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Trade Ideas Money Machine: Automated Stock Trading From Your Scans
Money Machine is the Auto Trading feature in TI Premium (The Apex, on our pricing page).
Money Machine trades from your Top Lists and Streaming Alerts. It sets and adjusts stops for each stock, and it can retry or reverse a trade based on your rules.
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How Trade Ideas automated trading works
See how Money Machine places and manages trades from your scans.
Custom risk per stock
Each name gets its own stop and targets from that stock’s volatility — not one blunt rule.
Retry. Reverse. Hybrid.
Retry and reverse under pressure — plus your own tickets and Price Alerts while it runs.
Power tool, not a promise.
How the Trade Ideas Money Machine works, step by step
It trades from your Top Lists and Streaming Alerts
Money Machine is the automated trading part of Trade Ideas. It does not pick stocks at random. It trades from the Top Lists and Streaming Alerts you already use, so the stocks it works on are the ones your own scans put in front of you. Top Lists, including Races and Tree Maps, keep it focused on the top runners instead of on alerts alone.
Each stock gets its own stop and target
Money Machine sets a stop and a target for every stock from that stock's volatility. A fast-moving stock gets room to move, and a quieter stock gets a tighter stop. It does not apply one blunt rule to every name, and it adjusts stops as the trade develops.
It retries and reverses when the trade pushes back
When a trade pushes back, Money Machine can retry the entry or reverse direction, based on how you set it up. You choose the rules, and it follows them the same way every time.
Brokerage Plus sends the orders
Brokerage Plus sends Money Machine's orders to your broker. Brokerage Plus is the order and position window in Trade Ideas Pro, where you see your positions and profit and loss. See which brokers Trade Ideas works with on the brokers page.
You stay in control while it runs
You are never locked out. You can place your own tickets and set Price Alerts alongside the automated trades, and step in whenever you want. Money Machine also has a Simulated Mode, so you can watch automated trading work before it touches real money.
A power tool, not a promise
Money Machine automates the work of entering and managing trades from your own scans. It does not remove market risk, and your results depend on the rules you set and the market you trade.
Trade Ideas Money Machine questions
What is automated stock trading?
Automated stock trading is software that enters and manages trades for you, based on rules you set. In Trade Ideas, Money Machine does this. It trades from your Top Lists and Streaming Alerts and manages each position with its own stop and target.
How does Trade Ideas Money Machine pick trades?
It trades from your Top Lists and Streaming Alerts. The stocks it works on are the ones your own scans surface, and Top Lists keep it focused on the top runners.
Which brokers does it work with?
Money Machine sends its orders through Brokerage Plus to your broker. The Trade Ideas brokers page lists IBKR, TradeStation, E*TRADE, Alpaca, CenterPoint and Cobra. See the brokers page for details.
Can I control risk on each stock?
Yes. Each stock gets its own stop and target based on that stock’s volatility, instead of one rule for every name. You can also place your own tickets and set Price Alerts while it runs.
Money Machine plan
Which plan includes Money Machine?
TI Premium. On the pricing page it is listed as Auto Trading.