Head-to-head comparison · 2026
Signal Trade App is $15 a month after the first month. PickMyTrade is $50 with stocks, options, forex, CFDs and a 7-day free trial that takes no card.
Summary
If you also trade stocks, options, forex or CFDs, want trailing stops and breakeven driven from the alert, or will not hand over a card to start a trial.
If you trade CME and CBOT futures only and want a built-in journal.
Price
Signal Trade App's Pro plan is $30 for the first month, then $15 a month, or $199 a year. PickMyTrade is $50 a month or $500 a year. Across a first year that is roughly $195 or $199 against $600 or $500. For a trader who works only in CME and CBOT futures, they are cheaper, and they stay cheaper. Their figures were checked 22 September 2026.
The question worth asking is what the $15 covers, because it is a futures-only product.
| What you need | Signal Trade App | PickMyTrade |
|---|---|---|
| Alerts and copying on CME and CBOT futures | Pro: $30 first month, then $15/mo, or $199/yr | $50/mo or $500/yr |
| Stocks or options from the same alerts | Not offered | $50/mo, through Interactive Brokers, TradeStation or Tradier (single-leg options) |
| Forex or CFDs | Not offered | $50/mo, through TradeLocker or Match-Trader |
| A free trial without giving a card | 5 days, credit card required, one trial per payment method | 7 days, no credit card, full access |
| Running it on your own server | Self-hosted license, $599 one time, valid for one server instance, plus the server | Not offered |
One PickMyTrade subscription covers unlimited accounts under one broker login. Five Apex accounts held under a single Tradovate login all automate on one $50 subscription, and a second, separate login needs its own subscription. Their Pro plan is flat too, so on a pure futures fleet the account count is not what separates the two products. Price and scope are.
Side by side
| Decision | PickMyTrade | Signal Trade App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $50/mo or $500/yr, one plan, everything included | $30 first month then $15/mo, or $199/yr. Self-hosted $599 one time. Source |
| Brokers, platforms and markets | Eight brokers: Tradovate, Rithmic, ProjectX including TopstepX, Interactive Brokers, TradeStation, Tradier, TradeLocker, Match-Trader. Futures, stocks and options, forex and CFDs on the one plan. Broker guides | Tradovate, Rithmic, ProjectX and NinjaTrader. CME and CBOT futures. Source |
| Free trial | 7 days, no credit card, full access, every connected account | 5 days, credit card required, one trial per user and per payment method |
| Trade copier | Tradovate admin account to followers, with a quantity multiplier per account. Guide | Copy groups with unlimited broker accounts, and a leader that can sit on Rithmic, ProjectX or NinjaTrader as well as Tradovate |
| Exit management from the alert | Stop loss and take profit five ways (points, percentage, price, ticks, total P/L), brackets and OCO, trailing stop on Tradovate and ProjectX, breakeven with offset, SL/TP changes on an open trade, partial close, reverse. Trailing · Breakeven | Their help centre states that trailing stops, automated breakeven moves and multi-target scale-outs are not yet supported from a single webhook, and lists them as planned |
| Account risk limits | Daily and weekly profit and loss limits per account, trading-time windows, pause automation, news filter on Tradovate. Guide | Daily loss limit, daily profit target, max quantity, auto-lockout and trailing-drawdown tracking |
| Trade journal and analytics | Execution logs only. No built-in journal | Built-in journal with win rate, profit factor, Sharpe ratio, a P&L calendar and a daily email summary |
| Published public API | Not offered | A documented REST API on the paid plans. Source |
| Connecting the broker | Tradovate connects by OAuth, with no separate Tradovate API purchase. Tradovate FAQ | Their help centre asks you to enter your broker credentials, stored encrypted. Whether a broker API subscription is needed is not stated |
| Where it runs | In the cloud, except Interactive Brokers: TWS or IB Gateway and the PickMyTrade IB application must stay running. IBKR setup | In the cloud, or on your own server with the $599 license |
Why PickMyTrade
Futures on Tradovate, Rithmic and ProjectX. Stocks and options on Interactive Brokers, TradeStation and Tradier, options single-leg on Tradier. Forex and CFDs on TradeLocker and Match-Trader. The day you add a second asset class is the day the $35 difference stops being a difference. See the broker guides.
Stop loss and take profit by points, percentage, price, ticks or total P/L, then brackets and OCO, a trailing stop on Tradovate and ProjectX, breakeven with an offset, changes to SL or TP on an open position, partial closes and reversals, all from the TradingView alert. Alert setup.
