What you are setting up
LPFT Elite is a complete trading system: a bot that decides when a trade should happen, and a desktop app that applies the rules and places the order for you. Nothing about it is a signal group and nothing about it is copy-trading - the software runs on your own machine, in your own broker account.
| The piece | What it does | Who provides it |
|---|---|---|
| The Elite bots TradingView scripts | Watch the market and decide when a trade should happen. | Included with membership |
| LPFT Copilot desktop app, Windows & Mac | Applies the session window, the news filter and your loss limit, sends the order, manages the exit, and records every trade your broker actually executed. | Included with membership |
| TradingView Premium | Where the bot runs. Premium is the minimum tier that works. | You provide |
| A futures account prop firm or your own | Where the money and the trades live. | You provide |
The whole thing in one line
Every step below wires up one of those arrows. It takes about two hours, once.
What it costs to run
Your membership does not cover the third-party tools the method runs on. Here is the complete list, including the ones people discover late.
Required for everyone
| Tool | Cost (USD) | Your discount | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| TradingView Premium nothing below Premium works | $69.95/mo or $59.95/mo billed yearly | $15 off your plan | 30-day free trial |
| CME real-time data inside TradingView | $7.00/mo non-professional | - | - |
| Futures commissions | from $0.39 per micro, per side | - | free sim account |
| Prop firm account if you use one | your firm's own fees | - | - |
Plus one automation engine
| Engine | Extra cost (USD) | Your discount | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engine A - Direct to Tradovate Tradovate API add-on | $25.00/mo | none available | - |
| Engine B - TradersPost Starter plan or above | $49.00/mo or $41.65/mo billed yearly | 20% off, for as long as you stay subscribed code LPFT | 7-day free trial |
| All in, before commissions | Engine A | Engine B |
|---|---|---|
| Paying monthly | about $102/mo | about $126/mo |
| Paying yearly where offered | about $92/mo | about $109/mo |
Prices verified 28 July 2026 and set by those companies, not by us - check their pages for today's number.
Those are partner links. They cost you the same or less than going direct and they help support LPFT. The setup works identically either way.
TradingView: Premium, and live data
1. Premium - not a tier below it
This is a hard technical requirement, not an upsell, and there are exactly two reasons.
| What the method needs | Which plans have it |
|---|---|
| 1-second chart intervals. The bots run on a 1-second chart, and alerts on second-based intervals are a Premium feature. | Premium and above only |
| Open-ended alerts. Your alert must never expire. On lower tiers it dies after two months - silently, while everything still looks fine. | Premium and above only |
2. Real-time CME futures data
Without it your chart runs on delayed prices, and a bot acting on delayed prices is worse than no bot. It is a small separate subscription inside TradingView $7.00/month at the non-professional rate.
3. Two-factor authentication
Your TradingView account will be driving live orders. Turn 2FA on under Profile menu → Account and billing → Security.
Your futures account
Your contract size is set by your account size
This is part of the published method, not a preference. Trading a different size is allowed, but it makes you ineligible for the 90-Day Guarantee, because your results would no longer compare like-for-like with ours.
| Prop account size | Contracts per trade |
|---|---|
| $50,000 | 3 MNQ |
| $100,000 | 7 MNQ |
| $150,000 | 1 NQ |
| $250,000 | 2 NQ (1 NQ = the safer alternative) |
| $300,000 | 2 NQ |
| Your own funded account | Contracts per trade |
|---|---|
| $1,000 - $9,000 | 1 MNQ per $1,000 (e.g. $4,000 = 4 MNQ) |
| $10,000 and up | 1 NQ per $10,000 (e.g. $30,000 = 3 NQ) |
Which engine your account can use
| Your account | Engine A (Direct) | Engine B (TradersPost) |
|---|---|---|
| Your own funded Tradovate account, $1,000+ | Yes | Yes |
| Prop firm / evaluation account on Tradovate | Usually no | Yes |
| Prop firm on Rithmic | No | Yes, if TradersPost supports the firm |
| Any other broker TradersPost supports | No | Yes |
Tradovate, NinjaTrader and Rithmic
- Tradovate and NinjaTrader are the same brokerage. NinjaTrader acquired Tradovate; today it is one clearing firm with several front ends. Your login is the same account whether you open Tradovate Web, NinjaTrader Desktop or mobile.
- NinjaTrader Desktop has its own separate app login for the software licence. Sign into that first, then connect your Tradovate brokerage account inside it, and choose the newer NinjaTrader connection type rather than the legacy Tradovate one.
- Rithmic accounts cannot use Engine A. Rithmic and Tradovate are mutually exclusive routing systems - a Rithmic-brokered account is not reachable through the Tradovate API at all. If your firm put you on Rithmic, you are on Engine B.
