Connect a trading bot to your broker
AlgolaneBots places orders in your own broker account. It gets permission to trade and read positions, never to move or withdraw money. Every bot runs on paper first.
Which brokers does AlgolaneBots work with?
Your money stays in your own account. Connect when you're ready, not before.
Sign in on Alpaca's own page. We get trade permission only.
- Accounts
- Paper and live
- Setup
- About 2 minutes
- Bots
- Big Tech Trend, Steady Growth, Market Switch, Leveraged Growth
Add our Expert Advisor to your own MT5 terminal and paste a one-time token.
- Accounts
- Demo and live
- Setup
- About 10 minutes
- Bots
- Gold Breakout
Gold brokers with MetaTrader 5
Works todayGold Breakout runs at any broker that offers MT5. These are some of the best known.
IC Markets
Pepperstone- Exness
XM
FxPro
TickmillVantage
- FP Markets
Admirals
AvaTrade
HFM
OANDA
Not on the list? Any MT5 broker that offers gold (XAUUSD) works. Check it is licensed where you live.
US stocks with the AlgolaneBots Connector
Works todayA small Windows app places the four US bots' orders with your own API key. The key never leaves your computer.
TradierPaper (sandbox account) and live
tastytradePaper (sandbox account) and liveTradeStationPaper (sim account) and live
Interactive BrokersPaper (ibkr paper login) and live
It runs in the background and can wake your computer at 9:00am New York time on market days.
Every bot also runs on paper, with no broker at all. Broker names and logos belong to their owners. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.
- 1Try it on paper
Every bot runs on $10,000 of pretend money first. No broker needed.
- 2Connect in a few clicks
Sign in on Alpaca, or paste a token into MT5. The setup page walks you through it.
- 3Set your limits
Choose the most a bot can use, or your risk per trade. It never touches anything else.
- 4Stay in control
Pause a bot or press the kill switch any time. Disconnect whenever you like.
Alpaca setup, in short
- Open an Alpaca account. Paper trading works straight away; live trading needs Alpaca's approval and funding.
- In AlgolaneBots, choose Connect Alpaca and sign in on Alpaca's own page. Click Allow to grant trade-only access.
- Pick one of the four US strategies and set the most it may use.
- Orders are sent before 9:28am New York time and fill in the opening auction.
MetaTrader 5 setup, in short
- Open a demo account with any broker that offers MetaTrader 5 and gold (XAUUSD).
- Copy the AlgolaneBots Expert Advisor into MQL5 › Experts and refresh the Navigator.
- In Tools › Options › Expert Advisors, allow algorithmic trading and web requests to algolanebots.com.
- Attach the advisor to a gold chart, paste your token and switch on Algo Trading.
Interactive Brokers, Tradier, tastytrade or TradeStation, in short
- Download the AlgolaneBots Connector app for Windows and pick your broker.
- Sign in from the app and choose paper or real money, a US strategy and a spending limit.
- Paste your broker's personal API key into the app (for IBKR, keep IB Gateway running). It stays on your computer.
- Leave the app in the tray. It places the day's orders before the open by itself.
Live Alpaca trading is for US residents. Tradier, tastytrade and TradeStation decide who may open an account with them. The MetaTrader 5 route isn't offered in India, the US or sanctioned countries. Paper trading works for every strategy everywhere.