Questions people actually ask before they start.
If something here is unclear or missing, write to [email protected] and we will answer it, and usually add it to this page. If a word is the problem rather than the answer, the glossary defines every term Triggon uses.
Product
What is Triggon?
Triggon is a marketplace of trading Strategies that runs inside Telegram, across crypto, forex, stocks, commodities and indices. Independent Providers publish their Strategies; every trade is recorded the moment it opens, so you can read a Strategy's complete history before you follow it.
You can act on the Signals yourself, or use Auto-Trade to have them placed on your own exchange account within limits you set.
Who is Triggon for?
Three groups. Traders looking for Strategies they can check before trusting; people who want trades placed automatically on their own exchange account; and Providers who have a Strategy of their own to publish, whether it runs on TradingView in Pine Script or on their own judgement.
What is a Strategy?
A trading approach with a name, a defined set of markets it trades, and a permanent public record of every position it has taken. A Strategy is run by one Provider and is the thing you subscribe to.
Which markets does Triggon cover?
Crypto, forex, stocks, commodities and indices. A Provider declares the markets a Strategy trades when they create it, and the Marketplace filters by asset class, so you see only the Strategies trading what you came for.
Which symbols are open in each market, and whether spot, futures or both, is set on the platform and shown live in the Provider application rather than promised here.
Each market keeps its own vocabulary rather than borrowing crypto's: a currency pair is quoted as a rate and sized in lots, a stock as a share price and a number of shares, an index as a level in points and a number of contracts, a token as a price and a position size. Performance, risk and the record are measured the same way in all of them.
What is a Provider?
The independent person or team who runs a Strategy. Providers apply, are reviewed, and publish under their own profile with their track record attached. They earn a share of every subscription their Strategy sells.
What is a Signal?
A structured trading instruction from a Strategy: the market, the direction, the entry price, the stop loss, and one or more take-profit levels with the share of the position each one closes.
Further Signals manage the position while it is open: adding to it, moving the stop, taking partial profit at a level, or closing it. You see each step as it happens rather than a summary afterwards.
What is the Marketplace?
Where every published Strategy is listed with its full performance history, its risk metrics, its Triggon Score and the Provider running it, so you can compare before you subscribe. Each Strategy admits a fixed number of simultaneous subscribers and closes to new members when it is full.
Is Triggon a crypto trading bot?
No. A trading bot is a program you configure and run yourself: you pick the rules, a grid, an averaging schedule or an indicator crossover, and it trades your account to them. Triggon sells no bot and runs none.
What Triggon lists is Strategies, each one published by an independent Provider and carrying the complete record of every position it has taken. Some of those Strategies are automated: an Algo Provider's code runs on TradingView or on their own server and reaches Triggon over a webhook. You are reading that Provider's published record and following it, rather than configuring a program of your own.
The part that resembles a bot is Auto-Trade, which places the Signals of Strategies you follow on your own exchange account inside limits you set. It automates the execution of somebody else's published Strategy. It is not a strategy you build.
How is Triggon different from copy trading?
Copy trading mirrors another person's live positions into your account automatically, at their sizing, and you are exposed to whatever they do next. Triggon issues a Signal that you or Auto-Trade act on at your own sizing, inside your own limits, and publishes the record of it.
Two practical differences follow. Your position size is yours: a Signal can ask for less leverage than you allow and never for more. And the thing you are judging is a written record you can open and read before you subscribe, rather than a live feed you join.
Triggon is not a copy-trading platform and does not describe itself as one.
Does Triggon offer funded accounts or run prop challenges?
No. Triggon does not fund traders, does not sell evaluations, does not operate a proprietary trading firm and is not affiliated with one.
What it has is Prop Check, a measurement. It reads a Strategy's recorded trades against a published generic rulebook, of the kind proprietary trading firms use, and reports how compatible that record has been with those limits. It is a way of reading a record, not an evaluation, an eligibility test or a route to capital.
