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Start Your Free 7-Day TrialAdd-On v1.12 — Strategy Tagging, Home Page & Automation Wizard
Our biggest update of all time. Position ownership with Strategy Tagging, new CancelAndBracket command, redesigned Home page, guided Automation Wizard, and major Trade Copier & Account Manager improvements.
What's Changed
- Default Mode Changed: Copier now defaults to Order Mode instead of Execution Mode — all orders are copied including Limits.
- Tandem Safeguard: Tandem switch prevents enablement when a follower doesn't have a monitor established.
- Monitor Deletion Safeguard: Account Manager prevents monitor deletion if that account is a follower with tandem enabled.
Why these changes? These safeguards ensure your tandem mode configurations work as expected and prevent accidental disruptions to your copy trading setup.
What's New
- Use dollar based offsets instead of tick, percentage, points, or numerical
- Any $ representation is valid (e.g., $1; $1.00; $ 1; -$1;)
Example
key=your-secret-key; command=place; account=sim101; instrument=NQ1!; action=buy; qty=1; order_type=market; tif=day; take_profit=$1000; stop_loss=$500;
Note: The underlying is quoted at the same time as entry — the pivot point for calculating TP/SL. This is distinctly different from an ATM strategy, which calculates levels after fill.
What's New
- Create custom groups to organize your copiers
- Enable or disable entire groups with a single click
- Apply settings to the entire group at once
- Visual indicators show group status at a glance
Pro Tip: Use groups to quickly switch between different trading strategies or disable all copiers during high-impact news events.
What is Hybrid Mode?
- Standard Mode: Monitor stops the session if Account P/L targets are hit
- Unrealized Mode: Monitor never stops; flattens based on floating P/L
- Hybrid Mode (New): Hard stops for account safety + continuous position management
How It Works
- Account Safety: Daily Profit/Loss limit stops the monitor for the day
- Position Management: Max Position Profit and Max Position Loss targets per position
- Hybrid Logic: Position hits limit → flatten ONLY that position; monitor stays active
Why use it? Cut a single loser early or take profit on a runner without killing your entire trading session, while keeping your daily max loss as a fail-safe.
What's New
- New UI layout with overview bar and double header on Account Manager & Trade Copier
- Flatten button added to Trade Copier
- Click the visibility icon to hide/unhide any accounts
What's New
- Non-Emotional Colors: Removes green/red scheme that can trigger emotional responses
- Monitor Lock: When the monitor says you're done for the day, you're done — no mid-session restarts
The Use Case
You open a position from TV with an ATM strategy attached. The ATM closes the position before the TV exit signal fires. With Strategy Sync + Exit Blocking, that interference is no longer possible.
How to Use
Add strategy_exit_block=true to your alert message:
key=your-secret-key;
command=place;
account=sim101;
instrument=NQ1!;
action={{strategy.order.action}};
qty={{strategy.order.contracts}};
order_type=market;
tif=day;
sync_strategy=true;
market_position={{strategy.market_position}};
prev_market_position={{strategy.prev_market_position}};
out_of_sync=flatten;
strategy_exit_block=true
Note: strategy_exit_block is aggressive — it only allows opening orders from a flat market position. It does not support scaling in/out at this time.
What's New
- Copier Features: Dual Copy System (Order or Execution Mode), Tandem Block, Trade Inversion, Ratio Position Size, Symbol Replacements, and more
- Instant Quoting: XT just got a whole lot faster — streaming quotes directly from the add-on for instant retrieval
Performance
Previously, continuous contracts and limit prices required a round-trip with the add-on to quote the underlying. Now we stream and cache quotes — shaving many milliseconds off each order request.
