Automate Any TradingView Indicator

If an indicator on your chart prints good signals, the missing piece is execution: someone still has to be at the screen to take the trade. This guide closes that gap with our free, open-source strategy template on TradingView:

Webhook Strategy Template - Connect Any Indicator [Atomik]

Point the template at any indicator that plots its signal — including paid and protected indicators you already own — and it wraps that indicator with a session filter, stops and targets, optional partial exits, and pre-built webhook alerts. One TradingView alert then drives entries, exits, and end-of-day flattens on every broker account you've connected to Atomik.

You never write a line of JSON. The template builds every payload internally, in exactly the format Atomik's webhook processor expects.

Your indicator's plot → Atomik Template (session / risk / brackets)
        → one TradingView alert → Atomik webhook → your broker account(s)

What you need

Requirement	Why
A TradingView paid plan (Essential or higher)	Webhook notifications on alerts are a paid TradingView feature
An Atomik plan with trade execution (any paid tier)	The Free tier can't create webhooks or execute — see pricing
A connected broker or paper account	Start with the built-in paper account — always
An indicator that plots its signal	See the compatibility rules below — this is the one real constraint

Which indicators work

The template reads your indicator through TradingView's source-input system, which has hard rules:

• ✅ indicator() scripts that expose the signal via plot() — any plotted series works. A value greater than 0 on a bar is read as a signal.
• ✅ Closed-source, protected, and invite-only indicators — their plots still appear in the dropdown. You don't need the source code.
• ❌ strategy() scripts — TradingView never lists a strategy's plots in another script's source dropdown, no matter what it plots.
• ❌ Signals drawn with plotshape(), plotchar(), or labels only — arrows and markers that aren't backed by a plot() are not selectable.

How to check any indicator in 10 seconds: add it to your chart, open the template's settings, and click the Long signal dropdown. If the indicator's name shows up with a selectable output, it works. If it doesn't appear at all, it's either a strategy script or it only draws shapes.

Step 1 — Create your Atomik webhook

Follow the Webhook Setup Guide to create a webhook and activate a strategy on it. Two things matter here:

1. Copy the full webhook URL (including ?secret=) immediately — the secret is only shown once.
2. Activate on a paper account first. A miswired signal source fires real orders; find out on simulated money.

Step 2 — Add the template and test the plumbing

1. Open the template's script page and click Use on chart (or search "Atomik Template" in your chart's Indicators dialog).
2. Leave Use external signals OFF for now. The template trades a built-in 9/21 EMA cross in this mode — throwaway signals that exist so you can verify the pipe end to end.
3. Create the alert (Step 5 below), let a test signal fire, and confirm it in Webhooks → your webhook → Logs in Atomik, then as a position on your paper account.

Testing with the built-in signal first means that when you wire your real indicator, the only new variable is the indicator itself.

Step 3 — Wire your indicator

1. Add your indicator to the same chart.
2. In the template's settings, set Long signal to your indicator's long plot and Short signal to its short plot. Any value above 0 on a bar close fires an entry.
3. Turn Use external signals ON.
4. If your indicator only trades one direction, untick "Enable longs" or "Enable shorts" for the side it doesn't signal. This matters: a source input you never assigned still has a default (close), which is always positive — with that side enabled, the template would fire it on every eligible bar.

Sanity-check the wiring visually before creating the alert: the template plots a small triangle at each entry it would take. Scroll back — triangles should line up with your indicator's signals inside your session window, and nowhere else.

Step 4 — Configure the strategy

All settings live in the template's settings dialog, grouped in order:

Group	What it controls
Session	The entry window (default: 09:30–11:00 New York) and its timezone. Flatten at session end closes any open position when the window closes — most prop firms require flat by the close, so leave it on for funded accounts.
Risk	Stop and target as fixed ticks, percent of entry price, or ATR multiples. Levels are fixed at entry and drawn on the chart.
Partial exit	Optional: close 50% at a first target (sent as EXIT_50), run the remainder to the full target or stop.
Order size	Leave Send quantity in the alert off unless your Atomik activation is set to take quantity from the alert JSON. Otherwise the size configured on your activated strategy is what trades.

Step 5 — Create the one alert

1. On the chart, create an alert. Set Condition to Atomik Connect Any Indicator.
2. Replace the entire Message box with exactly:

{{strategy.order.alert_message}}

3. Under Notifications, enable Webhook URL and paste your full Atomik webhook URL (with ?secret=).

That single alert carries everything — entries, partial exits, bracket exits, and session flattens — because each order the template places has its complete payload attached. TradingView swaps in the right one when the order fires. Never edit or add to the message; hand-typed JSON is the failure mode this template exists to remove.

⚠️ Alerts are snapshots. TradingView freezes both scripts' settings into the alert at creation time. If you change any setting on the template or your indicator, delete the alert and create it again.

What the alerts send

For reference, the payloads the template emits — already matching Atomik's action and exit-comment vocabulary:

Event	Payload sent
Long entry	{"action":"BUY","ticker":"...","price":...,"comment":"ENTRY"}
Short entry	{"action":"SELL","ticker":"...","price":...,"comment":"ENTRY"}
Partial exit (first target)	{"action":"EXIT",...,"comment":"EXIT_50"}
Stop or full target	{"action":"EXIT",...,"comment":"EXIT_FINAL"}
Session-end flatten	{"action":"EXIT",...,"comment":"EXIT_FINAL"}

EXIT_50 closes half your position and EXIT_FINAL closes all of it, sized against your real position in Atomik — so partial exits behave correctly even if your configured quantity differs from the template's backtest quantity.

Honest limits

• Backtest fills are indicative, not guaranteed. TradingView's strategy tester fills brackets at the exact level; your live fill is whatever the broker gives you. Expect slippage, especially on stops.
• The template's exits replace your indicator's exits. It manages positions with its own fixed brackets (ticks / percent / ATR). If your indicator has bespoke exit logic — trailing stops, signal-based exits — the template does not read it; only entry signals come from your indicator.
• Signals are evaluated on bar close. The template deliberately trades confirmed bars, not intrabar ticks. Repainting indicators will still repaint — a signal that vanishes before the bar closes never fires, but an indicator that redraws closed bars will show history that looks better than what actually fired.

Troubleshooting

Problem	Cause and fix
My indicator doesn't appear in the signal dropdown	It's a strategy() script, or it only draws shapes/labels. See Which indicators work. If you control the source, add a plot() of the signal (any value > 0 on signal bars).
Trades fire in a direction my indicator never signals	That side's source is still on its default (close, always positive). Untick Enable longs/Enable shorts for the unused side.
Entry triangles don't match my indicator's signals	Wrong plot selected (many indicators expose several), or your session window is filtering differently than the indicator's own session logic.
Alert fires but nothing executes	Work through the webhook troubleshooting table — logs first.
I changed settings and nothing changed	Alerts snapshot settings at creation. Delete and recreate the alert.

Next steps

• Webhook Setup Guide — payload format, security, logs
• Paper Trading — where every new setup should run first
• Prop Firms & Funded Accounts — running automation on funded accounts
• Copy Trading — mirroring the same signals across multiple accounts