Turn TradingView Alerts into Real Broker Orders
How do I connect TradingView to Interactive Brokers?
Create a signal mailbox in Plutrex Strategy Studio, paste its webhook URL and ready-made JSON template into a TradingView alert, and arm your strategy. When the alert fires, your strategy reacts within about a second and places the order at Interactive Brokers or Colmex Pro — sized and guarded by rules you set.
How it works — four steps
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Create a mailbox
In Strategy Studio, open the signal tab and create a signal mailbox. You get a webhook URL and a secret.
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Paste the template into TradingView
Copy the one-click alert template into your TradingView alert's message box and set the alert's webhook URL to your mailbox address. The secret travels inside the message body — never in the URL.
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Wire the signal into your strategy
Drop a signal block into your strategy — "signal text says buy", "signal named this ticker", or "signal number above X". The alert is a condition your strategy checks, not a blind order.
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Arm it
Arm the strategy. From then on it runs server-side, 24/7. An alert that arrives is evaluated within about a second, and the resulting order goes to your connected broker — Interactive Brokers or Colmex Pro.
The TradingView alert template
This is the exact message body Plutrex generates for you in one click. The {{…}} placeholders are TradingView's own variables — TradingView fills them in when the alert fires. Any other sender works too: the mailbox accepts any JSON that carries your secret.
An alert is a condition, not a command
Most webhook bridges forward your alert straight to the broker — whatever fired, however many times it fired. Plutrex treats the alert as one condition among equals inside your strategy: you decide what else must be true (market conditions, account state, position limits), how the order is sized, and what stop-loss protects it.
One alert, one pass: the same alert can never fire the same step twice. If a loop brings your strategy back to a waiting step, it waits for the next alert — not the old one.
If the signal store cannot be read, signal conditions report unknown and the strategy waits. A gate never opens on a signal nobody can prove arrived.
Every message is accounted for
Accepted or refused, every message appears in the mailbox's delivery log with its reason — wrong secret, unreadable JSON, disabled mailbox. When "nothing happened", the log answers why.
Messages are kept for seven days, and every signal block carries a freshness window you choose: sixty seconds means "act on what just arrived"; a day means "this morning's alert still stands".
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to keep my computer or TradingView tab open?
No. Your strategy runs on Plutrex's servers around the clock while it is armed. TradingView sends the alert over the internet; nothing on your machine needs to be running.
Which brokers can execute the orders?
Interactive Brokers and Colmex Pro today, with additional brokers already under signed agreements and rolling out. You connect your own account, and every order is placed at your direction — Plutrex is not a broker and never holds your funds.
Can the same alert fire my strategy twice?
No. A waiting step counts a message only if it arrived after the strategy reached that step, so one alert produces at most one pass. A repeated entry needs the next alert.
What happens if a message arrives with the wrong secret?
It is refused and recorded in the delivery log with the reason. Your strategy never acts on a message that fails authentication, and it never guesses — an unreadable signal reads as unknown, and the strategy waits.
Does this only work with TradingView?
No. The mailbox fixes no format: anything that can send an HTTP POST with a JSON body — your own script, another platform, a custom indicator — can drive a strategy. TradingView just gets a ready-made template.
What does it cost?
Signal mailboxes are part of Strategy Studio, available on the Plutrex Pro plan ($19/month). You can build and test strategies before connecting a broker.
TradingView is a trademark of TradingView, Inc. Interactive Brokers is a trademark of Interactive Brokers LLC. Plutrex is an independent platform and is not affiliated with or endorsed by either company.