Evaluating a Strategy
How is a Strategy's performance calculated?
From the Strategy's own recorded trades. Each trade is written down when it opens, not after it closes, so the record cannot be tidied up in hindsight.
Every figure, from total return, Win Rate, Profit Factor and Maximum Drawdown to the Sharpe, Sortino and Calmar Ratios, is computed from that record.
What is the Triggon Score?
A single ranking figure built from six inputs with published weights: CAGR, the annualised return of the Strategy's account (25%), Win Rate (20%), Profit Factor (20%), Maximum Drawdown (20%), number of trades (7.5%) and days live (7.5%). Every performance input is the account-level figure the Strategy's page shows, computed on the same $10,000 account as its equity curve. A Strategy is ranked once 20 trades have closed and it has been live for 30 days, paused time excluded.
Two things stop a short lucky run from ranking highly. Win Rate is measured by its statistical lower bound rather than its raw value, so a 100% Win Rate over three trades counts for far less than 62% over four hundred. And every component is scaled by a credibility factor drawn from sample size and track-record length, so a Strategy has to earn the right to be ranked at all.
What do Drawdown, Profit Factor and Win Rate mean?
Maximum Drawdown is the largest peak-to-trough fall the Strategy's equity has taken: how bad its worst stretch was. Profit Factor is gross profit divided by gross loss, so above 1.0 means the winners outweighed the losers. Win Rate is the share of trades that closed in profit.
None of the three is meaningful alone. A high Win Rate with a Profit Factor near 1.0 means many small wins and a few large losses.
What do the Sharpe, Sortino and Calmar Ratios mean?
They all measure return against risk, and differ in what they count as risk. All three are computed on the Strategy's simulated $10,000 account: its equity after every closed trade, sampled at the end of each day, so a day with three trades is one day of the account's life and a day with none is a flat day. Sharpe divides the average daily return by the volatility of all daily returns, annualised. Sortino counts only downside volatility, on the reasoning that upside swings are not a problem. Calmar divides the annualised return by Maximum Drawdown, so it asks what the return cost in worst-case pain.
They describe what a Strategy has already done. None of them predicts what it will do next.
Are profits guaranteed?
No. Trading carries risk and you can lose money. Every figure Triggon publishes describes trades that have already happened; none of it predicts what will happen next.
Triggon's purpose is to give you the complete record, including the losses, so you can make that judgement yourself.
What is the simulated account a Strategy's performance is computed on?
Every Strategy has its own simulated account, and it starts at $10,000. When the Strategy sends a Signal, the account opens the position, commits margin for it, charges a fee and records the result. Two Strategies are two independent accounts, so one cannot affect the other's record.
Balances are never stored. The account is replayed from the Strategy's own positions every time it is read, which is why the equity curve, the trade table and the risk figures can never disagree with each other: they are three readings of one ledger. It is also why a figure on a Strategy's page can always be traced back to the trades that produced it.
An entry the account cannot fund in full is skipped rather than part-funded, so a record cannot show a Strategy taking a position its own balance could not have carried at that moment.
Does the simulated account charge trading fees?
Yes. Every position is charged a fee, and a trade whose price move is smaller than its own cost is recorded as the loss it is. A fee-free engine would score that trade as a win, which is the difference between a record and an advertisement.
A single position is also floored at its own liquidation: it can lose the margin committed to it and no more. Losing the whole account takes either many positions or an unrealized loss across the open book.
What is Return on Margin, and how is it different from the account return?
They are two rungs of the same ladder and the gap between them is large. A price move of 0.58% at 100x leverage is a 58% gross return on the margin committed; after fees, perhaps 38%. But if that position committed 2.5% of the account as margin, the account itself grew by about 0.95%.
Triggon reports all four figures separately rather than collapsing them. Return on Margin describes the position; the account return is what the equity curve actually moves by. A record that prints the first under the second's name is describing an account that grew forty times more than it did.
