Comparison
Choosing an automation platform: the questions worth asking.
Routing a webhook to a broker is the easy part, and every platform does it. What separates them is what happens around the order — how it is sized, what can stop it, what arms itself without being asked, and what the platform does to your positions when something ends.
What can send it a signal?
Anything that can make an HTTP request should work, and you should not have to install anything. Quanify gives you a webhook URL per strategy; a PineScript alert, a Python script or a raw POST all drive it identically.
There is no SDK, no library version to keep current and nothing to redeploy on your side when the platform ships a change.
POST https://quanify.pro/api/webhooks/<your-token>
{
"action": "{{strategy.order.action}}",
"ticker": "{{ticker}}",
"contracts": "{{strategy.order.contracts}}",
"market_position": "{{strategy.market_position}}"
}Nothing in the body identifies you — the token in the URL does, and it can be rotated without touching the alert.
Can one signal size differently per account?
A strategy is linked to accounts through a trader, and each sub-account carries its own whole-number multiplier. One signal for two contracts becomes two on a 1x account and six on a 3x account in the same dispatch. Risk sits at the same level: a daily loss cap per account, and a maximum order size that caps what a signal can open.
- Signal sources
- PineScript, Python, any raw POST
- Sizing
- Per sub-account, whole numbers
- Risk
- Daily loss cap and max order size, per account
- Closing orders
- Never blocked by a cap meant for entries
What arms itself?
Nothing should, and on Quanify nothing does. New accounts on a trader land disabled; routing a strategy at an account does not start it trading. You press the power button, and the card only reads armed once the engine has confirmed it holds the link for every account you switched on. This matters more than it sounds — a platform that re-arms routing on your behalf, on a reload or a reconnect, can put you in a trade you thought you had switched off.
What happens to open positions when it ends?
Quanify never flattens on your behalf — not on cancellation, not when a strategy is deleted, not when you power everything off. New signals stop routing; anything already open stays at your broker under your control. Stopping new orders and closing existing ones are different decisions and the second one stays yours. Worth confirming explicitly with any platform you evaluate.
Is copy trading a separate product?
On Quanify it is not. Automation and Copy Trader run on the same broker connection, so an account moves between running your own strategy and mirroring an operator without re-onboarding, and every Automation plan carries a Copy Trader plan inside it. Both are server-side, so neither needs a VPS or a desktop agent.
Common questions
Which brokers can Quanify route to?
Tradovate, NinjaTrader and TopstepX, connected directly rather than through a third-party bridge.
Can I test automation without funding an account?
Yes. Connect a simulated or evaluation account and run everything against it. Nothing about the configuration changes when you point the same trader at live money.
Do I need to keep a machine running?
No. The engine is server-side, so strategies keep routing with your laptop closed.
Does Automation include copy trading?
Yes. Every Automation plan carries a Copy Trader plan inside it at no extra cost.
Start on a simulated account.
Connect a sim or evaluation account and run the whole product against it before you point anything at live money. Nothing about the setup changes when you do.