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Telegram strategies

Run a strategy off a Telegram chat instead of a Discord channel, using the same AI engine, brokers, and risk settings.

A Telegram strategy watches a Telegram chat and trades from the signals posted there. Same AI engine, same brokers, same risk settings as a Discord strategy. The difference is where the signals come from — and two instruments that Telegram cannot drive.

How it works

Point the strategy at a chat. In the strategy editor’s Signal source section, set Source to Telegram and pick the chat.
TradeLabs watches the chat. Every new message runs through the same AI engine used for Discord.
The AI extracts the trade. Ticker, direction, strike, expiration, and quantity are read from the message text.
The order is routed to your broker. The parsed trade goes to the broker set on the strategy.

Note

Before a Telegram strategy can receive anything, your Telegram account has to be connected in the Companion App. Connect it from the Telegram source in the Signals page.

Connect Telegram in the app

You connect Telegram once, in the app, and every Telegram strategy uses that connection.

Open the Signals page and select the Telegram source. Click Add Telegram account (or Add account if you already have one).
Get your API ID and API hash from my.telegram.org under API development tools, then enter your Phone, API ID, and API hash, and click Send code.
Telegram sends a login code to your account. Type it in and click Verify.
If you have two-step verification turned on, enter your Telegram cloud password and click Sign in.

When it finishes you see Connected as your username, and the account row lists how many chats it has mapped.

The Signals page shows your Telegram connection.

Which instruments Telegram can drive

Instrument	Telegram
Options, Spreads, Stocks, Futures, Crypto, Prediction markets	Yes
Memecoins	No — the source is forced to Discord
RSA	No — RSA takes the serverside feed or Discord only

A new strategy starts on Discord, whatever instrument you pick; switching to Telegram is one click on the Source chips. TradingView is the only source with a narrower range than Telegram — it appears for stocks, options and spreads and nowhere else.

Set it up

Pick the instrument. On the General tab, under Basics → Identity, set Instrument.
Set the source. In the Signal source section above it, click the Telegram chip. That reveals the chat fields.
Pick the chat. Open Chats and select it from the list, or type into the box beside it, which takes a chat ID, a title, or an @handle. Both controls write the same value, so the picker’s choice shows up in the box as a numeric ID.
Configure the rest. Pick the broker on the Brokers tab, the size on Sizing, and the exits on Risk & exits. Optionally set the AI tab, filters, notifications, a schedule, and protections.
Turn it on. Edits save as you type — there is no save button. When the readiness pill is happy, flip the run toggle in the header to Running.

The Signal source section of a Telegram strategy. Set the source to Telegram, then pick the chat it should follow.

Two optional controls sit below the chat fields:

Exit chat — a second chat that carries exits only, for callers who split entries and exits across two rooms. It is folded away until you open it, and only ever acted on when AI selling is on.
Inherit trade details from message — use the strike, expiration and direction the message names instead of the strategy’s own defaults.

Heads up

The chat binding must match the chat you want to watch. If it is blank or wrong, the strategy is on but matches nothing and never trades.

What differs from Discord

Item	Discord	Telegram
Source chip	Discord	Telegram
Binding field	Channel picker	Chats picker, plus a free-text box
Input format	Pick from the list; a pasted channel ID also works	Pick from the list, or type an ID, a title, or `@handle`
Split exits	Exit channel	Exit chat
Companion App	Discord must be connected	Telegram must be connected
Instruments	All of them	All except Memecoins and RSA
Brokers	Same	Same
AI and auto parameters	Same	Same
Signal filters	Same	Same
Notifications	Same	Same
Risk management	Same	Same
Protections	Same	Same

Everything below the source binding is shared with Discord. The rest of this page points you at the Discord guide for the details.

AI and auto parameters

The AI tab works the same on Telegram strategies as on Discord. For each setting, see AI and auto parameters in the Discord guide.

Signal filters

Filters work the same way: per-trader rules that include or exclude a signal based on who posted it, with optional per-rule risk overrides, plus a strategy-wide keyword whitelist or blacklist. See the Discord guide for the full walkthrough.

Notifications

Notifications are outbound alerts. They send trade activity and broker errors to a Discord webhook, no matter where the signal came from. They behave the same on Telegram strategies. See Notifications in the Discord guide.

Test your strategy

Before going live with real money:

Use Test signal on the Strategies page in the Companion App to fire a sample message at your strategy and confirm it parses. From inside a strategy, the same action is the Simulate button.
Start with smaller position sizes until you are confident the strategy behaves the way you expect.

Troubleshooting

Strategy is not detecting messages

Confirm the chat on the strategy matches the one you want to watch.
Confirm your Telegram account is connected on the Signals page, and that its row does not show Re-auth needed.
Confirm your Telegram account has access to that chat.
Confirm your AI key is valid and has balance. See Create an AI key.

Trades are not executing after a signal is detected

Confirm the broker is connected and signed in from the Brokers page.
Confirm the strategy reads Running in the editor header.
Confirm your position size and protections are not blocking the trade.
Check that Forward-only mode on the Notifications tab is off — it relays signals and places no orders.
Review the Activity feed in the Companion App for error messages.

Examples

Options signals on Telegram

A Telegram chat posts alerts like BTO TSLA 250C 2/21 @ 3.50.

Setting	Value
Instrument	Options
Source	Telegram
Chat	`@options-alerts`
Broker	Tradier
Default quantity	`5` contracts
Direction	Both
Entry	Market
Stop loss	`30%`
Take profit	`100%`

The AI reads each message, detects the ticker, strike, expiration, and that BTO means buy to open, then submits 5 contracts at market to Tradier.

Crypto signals with a keyword filter

A chat posts crypto calls mixed in with off-topic chatter, and you only want the real signals.

Setting	Value
Instrument	Crypto
Source	Telegram
Chat	`@crypto-calls`
Broker	Robinhood Crypto
Default quantity	`$500`
Direction	Both
Keyword filter	Whitelist `BUY`, `SELL`, `ENTRY`
Stop loss	`15%`
Take profit	`50%`

With a whitelist, only messages containing one of those words are processed. General chat is ignored. On a real signal, $500 of the coin is bought through Robinhood Crypto. Crypto has no trailing stop, so the stop and target do all the exit work.

Futures signals

A chat calls index futures. Futures route to IBKR only, and the contract month is set on the strategy rather than read from the message.

Setting	Value
Instrument	Futures
Source	Telegram
Chat	`@es-desk`
Broker	IBKR
Contract	picked from the live IBKR chain
Direction	Both
Default quantity	`1`

Note

There is no RSA-over-Telegram. RSA takes its own serverside detection feed, or a Discord ping — Telegram never drove those brokers and is not offered. See Server-side strategies.

Instrument guides

For the per-instrument fields, brokers, and examples, see the detailed guides. Each applies to both Discord and Telegram strategies.