How can I check a signal provider's track record before paying?
Ask when each trade was written down. A record compiled after the fact and a complete one look identical to a reader, because the selection that produced the first is not visible in it. That single question decides how much the rest of the numbers are worth.
Then ask five more: can you read individual trades or only a summary; is the drawdown published beside the return; how long is the record and how many trades is it; whose position sizing produced the figures; and are the losing trades there. A record without losses in it is not a record of trading.
On Triggon every trade is written down the moment it opens, before its outcome is known, and a Provider can publish the result as a public journal that anybody can open without an account. That is the artifact those questions are asking for. It is not a prediction, and a complete record of a Strategy that lost money is still a complete record.
Does Prop Check mean a Strategy would pass a prop firm challenge?
No, and it is designed not to answer that. Prop Check reads a Strategy's recorded trades against a published generic rulebook and reports how compatible that record has been with those limits. It names no firm, and passing a real evaluation depends on the firm's own rules, its platform and the trading done during it.
It returns one of four results. Prop Ready means the recorded behaviour sat inside every limit that applied. Prop Adaptable means what sat outside a limit was a setting the Provider chose, such as position size, rather than something the record did. Prop Incompatible means the record itself breached a limit. Not enough data means the book does not yet hold what a rule needs.
That fourth result is the point of the design. Where the underlying data can only establish a floor on a figure, Prop Check will report that a breach is certain but will never report a pass, because a floor inside a limit proves nothing. An absent Prop Check is never a clean one.
Which kind of drawdown does Prop Check measure?
The trailing kind. The published rule is that equity may not fall more than 10% below its running peak at any point, so the threshold moves up as the account makes new highs and never moves back down. It is measured against the equity peak rather than against the starting balance.
The distinction matters when you compare the figure with a rulebook of your own. A limit measured from the opening balance is a different and usually looser test than one measured from the high-water mark, and the same record can sit inside one and outside the other.
Where the record includes what happened inside a trade, the figure is exact. Where it does not, the drawdown computed from closing prices is a floor on the real one, and Prop Check treats it as a floor rather than as an estimate.
The prop challenge rules page explains every limit in the baseline as a measurement, including the two places a drawdown threshold can be measured from and why the same record can pass one and breach the other.
Providers
What is the difference between an Algo Provider and a Manual Provider?
An Algo Provider runs an automated Strategy and connects it to Triggon with an authenticated webhook, so Signals are generated without them. Most do that with a Pine Script Strategy on TradingView; a server, a bot or another platform that can send the same request works the same way.
A Manual Provider sends each Signal through Triggon's own Provider tools, with no external infrastructure of their own. Both routes build the same verified track record and publish to the same Marketplace. The difference is only how the Signals are created.
What is a Manual Provider?
A Provider who decides each trade themselves and sends it as a Signal through Triggon's own Provider tools. There is no webhook, no external platform and no infrastructure of their own to run.
It is a full Provider route, not a reduced one. A Manual Strategy is created the same way, reviewed the same way, has to clear a check before it can go live, publishes to the same Marketplace, is measured by the same figures and earns the same share of every subscription.
What is an Algo Provider?
A Provider whose Strategy generates its own Signals and sends them to Triggon over a webhook. Usually that is a Pine Script Strategy on TradingView, whose alerts are configured to reach Triggon; it can equally be their own server, a Python or Node.js bot, or another platform able to send the same authenticated request. Triggon checks the request, not what sent it.
Do I have to use TradingView or Pine Script to be an Algo Provider?
No. Triggon's Algo connection is an authenticated webhook: your Strategy sends an HTTPS POST with a JSON body carrying its secret, and Triggon validates the request without checking what produced it.
TradingView with Pine Script is the most common way to send one, and the one with the most worked examples. Your own server, a Python or Node.js bot, your own strategy engine, or another platform that can send the same request are all equally valid.
