summary: edgeful doesn't have a native "pause" button on algo strategies yet — this article covers the four ways to stop an algo from firing without losing your strategy, ranked from softest (pause the TradingView alert) to hardest (delete the strategy entirely), plus which one to pick for your situation.
you want to stop an algo from firing — temporarily, or for good — without losing the strategy you've tuned. there are four ways to do it, from softest to hardest. pick the one that matches how long you're pausing for and whether you want to keep the webhook intact.
1. pause the TradingView alert (softest stop)
the fastest way to stop an algo from firing without touching your edgeful setup. reach for this one first.
in TradingView, your alert has an on/off toggle. paused alerts don't fire webhooks — so nothing reaches edgeful and no trades go through. your strategy on the algo dashboard is untouched, your webhook URL is unchanged, and when you want to resume, you flip the toggle back on.
when to use: daily or weekly breaks, news events, maintenance windows, short-term flat periods, any stop you expect to reverse soon.
how to do it:
open TradingView and go to the alerts panel (right sidebar, alarm/clock icon)
find the alert tied to the strategy you want to pause
click the pause / toggle icon next to it — the alert switches from active to paused
to resume: flip the toggle back to active
no webhooks fire while paused. if you have multiple alerts per strategy (e.g., entry + TP + SL on separate triggers), pause all of them — otherwise you can end up with orphan exits firing against no entry.
2. remove the webhook URL from the alert message
a step harder than pausing. the TradingView alert still fires — you'll still get notifications if you have them on — but without the webhook URL in the message, nothing reaches edgeful and nothing trades.
when to use: you want to keep the alert firing (for manual execution, or just to watch the setup) but stop the automated trades specifically.
how to do it:
in TradingView, edit the alert
delete the URL from the webhook URL field in the notifications tab
save the alert
to resume: re-paste the webhook URL from your edgeful strategy
copy the webhook URL somewhere you can find it before you remove it. the edgeful strategy still has it — but copy-paste from a quick note is faster than going back into the dashboard to re-fetch each time.
3. disable or delete the strategy
the only option that fully removes the algo from your account. the webhook URL is invalidated and can't be recovered — if you want to run the same algo later, you'll build a new strategy from scratch and recreate the TradingView alert.
when to use: you're done with this strategy and don't plan to resume it. you've already decided the setup needs to be rebuilt if you come back.
how to disable a strategy:
in edgeful, open the algo dashboard
find the strategy you want to disable in step 2 and select "edit."
select, disable, and save
how to delete a strategy:
in edgeful, open the algo dashboard
find the strategy you want to remove in step 2 and select the trashcan icon
confirm the deletion of the strategy
in TradingView, delete the alert(s) that pointed at this strategy's webhook — they'll otherwise keep firing into a dead URL (see how the algo automation chain works for why that matters)
deleting a strategy isn't reversible. if there's any chance you'll come back to this algo in the next month or two, use option 1, 2, or 3 instead.
4. disconnect your broker from edgeful (hard stop across every strategy on that broker)
this cuts off every algo running on that broker account at once, not just one strategy. heavier hammer — only reach for it if you want a clean kill switch across multiple active strategies simultaneously.
when to use: you have several strategies on the same broker and want all of them off (extended break, emergency, funded-account rule concern, broker-side issue).
how to do it:
in edgeful, open your account settings and go to broker connections
find the connected broker and delete it
confirm the deletion
to resume: reconnect the broker — you will need to recreate the strategies
TradingView alerts still fire while the broker is disconnected — but edgeful rejects the incoming webhooks because there's no broker to route to. once you reconnect, the next alert that fires will execute normally.
this is broker-wide. double-check you actually want every strategy on that account off before you disconnect.
which one should you pick?
your situation | use |
short break (a day, a week, a news event) | option 1 — pause the TV alert |
keep the alert firing, stop only the trades | option 2 — remove webhook URL from the alert |
short break (a day, a week, a news event) | option 3 — disable the strategy |
permanent, not coming back | option 3 — delete the strategy |
the default is option 1. it's reversible, it doesn't touch your edgeful setup, and it's what most traders want when they say "pause."
if trades are still going through after you paused
if you thought you paused but trades are still firing, check:
every alert tied to this strategy is paused, not just the entry alert
there's no second strategy running the same algo on the same broker (check the algo dashboard for duplicates)
the TV alert toggle actually switched state — the icon changes visually when paused vs active
still seeing activity? open a support ticket from the in-app chat with the strategy name and your TradingView alert IDs — we'll trace it.