TradingView alerts to MT5 vs copying Telegram signals
A TradingView alert only becomes a trade if something receives it. A Telegram room is a different source with its own tool. Here is how the two routes differ and which one fits you.
You cannot send a TradingView alert straight into an MT5 account from TradingView itself: an alert can notify you in the app, by pop-up, by email, by sound or by webhook, and the webhook is the only option that reaches another program. If your trade ideas arrive as posts in a Telegram room instead, you need a different tool, a Telegram signal copier. This article sets the two routes side by side so you can tell which one matches how you actually get your trades.
CopySignals is a cloud Telegram signal copier for MT4, MT5 and eTrader: it reads the rooms you already follow through your own Telegram account and places the trades on your own broker account. It is the second route in this comparison. It is not a TradingView connector, and we will say where that matters.
How does a TradingView alert reach a trading account?
Through a webhook that points at a service you or somebody else runs. TradingView describes a webhook as an HTTP POST request sent to a URL you provide when the alert fires, with the alert message in the request body. If the message is valid JSON, the request is labelled as JSON. Otherwise it goes out as plain text.
That is the whole contract. TradingView sends a message to an address. Something at that address has to read the message, decide what order it means, and talk to your broker. The page does not describe any of that second half, so whatever sits there is a separate product or a script you write and host yourself.
What limits does a TradingView webhook have?
Three that matter if you build or choose the receiving end. The same support page says that a request is cancelled if the remote server takes longer than three seconds to process it, that only ports 80 and 443 are accepted, and that webhook alerts are only allowed when 2-factor authentication is enabled on the TradingView account.
The three second rule is why a receiver should answer quickly and do its slow work afterwards. The port rule means a home server on an unusual port is out. The 2FA rule is a sensible one, and it is a setup step that catches people who skipped it. Plan for all three before you pay anybody for a receiver, and ask the receiver's vendor how it answers inside the window.
What does a Telegram signal room give you that an alert does not?
A person's judgement, written as text, and then the follow-up. A TradingView alert fires on a condition you or a script author defined: a price level, an indicator cross, a drawing touched. A signal room fires when the person running it decides to post. The post says an instrument, a direction, an entry or an entry zone, a stop loss and usually several take profits. Then the room keeps talking: move the stop to break even, take half here, closed at target two.
That second part is where most of a signal's result is decided, and it is the part a one-message alert has no equivalent for. A Telegram copier has to read the free text, turn it into an order, and then keep following the thread. CopySignals does this: it parses instrument, side, entry, stop loss and every take profit from free text, skips posts that do not read as a trade and logs the reason, and handles the life of the trade, with break even after a number of targets you choose, a partial close at each target, a trailing stop, and the exit when the room reports a stop or the last target. The detail is in how modify and close messages are handled and in break even and partial close from signal updates.
Which route fits which trader?
| Question | TradingView alert with webhook | Telegram signal copier |
|---|---|---|
| Where the trade idea comes from | A condition you or a script author set on a chart, per the alerts page | A post in a room you follow |
| What reaches the broker | An HTTP POST that a receiving service must turn into an order, per the webhooks page | The copier reads the post and places the order itself |
| Who builds the order logic | You, or the receiving service you pick | The copier, with your sizing and take profit rules |
| Follow-up messages | Only what your alerts and receiver are set up to do | Break even, partial close, trailing stop and exit are handled |
| Setup step to know | 2-factor authentication on the TradingView account, per the webhooks page | Connect your own Telegram account and your broker account |
Can you use both at the same time?
Yes, on separate accounts or even on one, as long as you keep track of what each is doing. The practical risk is overlap. An alert-driven script and a copier that both trade the same symbol on the same account will interact: one can close a position the other opened, and on a netting account they merge into one position. Our article on hedging versus netting for copied trades explains why that matters. The simple answer is one source per account, or a cap on open positions so the combined exposure stays where you meant it to be.
What does CopySignals not do here?
It does not take TradingView webhooks. Its two sources are a Telegram room your own account is a member of, and a connected trading account acting as master, whose positions are mirrored to your other accounts at their own size. It places orders on MT4, MT5 and eTrader accounts. If your whole process is a chart script firing alerts, you want a webhook receiver, not a Telegram copier.
If the alert is only a prompt for you to look at the chart, the Telegram route can still help in a different way: a room you trust can post the trade, and the copier places it. For that setup see how to copy Telegram signals to MT5, and the product page for Telegram to MT5.
What should you check before you choose?
Start with the source of your trades, because it decides everything else. If you write the rules, an alert and a webhook receiver is the natural path, and the three second limit and 2FA are the first things to plan for. If somebody else posts the trades, you need a copier that can read their rooms.
Then check the same things for either route. Where does the software run, and does your PC have to stay on? What happens to a trade after it opens? How is the size set, and is there a cap? CopySignals runs the MetaTrader terminals on its own servers, one per connected account, so there is nothing to install and no VPS to rent. Sizing is per account: fixed lot, a percent of the account measured against the signal's own stop, a multiple of the master's lot, or the master's lot scaled by balance, always limited by a maximum lot. Our checklist for choosing a signal copier goes through the rest.
Test on a demo account first whichever way you go, and read the event log on the first few trades. Trading carries risk, and automation makes a wrong setting repeat faster. Every CopySignals plan includes the whole product and comes with a 30 day money back guarantee, see pricing.
Sources
- About webhooks, TradingView, checked 17 October 2026
- About TradingView alerts, TradingView, checked 17 October 2026