“Juan – Reseñas con Sentido”

I want to share something that recently happened to me with Take Profit Trader, because I believe it’s important for the trading community to be aware of it.

Before a trader can be expected to comply with a news restriction rule, the company must first meet its own basic responsibility: providing the news alert at a reasonable time, when the trader is awake and able to act.

In my case, the news alert for the CPI event was sent at 2:48 AM. At that hour, any person is naturally asleep. An email sent in the middle of the night does not fulfill the purpose of a warning, because the trader has no real opportunity to see it before the market opens.

If the alert arrives while the trader is asleep, then there is no conscious possibility to cancel orders, adjust strategies, or avoid a violation. Yet the company applied the rule as if the alert had been delivered at a normal, actionable time.

This creates an unfair situation: they demand compliance, but do not ensure the alert is delivered at a time when compliance is actually possible.

It’s also important to highlight something fundamental: Limit orders exist precisely so traders do not have to be in front of the screen at all times. They are designed to execute automatically when price reaches a certain level, even if the trader is resting or away from the computer.

The fact that a limit order executed at a time when I was not awake does not make me a rule violator. That is exactly what limit orders are for. When I went to sleep, I had no knowledge of any upcoming news event, because the alert had not been sent yet.

If the platform allows limit orders and ATM strategies, but sends news alerts at 2:48 AM, it creates a contradiction: it allows automated trading, but penalizes the trader for not being awake in the middle of the night to cancel an order the system itself permits.

I’m sharing this so other traders understand how the system works and why it’s important to check the timing of news alerts. An alert sent at 2:48 AM is not a real alert — it’s a notification delivered when the trader cannot possibly see it, leaving them exposed to losing their account without having any real chance to prevent it.