TV Bridge

TV Bridge turns your TradingView alerts into real trades on your MT5 or cTrader account. When your chart or strategy fires an alert, TradingView sends a webhook to LOTUX; LOTUX authenticates it with your secret, applies your risk rules, and places the order.

It is built around market orders (buy / sell), pending orders (limit / stop), and closing positions (close / close all), with a guided builder for each. For the full action set — including modifying open positions and partial closes — see the External Signals app.

You send these as webhook alerts from TradingView — set webhook alerts up in your TradingView account (see TradingView's own alerts guide for how). LOTUX carries out the instructions you send — it is not a broker and not investment advice.

Connect TradingView to your account in four steps:

• In LOTUX, open the TV Bridge app for your trading account and copy your webhook URL and your secret.
• In TradingView, create an alert, open the Notifications tab, tick "Webhook URL", and paste your LOTUX webhook URL.
• In the alert's Message box, paste a JSON message that includes your secret and the trade (the app has a guided builder — see Alert templates).
• Save and enable the alert. When it fires, the trade appears on your account.

Tip: use the guided builder in the TV Bridge app to produce a correct message before you enable the alert.

The TradingView alert Message is JSON. It always includes your secret and a type; entries also need a symbol and volume.

{
  "secret": "YOUR_SECRET",
  "type": "buy",
  "symbol": "XAUUSD",
  "volume": 0.1,
  "sl": 1900.00,
  "tp": 1950.00
}

Pending order (limit / stop) — set type to the pending action and include a price:

{
  "secret": "YOUR_SECRET",
  "type": "buy_limit",
  "symbol": "EURUSD",
  "volume": 0.1,
  "price": 1.0800
}

Dynamic alerts — use TradingView placeholders so one alert works for any signal your strategy produces:

{
  "secret": "YOUR_SECRET",
  "type": "{{strategy.order.action}}",
  "symbol": "{{ticker}}",
  "volume": {{strategy.order.contracts}}
}

• {{strategy.order.action}} — becomes buy or sell from your Pine strategy.
• {{ticker}} — the chart symbol.
• {{strategy.order.contracts}} — the position size from your strategy.
• {{strategy.order.price}} / {{close}} — price values you can pass through.

To target one specific account, add "accountId": "<your account>" (its UUID or MT login) to the message; otherwise the signal goes to every active account linked to that secret.

• "Invalid secret" (401) — the secret is wrong, or you used a secret from a different app. Copy the TV Bridge secret for the correct account.
• Too many requests (429) — alerts are firing faster than the rate limit; slow the alert down.
• No trade appears — check that your account is connected and online (your MT5 / cTrader terminal / EA); a disconnected account cannot receive the order.
• Wrong symbol — symbols are uppercased automatically, but they must match what your broker uses (for example XAUUSD vs GOLD).
• A pending order does nothing — a limit / stop order needs a price in the message.
• After you rotate your secret — update the secret inside your TradingView alert message, or it will fail with 401.
• No webhook option in TradingView — make sure webhook alerts are enabled in your TradingView account (see TradingView's alerts guide).