Signals from channels
Joining a channel, how the bot reads a signal, what a subscriber sees
14 articles
How to connect to a signal channelWhat you need so the bot trades a channel's signals: membership in the channel, a Signal bot of the right type, the 'Connect channel' button and the 'Auto-trade' switchHow the bot reads a signal: what is recognized and what is notWhich parts of a post the bot turns into a trade — pair, leverage, entries, targets, stop — and which formats it does not supportWhat happens after a signal is publishedThe path from a post in the channel to orders on your account: parsing, your settings on top of the levels, placing entries, stop and targets, notificationsSignal statusesSix signal statuses — from 'Active' to 'Expired' — where to see them and how a signal status differs from the status of your tradeWhy channel notifications are 'theoretical'How the bot follows the price of a signal, which messages it posts to the channel and why the percentages in them are not about your trade'The channel says TP was hit, but not for me'Why the channel posted 'take-profit reached' while your trade stayed open, what to check and what you can doButtons under signal postsThree buttons under a recognized signal — 'View signal', 'Open signal', 'Enable auto-trading' — what each one does and which bot replies are possibleThe admin manages a signal: what the subscriber seesThe admin closed a signal, moved the stop or a target, published an opposite signal — what happens to your trade in each caseOne signal per pairWhy a second signal for the same pair in the same direction does not open a second trade, and how the bot behaves on an opposite signal in One-Way and Hedge modesSpot and futures signalsHow the bot decides whether a signal is spot or futures, which bot it goes to, and why two different bots are needed for the two marketsSignal limitsA summary table of the restrictions: what is allowed inside a signal, how long a signal lives, and which limits come from your settings and from the exchangeSignals and subscriptionHow the trial, the bot limit, the grace period and view-only mode affect trades opened from signalsHow to disconnect from a channelThree ways to stop trading a channel: turn off auto-trade, unlink the bot from the channel, or leave the channel in Telegram — and what happens to open tradesThe signal was not recognized: whyHow to tell that the bot did not accept a post as a signal, how that differs from 'the signal did not pass your filters', and the most frequent reasons