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 two places a play can go.

Personal groups

Your own groups. People follow a group, and a play you post there reaches them: followers on automatic get it placed at your entry, sized to their own limit, and followers on manual get five minutes to say yes.

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, in either tab. If it has already entered for somebody, the button goes away: the move has happened, and getting in now is a different trade from the one that was called.

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:

The board is the exception because nobody is paying anybody for it: 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 per-trade limit — costs you nothing.

Your broker, set once

Picking an account every time you post or take a play gets old fast. Open the broker button at the top of Signals, choose an account, and switch on either of:

• Use it for plays I post — when you take your own call, it goes there.
• Use it for plays I take — Take now sends the order straight there.

Both start off. An account that places real orders without asking each time is a decision you make once, deliberately.

Naming an account on a single play always beats the saved default, so you can send one play somewhere else without changing your setting.

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 surface, so a play posted by a person and one posted by an assistant are the same row with the same rules: