TradingView webhook to MetaTrader 5, step by step

This guide takes a TradingView alert and turns it into a live MetaTrader 5 trade on your own Windows PC — with a full trace of what happened. About ten minutes if the app is already installed.

What you need first

• Hookmode installed on a Windows PC and paired with your account. The beta is invite-only — join the waitlist if you are not in yet.
• A MetaTrader 5 account added in the app, showing Active.
• A TradingView paid plan (Essential or higher) — the free plan does not send webhooks. Any other system that can POST JSON works too.

1. 1. Create a webhook

   In the web app, open Webhooks and create one. Name it after the strategy that will fire it — you will read this name in alerts and traces later.

   The new webhook gets an id and a 32-character key; the endpoint URL is the same for every webhook. The key is the only thing that authorizes a call, so treat it like a password. You can rotate it from the webhook page at any time.

2. 2. Link it to your accounts

   A portfolio rule links the webhook to an account: which account trades, at what volume factor, with what drawdown budget. Add one rule per account — per challenge, per funded account, per demo.

   One signal then fans out to every active rule, and one close signal closes the whole stack.

3. 3. Paste the payload into a TradingView alert

   Create an alert in TradingView. In the alert dialog, open the Notifications tab, enable Webhook URL and paste the Hookmode endpoint:

   https://api.hookmode.com/api/webhook

   Then put the payload into the Message field. The webhook page has yours ready to copy — pick the Pine Script format for TradingView. The JSON inside it looks like this:

   {
     "webhook_id": "…",
     "signature": "your 32-character key",
     "side": "buy",
     "action": "open",
     "alert_id": "{{timenow}}"
   }

   side is buy or sell; action is open or close. {{timenow}} is a TradingView placeholder — it becomes the alert time when the alert fires, and Hookmode uses it to ignore a re-delivery of the same alert for 60 seconds. Optional fields: volume, tpPrice, slPrice — allowed per webhook side, in the side settings.

4. 4. Fire it and read the trace

   Trigger the alert — or press the manual trigger button on the webhook page, which runs the same pipeline and is marked “manual” in the trace.

   The signal appears on the Signals page within a second or two: received, rules matched, dispatched to your device, opened at the broker with the fill price. If the device is offline, the trade is marked failed with the reason — nothing is queued.

5. 5. Close it

   Send the same payload with "action": "close" from a second alert (or the manual close button) — it works when “Allow closing via webhook” is on in the side settings. Hookmode closes the open trades the webhook opened on that side, across every account its rules cover. A stop loss or take profit that closes the trade at the broker first is detected and written back with the real closing price.