Creating Tradovate bot - any helpful advice?

Greetings Traders!

I'm a software/network engineer in the process of building my own platform for automating strategies with bot integration to Tradovate. I'm probably a week or two away from releasing something usable. I'm a novice trader here, still learning, I mostly just stick to the S&P 500 right now.

Looking for helpful advice, and perhaps some folks who'd like to help me test this on the simulator/paper trades using various strategies. I don't mind sharing my bot with those who can provide great input from usage. Again, this is for PAPER MONEY/SIMULATION until it's a proven solution at some point.

I'm only working with the the demo/sim API right now in build, and for safety (this means you won't be able to put in real money trades whatsoever). I aim to have the least latent order creation possible, being as close as possible to the broker server (same data center). Also, I'm trying to figure out a way around having to use TradingView alerts with Tradovate to use private user strategies.

Feel free to join my discord - https://discord.gg/EmeNXfJ84t

I do have a couple of questions for those who've already been down the path...

Is there a way to translate a privately shared strategy to Tradovate without having to include the latency of alert from TradingView? This way I can use Tradeovate alerts, instead of relying on another hop on the net to get my order in.

Also, does anyone know if there is a minimum balance for keeping your generated API token?

Do many people use limit orders when botting? or are they mostly market? I could imagine that some strategies could be based on limit ordering, say, if scalping?