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Intelligent, creative ways to use bots to unlock your autotrading superpowers.
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Bot Inspiration
How to Automate a MACD Strategy with Bots
Learn how to automate a strategy that sells credit spreads when the MACD indicator signals an overbought or oversold condition.
Steve Henry
Jul 6, 2022
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7 min read
Bot Inspiration
How to Automate a Bollinger Band Strategy
Learn how to build an automated Bollinger Band bot using debit and credit spreads to trade breakouts.
Steve Henry
Mar 31, 2022
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6 min read
Bot Inspiration
Building an RSI Swing Trading Bot with Credit Spreads
Discover how to automate a popular swing trading strategy that opens bullish and bearish credit spreads based on RSI value.
Kirk Du Plessis
Dec 13, 2021
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30 min video
Bot Inspiration
Automated Trading Using Multiple Moving Averages
Automate your trend following strategy with these two decision recipes that reference multiple moving averages when filtering opportunities.
Kirk Du Plessis
Oct 27, 2021
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3 min video
Bot Inspiration
How to Automatically Avoid Trading When Markets are in a Downtrend
Do you want to avoid trading when certain stocks are in a downtrend? Use a simple moving average decision recipe to filter for new position opportunities.
Kirk Du Plessis
Sep 22, 2021
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3 min video
Bot Inspiration
How to Setup Your Bot Automations to be Incredibly Flexible
You don’t need to continuously enter the same information over and over across multiple automations. Learn how to use custom inputs to add flexibility and efficiency to any bot.
Kirk Du Plessis
Jun 2, 2021
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13 min video
Bot Inspiration
How to Add a Global VIX Filter to the Beginning of an Automation
Let your bot scan the market for high volatility before entering new positions. Add a global VIX filter to any automation to quickly check if market volatility is above a defined level.
Kirk Du Plessis
Apr 5, 2021
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7 min video
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