Creating a strategy

What you choose, and the passphrase you only see once.

On Strategies, New strategy asks for a name, an optional description, and the market it trades — futures or cfd. The market decides which of your accounts may follow it.

Permissions

  • Auto-submit — whether subscriptions may route without a manual confirmation.
  • Live trading — whether the strategy may touch live accounts at all.
  • Signal quantity — whether a subscription is allowed to size from the alert's own contract count.

The webhook and the passphrase

Creating the strategy gives you a webhook URL of the form …/hook/<strategy-id> and a passphrase. The passphrase is displayed once. If you lose it, use New passphrase — the old one stops working immediately, so any alert still carrying it will start failing with an unauthorized error.

Deleting a strategy is the only way to stop its webhook accepting signals. Pausing it makes the endpoint answer with a paused status instead of trading.
Your plan decides how many you may have
Manual has no TradingView webhook at all — the alert is turned away at the endpoint. Algo has three strategies; Unlimited has as many as you like. If another one is refused, that is why. Nothing already running is taken away. See Plans and billing.

Open in Tradeus

Strategies — requires an account.

Step-by-step

Send a TradingView alert to a Tradovate account

Tradovate does not accept a TradingView alert directly. Something has to sit between the two: receive the webhook, read the alert, decide the size and place the order on the right account. Tradeus is that something, hosted, so there is nothing to install and nothing of yours has to be awake at 3am.

Send a TradingView alert to a Rithmic account

Rithmic is what most futures prop firms run on, and connecting it asks for two things beyond your username and password: which SYSTEM your account lives on, and which GATEWAY to reach it through. Both come from your firm, not from us, and getting either wrong is the reason most first attempts fail.

Send a TradingView alert to a TradeLocker account

TradeLocker is the platform forex and CFD prop firms hand out, and it connects with three fields: email, password and server. The rest of the path is the same as the futures brokers — with one difference worth knowing before you start, which is that a strategy is bound to one market and a CFD strategy can only be followed by CFD accounts.

What to put in a TradingView alert message

A TradingView alert message is just text, and if that text is valid JSON, TradingView posts it with an application/json content type. Everything below is about what to put in it — including the two fields that turn "do this" into "be this", which is the single best protection against an alert that fires twice.

Also in Strategies and signals

How a signal becomes an orderThe TradingView alert