July 3rd, 2026
We've been busy shipping improvements across Trade Plans, Signals, and account management. We’ve been hard at work laying the infrastructure for Tradovate, TradingView strategy synchronization and custom signal payloads. Here's what's new.
Trade Plan & Signal Improvements
Never lose unsaved changes. The Keep / Discard / Save prompt now reliably appears any time you make edits to a Signal, Trade Plan, or Account node — so you'll never accidentally navigate away from unsaved work again.
Faster Manual Trades. The Flatten button in Manual Trade now enables as soon as you've selected a Symbol and Asset Class — no need to also enter a quantity, since Flatten doesn't require one.
Reversing and Scaling, now visible. Trade Plan nodes now clearly display when "Allow Reversing" and "Allow Scaling" are enabled, so you can see your configuration at a glance instead of digging into settings.
Clearer "required field" indicators. We've replaced the red asterisk with an explicit "Required" label next to fields that must be filled in, making it much easier for new users to spot what's missing when setting up a Signal.
Stronger call-to-action for incomplete setups. Trade Plan nodes that need attention — whether from a newly added Signal, an unconfigured Bracket, or a disabled state — now use bolder visual cues (color, outline, and warning text) so it's obvious when a plan isn't fully ready to trade.
Better Signal color selection. The Signal color picker no longer allows light background colors that made white text difficult to read. Preset light colors have also been swapped for darker, more legible options.
Account & Subscription
Smarter subscription prompts. The subscription management screen now correctly checks free trial eligibility — showing "Start Free Trial" and trial messaging for eligible users, and "Upgrade Now" (with no trial messaging) for everyone else.
New: AI Skill for Signal Firing
We've published a SharkSignals AI Skill that lets you fire off a Shark Signal directly from your own AI agent. It's available now for anyone building automated or agent-driven workflows on top of SharkSignals.
To learn more about the AI skill you can check out a video we made about it here:
https://youtu.be/ecsaxsMqVYo?si=FpIZYvQ1DhvJgCHe
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where "Allow Scaling-in" was not being respected by BlackBird, causing it to scale in even when the setting was turned off.
Fixed a related issue where "Allow Scaling-in" was ignored for both ATM and BlackBird trades when account-level overrides were disabled.
Fixed a bug where the trade engine could continue using deleted brackets, causing trade plans with removed brackets to behave unexpectedly.
Fixed an issue where short selling did not execute correctly.
The NinjaTrader Desktop client now detects when its window is closed and disables trading — previously, trading could continue silently in the background with no visible client window.
Improved detection and handling for NinjaTrader Sim account position mismatches, particularly after flattening a Sim account while disconnected from a data feed.
As always, thank you for trading with SharkSignals. If you run into anything unexpected with these updates, reach out to support and we'll take a look.
May 22nd, 2026
We are excited to roll out a major update to SharkSignals that drastically expands your ability to construct complex trade plans, manage multi-account execution, and secure your automated connections. Here is a breakdown of what has been added in this release.
Advanced Multi-Bracket Support
You are no longer limited to a single stop loss and take profit combination per trade. SharkSignals now allows you to attach multiple bracket configurations to a single Trade Plan, unlocking advanced trade management capabilities directly within the platform.
Custom Risk Profiles: Easily configure multiple targets. You can set up a tight initial take-profit to remove risk quickly, combined with a wider "runner" bracket to capture larger market moves.
Unified Execution: From the user perspective, it remains a single trade. Behind the scenes, our engine generates and links all bracketed positions back to the initial Trade Request.
Strategy Synchronization: Reversals & Scale-ins
We have expanded our execution engine to dynamically read and synchronize with advanced TradingView strategy logic, allowing your positions to evolve as market conditions change.
Allow Reversing: Your Trade Plans can now interpret and cleanly execute "stop and reverse" (SAR) signals, flipping your position direction seamlessly without requiring complex manual webhook logic.
Scaling-In: Enable progressive entries to automatically build into a position (pyramiding) as your strategy fires additional confirmation signals. (Note: Support for automated scaling-out will follow in a future update).
