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Step-by-step guides for routing TradingView alerts to MT5: webhook setup, per-account risk sizing, trading windows, and automating prop-firm challenges.

Everything here is written to be followed, not skimmed. Real payloads, real settings, and the specific points where an alert quietly fails to reach your account.

Each guide covers one job end to end: formatting a webhook payload TradingView will actually send, sizing lots per account so a challenge and a funded account can take the same signal at different risk, setting trading windows that respect session rules, and automating a prop-firm challenge without breaching it. Where something is genuinely fiddly, we say so and show the failure mode rather than pretending the happy path is the only path.

Most guides assume you already have a TradingView strategy firing alerts and at least one MT5 account you can connect. If you are starting from nothing, the docs cover account setup and the signal flow first, and these pick up from there.

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