1. Go to voltrouter.com and enter your email address
2. Click Send magic link — no password required
3. Check your email and click the link to activate your account and reach your dashboard
4. To log back in later, use the Already have an account? Log in link on the sign-in page

• Each signal costs — deducted from your prepaid balance when the signal is accepted and routed.
• IBKR users also pay a monthly Gateway infrastructure fee of /mo per connected IBKR account. This is billed separately via Stripe and shown on your dashboard.
• Balance never expires. It carries over indefinitely and is not subject to any inactivity fees.
• Signals that fail (503 Gateway disconnected, broker rejection) are refunded to your balance automatically.

The dashboard gives you a live view of your account. Here is what each section shows:

• Balance — your prepaid USD balance. Each signal costs . Top-up button opens the funding flow.
• Broker Accounts — your connected brokers with status (active / pending / disconnected). Click Connect Broker to add an IBKR, Alpaca, or Tradovate account. IBKR accounts show an Open Gateway button — use this to complete your initial login and for the weekly Sunday re-authentication. Each account shows a label you can use for the account routing field.
• Volt Log — three tabs in one card. Signal Log shows every signal VoltRouter has processed, with timestamp, symbol, action, status, broker order ID, fill price, cost, and reason. Daily Summary shows a per-day breakdown grouped by strategy — signals sent, rejected, cost, average fill price, and how each trade was closed. Export any day as CSV. Strategies — create, rename, archive, and filter by strategy. Strategies are created automatically on first signal or manually in advance.
• Webhook Config — your pre-built webhook URL and an example JSON payload ready to paste into your alert platform. Includes your API key pre-filled.
• Risk Controls — per-account settings: max position size, max signals per minute, and optional daily spend cap. Platform ceilings apply above any per-account limit.
• Automation Controls — kill switch rules that pause signal routing automatically when a strategy fires too many signals in a short window. Set a rule in advance: if more than X signals arrive in Y seconds, pause routing for Z minutes. Rules can be scoped to a specific strategy or applied account-wide. Free — no charge per trigger.
• Quick Actions — Panic (close all open positions immediately) and Cancel All Orders (cancel all pending orders without closing positions).
• API Key — rotate your API key if it is compromised. Old key is invalidated immediately.

1. Open TradingView and navigate to your chart or strategy
2. Click the Alerts button (clock icon) → Create Alert
3. Set your alert condition (price cross, indicator signal, strategy alert, etc.)
4. In the Notifications tab, enable Webhook URL
5. Paste your VoltRouter webhook URL from the dashboard
6. Set the Message field to the JSON payload (see examples below)

The message field is the JSON body sent to VoltRouter when the alert fires. Build it as a string literal — you can reference TradingView built-in variables.

The Panic button closes open positions using market orders immediately. Use it as an emergency exit — during unexpected news events or to stop a runaway strategy.

• Closes open positions across all your connected broker accounts simultaneously.
• Queries each account's open positions, then fires a market close order for every position in parallel.
• Cost: base fee + per-position fee, capped at a maximum total. Current pricing is shown in the confirmation dialog on your dashboard before you commit.
• Charge is refunded automatically if all closes fail across all accounts.

• Targets a specific broker account only — useful when you want to flatten one account without affecting others.
• Available from the broker account row in the dashboard, or via POST /volt/panic/:broker_account_id.
• Cost: lower base fee + per-position fee than the all-accounts version. Current pricing shown in the confirmation dialog.
• Charge is refunded automatically if the close fails.

A separate action that cancels all open orders (pending entries, limit orders) without closing any existing positions. Available as a separate button on the dashboard.

VoltRouter manages your IB Gateway — most issues resolve automatically. Follow these steps in order. No server access or SSH is required.

1. Check the dashboard status indicator — if your IBKR broker account shows "Disconnected", wait 30 seconds for automatic reconnection before taking further action.
2. Re-save your IBKR credentials in the dashboard — navigate to your connected broker account, update the credentials, and save. This triggers a fresh provisioning attempt.
3. Check that your IBKR account is not locked or requiring 2FA re-approval — log into IBKR Client Portal directly to verify your account is in good standing and no action is required.
4. If using a secondary IBKR user, confirm that user has trading permissions enabled in Client Portal under Settings → User Management.
5. Contact hello@voltrouter.com — include your VoltRouter email and the approximate time of disconnection. We can inspect the Gateway container directly.