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, CFD & Forex, Crypto or Stocks. The market decides which of your accounts may follow it: a futures account only follows futures strategies, while a TradeLocker account trades CFDs on forex, crypto and shares alike and can follow any of the other three.

Spot accounts are never short
A spot account — a crypto exchange wallet, a cash share account — owns what it holds, and part of that is yours rather than Tradeus's. On such an account a sell only ever hands back what Tradeus bought there: a sell with nothing bought is skipped, a larger one is capped at what was bought, a short signal ends at zero, and an exit closes Tradeus's part and leaves your own coins or shares where they are. "What you hold" there always means Tradeus's own part — a target position is measured against it, an order you confirm by hand is capped again at the moment you confirm it, and nothing your wallet gained outside Tradeus is ever counted as a position of ours. Hand trades on a spot account are not copied to followers, because its balance also moves for deposits and payouts. The event log says each time a sell was skipped or capped. This applies to spot brokers as they are added; every broker connectable today can go short.

Permissions

  • Auto-submit — whether subscriptions may route without a manual confirmation.
  • Live trading — off, the strategy only opens trades on accounts badged Demo (prop-firm evaluations, funded accounts on a firm's simulated system, practice logins) and never on one badged Live: subscribing refuses a Live account, and every entry — on the account itself or on a follower it copies to, hand-trade copies of its leader included — is checked again when it happens. Full closes and stop moves always go through; a partial close goes through when Tradeus can read the position. An order that turns a position from long to short, or back, is an entry and is refused whole, so the old position stays open until a close arrives. A Rithmic 01 login counts as Live. The check follows the badge: a TradeLocker login on a live server is badged Demo, because prop firms run funded accounts there too.
  • 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: filled into the alert messages, and in the Passphrase field with its own Copy button — that one is for a bot or tool with a passphrase field of its own, which wants the passphrase alone, not the whole message. Both show the same passphrase, and neither can show it again once you leave or reload the page: Tradeus keeps only a fingerprint of it. 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 for a Tradovate account 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

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