The requirement is the request, not the vendor: a system can connect if it can send an authenticated HTTPS POST with the required fields at the moment your Strategy acts. One thing that is still specific: backtest evidence is accepted as a TradingView Strategy Tester export or a MetaTrader 5 report.
Can I use my existing TradingView Strategy?
Yes. If your Strategy already runs as a Pine Script on TradingView, you do not rebuild it. You configure its alerts to reach Triggon and connect them to a Strategy you publish.
Triggon validates alerts in a test mode that records nothing, and a Strategy cannot reach the Marketplace until it has passed a test on every market it declares, so a broken integration is caught before a subscriber ever sees it.
Do I need coding experience to use Triggon?
Not to follow Strategies, and not to publish as a Manual Provider: the Signal Terminal needs no code at all.
Publishing as an Algo Provider needs an automated Strategy that can send Triggon a webhook. Configuring a TradingView alert is the least technical way to do that and needs no programming; sending the same request from your own server or bot does.
How do I become a Provider?
Apply from inside the app. Applications are reviewed before a Strategy can publish. Once approved you create your Strategy, declare the markets it trades, connect or configure how its Signals are produced, and publish to the Marketplace.
Providers earn a share of every subscription their Strategy sells, paid into the same wallet they withdraw from.
Getting published
How does a Strategy get published to the Marketplace?
In five steps. You apply from inside the app. A member of the Triggon team reviews the application. If it is approved, your Provider profile and your Strategy's Hub are created. You then set the Strategy up and it has to pass a check before it can go live. Only after that does it appear on the Marketplace.
Creating a Strategy is not the same as publishing one. A new Strategy starts in a pending state and stays there until the check passes.
Who reviews a Provider application?
A person, not a script. A submitted application is opened for review and then either approved, rejected, or sent back with revisions requested. A rejection or a revision request always carries a written reason, so you know what to change rather than guessing.
Reapplying after revisions does not cost a second application fee.
What check does a Strategy have to pass before it goes live?
It has to prove it can actually produce a valid Signal, before any subscriber is exposed to one.
An Algo Strategy has to have sent Triggon a successful test Signal on every market it declares, and its connection has to be confirmed working for each of them. A Manual Strategy has to have produced a successful preview from its Provider tools. A Strategy that cannot clear this stays pending and never reaches the Marketplace.
What does Verified mean on Triggon?
It means the track record was produced by Triggon rather than supplied by the Provider. Every Signal is recorded at the moment it is sent, before anyone knows how it will end, and every performance figure on the Strategy's page is computed from those records.
So a Verified record cannot be edited afterwards, cannot have its losing trades removed, and is not a screenshot or a claim. It is the complete history, including the losses.
What does the blue checkmark on a Strategy mean?
That Triggon holds an unbroken record of that Strategy across the last 90 days, and that it is live on the Marketplace right now. It is a fact about our records, not a judgement about the Strategy.
Three things have to be true at once: Triggon's own record of it reaches back across the whole of the last 90 days, there is no stretch longer than 21 days inside that window where the platform was tracking nothing, and the Strategy is currently live. History a Provider uploaded themselves never counts towards it.
Can I trade a Strategy before it is listed on the Marketplace?
Yes, and it is the point of the step. Once a Provider application is approved the Strategy exists but is not listed, and in that state it already accepts real Signals. They are recorded, they trade the simulated account, and the Journal fills. Nobody can subscribe to it and no other person's money is involved at any stage.
This is where a Strategy is meant to be developed: send Signals, read what the record says about sizing, drawdown and where the profit actually came from, change the approach, and let the record answer again.
Listing it afterwards is a separate step with its own conditions, and a good simulated result is not one of them. A Strategy goes live when its Hub is active, when every market it declares has produced a successful validation, and, for an automated Strategy, when each of those markets has confirmed that its connection is reporting.
What happens if a Strategy's simulated account runs out of money?
