Filtering a noisy channel

Keyword filters

Every channel has its own Signal filters: Channels → your channel → Settings tab → Auto-trade panel → Signal filters. Separate entries with commas and press Save filters. They are available on every plan and empty by default.

Keywords match whole words or phrases and are not case-sensitive: "vip" matches VIP and #vip, but not vipers. A keyword made of symbols or an emoji matches wherever it appears.

Blocked and allowed symbols

• Blocked symbols: signals for these instruments are refused, for example one your broker does not offer.
• Allowed symbols: when set, signals for every other instrument are refused. Useful when a provider mixes indices or crypto into a forex feed.
• Symbols match by instrument: GOLD and XAUUSD count as the same entry.

Trading sessions

Limit a channel to the sessions you trust it in: Asia (00:00–09:00 UTC), Europe (07:00–16:00 UTC), US (13:00–22:00 UTC). A signal that arrives outside every ticked session is refused. None or all three ticked means any time.

• The hours are fixed in UTC and do not move with daylight saving time.
• There is no news blackout, no weekend rule and no window of your own beyond these three sessions.

What happens to a refused signal

It is still saved, with the status Rejected and the reason on its card on the Signals page, so you can review afterwards whether a filter cost you anything. No order is placed for it on any account, by auto-trading or by hand, and there is no new-signal notification for it.

• The filters judge every new signal of the channel: Telegram, Discord, email and history imports.
• A re-entry ("add more") opens a new position, so the symbol and session rules apply to it; the keyword rules already judged the post it repeats.
• Updates to open trades (close, partial close, a new stop or target) are never filtered, so a filter never keeps a position from being closed.
• The filters per linked account (Channels → your channel → Per-account settings: symbol whitelist, session filter, Min TP, Max SL, Max Spread, max risk) still apply after them, account by account.

The parser only reads trade setups

A message becomes a signal only when PipSync can read an instrument, a direction, an entry, a stop-loss and at least one take-profit from it. Ads, giveaways and results posts without a setup do not become signals; a recap that repeats a full setup can, unless its words are on the channel's Block keywords. Messages such as "close half" are treated as updates to a trade, not as new signals.

To see what PipSync makes of a message, open Channels → Messages and use Test, or paste text into Quick test. The test shows how the parser reads the message; it does not apply the Signal filters.

Stay in control

• Approve by hand: leave Auto-Trading off for the channel (it is off by default). Every signal then waits on the Signals page for you to confirm or reject it.
• Test mode: Channels → Settings tab → Enable test mode records and scores signals but never sends them to a broker.
• Pause: Pause channel on the same tab keeps PipSync reading a Telegram channel and managing trades already open from it, but opens no new trades by itself. A new signal waits on the Signals page for you to confirm. Activate channel ends the pause.

Duplicates and re-posts

PipSync identifies a signal by the Telegram message it came from, so a message delivered twice (for example after a reconnect) does not create a second signal. A channel can be added only once per workspace.