Can you trade directly from TradingView?

The panel sits under the chart. You pick a broker from its list, log in with that broker's own credentials, and the chart gains an order ticket. From there you buy, sell, set a limit price and cancel, and the account's positions and orders show beside the chart. Paper Trading, TradingView's own simulator, is always in the list.

Every order in that panel is one you clicked. There is no setting that makes the panel place an order when a condition on the chart becomes true.

An alert is a condition on the chart plus an action when it fires: a pop-up, an email, a push notification or a webhook. None of those actions is send an order to the trading panel. A broker logged in to the panel changes nothing about this, so the alert tells you and you still click.

The webhook is the one action that leaves TradingView. It sends the alert's message to a URL you choose, and whatever owns that URL can read the message and place an order at a broker. That receiver does not need the panel, and it works with brokers that are not in the panel's list at all.

1. 1

   Write a message that names the trade

   The alert message has to say the ticker, the side and whether it opens or closes a position. For options it also needs the expiry, the strike and call or put. Leave out anything the receiver can decide itself.

2. 2

   Check your TradingView plan

   Webhook alerts need a paid TradingView plan and two-factor authentication turned on for your account. A free plan can still notify you.

3. 3

   Point the webhook at a receiver

   The receiver is software that stays awake, reads each message and sends an order to a broker that publishes an API. You can write it yourself or use a service built for it.

4. 4

   Test on paper, then check the fills

   Run the alerts against a paper account until entries and exits both behave. Then compare each live order with the broker's own order history, which is the record that counts.

Nyria is the receiver. Create a strategy with TradingView as the alert source, copy its webhook URL into the alert's Webhook URL box, and put a message in the alert. Nyria reads any wording or JSON, so plain text works:

long entry AAPL

exit AAPL long

The bot places the order at Charles Schwab, Tradier, tastytrade or Alpaca. An alert cannot set the size: the bot sizes each order from the budget per entry you set when you deploy it. Nyria attaches no stop order to an entry, so a position closes when an exit alert arrives or when you close it yourself. The alert tester shows how a message will be read before anything trades.

Nyria does not appear in TradingView's trading panel. It sits on the other side of the webhook.

Deploy the strategy on Nyria Paper, the free simulated broker, and let real alerts fire for a week or two. Read the strategy's Logs tab to see each alert and each order, then confirm every exit closed its entry. Paper fills pay the quoted spread and never slip, so a live account can fill at a worse price. When the paper run reads right, deploy a bot on the broker account.

Does a connected broker make my alerts trade?

No. A broker connected to the trading panel only lets you place orders by hand. An alert places an order only when its webhook reaches a receiver that holds a broker connection.

Do I need the trading panel for webhook alerts?

No. The webhook route does not use the panel, so it works with any broker the receiver connects to, listed in the panel or not.

What does it cost?

Paper is free. Live trading from $15 a month.