Overview
Trade Alpha is the execution layer that turns signals from every Blockcircle alpha engine into live orders across 150+ venues. One interface covers DEX SPOT, DEX PERP, DEX aggregators, every major centralized exchange, and traditional stock and futures brokers. You read a Momentum Trading Engine alert, a Market Reversal Engine flip, or an Asset Outperformer Engine rotation, and you act on it in the same tab.
What it is
A unified trade blotter and routing engine that consumes signals from seven alpha engines (MTE, MRE, AOE, Whale Alpha, Prediction Alpha, Political Alpha, Insider Alpha) and places orders through your connected exchange and broker accounts. Trade Alpha is not a signal generator on its own; it is the execution surface that sits on top of every generator Blockcircle runs.
How to access
Open /trade-alpha. The main blotter shows every live signal with entry, targets, stop, source engine, and current fill state. Connect an exchange or broker from /brokers to enable live order placement.
Venue coverage
- DEX SPOT: Uniswap, Raydium, PancakeSwap, and every major EVM and Solana SPOT DEX
- DEX PERP: Hyperliquid, dYdX, Aster, GMX, ApolloX, Paradex, Drift, Vertex
- DEX aggregators: 1inch, Jupiter, Kyberswap, Matcha
- CEX: Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, KuCoin, Gate.io, Bitget, MEXC, and 30+ additional exchanges
- Traditional brokers: Interactive Brokers, Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, TradeStation, and more via connected API bridges
Every venue accepts the same canonical order schema so a single signal can route to any account you have connected.
Smart Routing
Each order flows through Smart Routing before it hits a venue. The router evaluates every connected venue that supports the instrument and picks the combination that minimizes total cost - slippage, fees, funding, and latency - for the size you want to trade. For large orders the router can split across multiple venues in parallel so no single order book absorbs the full impact.
You can override Smart Routing per order. Force a specific exchange, specific route, or specific slippage bound from the order ticket.
Fan-out
Trade Alpha can fan a single trade out to N connected accounts. Fan-out is useful for: managing sub-accounts, executing the same trade for family members, and running the same system across multiple venues for redundancy. Fan-out runs either simultaneously (all accounts fill in the same window) or sequentially (accounts fill in order, useful when you want the first account to take the best fill).
Signal sources
Every order on the blotter tags which engine produced the signal:
- MTE - Momentum Trading Engine composite entries and exits
- MRE - Market Reversal Engine overbought/oversold flips
- AOE - Asset Outperformer Engine leader/laggard rotations
- Whale Alpha - follow-wallet position mirrors
- Prediction Alpha - event contract mispricings
- Political Alpha - congressional and global politician cluster trades
- Insider Alpha - corporate insider cluster buys
Risk controls
- Per-account position caps
- Per-instrument daily loss limits
- Global kill switch that halts all routing across every connected account
- Pre-trade checks on leverage, margin, and available balance
Getting started
- Connect a broker or exchange at /brokers. Use a read-and-trade API key - never a key with withdrawal permissions.
- Open /trade-alpha and subscribe to the signal sources you want to execute.
- Run in paper mode first. Every signal routes through the same pipeline but fills against a simulated book.
- Set per-account caps and a global kill switch before flipping to live.
- Start with one signal source, not all seven. Expand as you build conviction in the filled trades.
Tips
- Smart Routing is the default for a reason. Override it only when you have a venue-specific reason (listing limits, specific account structure, etc.).
- Fan-out is linear in venue count - five accounts mean five sets of fees. Use it when the redundancy or reach justifies the cost.
- Always size against the most restrictive account when fanning out. The router will cap every account to the smallest tolerable size rather than overfill the largest.
- Keep the global kill switch bookmarked. In a fast market the difference between 2 seconds and 20 seconds is the whole trade.