Prop firm accounts are normally approved within minutes, so opening one should not hold up the rest of your setup.
Your bots are already waiting
The moment you register, both Elite bots are granted to the TradingView username on your account. They are invite-only scripts, so nobody can find them by searching - they simply appear in your account.
Where to find them
- Open any chart on TradingView.
- Click Indicators in the top toolbar.
- Open the Invite-only scripts tab on the left.
- LPFT Elite Bot 2.1 is listed there. One script, both engines.
Install and activate the app
LPFT Copilot is a normal desktop app for Windows and Mac. Your licence key arrives in your signup email, you enter it once on that computer, and you never enter it again - not even after an update.
Your settings and your trade logbook are stored on your own computer, outside the app folder, so updating or reinstalling never wipes your history.
Choose your engine
Your orders can reach your broker one of two ways. Both trade exactly the same method, on exactly the same signals, at exactly the same moment. The difference is the plumbing and the price - and, for most people, which one their account actually allows.
Four ways in. Pick exactly one.
Pick one to look inside. You can always come back - and in the app you can switch engines later with a single dropdown.
Apex Trader Funding
Blue Guardian Futures
BluSky Trading
Bulenox
Earn2Trade
Elite Trader Funding
Funded Futures Network
FundedNext Futures
FundingTicks
FXIFY Futures
Goat Funded Futures
Leeloo Trading
Legends Trading
Lucid Trading
MyFundedFutures
OneUp Trader
Purdia Capital
Take Profit Trader
The Futures Desk
The Trading Pit
Top One Futures
Topstep
TradeDay
Tradeify
UProfit Trader
Your own NinjaTrader account
Your own Tradovate accountEvery firm above can be connected. Whether automated trading is allowed on your account is your firm’s own rule, it changes without notice, and it is yours to check - we do not track or interpret it for you. The app asks you to confirm you accept that before it will place a single order.
Direct to Tradovate
The Copilot app on your computer talks straight to Tradovate. Nothing sits between your machine and your broker, which is what makes it both the cheapest to run and the strongest protection you can have: if an exit order is ever dropped, the app can replace it and force your position flat directly at the broker.
- Extra cost: $25.00/month for Tradovate's API add-on. There is no partner discount on it - nobody gets one.
- You need: your own live, funded Tradovate account with at least $1,000 in it.
- It cannot be used with prop firm or evaluation accounts, or anything brokered through Rithmic.
- Your broker password is encrypted and stored on your own computer. It never reaches us and it never leaves the machine.
Through TradersPost
Your app hands the order to TradersPost in the cloud, and TradersPost passes it to your broker. It costs more per month, and in exchange it works with almost everything including prop firms, evaluation accounts and Rithmic-based firms that the direct route simply cannot reach.
- Extra cost: from $49.00/month on the Starter plan.
20% off, for as long as you stay subscribed with code
LPFT, and a 7-day free trial to try it. - You need: an account at any broker or prop firm TradersPost supports.
- No broker password is stored anywhere - not by us, and not by the app.
- Several accounts at once can run from a single strategy.
Direct to your prop firm
The app talks to your prop firm's own interface and places the order there. Nothing sits in between, so there is no TradersPost subscription to pay - you buy your firm's API access instead, and it is usually cheaper.
- You need: a firm that issues traders an API key. Topstep and The Futures Desk both do. Every other firm on the list takes door D instead, which costs nothing extra.
- Your firm's rules are yours to check. Some firms allow automation while you are being evaluated and restrict it once you are funded. We do not track or publish anybody's rules - they change without notice. Ask your own firm, and the app will ask you to confirm you accept that before it places an order.
- It is in beta. Same engine, same rules, same protection - a newer door on the front. You can switch back to TradersPost from one dropdown at any time.
Through NinjaTrader
If you already trade in NinjaTrader, this is your door - whether that is your own brokerage account or a prop firm's. The app uses NinjaTrader's own Automated Trading Interface, so it hands the order to the copy of NinjaTrader running on your computer, and whatever NinjaTrader is connected to is what receives it.
- Extra cost: none. No API fee and no TradersPost plan. You are using the platform you already have.
- No API key, and no broker password is ever given to us or to the app. We connect to NinjaTrader, not to your broker.
- You need: NinjaTrader 8 open and logged in while you trade, with its Automated Trading Interface switched on. That is four settings and a restart.
- On a prop account this is the route for firms that give traders NinjaTrader and no API key at all.