Broker Account Overrides & Dynamic Quantity Calculation
You can now apply account-specific overrides directly onto a Trade Plan's routing nodes. This gives you ultimate flexibility when copying a master signal across multiple broker accounts that have different capital or risk requirements.
Quantity Calculation Modes: You can override the master plan's standard quantity for any linked account. Choose from Factor (multiply the base quantity), Addition (add a specific number of contracts), or Fixed (hardcode an exact quantity for that specific account).
Symbol Overrides: Route a single signal to trade standard contracts (like the NQ) on your primary account, while automatically routing to micro contracts (like the MNQ) with an adjusted quantity factor on a secondary account.
Automated Hedging: Utilize the new "Reverse Signal Direction" toggle on a specific account node to easily build automated hedging strategies from a single directional signal.
Enhanced Secure Webhooks
Security is paramount for automated order routing, so we have significantly upgraded our webhook infrastructure to protect your execution pathways.
64-Character Secret Keys: Your personal webhook URLs are now secured with a generated 64-character long secret key. This ensures maximum cryptographic security, preventing malicious actors or unauthorized platforms from injecting signals into your account.
April 9th, 2026
We are excited to announce the latest updates to SharkSignals, featuring new tools designed to give you more hands-on control over your automated strategies. This release introduces dedicated manual trade controls, expands our event logging capabilities for comprehensive performance tracking, and includes important stability improvements for our BlackBird users.
Manual Trade Controls & Trade Plan Enhancements
We have instituted a new manual trade control system that allows you to execute trades directly from a dedicated interface. By interacting with your active trade plans—which already seamlessly handle your risk-reward parameters, order settings, and entry types—you can now manually intervene or test strategies on the fly.
To support this, a special Manual trade node has been built directly onto the visual trade plan canvas. As seen in the new interface, selecting this node opens a dedicated side panel where you can specify the symbol, asset class, and quantity. This allows you to fire off a test signal—whether buying, selling, or flattening—straight into your existing logic flow without needing to leave the trade plan screen.
Trade Request Event Logging
We have significantly fleshed out how trade request events are handled on the backend. While these are under-the-hood infrastructure improvements that won't change your day-to-day experience immediately, they lay the critical groundwork for powerful upcoming frontend features. Once this system is fully integrated into the user interface in a future update, it will enable:
Database Logging: Systematic capture and secure database storage of all your automated and manual trade request events.
Status Tracking: The ability to actively monitor the live status and execution performance of every trade request as it moves through the system.
Historical Review: A comprehensive historical data view, allowing you to review exactly how each past trade performed over time.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
Alongside the new SharkSignals features, we have addressed several known issues with SharkIndicators BlackBird to ensure smoother and more reliable execution.
BlackBird Flattening: Resolved an issue where active trades were not flattening properly under specific conditions.
BlackBird Execution: Fixed behavioral bugs that caused exit orders to not be placed correctly.
March 24th, 2026
Introducing Visual Trade Plans
We are excited to announce the release of Trade Plans, a powerful new feature in SharkSignals that gives you unprecedented, visual control over how your signals are executed across your accounts.
Traditional trade copying often relies on sequential execution, which can introduce latency and uneven fills across different accounts. Trade Plans fundamentally upgrades this process by allowing you to construct a centralized visual graph where multiple signals are routed to multiple broker accounts simultaneously. Because all orders are executed in parallel, you get superior speed and synchronization across your entire portfolio.
Key Capabilities
Visual Signal Routing: Easily map out the flow of your trades using our intuitive node-based interface. You can hook up any number of inbound signals (such as a TradingView strategy) and direct them to any combination of connected broker accounts.
Parallel Execution: Ditch the lag of traditional trade copiers. By routing orders to multiple destinations at the exact same time, you ensure consistent, synchronized execution.
Dynamic Instrument Selection: Specify the exact instrument for your trades directly within the plan, or let the Trade Plan dynamically inherit the instrument data if it is already included in the inbound signal (as it is with TradingView Strategies).
Granular Trade Customization
Every signal routed through a Trade Plan can be custom-tailored to fit your exact execution strategy. Within the plan node itself, you have full control over your overarching order parameters.