Getting Started
This is step 1 of six: your account, your plan, and two-factor authentication. The video shows the same thing on screen.
1. Create your account
Every Ordertune account starts free.
Sign up
Go to t1.ordertune.com/signup (opens in a new tab), enter your email address and choose a password: at least 12 characters, with one digit and one special character.
Verify your email
We send you a link. Click it, and your account is open. If nothing arrives, check your spam folder or use Resend verification email.
Accept the terms
The first time you sign in, you confirm the Terms of Use and the Risk Disclosure. Both are required.
On the free plan you can look around and read the model in Model Performance. Order Management is a paid feature: it shows what the signals mean for your account and is where you release orders.
2. Pick a plan
Open Subscription
Subscription in the sidebar on t1.ordertune.com (opens in a new tab). The page starts with what is included in every plan: every paid plan carries the same execution capabilities, including the Ordertune Bridge to your own Interactive Brokers account. Plans differ in how many institutional strategies they cover, and in what follows from that.
See what it means for your capital
Enter an amount under What this means for your money. It stays in your browser and is not sent or stored. The comparison below then shows each plan against the model's history.
Choose a plan and read the order summary
Click Choose on the plan you want. What you are ordering shows plan, price and terms: one month at a time, renews automatically until you cancel, and you can cancel any time with effect at the end of the paid month.
Tick the four boxes and check out
Terms of Use, Risk Disclosure, the immediate start of the service, and that you trade for your own account only. Then Continue to checkout and pay on our payment provider's page. Your card or bank statement shows LINK.COM*, not "Ordertune".
Your plan is active
Back on t1.ordertune.com you see Your plan is active. Signals, yes. Orders, not yet: for those you connect your broker, and that starts with two-factor authentication.
To cancel later: Subscription → Cancel subscription. Your access continues until the end of the paid month.
3. Switch on two-factor authentication
Every broker connection requires it, because a broker connection places orders in your own account. Without it, the Broker tab stops at Two-factor authentication required.
Settings → Security → Enable MFA
Open Settings, then Security, and click Enable MFA.
Scan and verify
Scan the QR code with an authenticator app. New to this? Any common authenticator app on your phone works. Type the 6-digit code it shows and click Verify code.
Save your recovery codes
You get ten recovery codes. Each works once, if you ever lose access to your authenticator app. Copy or download them and keep them somewhere safe. You won't see them again. Tick I have saved my recovery codes and click Finish setup.
4. Find your way around
The sidebar on t1.ordertune.com:
- Order Management shows today's signals with the quantity they mean for your account, and is where you release them.
- Model Performance shows what the model did, and lets you try a different weighting of the strategies.
- Strategies describes each strategy.
- Settings holds your account, security, broker connection, notifications and legal agreements.
- Subscription shows your plan.
5. Email alerts
Open Settings → Notifications
All four email switches live here. They are on by default, so there is nothing to enable. This is where you turn things off.
The daily summary
One email after the close on days you released or executed something, listing what went through and what did not. On a quiet day it stays away. See Daily summary.
The three alerts
An order failed, a batch was submitted, or your Bridge went quiet. The last one is the only email that asks you to do something. See Alerts.
Next: connect your broker
To release signals to your own Interactive Brokers account, you need a machine that stays on, Trader Workstation, and the Ordertune Bridge. That is steps 2 to 4, starting with your machine.
You do not need to connect a broker to use Ordertune. You can read the signals off Order Management and place the orders yourself, or use the Basket CSV to import them into Trader Workstation in one go.
Next Steps
- Learn how to read a signal
- Browse strategy descriptions
- Understand how a signal becomes an order