Webhooks

TradingView webhook JSON examples for futures strategy alerts

Educational payload patterns for connecting chart strategy alerts to MimikTrader. TradingView is a separate product; MimikTrader is not affiliated with TradingView, Tradovate, or any prop firm. For step-by-step UI setup, see the webhook strategies help guide.

Baseline market entry

Use strategy placeholders, not indicator plot text. TradingView fills these when the alert fires.

{
  "secret": "your-secret",
  "action": "{{strategy.order.action}}",
  "symbol": "{{ticker}}",
  "quantity": "{{strategy.order.contracts}}",
  "price": "{{strategy.order.price}}",
  "position": "{{strategy.market_position}}",
  "id": "{{timenow}}-{{ticker}}-{{strategy.order.id}}"
}

Entry with bracket overrides

Overrides only apply when the matching take-profit or stop override is enabled on the MimikTrader strategy. Tick offsets and absolute prices are both supported.

{
  "secret": "your-secret",
  "action": "buy",
  "symbol": "{{ticker}}",
  "quantity": "1",
  "takeProfit": { "ticks": 40 },
  "stopLoss": { "ticks": 20 },
  "id": "{{timenow}}-{{ticker}}-long"
}

{
  "secret": "your-secret",
  "action": "sell",
  "symbol": "{{ticker}}",
  "quantity": "1",
  "takeProfit": { "limitPrice": 5325.00 },
  "stopLoss": { "stopPrice": 5280.00 },
  "id": "{{timenow}}-{{ticker}}-short"
}

Limit, stop, and stop-limit entries

Non-market entries need a price. orderType applies to entries when entry override is enabled; it is ignored on close and flatten so a stray field cannot turn a flatten into a resting order.

{
  "secret": "your-secret",
  "action": "sell",
  "symbol": "{{ticker}}",
  "quantity": "1",
  "orderType": "stop",
  "price": "{{close}}",
  "id": "{{timenow}}-{{ticker}}-stop-entry"
}

Close vs flatten

close exits the alert symbol only. flatten liquidates every open position on the leader account — including manual trades and other strategies.

{
  "secret": "your-secret",
  "action": "close",
  "symbol": "{{ticker}}",
  "id": "{{timenow}}-{{ticker}}-exit"
}

{
  "secret": "your-secret",
  "action": "flatten",
  "id": "{{timenow}}-flatten-all"
}

Idempotency

TradingView retries webhooks. A unique id per alert prevents the same signal from placing twice. If you omit id, receivers fall back to a short time-window fingerprint — two legitimate alerts for the same symbol inside that window can collide.

Common rejection reasons

• Plain-text default alert messages instead of JSON
• Missing or wrong secret
• Strategy group with zero or multiple leaders
• Account locked by daily loss, trailing drawdown, or consistency