TradingView alerts automation

With OctoBot cloud, you can easily turn any TradingView price alert, indicator or Pine Script strategy into trades. Trading can be on your favourite exchanges or risk free with simulated funds.

If you are not sure about how to use TradingView alerts, have a look at our TradingView trading tutorial.

Automating trading on TradingView price alerts

TradingView can automatically send an alert when the price of an asset crosses a given value.

This price alert that will notify my automation of a buy order identified by d4f18425-b3b6-4e6b-94d0-61f362aa10c7 if BTC crosses 40.000 USDT.

Automating trading on TradingView indicators

TradingView can automatically send an alert when something happens on a indicator.

This indicator alert using the Relative Strength Index (or RSI) that will notify my automation of a sell order identified by 2b82c8b2-7397-44dc-9141-f0ec85fc9ef1 if the RSI value crosses 80, which I consider as a sell signal.

An indicator alert can be a simple event such as crossing an indicator value or a much more advanced condition such as Bearish Divergences or channel exiting as shown in the RSI indicator example above.

Automating Pine Script strategies

TradingView can automatically send an alert when your Pine Script strategies create orders.

To send alerts from a Pine Script strategy, use the alert_message parameter from Pine Script strategy functions which can create orders.

To send alerts with your Pine Script strategy, create a new alert and make sure to:

1. Select the name of your strategy as the condition
2. Replace ALL the message content with exactly {{strategy.order.alert_message}}

In the strategy’s Pine Script code, add alert_message="yourAutomationIdentifier" to your strategy entry, exit or close calls.
Example with a d4f18425-b3b6-4e6b-94d0-61f362aa10c7 automation identifier:

strategy.entry("Buy", strategy.long, comment="Buy Signal Triggered", alert_message="d4f18425-b3b6-4e6b-94d0-61f362aa10c7")

Learn more TradingView Pine Script strategies automation on the TradingView strategy automation tutorial.

TradingView custom automations

Additionally to the automation defined from your TradingView OctoBot user interface, it is also possible to use alerts with custom content.

This format allows for more flexibility in the way automations are executed by specifying your automation content within the alert message.

Example: market BUY order of 0.001 BTC on a bot with id 123

SYMBOL=BTCUSDT;SIGNAL=BUY;VOLUME=0.001;BOT_ID=123

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Custom automation parameters

Parameters must be separated using a ; character and can be included in any order.

Note: The BOT_ID parameter is required. Your BOT_ID is the last segment of your TradingView OctoBot URL.
Example: if your OctoBot URL is https://www.octobot.cloud/bots/0280badc-e884-4637-bb86-44444444, then your BOT_ID is 0280badc-e884-4637-bb86-44444444.

BOT_ID=0280badc-e884-4637-bb86-44444444;SYMBOL=BTCUSDT;SIGNAL=BUY;ORDER_TYPE=LIMIT;VOLUME=45q;PRICE=-3%

Custom automation examples

A MARKET BUY order using 20 units of quote asset with dynamic ticker with bot id 123.

SYMBOL={{ticker}};SIGNAL=BUY;VOLUME=20q;BOT_ID=123

A LIMIT BUY order of 0.01 ETH at -3% of the current price with a strategy-1 tag.

SYMBOL=ETHUSDC;SIGNAL=BUY;ORDER_TYPE=LIMIT;VOLUME=0.01;PRICE=-3%;TAG=strategy-1;BOT_ID=123

A LIMIT BUY order of 45 USDT at -3% of the current price immediately followed by a take profit at +10% of the buying price and a stop loss at -20% as soon as the the initial BUY limit order is filled.
Note: when both TAKE_PROFIT_PRICE and STOP_PRICE are provided, the created take profit and stop loss will be OCO (one cancels the other) orders.

SYMBOL=BTCUSDT;SIGNAL=BUY;ORDER_TYPE=LIMIT;VOLUME=45q;PRICE=-3%;TAKE_PROFIT_PRICE=10%;STOP_PRICE=-20%;BOT_ID=123

A MARKET BUY order of 6 SOL followed by 3 take profits at 5%, 10% and 20% from the buying price. Here, each take profit will have a quantity of 2 SOL as the bought amount is split between take profits.

SYMBOL=SOLUSDC;SIGNAL=BUY;VOLUME=6;TAKE_PROFIT_PRICE=5%;TAKE_PROFIT_PRICE_2=10%;TAKE_PROFIT_PRICE_3=20%;BOT_ID=123

CANCEL all SOL/USDC orders with the strategy-1 tag.

SIGNAL=CANCEL;SYMBOL=SOLUSDT;TAG=strategy-1;BOT_ID=123

For futures trading

A futures trading REDUCE_ONLY MARKET SELL order of 3 SOL.

SYMBOL=SOLUSDC;SIGNAL=SELL;VOLUME=3;REDUCE_ONLY=true;BOT_ID=123

A futures trading MARKET BUY order of 200 USDC which also configures the SOL/USDC contract leverage to 3.

SYMBOL=SOLUSDC;SIGNAL=BUY;VOLUME=200q;LEVERAGE=3;BOT_ID=123

Automated TradingView strategies examples

• Death and Golden Cross Strategy: buy and sell based on Death and Golden Crosses.
• Bull market RSI Strategy: buy and sell using RSI to increase bull market profits.
• Custom TradingView strategy tutorial: learn how to trade using any TradingView strategy.

Automation rate limit

In order to reduce the impact of misconfigured alerts and prevent exploits of the system, there is a limit to the number of times a given automation can be triggered over 60 minutes.

The amount of bots and automations you can have is unlimited but each individual automation can be triggered at most 20 times over 60 minutes. Please contact us if you need to increase this limit.

The average execution time is the time measured between when TradingView sends the alert and when it is executed by OctoBot. This is an average, this time may vary.
This variation is small for webhooks but can, in rare cases, reach several tens of seconds for email alerts. This is due to the technical constraints associated with email transfer, which is a less optimized process than a simple webhook call.

TradingView alerts security

The OctoBot cloud infrastructure is designed with the security in mind. It is the same when it comes to the TradingView alerts integration.

Only alerts originating from the offical TradingView website can trigger a TradingView automations.