Terms of Use

These Terms govern your use of the Hotkey Trader browser extension, its website, and its online services (together, the "Service"). By installing or using the Service you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

1. What the Service is

Hotkey Trader is a software tool that sends order instructions to your own brokerage account at Tradovate, using your own logged-in session, when you press a button or hotkey or when an automated rule you configured (such as an ATM strategy, profit cap, balance stop, breakout order or copy trading) is triggered. It also keeps a trade journal, achievements and optional leaderboards.

The Service is a tool only. We are not a broker, futures commission merchant, introducing broker, commodity trading advisor, investment adviser or financial planner, and we are not registered as any of these. We do not hold your funds, do not execute trades on our own behalf and do not have access to your Tradovate password.

2. No advice

Nothing in the Service, including default or example ATM strategies, presets, statistics, insights, achievements, challenges, leaderboards, competitions or anything a group owner, streamer or other user says or shares, is investment, trading, tax or legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell anything. You alone decide whether, what, when and how much to trade.

3. Your responsibility

• You are solely responsible for every order placed, changed or cancelled from your accounts while the Service is installed, including orders sent automatically by settings you chose, and for checking that your positions, stops and targets are what you intend.
• You must monitor your positions at all times. Automated features (break-even and trailing stop moves, breakout brackets, profit cap, balance stop, copy trading) work only while your Tradovate tab is open, your computer is awake and connected, and Tradovate's systems are working.
• You are responsible for following your broker's and any proprietary trading firm's ("prop firm") rules. Some firms restrict or prohibit automation, copy trading or trading the same strategy on several accounts. Check before you use those features.
• Test every setting on a simulated (demo) account before using it with real money. Live trading is off until you turn it on yourself.

4. No guarantee

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. We do not promise that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, that orders will be sent, filled, modified or cancelled as intended or at any particular price, or that it will keep working if Tradovate changes its website or systems. Quotes, P&L, statistics and rankings shown may be delayed, incomplete or wrong.

5. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we, the creators of Hotkey Trader, and anyone who builds, maintains or contributes to it, are not liable for any trading losses, lost profits, missed trades, slippage, fees, account violations or closures, data loss, or any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, the Service, even if we were told such losses were possible. If we are found liable despite this, our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us for the Service in the 3 months before the claim, or US $50 if you paid nothing.

6. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any claims, losses and costs (including reasonable legal fees) arising from your trading, your use of the Service, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party rules, including broker and prop-firm rules.

7. Third parties

The Service is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by Tradovate, NinjaTrader, any exchange, any prop firm, or any streamer or group owner. Their names are used only to describe compatibility. Their own terms apply to your use of their services.

Affiliate offers. The extension may show clearly labelled affiliate offers from prop firms on its leaderboard, group, competition, journal and achievements pages (never on the Tradovate trading page or the order pad). Ours are labelled "Partner offer · affiliate": we may earn a commission if you use them, and nobody pays us to show them. On a partner's group or competition pages, the partner's own codes are labelled as theirs, and they may earn a commission. Offers are optional and are not advice or a recommendation. The firm's own terms apply, and we don't guarantee any firm or offer.

8. Accounts, groups and competitions

You may create an account to sync settings and trades and to join leaderboards, groups and competitions. Keep your password safe. Group owners and leaders run their own groups and competitions; prizes are offered and paid by them, not by us, and we are not responsible for them. We may remove content, ban users or disqualify results that appear to involve cheating, manipulation or abuse.

9. Plans, trials, cancellation and refunds

• Free trial. Pro and Pro+ subscriptions start with an 8-day free trial. Cancel any time before the trial ends and you aren't charged.
• Automatic renewal. After the trial, your subscription is charged at the start of each billing period (monthly or yearly, as you chose) and renews automatically until you cancel.
• Cancelling. You can cancel any time from your account or the Stripe customer portal (the "Manage subscription" link at the bottom of hotkeytrading.com). Your plan stays active until the end of the period you've already paid for and then ends; you won't be charged again.
• Refunds. Payments are non-refundable, and we don't give refunds or credits for partly used periods, except where the law requires it.
• Founders license. The Founders license is a single one-time payment of US $149 for Pro+ access, limited to the first 50 buyers. It is not a subscription and doesn't renew. It is non-refundable once purchased, except where the law requires it. "Lifetime" means for as long as we offer the Hotkey Trader product or service, not the life of any person.
• Price changes. We may change prices. We'll tell you before a new price applies, and it only applies from your next billing period after the notice; it never changes a period you've already paid for.
• Payments are processed by Stripe. Discounts, partner codes and referral rewards apply only as described when you use them.

10. Acceptable use

Do not misuse the Service: no attempts to break, overload or reverse-engineer our servers, no fake or manipulated trade data, no harassment, and no use that breaks the law or your broker's terms.

11. Changes and termination

We may change the Service or these Terms. When the Terms change in a material way we will ask you to accept them again in the extension. We may suspend or end access if you breach these Terms. You may stop using the Service at any time by uninstalling it and deleting your account.

12. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Tennessee, USA, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and disputes will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Tennessee, unless the law where you live requires otherwise. You agree to bring any claim individually, not as part of a class or group action, and within one year of when it arose.

13. Contact

Use Report a problem in the extension (Settings → Help), or email support@hotkeytrading.com.

Risk Disclosure

Trading futures and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. You can lose more than your initial deposit. Only trade with money you can afford to lose.

• Leverage. Futures are leveraged. A small price move can produce a large loss, quickly.
• Speed cuts both ways. Hotkeys make it easy to send orders very fast, including by accident. Keep hotkeys disarmed when you are not trading and set a sensible maximum order size.
• Automation can fail. Break-even and trailing moves, breakout brackets, the profit cap, the balance stop and copy trading depend on your browser tab, your computer, your internet connection and Tradovate's systems. If any of them stops, these features stop too, and your position may be left with only its last stop, or none.
• Slippage and gaps. Market and stop orders can fill at prices far from the trigger, especially around news or at the open. Stop-limit orders can fail to fill at all. The profit cap and balance stop close at market and can fill past your number.
• Breakout orders. Between an entry filling and its brackets being placed there is a short moment without a stop. If a stop cannot be placed, the extension closes the position at market.
• Data may be wrong. Prices, P&L, statistics, insights and rankings may be delayed or inaccurate. Always check your positions and balances in Tradovate.
• Past results. Journal statistics, simulated results, leaderboards and other traders' results do not predict future results. Simulated (demo) trading does not reflect real fills, liquidity or emotions.
• Competitions. Trading to win a competition can encourage taking more risk than you normally would. Don't.

Copy Trading

When copy trading is on, every order and button action you take in the extension is also sent to each account you ticked, at the same time, each with its own ATM brackets and risk limits.

• Fills, prices and outcomes will differ between accounts. One account can fill when another doesn't, and one account's order can be rejected while others go through.
• The size you set applies to every copied account. Make sure every account can afford the risk.
• Only actions from Hotkey Trader are copied. Orders you place with Tradovate's own buttons are not.
• Many prop firms restrict copy trading or trading identical strategies across accounts. You are responsible for following their rules; breaking them can cost you the account and its payouts.
• You are fully responsible for every order sent to every copied account.