Position size

Four methods, set per account and not per strategy.

Size belongs to the subscription — one account following one strategy — not to the strategy itself. That is what lets the same signal put one contract on an evaluation and four on a funded account.

Signal
Use the alert's own quantity, multiplied by a factor. Default factor is 1.
Fixed
The same number of contracts every time, whatever the alert says.
Risk amount
A fixed amount per trade in the account's own currency — dollars on a USD account, euros on a EUR one — divided by the stop distance. Needs sl in the alert.
Risk in percent
The same, as a percentage of the account balance.
Risk sizing can round to zero
A wide stop and a small risk budget produce less than one contract, and less than one contract is no trade. That appears in the event log as a rejection rather than as a fill you never got — check there before assuming the signal was lost.

Risk sizing also needs to know what a point is worth, and that is known for the listed US futures (MNQ, NQ, MES, ES, M2K, RTY, MYM, YM, MGC, GC) and for brokers that publish their instrument specifications to Tradeus. It also has to be worth it in the account's own currency: a contract priced in dollars on a EUR account, or a CFD quoted in yen on a USD account, would size a €500 risk as if it were $500. On anything like that the risk methods fall back to the signal's own size instead of guessing, and write a warning into the event log saying so. Use Signal or Fixed sizing for those symbols.

Every amount that belongs to an account — balance, P&L, risk per trade — is shown in that account's currency. Totals across accounts in different currencies are not converted: the copier shows one sum per currency, and the dashboard marks a total that mixes them.

Quantities can be fractional wherever the instrument trades that way: an alert saying 0.25 is a valid size on a crypto or CFD symbol, and sizing snaps to the instrument's own step. Futures stay whole contracts — that is simply their step.

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Send a TradingView alert to a MetaTrader 5 terminal

Every other broker here hands over credentials and Tradeus connects outward. MetaTrader 5 is built the other way round: nothing is collected at all — no password, no server, no investor login. You put a small program into your own terminal, and that program asks Tradeus what to do. The upside is that your broker credentials never leave your machine. The cost is on this page too, in plain words, because it is real.

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.

Turn a TradingView strategy into real orders

A Pine strategy on a chart cannot place an order. TradingView can only fire an alert, and an alert is an HTTP request to a URL — it carries no broker, no account and no authentication. Everything between that request and a fill is what this page is about, including the five places the path can stop and what each one says when it does.

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