How to Automate TradingView with TradersPost

Step 2: Connect your prop firm broker

In TradersPost → Brokers → New, pick your prop firm's broker. Common ones:

• Apex / Topstep / MFFU — Tradovate or Rithmic
• FTMO — MetaTrader 5 or cTrader
• The Funded Trader (forex) — MetaTrader 5

You'll be asked for the broker's API credentials. Tradovate uses an OAuth flow; Rithmic uses login + password. The connection is read/write — TradersPost can place orders, see fills, and read account state.

Step 3: Create a strategy in TradersPost

Strategy → New. Map it to:

• Symbol — e.g. MNQ for Tradovate, NAS100 for MT5
• Quantity — number of contracts per signal
• Bracket / OCO — turn this on so the stop and target fire as a single order group

TradersPost will give you a webhook URL like https://webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/<uuid>/<token>. Save it.

Step 4: Wire the alert in TradingView

Add the Pine Script to your chart. In the script's input panel, you'll see a JSON message field. Right-click the chart → Add Alert. In the alert dialog:

1. Set Condition to the strategy and the appropriate fire-on (e.g. "Order fills only")
2. Paste the TradersPost webhook URL into the Webhook URL field
3. Set the Message body to the JSON the strategy emits — see template below

The JSON payload

The Pine Scripts in our store emit alerts in TradersPost's expected format:

{
  "ticker": "{{ticker}}",
  "action": "{{strategy.order.action}}",
  "quantity": {{strategy.position_size}},
  "price": {{close}},
  "sentiment": "{{strategy.market_position}}"
}

You don't have to type this — every strategy from our store ships with the alert message pre-filled. Copy it from the input panel and paste into TradingView.

Step 5: Paper-test before connecting to a live eval

TradersPost has a paper-trading environment. Run the strategy on paper for at least 5 sessions and confirm:

• Entries fire at the price the script signaled (within slippage)
• Stops and targets are placed correctly as bracket orders
• The strategy doesn't fire duplicate orders on a single bar

Common gotchas

• Symbol mismatch. TradingView calls it MNQ1!. Tradovate calls it MNQM26 (current front-month). TradersPost handles the mapping but check the strategy's symbol field.
• Time zone. The Pine Script's session filter uses your chart timezone. Set both the script and TradersPost to America/New_York for futures.
• Premium TradingView plan needed. Webhook alerts require Essential ($14.95/mo) or higher. Free plan won't work.