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Allow Override in 3 steps

Flip three toggles in TradersPost, fire a test signal, done. About 3 minutes. Your Pine chart carries the full bracket — TradersPost just needs to accept it.

Concierge subscribers ($499/mo) can skip this page — the Trding.ai team wires TradersPost for you on a 60-minute setup call. This guide is for Ultimate ($249) and Pro ($99) subscribers doing their own setup.

1What Allow Override does

One-line answer: it lets Pine's webhook payload set your sizing and bracket instead of TradersPost's UI defaults.

Why it matters: Trding Signal (Pine v2.10) sends the full bracket — dollar amount, take-profit, stop-loss — inside every webhook payload. TradersPost has small Allow signal override toggles that decide whether to use those Pine values or its own UI defaults. Turn 3 of them ON so Pine wins. That replaces the old 13-section setup with the 3 steps below.

2Enable the toggles

Open your TradersPost Strategy Subscription and confirm 3 toggles are ON. TradersPost ships them ON by default — treat this as a verification pass.

TradersPost Subscription showing Allow signal override toggles for Take Profit and Stop Loss
TradersPost → Strategies → your Subscription → scroll to see the toggles

Confirm these are ON

Position Size · Allow signal override ON
Take Profit · Allow signal override ON
Stop Loss · Allow signal override ON
Ignore exit signals ON (recommended)
Save + Enable Toggle to Enabled

Fallback values next to each toggle don't matter — Pine overrides them on every signal. Leave blank or default.

TradersPost Strategy page with Enabled toggle green
Green Enabled badge = ready to receive signals

What the Pine payload contains

When Pine fires, it sends TradersPost these fields (all of which used to be TP UI settings):

  • quantityType: dollar_amount
  • quantity: 200 (your Pine input)
  • orderType: market
  • takeProfit.limitPrice
  • stopLoss.stopPrice
  • timeInForce, extendedHours, ticker, action
What if I want to override a Pine value?
Turn a specific toggle OFF Want a fixed $500 per trade regardless of what Pine says? Turn Position Size · Allow signal override OFF and set the fallback to $500. TradersPost will use $500 whenever Pine says anything different. Same pattern for TP and SL.

3Verify with a test signal

Fire a dummy signal from TradersPost's own UI — no chart or webhook needed — and confirm the payload arrives with all the right fields.

TradersPost Signals log showing all payload fields received
TradersPost → Signals — the "did it wire" gate

Fire test + inspect payload

  1. TradersPost → your Strategy → click … → Submit Signal.
  2. Watch the Signals log — new entry within 30 seconds.
  3. Click into the entry and verify these fields are present:
    • quantityType: dollar_amount
    • quantity (dollar figure)
    • takeProfit.limitPrice
    • stopLoss.stopPrice
  4. Check the entry status — Success means the toggles are wired correctly. Failed usually means a toggle is still OFF.

Ready for live trading? Set your Pine Dollar per trade input on the chart (right-click Trding Signal → Settings → Alerts group), then let the next real Trding Signal alert route through.

Trding Signal Pine input panel — Alerts group showing Dollar per trade input
Pine · Trding Signal Settings → Inputs → Alerts group

Set your Pine dollar amount

Dollar per trade ($) 200 (or your budget)
Click OK Applies to this chart only

Each TradingView chart has its own dollar amount — SOXL chart can run $200/trade while SPY chart runs $500/trade. No extra TradersPost setup needed.

All green? You're wired end-to-end. Every real Trding Signal alert now flows automatically with your sizing, TP, and SL attached. No manual clicks.

If something isn't working

  1. Test signal shows "Failed" in Signals log — hover for the rejection reason. Most common: an Allow-override toggle got flipped OFF. Recheck Section 2.
  2. Test signal shows Success but no broker order — check that your Subscription is Enabled (green badge) and your broker connection is still authenticated (Alpaca needs periodic re-auth).
  3. Broker order fires but is wrong size — one of the 3 override toggles is OFF and TradersPost is using its fallback. Re-verify all 3.
  4. No test signal at all — you clicked Submit Signal but nothing appears. Confirm you're on the Signals tab of the right Strategy.

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