Signals: posting a play, and taking one

A play is a call you make yourself. You pick the contract, the entry, the targets and the stop, and you post it. No AI decides any of it — that is the difference between a play and a workflow.

There are three places a play can be.

Your own groups

A signal group is a place of your own to post plays to. It starts private. Everyone following the group sees what you post there.

• Make public lets anyone on Atlas follow the group for free. Its plays also show on the community board.
• To charge for a group instead, put a price on it in the Marketplace.

Groups you follow

When you follow somebody's group, Trade settings on that group decides what happens with each play they post:

• Asked first is how every follow starts. Nothing is placed. Each play waits for your yes.
• Take every play automatically places each play in your account as it is posted. You choose the broker account, and either the most to spend on one play or how many contracts. Switching this on also places the plays that group already has open, and tells you how many.
• Advanced filters skip the plays you do not want: a kind you turned off, a wide bid/ask spread, a low rating, over a price, other symbols, outside your hours, and more. A play you take by hand is never filtered.

Community picks

One open board that everyone shares. Anybody can post to it, whatever plan they are on.

• Reading other people's plays needs a paid plan. On a free plan you still see the plays you posted yourself.
• Nothing on the board ever trades for you on its own. A group's followers chose to be traded for; a stranger's play has nobody's permission behind it. So a play sits there until you press Take now, which places it in your account at the price called.
• Up to 20 plays a day each, so nobody can bury the board. It resets at midnight New York time. Your own groups have no limit.

Take now shows up on any play you are not already in. If the play has already entered for somebody, the button reads Take it late: you get in at the market price now, which is a different trade from the one that was called, and Atlas says so before you confirm.

Once you are in a play

The play belongs to the person who called it. Only they can take a target early or move the stop and the targets, and a move reaches everyone in the play.

If you followed or took the play, you have one button: Close all, which closes your own position now.

When the caller closes the play, it closes for the people in it too. To stay in until your own stop or target instead, switch off Let the caller close my position when they close the play in the Signals settings.

What uses a request, and what does not

Your plan gives you a number of requests a month. Plays mostly do not touch them, because a Marketplace subscription already pays for what it covers:

Those two are the exception because nobody is paying anybody for them: the plays are free to read and free to post, so the one press that turns somebody's call into your order is the part your plan covers.

You are only charged when an order actually reaches your broker. A play that was skipped (no broker connected, or one contract costs more than your budget for one trade) costs you nothing.

Your broker set once, your size set where you use it

Open Connect → Brokerages and press Make default on the account you want. Plays, new workflows and new triggers go to that account unless you name another. It starts empty: an account that places real orders without asking each time is a decision you make once, deliberately.

There is no budget for a whole account. The size is set where it is used: on a workflow's trade card, on a trigger, on the play you take, or in the Trade settings of a group you follow. Naming an account on a single play always beats the default, and so do the Trade settings on a group. See Connect.

From Discord

/signal posts a play from Discord, to a group or to the community board, which is offered to everyone in the group list. The form has a Trade for me too button for taking your own call, and a broker picker when you have more than one account. The account never appears in the posted call: what you traded in is yours, not the channel's.

From the API, the CLI, or your AI

The same plays, so one posted by a person and one posted by an assistant are the same thing with the same rules:

The full list is under All tools.