How to Connect TradingView Alerts to Your Account with WeCore

Many traders build an indicator or strategy in TradingView and get alerts, but still click the buttons themselves. This guide explains, at a conceptual level, how to connect those alerts to your broker or prop firm account through WeCore, and how to do it carefully.

Menu and screen names may change over time, so the steps below refer to areas of the app rather than the exact position of buttons.

What actually happens behind the scenes

A TradingView alert can send a message to a web address the moment its condition is met. That is called a webhook. If the concept is new to you, read the guide to automating TradingView alerts with webhooks first.

WeCore acts as a bridge: it receives the message from TradingView, checks it against the risk rules you set for the account, and only then passes an order to your account at your broker. WeCore is not a broker and does not hold your money. The account stays with your broker or prop firm, and every action is recorded so you can review what happened afterwards.

Step 1: Create an account and connect a broker account

After you open a WeCore account and choose a plan, go to the connections (brokers) area and add your account. Today, Rithmic-based accounts and ProjectX (TopstepX) based accounts are supported.

A few things worth knowing in advance:

• Rithmic - a new account usually has to sign in to R|Trader Pro once and accept the agreements there before API trading will work. That is a Rithmic requirement. Rithmic also allows one active login per username, so close other platforms that use the same credentials.
• ProjectX (TopstepX) - you connect with your username and an API key generated in the TopstepX settings, not your password. After entering them you choose which account to connect.
• Built-in paper account - if you only want to experiment, there is also an internal simulation account that needs no broker login.

The login details are yours, at your broker. They are stored encrypted and are not shown back to you after saving.

Step 2: Set risk rules before anything else

Every account you connect starts in Simulation mode: signals and orders are checked and recorded, but nothing is sent to the broker. To switch to real trading you first have to save the account's risk rules at least once. That is deliberate - no account starts trading without limits you chose.

So before touching TradingView, open the risk area, go through the settings and save. There is a separate guide to setting risk limits in WeCore.

Step 3: Get your personal webhook address

In the strategies area, create or open your strategy and copy its personal webhook address. The address contains a unique secret key.

Treat it like a password:

• Anyone who holds the address can send orders to your account.
• Do not paste it in chats, public screenshots or code you share with others.
• If you suspect it leaked, you can generate a new address and the old one stops working.
• You can also restrict which IP addresses are accepted, for example only TradingView's official addresses.

Step 4: Create the alert in TradingView

In TradingView, create an alert on your indicator or strategy. In the alert's notification settings, enable Webhook URL and paste the address you copied.

A few points that save headaches:

1. The message content - WeCore expects a JSON message describing the action (entry, exit, cancel and so on), the symbol and the quantity. If your Pine code sends the message itself, the alert's Message field is not needed. If not, the JSON must go in the Message field. The full format and ready-made examples are in the help screens inside the app.
2. The symbol - using the product's continuous ticker (for example MNQ1!) is recommended, so you do not have to update the alert at every contract roll. Background is in the guide to futures contract rollover.
3. Mini vs micro - ES and MES, or NQ and MNQ, differ a lot in point value. A mistake here is a common reason for a position ten times larger or smaller than you planned.
4. Alert expiry and your TradingView plan - sending webhooks requires a suitable TradingView plan, and alerts sometimes have an expiration date. Check this on TradingView's own site.

Step 5: Test in simulation mode

This is the most important part. As long as the account is in simulation, you can let the alerts run and see exactly what would have happened:

• Did every alert arrive and get recorded?
• Do the action, direction and quantity match what you expected?
• Did the risk rules block anything, and why?
• Was the symbol translated to the correct contract?

Let it run for at least several trading days, at different times of day. Only when everything looks correct and consistent should you move to a real account by switching simulation off for that account. You can always switch it back on.

Step 6: Ongoing monitoring

Even once everything works, automation needs supervision:

• Check the activity log and the broker connection status from time to time.
• Set up notifications by email or another channel you use, so you know if something changes on the account.
• After changing your Pine code or alert settings, go back to a short test in simulation.
• If you trade a prop firm account, check the firm's official help center for its policy on automated trading and third-party software. Policies differ between firms and change over time.

Checklist before going live

• The account is connected and the connection shows as healthy.
• Risk rules are saved and reviewed.
• The webhook address is stored safely and not shared.
• The TradingView alert sends valid JSON to the correct address.
• The symbol and size (mini or micro) are correct.
• Alerts ran in simulation for several days without surprises.
• The prop firm's automation policy has been checked.

Key takeaways

• WeCore passes signals from TradingView to your account and applies the risk rules you set.
• Every new account starts in simulation, and real trading is only possible after saving risk rules.
• The webhook address is a secret. Protect it like a password.
• Use a continuous ticker and double-check the contract type.
• Test in simulation, monitor regularly, and read your prop firm's rules.

If you want to try it yourself, you can connect an account to WeCore, attach a single alert to it, and let it run in simulation mode until you are confident everything behaves the way you expect.