Automating OctoBot Trades from TradingView Pine Script Strategy Alerts
Summary
This guide explains how to route TradingView Pine Script strategy order events to OctoBot so that the bot can act on an exchange. It instructs users to define an alert message containing trade parameters, attach that message to strategy entry, exit, or close calls, then create a TradingView strategy alert whose message uses the strategy order’s alert-message placeholder. The guide also notes that separate messages can represent different actions or order settings, and that the symbol can be changed for different assets.
The document teaches an integration workflow, not a trading strategy: it does not explain how to generate signals or provide performance evidence. Automated execution depends on correctly configured alerts and message fields, and the guide does not discuss testing, order rejection, latency, or risk controls. Users should treat the message format and alert setup as operational instructions whose behavior depends on their OctoBot and TradingView configuration.
Key ideas
- Pine Script strategy order calls can attach messages for alert delivery.\nTradingView alerts must use the strategy order alert-message placeholder.\nMessages can specify exchange, symbol, volume, and signal parameters.\nSeparate messages can be prepared for different trade actions or settings.\nThe guide describes execution plumbing and provides no evidence about strategy performance.
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# Automating trading from a TradingView Pine Script strategy
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title: "Trading from strategies"
description: "Learn how to make OctoBot trade based on TradingView Pine Script strategies. Send signals from TradingView Pine Script strategies and have your OctoBot instantly trade on your exchange."
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# Automating trading from a TradingView Pine Script strategy
With OctoBot, you can listen to <a href="https://www.tradingview.com/?aff_id=27595" rel="nofollow">TradingView</a> <a href="https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-docs/en/v5/index.html#" rel="nofollow">Pine Script</a> strategies signals
to automate your trades.
## Create strategy alert
To send alerts from a strategy, use the <a href="https://www.tradingview.com/pine-script-docs/en/v5/concepts/Alerts.html?highlight=alert_message#order-fill-events" rel="nofollow">`alert_message`</a> parameter from Pine Script strategy functions which can create orders.
1. Define the content of your alert before any `strategy.entry`, `strategy.exit` or `strategy.close` call:
- example: `messageBuy = "EXCHANGE=binance;SYMBOL=SOLUSDT;VOLUME=100a%;SIGNAL=BUY"`
> Note: when defining your alert, remember to add `;` between each parameter.
2. In the strategy section, add `alert_message=messageBuy` to your strategy `entry`, `exit` or `close` calls:
- example: `strategy.entry("Buy", strategy.long, comment="Buy Signal Triggered", alert_message=messageBuy)`
3. When creating a new alert (_right-click on the strategy / add new alert_) make sure that you: - Select the name of your strategy as the condition - Name the alert (the name can be whatever you want) - Replace **ALL** the message content with exactly `{{strategy.order.alert_message}}`
- _Et voilà !_ This alert will automatically notify your OctoBot each time your strategy executes `entry`, `exit` or `close` calls.
Tips:
- For multi-coin, simply edit the strategy and modify the SYMBOL entry in the messageBuy definition. You can thus vary the parameters according to the assets.
- It can be easier to define multiple messages such as `messageBuy`, `messageBuyWithATakeProfit`, `messageSell`or even `messageCancel` and use the appropriate message later on (with the `alert_message` parameter) when calling `entry`, `exit` or `close`.
_Special thanks to @KidCharlemagne for creating the basis of this guide !_
## Alert format
Learn more about how to create your TradingView alerts on [the TradingView alert format guide](alert-format).
## TradingView setup
Wondering how to make your OctoBot listen to TradingView signals ? Check out [our TradingView integration guide](/guides/octobot-interfaces/tradingview).Shown in full with attribution under the source's licence. Licence: GPL-3.0
This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.