- It is in beta, and switching back to another engine is one dropdown.
| Engine A Direct to Tradovate | Engine B Through TradersPost | |
|---|---|---|
| Who places the order | The Copilot app, on your computer. | TradersPost, in the cloud. |
| Extra cost per month | $25.00 Tradovate API add-on | $49.00 Starter plan 20% off, for as long as you stay subscribed with code LPFT |
| Works with | Your own funded Tradovate account ($1,000+). Not prop or evaluation accounts. | Prop firms and brokers TradersPost supports, including Rithmic-based firms. |
| Stores a broker password | Yes - encrypted, on your computer only. Never reaches us. | No |
| Protective cover | Strongest - the app can replace a dropped exit order and force-flat directly at your broker. | Good - the app force-flats through your webhook. |
| Multiple accounts at once | One account. | Yes - several accounts on one strategy. |
You must pick one: the strategy cannot execute without an engine behind it. You are not locked in - one dropdown in the app switches between them, instantly.
Your chart and the one alert
The bots run on a specific chart configuration - chart type, interval and a short list of settings that have to match exactly. Your member guide gives you every one of them with a screenshot to copy, because getting a single one wrong silently changes what the bot sees.
Then you add LPFT Elite Bot 2.1 from your invite-only scripts, set your contract size in its settings, and create one alert that carries the signal to your app. It is a single script carrying both engines, reversion and trend, and you choose which one runs in its own settings, so there is nothing else to add to the chart.
Your Renko box comes from the chart, and the alert is fixed to whatever it was when you created it. The member guide walks through changing it if you want a different one.
Size, risk, news and time zone
Contract size
You pick your account type and size and the app prints the published contract count for it, then warns you if what you typed does not match. The published size is part of the method, not a suggestion - a mismatched size is not claim-eligible.
Your daily loss stop
Measured in points per contract, with a minimum of 100. Critically, it is measured against your broker - only trades your broker actually executed count, never an estimate derived from the strategy's alert stream. You also set a dollar limit inside your broker: the app's stop is the everyday one, the broker's is the one that still works when your computer does not.
The news filter
One toggle. On, it holds new entries around high-impact US economic events - one hour before to one hour after - and around major Nasdaq earnings. Off, it trades through them. A trade already open is never closed by the filter; it keeps its target, its trailing protection and the 3:00 PM flat-out exactly as normal.
Your time zone
The session is fixed to the US market: new entries 10:30 AM - 2:15 PM ET, everything flat by 3:00 PM ET, Monday to Friday. Set your time zone and the app shows every one of those times in your own clock - the trades still happen at the same real moment as everyone else's.
Your trading day
Open the app by 9:55 AM ET. It runs a readiness check across your whole setup licence, engine, broker, your alert, your contract size, your loss limit - and tells you if anything needs fixing while there is still time to fix it.
Then the app waits for a signal, checks it against the session, the news filter and your loss limit, places the order, manages the exit, and flattens everything by 3:00 PM ET.
Some days produce no trades at all. The method stands down in strongly trending conditions and around major news. A quiet day is the filter doing its job, not a broken bot.
There is also a night session, and it is off
Your bot can also run a second session in the evening: 18:30-00:00 ET, Mon-Thu. Two things to be straight about before you switch it on. It is off until you turn it on yourself, and turning it on is the only thing that starts it. And it is not covered by the 90-Day Guarantee. The guarantee is judged on the morning session, which has not changed, and night trades are never counted for a claim and never counted against one.
It runs on the same engine and the same rules as the morning, on its own hours, with its own loss limit for that session. It has a shorter live record than the morning session and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Use it if you want it, at your own risk.
You can stop it at any time
There are stops at every level: flatten and exit now, pause new entries, a kill switch, the alert in TradingView, and your broker's own controls, which work even with your computer off. The member guide lists exactly what each one stops and what it does not.
The 90-Day Guarantee
Every trade in your logbook is one your broker actually executed. Nothing is estimated and nothing is derived from the bot's intentions - if your broker did not fill it, it is not in there. The list is hash-chained, so it cannot be quietly edited after the fact, which is exactly what makes it worth something as evidence.
Your day count runs on the dashboard from the day your membership starts, eligibility is computed automatically, and there is no form to keep or remember to fill in.
Where the real guide is
Everything above tells you what the setup involves. The 86-page member guide is the one that tells you how: every click, every screenshot, the exact chart configuration, the API setup, the alert, both engines end to end, and what to do when something goes wrong. It is one PDF.
| Where it lives | How you get it |
|---|---|
| A 86-page PDF print it, read it offline, keep it | Linked in your signup email the moment you join. |
| Inside the Copilot app Setup guide tab, tick off as you go | Already there when you activate your licence. |
Already a member? Your PDF link is in your signup email, and the same guide is in the app under Setup guide. Need the app itself? Download LPFT Copilot →
Questions before you start? Email info@livepropfirmtrading.com or ask in the community - both reach a human.