Hi, Are there US Futures scheduled for using with Alera in next versions? It would be nice to trade them with AmiBroker strategies.

Hi, it would be nice to define Trail Stop in Points or Ticks, not just Percentage. This can be useful when dealing with Chandelier Stops or when the amount is defined adaptatively on the AMI Strategy wich often occurs on Swing or Intraday Strategies.

Using Google Drive for Signals
You can connect APM to your Google Drive to pull signals from a specified folder.
NOTE: Since APM requires read access to Google Drive, it is recommended that you create a new Google account if you do not wish to grant APM access to all your Google Drive files.

• Find or create the folder in Google Drive that will store the signals
  
• Open the folder in your browser and copy the Folder Id from the URL (it is the last part of the URL, should look like in the image below)
  
• Paste this Folder Id into the settings page and click Save
  
• The first time you do this, you will be redirected to your browser in order to login into your Google account
  
• Allow Alera to have readonly access to your Google Drive. You may want to create a new Google account just to use with APM.
  
• If you gave a correct Folder Id, then the settings will save, otherwise you will see an error in APM
  
• To test that everything is working, place a signal file in the Google Drive folder and hit the folder button beside the Folder ID to view your files (or hit Order Preview)
  

Alera API
This guide explains how the Alera API works and how you can use it.
Available with APM version 2.1.0+

The Alera API allows you to:

• Send signals directly to the APM signal queue for immediate processing
  
• Retrieve account and strategy settings programmatically
  
• Retrieve current portfolio, order and trade information on a strategy by strategy basis
  

• Header:
  • Content-Type: application/json
    
• Body:
  • Key: “signals”
    
  • Value: A string containing multiple lines with the same format as the flat signal files (i.e. each line contains one signal. Comments are allowed). Invalid signals will be ignored. No csv formatting supported at this time.
    

• Currency:
  • This is the currency you wish to receive the account stats in. Note that only valid strategy base currencies can be used here.
    
  • This field is optional. Not providing it retrieves the stats in your account's base currency.
    

• Id:
  • This is the strategyId of the strategy you wish to query. Usually a 4 digit number (e.g. 1002)
    
  • If no strategy with this id exists, the call returns Bad Request and an error message
    
• Info:
  • This parameter is used to specify the type of information that is requested for a specific strategy
    
  • The following values are valid:
    • Portfolio - returns the current portfolio
      
    • Orders  - returns all active orders. This includes the Stop and Target orders. The ReEnter orders are not listed here as they are not active in the market.
      
    • ReEnter - returns all ReEnter orders
      
    • Trades  - returns the trades executed in the last 24 hours
      
    • Stats    - returns the strategy statistics
      
    • Symbols - return a list of symbols assigned to the strategy (you do not necessarily hold positions for assigned symbols)
      
• Format:
  • The response for Portfolio, Orders, ReEnter, Trades can be requested in two different formats (optional: default Text)
    • JSON - returns a list of JSON formatted objects
      
    • Text - returns a nicely formatted string (use this for displaying info)
      
  • The response for Symbols, Stats come in JSON format (see examples below)
    

Even if a position is NEUTRAL it would be nice to have the price data displayed in the portfolio window.

Paper Trading Licenses

Interactive Brokers
These licenses let you trade on the real market with simulated money. Paper trading licenses can be used indefinitely for as many accounts as you have.
You can generate a paper trading license by simply running APM with your paper trading account, as described here (please sign up on the forum to view this link).

Binance and Binance US
Binance and Binance US do not support paper trading for crypto BUT you can manage up to $3,000 USD for free with APM
To get a free license, simply set up the connection to Binance with APM and check "Free Test License"

Sometimes IB Gateway can get disconnected from the broker side.  It would be useful to have an email sent to the email address set up with APM if IB Gateway is disconnected for more than a set amount of time in order to alert the user.  Especially useful if the system is running on a remote server and the user doesn't "see" the system as much as they would if running locally.

Thanks,

DaveDM

I'm not sure if this is necessary, but for strategies where you are buying and selling on the same days, it might make sense to be able to sell first in order to make room in the portfolio and have more cash available to buy. 

DaveDM

Ability to re-arrange by dragging/dropping and change the order of the strategy tabs in the Strategy Window rather than having the order fixed based on the order in which each strategy was created.

Thanks,

DaveDM

Since it is possible to have multiple strategies within one physical account, it may be hard over time to keep track of how well each specific strategy is doing within the account since the broker metrics will be on the account level.

It would be helpful for each strategy tab to track it's own historical buy/sell orders and the prices they executed at if possible, and then for each strategy tab to have it's own sub-tab (similar to Settings, Log, Portfolio sub-tabs) that show basic strategy performance metrics over time, such as date of first trade, net profit since inception, equity curve, etc. -- Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) / performance metrics could be added over time.

Thank you,

DaveDM