TradingView Alerts
Learn how to use Gunbot to execute trades based on incoming email alerts.
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Learn how to use Gunbot to execute trades based on incoming email alerts.
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With the Gunbot TradingView add-on you can execute trading alerts sent from custom strategies at Tradingview, completely managing your strategy at TradingView. Gunbot receives trade signals by e-mail and trades accordingly.
This add-on can also be used for executing trades from arbitrary email alerts, TradingView is not strictly required.
This is a paid add-on, availability depends on your license type.
Before you start setting up your alerts, you need:
The IMAP data for the email address you receive alerts from TradingView on.
A Pro subscription at tradingview.com (works with trial too). Free accounts are limited to one alert.
The alerts have to be in the following format in order for Gunbot to act on them. Alerts follow the same standardized pair syntax that also apply for normal Gunbot usage, the alert text must be in the subject line of an email.
Trading limits can only be specifically defined in buy/long alerts, for other alerts or alerts without specified amounts, the limits as set in your TradingView settings apply.
It's recommended to enabled the "email-to-SMS" option on tradingview.com, which sends a plain text email instead of an html formatted message.
Replace EXCHANGE with the name of your exchange.
Alert message
Action
BUY_EXCHANGE_BTC-ETH
Buy ETH using BTC
BUY_EXCHANGE_BTC-ETH_0.1
Buy ETH using BTC with a trading limit of 0.1 BTC
SELL_EXCHANGE_USDT-BTC
Sell BTC for USDT
Normal situation: full balance is sold
When usingTV_PYRAMID, the amount is defined byTV_TRADING_LIMIT_SELL
When using MULTIPLE BASE, the amount is the same as the last buy order made by the bot on the same trading pair
STOPLOSS_EXCHANGE_BTC-ETH
Sell ETH for BTC if stoploss is triggered
BUY_EXCHANGE_USDT-BTC_amount_rate
Buy BTC using USDT for a specified amount in USDT
at a specified rate. Requires TV market orders to be disabled
BUY_EXCHANGE_BTC-ETH_0_rate
Buy ETH using BTC for "TV trading limit buy",
at a specified rate.
Requires TV market orders to be disabled.
Alert message
Action
LONG_EXCHANGE_XBT-USD
Long order for XBT-USD
SHORT_EXCHANGE_XBT-USD_amount
Short order for XBT-USD with a specified trading limit
LONG_EXCHANGE_XBT-USD_amount
Long order for XBT-USD with a specified trading limit
LONG_EXCHANGE_XBT-USD_amount_rate
Long order for XBT-USD with a specified
trading limit and rate.
Requires TV market orders to be disabled.
SHORT_EXCHANGE_XBT-USD_0_rate
Short order for XBT-USD without
a specified trading limit and with a specified rate.
Requires TV market orders to be disabled.
CLOSE_EXCHANGE_USDT-LTC
Close a margin position (made for bitmex, not supported on every exchange)
CLOSELONG_EXCHANGE_XBT-USD
Close a long position (made for bitmex, not supported on every exchange)
CLOSESHORT_EXCHANGE_XBT-USD
Close a short position (made for bitmex, not supported on every exchange)
Orders in the opposite direction of a position can be used to (partially) close positions
Want to flip between long and short? Open one position manually, then send long and short alerts at 2x that position size to keep flipping from long to short or vice versa.
Note about trading limits
On futures exchanges settings related to trading limits for margin trading should be specified in contracts.
On binanceFutures amounts are specified in quote: on USDT-BTC a trading limit of 1 represents 1 BTC order value.
On all other supported margin exchanges, every setting related to margin trading limits must be specified in amounts of quote currency.
To test alerts on Bitmex Testnet, you should write the alerts like this: LONG_BITMEXTESTNET_XBT-USD
You can use alerts to change the strategy of any valid pair that's already in your config.
This alert type can also be used to (indirectly) add pairs to Gunbot, using an AutoConfig job.
Alert message
Action
STRAT_BITMEX_XBT-USD_yourstratname
Assigns strategy yourstratname to XBT-USD
To run Gunbot with the TradingView add-on, the following are the only relevant settings. Normal Gunbot strategy and pair settings are not relevant and not used unless TV_GB is enabled.
Open the settings by going to ⋮ > TradingView Alerts > Alert execution
Trading limits for buy orders are set in the configuration settings, optionally you can override these by specifying the trading limit in the alert message contents.
Orders placed by the TradingView add-on are placed by default as market orders to ensure they will get filled. Optionally, you can let it send limit orders as well.
Be sure to add one pair for any exchange you want to execute alerts on.
This can be any pair, it will not be used by the add-on.
Set a minimum gain in % that trades initiated by TradingView must comply to when TV_PROTECTION is enabled.
When TradingView sell alerts are sent that would have a lower gain than this value, Gunbot will not place the order. Use this to prevent selling at loss.
Only works for spot trading.
By default, orders are sent as market orders.
When you want to send limit orders instead, disable this option. Buy orders are then sent at a limit price of the best bid order in the order book, sell orders are placed at the rate of the best ask price.
This value defines the trading limit for each buy order placed through the add-on.
The default value of 0.002 would place orders of 0.002 BTC when used on a BTC-x pair.
When not using TV_PYRAMID, a sell alert will place a sell order for the full quote balance held.
Bitmex: enter the desired number of contracts
Other margin exchanges: enter an amount in quote currency
This value defines the trading limit for each pyramid buy order placed through the add-on.
The default value of 0.002 would place orders of 0.002 BTC when used on a BTC-x pair.
Bitmex: enter the desired number of contracts
Other margin exchanges: enter an amount in quote currency
Setting this to true enables pyramid trading, the amount for each pyramid order is defined by TV_TRADING_LIMIT_SELL or TV_TRADING_LIMIT_BUY_PYRAMID.
This value defines the trading limit for sell orders when TV_PYRAMID is enabled.
The default value of 0.002 would place orders of 0.002 BTC when used on a BTC-x pair.
Bitmex: enter the desired number of contracts
Other margin exchanges: enter an amount in quote currency
When set to true Gunbot will check if there is an overall profit before selling, as specified in TV_GAIN.
When set to false, Gunbot will execute all TradingView alerts without interfering with a custom strategy.
Only works for spot trading.
When enabled, an entire position will be closed upon receiving a close command - even if the position is bigger than the set trading limits.
Only works for margin trading.
The maximum amount of base currency to be invested in a pair.
Only works for spot trading and on
Percentage below average bought price at which a sell signal should override TV_PROTECTION and sell in a stop-loss manner.
When set to true, each buy order will use all available base currency balance.
Enable this when you have problems receiving multiple alerts.
Gunbot will retry processing orders for 15 minutes.
Sets a threshold for sell orders, If you own less than the set amount, sell orders will not be placed and the bot goes into buying mode again.
Enable this to run Gunbot strategies simultaneously with the TradingView add-on. This way buying and selling with Gunbot strategies or TradingView alerts can be mixed.
The IMAP listener needs to be enabled to use this option.
For margin trading only. Sets the leverage for opening any position. Setting 0 places the order with cross margin, if your exchange supports cross leverage.
Only use values supported by your exchange.
On some exchanges it may be needed to manually set leverage on the exchange itself. Always test if this works as expected.
Sets the maximum acceptable lending rate when opening a position.
The default setting of 0.02 stands for 2% interest per day.
Only works on Poloniex.
