How to Automate Your Trades with TradingView Alerts on Formion 📈🔔

Connect a TradingView alert to your own exchange and let Formion execute the trade for you — on CEX and DEX. You create a TradingView Bot, copy its webhook URL and alert messages, and paste them into a TradingView alert. When the alert fires, Formion places the order on your connected account.

The whole setup in 17 seconds: connect → create bot → copy webhook → TradingView alert → activate (demo values).

Note

🚧 Rolling out. Live execution is being enabled gradually. You can create and configure bots now; they stay paused until automation is switched on for your account.

1. Connect your exchange

First connect the account you want to trade on (one-time):

• Go to formion.ai → Profile → Connections.
• Under Exchanges (CEX) or the DEX cards, link your account with API keys / signing key. See How to Start — API Connection.
• Supported today: CEX — Binance, Bybit, KuCoin, Gate, BingX, MEXC, Blofin, Bitget. DEX — Hyperliquid, Asterdex, Bluefin, Extended. (Venues are enabled for automation progressively.)
• Link your Telegram in Profile → Connections too — TradingView bots sync through @formiontradingbot, so the New bot button stays disabled until Telegram is linked.

2. Create a TradingView Bot

• In Profile → Connections, open the TradingView Automation card and click New bot.
• Fill in:
  • Account type — Live or Demo. Demo runs on Bybit only (real prices, demo funds).
  • Exchange — any account you’ve connected (CEX or DEX).
  • Market — Futures or Spot.
  • Symbol — e.g. BTCUSDT.
  • Direction — Long or Short (the side this bot opens).
  • Sizing — Fixed USDT amount, or % of balance.
  • Amount / Leverage (futures) / optional Label.
• Click Create bot. The bot is created paused with two private tokens.

3. Copy the webhook + alert messages

Each bot shows three things — copy them with the buttons:

• Webhook URL — copy the URL displayed on your bot card
• Open — alert message — e.g. {"token":"<your-open-token>"}
• Close — alert message — e.g. {"token":"<your-close-token>"}

The token is the only secret; keep it private. Open opens the position, Close closes it (reduce-only).

4. Set up the alert on TradingView

1. On TradingView, open your chart/strategy and click Create Alert.
2. Set your condition (indicator cross, strategy order, price, etc.).
3. Open the Notifications tab → enable Webhook URL → paste the Webhook URL from step 3.
4. In the Message field, paste the Open alert message (to open) — or the Close message (for a separate close alert).
5. Save. Repeat with the Close message for a second alert if you want automated exits.

Tip

Tip: in a Pine strategy, you can also use {{strategy.order.alert_message}} and set the order’s alert_message to your Open/Close token, so one alert handles entries and exits.

5. Activate

• Back in TradingView Automation, toggle the bot to Active.
• When automation is enabled for your account, the next matching TradingView alert will place the order on your connected exchange. Every fire is logged with status (filled / skipped / error).

Safety

• Tokens are random and per-bot; rotate by deleting and recreating a bot.
• A bot only ever trades the one symbol and direction you configured. Close orders are reduce-only (they can’t open or flip a position).
• Duplicate alerts with the same id are ignored (no double-fills). To use this, include an id, alert_id, nonce or timenow field in the alert message JSON.
• You can pause or delete a bot at any time. Formion never withdraws funds — it only places trades on your connected account.

Emoji Recap

• Connect your exchange (CEX or DEX)
• Create a TradingView Bot
• Copy the webhook URL + Open/Close messages
• Paste them into a TradingView alert
• Activate

Happy automating!