Sending MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor Alerts to Telegram
Summary
This tutorial outlines how to connect an MQL5 Expert Advisor to a Telegram bot so the terminal can send trading notifications. It describes creating a bot, retrieving its API token, obtaining a chat identifier from an update, and allowing Telegram's API address in MetaTrader 5's WebRequest settings. The intended result in this first installment is a basic EA that sends text messages; later parts of the series are meant to cover receiving messages and relaying images.
The article discusses using bot messages for trade alerts and updates, including notifications directed to a group. It also identifies setup problems such as missing bot updates and incorrect WebRequest configuration, and explains that an incoming message is needed before the API response contains the chat identifier. This is a communications tutorial rather than a trading strategy: it does not test whether alerts improve trading decisions, and message delivery depends on correct credentials, terminal permissions, and setup. Bot tokens and chat identifiers should be handled carefully because they grant access to messaging functions.
Key ideas
- A Telegram bot can relay text notifications from an MQL5 Expert Advisor.
- The setup requires a bot API token and the destination chat identifier.
- A message to the bot creates an update from which the chat identifier can be retrieved.
- MetaTrader 5 must permit WebRequests to Telegram's API for communication to work.
- The tutorial covers messaging setup, not the trading value or performance of alert based decisions.
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