Automation guide

Automation is optional. Every strategy runs on your TradingView chart whether or not you automate it. If you do, the strategy's alerts are sent to a third-party service, which places the orders on your broker or prop account. You choose that service; we do not require or favour any particular one.

1. How it works

A webhook bridge receives the alert message from TradingView and turns it into an order on your account. A trade copier is a different tool: it copies trades from one account to other accounts. Some services do both. If you run several accounts, a common set-up is a bridge into one account and a copier from there to the others.

2. What you need

• A paid TradingView plan with two-factor authentication turned on. Webhook alerts are not available on the free plan.
• An account with a bridge or copier that supports your broker's platform (for example Tradovate, Rithmic or ProjectX) and, if relevant, your prop firm.
• A broker or prop account that allows automated trading. See section 6.
• A demo or simulation account to test on first.

3. What the strategies send

Each strategy has an Automation group in its settings. Its Enable webhook alerts switch is off by default. When you turn it on, the strategy sends its own messages through TradingView's alert() function:

• Entry: a limit order with its stop and target attached, sent when the setup forms, before price reaches the entry. The order carries an expiry, so it can be removed at your broker before it fills. On ICT22 this expiry is 60 minutes by default, while the published backtest lets the order rest until the session flat, so live fills can differ from the backtest.
• Cancel: when the strategy pulls an unfilled order (for example at the daily close, or on ICT22 if the target trades first), an optional message that closes the symbol. This is meant to remove the resting order and its stop and target. Check on a demo account that your broker does this, and note that it acts on the whole symbol in that account.
• Close: when the strategy flattens an open position.

These messages are written in PickMyTrade's JSON format, because that is the format we built and tested them with. You enter your own token and account ID (for PickMyTrade, the account name) in the settings. They stay in your TradingView account and are never sent to us. To use them, create one alert on the strategy with the condition "alert() function calls only" and your service's webhook URL.

4. Using a different service

You are free to use any service you prefer. There are two ways to do it:

A. A service that accepts the same messages

Some services accept messages in another provider's format, or let you map incoming fields to their own. If yours does, check that it handles all three messages: a limit entry with a stop and target attached, the close used as a cancel, and the flatten.

B. TradingView's standard order-fill alerts

Most services publish a message template built from TradingView placeholders such as {{strategy.order.action}} and {{strategy.order.contracts}}. You can usually create an alert on the strategy with "Order fills only" and paste your service's template as the message. Check that your TradingView plan and the invite-only script allow this before relying on it. Be aware of what changes:

• A fill alert fires after the strategy's order has filled on the chart, so your entry reaches the broker later, usually as a market order, not as the resting limit order the backtest used. Your fills, and your results, can differ from the published results.
• The stop and target are only at your broker if your service attaches them. Otherwise exits arrive as separate alerts after they happen on the chart.
• Leave the strategy's Enable webhook alerts setting off and use only the fill alert, so that you do not send two sets of orders.

Whichever route you choose, test it on a demo account and compare the demo fills with the strategy's trade list before trading real money.

5. Choosing a service

Questions worth asking any provider:

• Does it support my platform (Tradovate, Rithmic, ProjectX or other) and my prop firm?
• Does it handle limit orders with an attached stop and target, and can it cancel a resting order?
• Is it server-based (runs when your computer is off) or does it run on your own machine or VPS?
• How does it price: per month, per account, per connection or per signal? Is there a free trial?
• What happens if it goes down or rejects an order? Does it notify you, and can you see a log of every message it received?
• How does it handle contract rolls and continuous symbols such as MNQ1!?

Some services traders use

Listed alphabetically, for information only. We are not affiliated with any of them, we have not reviewed them all, and inclusion is not a recommendation. Descriptions are taken from each provider's own website as of September 2026 and may have changed.

Tradovate's own group-copy feature is reported not to copy orders placed from TradingView, which is why traders running several accounts often add a separate copier. Check with Tradovate.

PickMyTrade's documentation says ProjectX ended its licensing for third-party prop firms on 28 February 2026, so several firms that used ProjectX have moved platform. Check which platform your firm uses now before you choose a service.

6. Check your prop firm's rules

Prop firms set their own rules on automation, and they change. Before you start, read your firm's current rules and, if anything is unclear, ask them in writing:

• Is automated trading allowed, and are particular bridges or copiers allowed?
• Is copying trades between accounts allowed, and between how many?
• When must positions be flat each day? Midas lets you choose the close time in its settings. ICT22 flattens at 16:30 ET, or earlier on any early-close dates you enter, so check that this fits your firm's rules.
• Are there limits on trade frequency, holding time, or consistency?

Same strategy as other traders. Every subscriber runs the same rules, so your trades can match other subscribers' trades in time and direction. Some firms have rules on automation and on shared or third-party strategies. The table summarises what each firm's own published pages said when we read them on 8 October 2026, for information only. We do not advise whether any firm is suitable for automating our strategies: that decision, and following your firm's rules, are yours. Rules change, so read your firm's current rules before you start.

If your firm is not listed, look for its rules on automation, third-party or purchased strategies, and trading "in concert" or "coordinated" with others. A personal brokerage account with your broker is not subject to prop firm rules.

7. Before and after you go live

• Test on a demo account first, and compare each fill with the strategy's trade list.
• An alert keeps the settings and script version it was created with. After you change a setting, or after we announce an update, delete the alert and create a new one.
• If your account number changes, for example when an evaluation becomes a funded account, update the account ID (for PickMyTrade, the account name) in the settings and re-create the alert.
• Do not limit when the alert is active. If an alert has a schedule or time window, the webhook stops outside it as well, and orders are missed.
• Watch contract roll weeks. Make sure the chart, the symbol in the alert, and the contract your service trades are the same one.
• Check your broker every day. Your broker's records are the true record, not the chart.

8. Our responsibility

We provide the strategies and their alert messages. We do not operate, control or support any bridge, copier, broker or prop firm, and we are not responsible for how they receive or execute orders. You are responsible for configuring, testing and monitoring your own automation. See section 5 of our Terms of Service.

Questions about the strategy settings? Email support@algotradernqgc.com. For set-up of a particular service, please contact that service.