Profit and loss limits per account, daily and weekly, the hours automation is allowed to trade, and a pause switch. They are settings, not guarantees, so set them against your firm's rules. Risk settings.
Seven days, no credit card, full access, every account you connect. Verified on our pricing page on 23 September 2026. Where another page describes our trial as five days, the pricing page is the source.
Route a single TradingView alert to as many accounts as you hold under that broker login, each with its own position size, then copy an admin account's fills to followers with a multiplier. Tradovate connects by OAuth, with no separate API subscription to buy first. Multi-account guide.
Honest take
$15 a month against $50 is a real gap, it repeats every month, and nothing on this page erases it.
Theirs reports win rate, profit factor, Sharpe ratio and a P&L calendar, with a daily email summary. PickMyTrade gives you execution logs and nothing more; our users pair it with a separate journal.
They publish copy groups led from Rithmic, ProjectX or NinjaTrader. Our copier leads from a Tradovate admin account, and NinjaTrader accounts that log in through Tradovate work with our Tradovate integration. There is no NinjaTrader 8 add-on.
They publish one. PickMyTrade has no published public API, so anything built around it goes through the dashboard.
Their $599 self-hosted license exists and we have no equivalent. Read their license and renewal terms first, and price the server: the one-time figure is not the whole cost.
Switching
Start the 7-day trial and connect your broker. Sign in to Tradovate with OAuth, or follow the guide for Rithmic, ProjectX or whichever broker you trade.
Rebuild the alert message. Generate the PickMyTrade payload in the dashboard and paste it into your TradingView alert with our webhook URL. The two products use different field names, so expect to rewrite each alert rather than swap a URL.
Set accounts, sizing, exits and limits. Choose which accounts receive the alert and at what size, then the stop loss and take profit method, any trailing or breakeven rule, and your daily and weekly limits.
Test on demo, then move one account at a time. Check the order at your broker, and turn the other tool off for that account before you go live, so only one system is placing orders.
FAQ
Yes. Their Pro plan is $30 for the first month and $15 a month after that, or $199 a year, against our $50 a month or $500 a year. For a trader who only needs CME and CBOT futures, they are the cheaper product and they stay cheaper. PickMyTrade costs more because the same plan also covers stocks, options, forex and CFDs.
Seven days, no credit card, full access, and every account you connect rather than one. You can connect your broker, build an alert and watch it place orders before you decide. This was verified on our pricing page on 23 September 2026. Signal Trade App's trial runs 5 days and requires a credit card, with one trial per payment method.
Yes, on the $50 plan. Stocks and options run through Interactive Brokers, TradeStation and Tradier, where Tradier options are single-leg. Forex and CFDs run through TradeLocker and Match-Trader. Interactive Brokers is the one route that needs software running on your side: TWS or IB Gateway plus the PickMyTrade IB application. Signal Trade App covers CME and CBOT futures.
Yes. A Tradovate admin account's trades copy to follower accounts, each with its own quantity multiplier, and that is included in the $50 plan. Separately, one alert can be routed to many accounts with a different size on each. The leader has to be a Tradovate admin account, which is a real limit if yours sits elsewhere.
Yes. A trailing stop works on Tradovate and ProjectX, breakeven takes an offset, and you can update stop loss or take profit on an open trade, close part of a position or reverse it, all from the TradingView alert. Stop loss and take profit can be set five ways: points, percentage, price, ticks or total P/L.
No. PickMyTrade keeps execution logs so you can see what each alert did, but there is no built-in journal, no Sharpe ratio and no P&L calendar. Signal Trade App includes all of that on its plan. If journalling inside the same tool matters to you, that is a genuine reason to choose them.
One subscription covers unlimited accounts under one broker login. Five Apex accounts under a single Tradovate login all automate on one $50 subscription. If your accounts sit under separate broker logins, each login needs its own subscription, so count logins rather than accounts before you compare totals.
Sources
Prepared by PickMyTrade. Signal Trade App details come from its own pages, checked 22 September 2026: pricing, platforms, self-hosted, API docs and its help centre. PickMyTrade details come from our pricing page, verified 23 September 2026, and our documentation. Prices and features change on both sides; check each site before you buy.
Risk disclosure. Trading futures involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The content on this page is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. Only trade with capital you can afford to lose.
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