Pine Script Snippets for Prop Firm Trading

Stop distance scales with Average True Range instead of a fixed tick count, so risk tracks current volatility automatically.

All firms

Ratchets a stop behind price using trail_points and trail_offset once a trade moves in your favor, sized in ticks.

All firms

Shifts the stop to entry after a tick-based profit trigger, capping the worst case at roughly a scratch.

All firms

Scales out a portion of the position at a first target with qty_percent, then lets the remainder run toward a second.

All firms

Define the stop in ticks and let the take-profit auto-derive from your target reward-to-risk multiple.

All firms

Converts risk dollars, stop distance, and tick value into a contract count sized to a fixed per-trade risk.

All firms

Tracks peak strategy equity and blocks new entries once trailing drawdown closes in on your firm's limit.

Apex · Topstep · MFFU

Accumulates session P&L and halts new entries once losses reach a configured threshold — the core prop firm safety rail.

Apex · Topstep · FTMO

Halts entries once session profit hits a cap — built for Apex funded accounts under the consistency rule.

Apex

Restricts entries to a configurable session window (RTH or custom), keeping trades out of thin overnight action.

All firms

Hour-range gate on the New York clock, with an optional midday exclusion window.

All firms

Blocks — or exclusively allows — entries during a configurable window right after the open.

All firms

Per-weekday toggles so a strategy can skip Mondays, sit out Fridays, or any combination you choose.

All firms

Non-repainting trend filter built on request.security with [1] and lookahead_off.

All firms

Blocks entries for a configurable window around scheduled high-impact news — CPI, FOMC, NFP.

All firms

Commission and tick-slippage settings plus a wide-bar entry skip for choppy conditions.

All firms

Forces entries onto confirmed bar closes only, eliminating the repainting that breaks live automation.

All firms

Closes every open position at a configurable time each session, so nothing survives into the overnight.

All firms

Builds the exact buy/sell/exit JSON payload TradersPost expects, assembled at runtime with alert().

Apex · Topstep · more

JSON alert payload shaped for PickMyTrade's routing to Apex, Tradeify, and Bulenox execution.

Apex · Tradeify · Bulenox

Builds alert text at runtime with str.tostring — symbol, price, size — instead of static dialog placeholders.

All firms

Session trade counter that blocks further entries once your daily cap is reached — an overtrading guard.

All firms

Halts new entries after N losing trades in a row — tilt protection written into the strategy itself.

All firms

Caps order size at a firm's scaling-plan contract limit so a sizing bug can't overshoot it.

Apex · Topstep

Auto-detects tick size and dollar-per-tick for MES, MNQ, ES, and NQ so position-sizing math stays correct across symbols.

All firms