Technology risk. Signals may arrive late, out of order, or not at all. Your broker may reject or misexecute orders.
- Assumption of risk and release of liability. You assume full responsibility for orders that land on your account.
You can re-read the agreement at any time from the Risk Release button on /user/signal-share.
After you accept, the subscription appears under the Receiving tab.
Mapping the target account
Every subscription needs one piece of configuration from you: the target account on your NinjaTrader that should receive the broadcaster's orders.
You pick from the list of accounts your CrossTrade add-on currently sees. The mapping is per-subscription, so you can:
- Receive several broadcasts on the same account.
- Receive one broadcaster on several different accounts (as separate subscriptions).
- Change the target account at any time. The change takes effect on the next signal.
The broadcaster never sees the account name.
Scaling to a different contract size
Signal Share itself always mirrors the broadcaster one-for-one. There is no contract-size setting on a subscription. If a broadcaster places 4 contracts, the receiver places 4 contracts on the mapped account.
To trade a different contract size, layer the Trade Copier on top of Signal Share. The pattern is:
- Point your Signal Share subscription at a NinjaTrader Sim account.
- In the Trade Copier, set that Sim account as a leader and the account you actually want to trade as a follower.
- Use the Copier's ratio, max-contract caps, and instrument replacements to scale however you want.
This keeps Signal Share doing one thing well (mirroring the broadcaster's order events one-for-one) and lets the Trade Copier do what it was designed for (sizing, filtering, capping, and replacing on the way to the real account). You get every Copier feature available to you, including multi-follower fan-out, instrument swaps (ES to MES, for example), and Stealth Mode, without reinventing them inside Signal Share.
Pausing and resuming
Each subscription has a status:
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
pending | Invite sent. You have not accepted yet. |
active | Live. Broadcast fills land as orders on your mapped account. |
paused | Paused on your side. No signals are executed. The broadcaster is unaffected. Useful for short breaks without removing setup. |
Toggle the status from the Receiving tab. Pausing is receiver-side only. The broadcaster does not see it and keeps publishing to other receivers.
Removing a subscription
Deleting a subscription removes the mapping and ends your access to that broadcast. The broadcaster's active count drops by one. There is no undo, but the broadcaster can send you a fresh invite at any time.
Receiver-side controls that still apply
A Signal Share order is just an order. Every protection on your NinjaTrader still runs:
- Opposing Position Protection can reject an inbound signal that would put on an opposing position.
- Strategy locks can block a signal that would touch a tagged position, based on your chosen strategy-tag mode.
- Account Manager monitors. Trailing drawdown, daily loss limits, auto-flatten, and the kill switch all still apply. A signal that would breach a monitor is blocked by the monitor, not by Signal Share.
- Prop-firm modules. Trading windows, contract caps, and so on, run exactly as they do for any other order.
Signal Share is a delivery mechanism. It does not bypass anything sitting between your NinjaTrader and your broker.
Multiple subscriptions on one account
You can attach more than one subscription to the same target account. The receiver does no cross-subscription coordination. Each broadcaster's orders are placed in the order they arrive. If two broadcasters trade the same instrument at the same time, the result is two independent orders on your account.
Treat each subscription as its own strategy. Use separate instruments per broadcaster, or use strategy tags on each subscription, so positions stay attributable to a single broadcaster.