If equity reaches zero the open book is closed, a margin call is recorded against the Strategy, and no new position is accepted until the Provider confirms a fresh $10,000. The margin call stays on the record: the count never decreases, and a recharge does not erase the history that led to it. An account that has merely locked everything it has into open positions, without equity ever reaching zero, is treated as a sizing problem instead and is never counted as a margin call.
Can a Strategy lose the checkmark?
Yes, and that is the point of it. The 90 days are always the last 90 days, re-checked every time the badge is shown, so it is not earned once and kept forever.
A Strategy that stops trading loses the checkmark after about three weeks of silence. It is also withheld while a Strategy is paused by its Provider or suspended. Nothing else changes when it goes: the Strategy stays listed if it is live, and its full record stays readable. When it trades again, the checkmark comes back once the new 90-day window is covered.
Does a Strategy need to trade every day to keep the checkmark?
No. The requirement is that Triggon was tracking the Strategy through the window, not that it traded daily. A position held open across several weeks counts for every one of those days, so a swing Strategy that trades rarely and holds long is measured on the same terms as one that trades every morning.
What breaks it is a stretch of more than 21 days in which the platform was tracking nothing at all.
Does Verified mean a Strategy is profitable or safe?
No. Verified describes where the numbers came from, not what they will be. The blue checkmark is not a rating, not an endorsement, not a prediction, and not a guarantee of profit, safety or future performance.
A Strategy that has lost money every month still carries the checkmark, and should: it exists to tell you the losses in front of you are real. Trading carries risk whichever Strategy you follow. Verification means you are judging real history instead of a marketing claim, and the judgement is still yours.
Why can I not find a Strategy I saw before?
A Strategy is only listed while it is live, its Provider has not paused it, and that Provider's account is active. A Provider can pause their own Strategy, for example while they change something, and a Strategy is also delisted if the Provider is suspended.
A Strategy that is full is a separate case: it stays visible with its record readable, and closes to new subscribers until a seat frees up.
Auto-Trade
What is Auto-Trade?
An optional feature that places the Signals from Strategies you follow on your own exchange account. You connect the account with API keys, choose which Strategies may act on it, and set the limits they work inside: a leverage ceiling, a position size, and per-Strategy limits.
A Signal can ask for less than you allow. It can never ask for more.
Which exchanges does Auto-Trade support?
Auto-Trade currently supports Binance, Bybit and MetaTrader 5.
You create the API key on the exchange yourself and connect it to Triggon.
Does Triggon have access to my funds?
No. Auto-Trade works through API keys you create on your own exchange, and a key with withdrawal or transfer permission is refused at connection. It is a hard validation failure, not a warning.
Triggon can open, adjust and close positions within the limits you set, and read your balance in order to size those orders. It cannot move money out of your account, and it never takes custody of your assets.
How are my exchange API keys stored?
Encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they reach the database. The encryption keys live only in the server environment, never in the database and never in the codebase.
Exactly one component can decrypt a credential, and only for the duration of a single exchange call. If the encryption key is missing, Triggon refuses to store a credential at all rather than storing it unprotected.
Can I try Auto-Trade without real money?
Yes. Every account gets a free Demo/Testnet window of 7 days, once. You connect a sandbox key from a supported exchange, watch the Strategies you follow trade it, and decide afterwards whether to connect a live account. After the window closes, sandbox accounts are billed at the normal Auto-Trade price.
Do I have to use Auto-Trade?
No. Auto-Trade is entirely optional. Many members read the Signals in Telegram and place their own trades, or place none at all.
Can I point my own TradingView alerts at my own exchange account?
Not directly. Auto-Trade places the Signals of Strategies you subscribe to, so there is no setting that takes a webhook of your own and trades your account from it. Triggon is not a relay between your alerts and your exchange.
There is a route, and it is a different one. An Algo Provider connects a Strategy over a webhook, from TradingView Pine Script or from their own server, and that application is reviewed before the Strategy goes live. A Provider may then run Auto-Trade on their own Strategy like anybody else. What comes with that route is publication: the Strategy is listed and its trades are recorded as they open.
