How to Automate a TradingView Alert to Your Exchange

A trading idea that only works when you're staring at a chart isn't really automated. Turning a TradingView alert into a real order on your own exchange account takes three pieces: a webhook endpoint, an API key stored securely, and an alert message formatted the right way.

Every Autobot gets one webhook URL and a unique secret, shown once when you create it. TradingView's alert fires a POST request to that single endpoint; the platform looks up which Autobot it belongs to purely by matching the secret's hash — not by trusting anything else in the payload.

The key you connect is stored encrypted, and every order it places executes directly in your own exchange account. Nothing about this pipeline holds custody of your funds at any point.

The alert message must use TradingView's own placeholders (ticker, side, bar time) rather than a hardcoded buy or sell — that's what lets the same alert text keep working correctly through every long/short cycle instead of just firing "buy" every time by mistake.

TradingView resends an alert automatically if it doesn't get a fast 200 response. The pipeline keys off the exact bar's timestamp, so a resend caused by a slow response never places the same order twice.