MetaTrader 5
When to Pause Automated Trading, and What Each Control Does
Compare 12 pause and close controls, their effects on entries and open positions, and the evidence to check before resuming automated trading.
PiCo Blog
Guides and perspectives on trading automation.
Ideas, practical walkthroughs, and updates from PineConnector.
Discretionary to Automated
No-Code Alerts, Pine Script or an MT5 Expert Advisor?
Choose an implementation path for your written trading rules. Compare no-code alerts, Pine Script and native MT5 EAs, including when PineConnector is not needed.
MetaTrader 5
How to Write Automated Trading Rules: Entries, Exits and Size
Specify entries, exits, sizing, sessions and exceptions. Use a worked example and worksheet to separate Pine rules, EA controls and broker checks.
Discretionary to Automated
How to Turn a Trading Setup Into Measurable Conditions
Turn vague setup phrases into true-or-false conditions. Use a six-field worksheet and an illustrative London pullback to define inputs, timing and verification.
automated trading
Is Your Trading Strategy Ready to Automate?
Use the readiness checklist and decision inventory to make hidden judgment explicit before implementing and verifying a strategy on demo.
Pine Script
Pine Script Tables Below the Chart: Review Script Output Without Covering the Candles
Since September 2026, TradingView can move the tables a Pine script draws into a panel below the chart. A display change, not a logic change: how to use it for review, what a table can show, including history a script writes into it, and why...
Pine Script
Pine Screener Update: Index Scans, More Scripts, and Why a Screen Is Not an Alert
TradingView announced in September 2026 that the Pine Screener can scan an index's constituents, within TradingView's stated limits, and lets you pick any compatible script. Which scripts it supports, why a screen can disagree with your chart, and the separate alert and webhook steps a...
AI
TradingView MCP Server: What an AI Assistant Can Access, Change and Not Verify
TradingView's MCP server (public beta, September 2026) connects assistants such as Claude to your account. It can read data and manage watchlists and alerts, but it has no order tool and cannot see what happens after a webhook. The limits, defaults and checks that matter...
TradingView alerts
TradingView TPO, Footprint, Valuation and News Alerts: Which Can Feed an Automated Workflow?
TradingView added news, volume footprint, TPO and valuation-metric alerts between October 2025 and June 2026. What each one watches, the caveat behind each, and a decision table showing which have any documented route to an automated instruction.
TradingView alerts
TradingView Fibonacci Alerts: Levels, Channels and What Happens When You Move the Drawing
Since May 2026, TradingView alerts can sit directly on Fib Retracement and Trend-Based Fib Extension drawings. How level and channel conditions differ, what re-anchoring does to the watched price, and why prices typed into a message do not move with it.
TradingView alerts
TradingView Rectangle Alerts: Zone Conditions vs Greater Than and Less Than
TradingView added rectangle alerts in November 2025 and side-specific Greater than and Less than conditions in August 2026. Which condition answers which question, what each trigger frequency allows, and why to count the triggers on a demo alert before one sends instructions.
TradingView alerts
TradingView Long and Short Position Alerts: What Fires at Entry, Stop and Target
Since 28 August 2026, one TradingView alert can watch a position drawing's entry, stop and target. What it does at each level, what moving the drawing changes, and why a drawing's stop is not a broker-side stop or a trade instruction.
TradingView alerts
TradingView Multi-Condition Alerts: How the Conditions Combine, and What They Don't Replace
Since October 2025, one TradingView alert can combine up to five conditions that must all be true at once, on one symbol. How mixed timeframes and frequency work, which alerts and scripts are excluded, and what an automated trade still needs beyond the entry condition.
TradingView alerts
TradingView Alert Presets: What They Save, and Why You Still Enter the Webhook URL
TradingView alert presets (January 2026) save up to five reusable alert templates, but never the Webhook URL, value fields or drawing conditions. What a preset carries, why a saved message can send the wrong symbol or size, and a checklist before you press Create.
TradingView alerts
TradingView Notification Schedules: Why an Alert Can Fire Without Sending Its Webhook
Since July 2026, a TradingView alert can carry a notification schedule. Outside it, triggers are logged but no webhook is sent, so PineConnector receives nothing. How schedules, Once only alerts and time zones behave, and what to check on automated alerts.
TradingView alerts
TradingView Updates for Alert-Based Automation: What Changed and What to Check
The main TradingView alert, screening and AI updates from October 2025 to September 2026 for alert-based automation, grouped by purpose, with the practical consequence of each and a link to the full explanation.
automated trading
Three Silent Failures That Stop Automated Trading
A system that works when you watch it can stop working the moment you look away. Here are the three most common silent failures in a TradingView-to-MT5 automation setup, and what to do about each
automated trading
Choosing Position Size, Stop Loss and Take Profit for a PineConnector Alert
Choosing Position Size, Stop Loss and Take Profit for a PineConnector Alert Short answer: PineConnector sizes a position with exactly one volume parameter per alert: a fixed lot size (vol_lots=), a cash amount you're willing to lose (vol_dollar=), a percentage of balance or equity as...
The Morning Routine of a Trader Who Works 9 to 5
Before automation, a trader with a day job either watched charts at lunch or checked fills at 6pm and hoped. Here is what the morning routine looks like when the system runs the trades instead.
automated trading
Why Automation Doesn't Fix Trading Psychology
Running your strategy on autopilot stops you from clicking at the wrong moment. What it does not stop is turning the system off during a drawdown, widening a stop, or abandoning a strategy after three losing trades.
automated trading
Free Forex VPS Offers: What Is Included, and What Are the Conditions?
Broker-sponsored servers, MetaQuotes' 24-hour trial and hosting bundled in a paid plan are three different things. The conditions, quoted from each provider, and what you still maintain under each.
automated trading
How Much Time Are You Spending Maintaining Your Trading Setup? A Self-Assessment
Seven recurring jobs come with self-hosting MT5 for TradingView automation. Count yours with an inventory table, find your profile, and pick a next step, whether that is keeping your VPS, hardening it, or moving the terminal to managed hosting.
automated trading
Moving PineConnector from a VPS to PineConnector Edge: A Careful Migration Checklist
A seven-step checklist for moving a self-hosted PineConnector terminal to PineConnector Edge managed MT5 hosting: scope check, demo trial, stopping the VPS EA before real alerts point at Edge, verifying one order, and what PineConnector has not documented yet.
automated trading
What Happens When Your Trading Bridge Restarts? Persistence, Reconnects and Reconciliation
A restarted process is not proof of correct recovery. What a restart interrupts at each layer between a TradingView alert and your broker, what survives at the broker, what to reconcile afterwards, and a safe drill to run on a demo account.
automated trading
Why Duplicate Orders Happen in Trading Automation, and How to Tell Which Kind You Have
Two orders where you meant one can come from three different places: a repeated alert, a retried delivery, or one instruction routed to several destinations. Here is how each looks in your logs, how to reproduce it safely, and what to ask any connector.