So the honest summary is that private automation of your own rules is not what this is for, and publishing a Strategy other people can read and follow is.
Does Triggon give me a paper trading account?
Not one of its own. Triggon runs no simulator and holds no virtual balance, so there is no Triggon paper trading account to open.
What it supports is the demo account you already have with somebody else. Several supported exchanges run a testnet, and a broker reached through MetaTrader 5 issues demo accounts; you connect one of those the same way you would connect a live account. The money is the exchange's play money and the market data is real.
A connection is marked live or sandbox when its credentials are validated, and the component that places orders refuses to drive a key against the wrong environment, so a demo key cannot place a real order by accident.
Does automating a Strategy make it less risky?
No. Automation changes who presses the button, not what the trade does. Auto-Trade removes the delay and the second-guessing between a Signal and an order; it does not remove execution risk or technical risk, and it cannot make a losing Strategy profitable.
It adds failure modes of its own. An alert can arrive late or not at all, a price can move between the Signal and the fill, an exchange can reject an order or be unreachable, and a fill can be partial. Each of those is named on the Auto-Trade page beside the stage it belongs to.
What it does give you is limits that hold without your attention: a leverage ceiling a Signal cannot exceed, a position size you set once, and a refusal to act on a Signal that is too old or on a price that is stale. Those are worth having, and they are not the same thing as safety. You should still monitor an account that is trading automatically.
How do I set up Auto-Trade on a Strategy I follow?
Find the Strategy in the app's Marketplace. Its card carries an Auto-Trade button: press it, choose where the Strategy should trade, connect that account, set your own position size, leverage ceiling and maximum open positions, then confirm. New Signals from that Strategy are placed from then on.
The Auto-Trade setup guide walks through every screen, with what each field means and what to do when something is refused.
Auto-Trade is not placing trades. What should I check?
Three things first: that the state beside the account reads Active rather than Paused, Stopped or Expired; that your subscription to the Strategy is still live; and that the Auto-Trade add-on has not run out ahead of it.
After that, the usual causes are your maximum concurrent positions already being reached, a balance too low to open the position you configured, or credentials that stopped working at your exchange or broker. The Auto-Trade troubleshooting guide lists what each state means and what to do about it.
Can I use Auto-Trade with a broker account rather than a crypto exchange?
Yes. Auto-Trade places orders on Binance, Bybit and MetaTrader 5, so a broker account reached through MetaTrader 5 works alongside the crypto exchanges. A broker account is connected with its account number, its password and the broker's trade server rather than with an API key, and the MetaTrader 5 guide covers that.
Account
How do I sign in?
With your Telegram account. There is no separate Triggon account and no password. Telegram signs each request cryptographically and the server checks that signature. It is also why the terminal only opens inside Telegram: from a plain browser there is no signature to check.
How do subscriptions work?
Each Provider sets the price of their own Strategy, and you see it beside the Strategy's full track record before you subscribe. Subscriptions run for a set period and are paid from your Triggon wallet balance in USDT.
A Strategy admits a fixed number of simultaneous subscribers. When it is full it closes to new members until a seat frees up.
What happens when a subscription expires?
You stop receiving that Strategy's Signals, and if you had enabled Auto-Trade for it, it stops placing trades. The Strategy's record stays readable on the Marketplace, and you can subscribe again if a seat is available.
Can I cancel a subscription?
Yes. Cancelling releases whatever remains of the subscription's unused value back to your wallet, subject to the release rules shown at the time you cancel. The exact refundable amount is displayed before you confirm, so there is no estimate to dispute afterwards.
What can I do with my Triggon wallet?
Top it up with USDT on TRC20 or ERC20. Strategy subscriptions, Provider earnings and referral commissions all settle against that one balance, and withdrawals go out from it.
Still deciding?
Everything on the Marketplace is readable before you pay anything. Open a Strategy and read its record.