How to send a TradingView alert to Tradovate

1. Connect the Tradovate account

   Dashboard → Accounts → Connect account → Tradovate. You approve Shifu on Tradovate’s own site, so your Tradovate password is never typed into Shifu. Pick Simulated or Live; most prop-firm accounts, funded ones included, run on Simulated.

2. Create a bot

   Dashboard → Bots → New bot. Give it a name, a default ticker such as MNQ1! or MES1!, a default size, and how each trade is sized (from the alert, or a fixed count). Saving shows your private link and a key exactly once — copy it then.

3. Point the bot at the account

   Open the bot → Account routing and switch the Tradovate account on. Per account you choose × alert, a multiplier of the base size, or — when the bot uses a fixed size rather than the alert’s — Contracts, an exact count.

4. Create the TradingView alert

   On the bot’s Setup tab, copy the link and a ready-made message. On your chart press Alt+A, set the condition to your strategy or indicator, open Notifications, tick Webhook URL and paste the whole link (it ends in your key), paste the message into the Message box, set the trigger to “Once Per Bar Close”, and click Create. If your script builds its own alert text, leave the Message box empty and use “Any alert() function call”.

5. Test, then go live

   Send a test signal from the Setup tab and watch it land under Alerts. When you are ready for real orders, turn on Live routing on the account. Until then, alerts are received and logged but no order reaches Tradovate.

{
  "action": "buy",
  "symbol": "MNQ1!",
  "quantity": 1,
  "time": "{{timenow}}"
}

Add take_profit and stop_loss prices to that message and both legs rest at Tradovate the instant the entry fills, one cancelling the other. Add trail_distance and the stop becomes a native trailing stop; add trail_trigger and it starts following only after price has moved your way — the broker’s own trailing stop, so it keeps running with your computer off.

• Market, limit, stop and stop-limit entries; a take-profit and stop bracket resting at the broker; a trailing stop with an arm-after trigger.
• A new entry replaces the old position: working legs on that contract are cancelled and the position is flattened before the new entry goes in.
• Balance and open positions sync back into Shifu, and every fill lands in the journal — including an exit you made by hand in Tradovate on a position Shifu opened.
• reverse alerts are refused rather than half-executed: send an exit and then an entry, or send the opposite entry and let the replace-the-position behaviour do the flip.