Receiving TradingView Webhook Signals in a Trading Strategy
Summary
This guide describes a strategy that accepts external trading signals through an embedded HTTP service and turns them into spot or futures orders. It defines a message structure with fields for exchange selection, instrument, contract type, price, action, and size. The service checks an optional IP allowlist and passphrase, validates the message, and passes accepted signals to a task manager that configures the exchange object and submits an order.
The example connects TradingView alerts to the service using a moving-average crossover script and webhook message substitutions for order direction and size. The article reports a successful synchronization test in an exchange simulation environment, but provides no broader performance evidence. The sample uses HTTP for simplicity, notes HTTPS as an option for stronger transport security, and does not establish that the signal strategy is profitable or robust.
Key ideas
- An embedded HTTP endpoint can receive external alerts and pass validated messages to a trading strategy.
- Signal fields specify the instrument, spot or futures mode, trade action, price, and order amount.
- The example uses IP allowlisting and a passphrase, with HTTPS mentioned as a security enhancement.
- TradingView alert substitutions connect a moving-average crossover strategy to the order handler.
- The reported validation is a simulation workflow, not evidence of live profitability.
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