Alerts to orders
TrendSpider alerts to Charles Schwab orders
Point a TrendSpider Alert or Strategy Bot's webhook at a Nyria strategy. When it fires, TrendSpider posts the note or body, Nyria reads it, and each bot on the strategy places the order in its own Charles Schwab account. No message template, no code, and a free paper run first.
How it works
TrendSpider fires
An Alert or Strategy Bot fires in TrendSpider with its webhook pointed at Nyria. The note or body can be plain text or JSON, written in TrendSpider's own %variables%.
Nyria reads it
Nyria reads the ticker and the side, and any strike, expiry or price the message names. Anything it leaves out comes from the strategy and the bot: size, order type, duration.
Schwab gets the order
Each bot on the strategy places the order in its own Schwab account through the official Schwab API, logs it, and matches every exit alert to the position it closes.
What a TrendSpider alert can say
Each row is an alert as TrendSpider sends it, and what Nyria does with it at Schwab.
A stock entry
{ "symbol": "%alert_symbol%", "action": "buy", "price": "%last_price%" }Buy the alert's symbol at the last price when it fired.
An options entry
{ "symbol": "%alert_symbol%", "action": "BTO", "strike": 775, "expiry": "2026-12-18", "type": "call" }Buy to open the alert's symbol as the $775 call expiring Dec 18, 2026. Leave the strike and expiry out and the strategy picks them from its own rules.
A bot exit
{ "symbol": "%bot_symbol%", "action": "sell", "status": "%bot_status%" }Close the position matched against what the bot is holding.
Set it up
- 1Connect Schwab. Sign in at Schwab from the Integrations page in Nyria.
- 2Create a strategy in Nyria and pick TrendSpider as the alert source. Choose stocks, options or crypto, and set what an entry and an exit do on each side.
- 3Copy the strategy's webhook URL from its Integration tab. In TrendSpider, paste it into an Alert's webhook field or a Strategy Bot's own URL, and write the note or body with TrendSpider's %variables%.
- 4Fire a test alert or bot signal. The strategy stays inactive until Nyria reads one correctly, and the log shows what it read.
- 5Deploy a bot on the strategy, pick the Schwab account and set a budget per entry. The next alert becomes an order.
What Schwab trades from TrendSpider alerts
Trades
- Stocks and ETFs, in whole shares
- Options, single legs and spreads up to 4 legs, sent as one order
- SPX options on the PM-settled SPXW chain, 0DTE included
- Short selling and margin, as the account allows
Not traded
- Crypto, which the Schwab API doesn't offer
- Futures, which the Schwab API doesn't offer
- Extended hours
- Fractional shares
The full table, order types and durations are on the Charles Schwab page, and the rules for TrendSpider alerts on the TrendSpider page.
Orders at Schwab
Each alert becomes a market or a limit order, as the strategy sets it, with a duration of Day, GTC or fill or kill.
Stops and targets are exit alerts.
Questions
- What's the difference between an Alert and a Strategy Bot?
- An Alert posts from one account-level URL and reaches one strategy, with %alert_symbol%, %last_price%, %alert_name%, %alert_note% or %price_action_event% in its note. A Strategy Bot posts its own URL and body, so each bot can reach a different strategy, with %bot_symbol%, %bot_status%, %bot_name% and %bot_timeframe%.
- Does the alert message need a special format?
- No. Plain text or JSON, in your own wording, with TrendSpider's %variables% in place of the parts that change. Name the symbol and the side; for options add a strike, expiry and call or put, or let the strategy pick the contract from its own rules.
- Does Nyria hold my Schwab login?
- No. You sign in at Schwab, and Nyria receives a token that can place and cancel orders. It can't move money, and it is encrypted at rest.
- Can I test before trading real money at Schwab?
- Schwab has no paper account to connect, so run the strategy on Nyria Paper first. When the log reads the way you expect, deploy a second bot on the Schwab account.
- Where do stops and targets come from?
- From your alerts. No stop or take-profit order waits at Schwab between alerts; a close alert closes the position, matched to what the bot holds.
- Can one alert trade on paper and at Schwab at the same time?
- Yes. One alert reaches every bot on the strategy, so a paper bot and a Schwab bot can run the same strategy side by side, each with its own budget per entry.
- What does it cost?
- Paper trading is free with no time limit, up to 10 paper bots. Live trading at Schwab is $100 a month per $10,000 of total entry allocation, with no per-bot fees.
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