Welcome, and thanks for joining the PineHook beta. PineHook lets you automate your TradingView alerts on MetaTrader 5: your alert fires, and the trade lands on your own MT5 terminal, hands-off. As a beta user you get all of it free while we build toward launch, and in exchange we ask for one thing, your feedback.

This post covers what the beta gives you, how to get your first trade flowing from TradingView to MT5, and how to reach us when something is off.

What is the PineHook beta?#

While the beta runs, you're on a free Standard plan. No card, no trial countdown, nothing to cancel. It's yours for as long as the beta is active.

The deal is simple: you use PineHook for real, and you tell us what you find. The beta is how we harden the product before launch, so things may occasionally change or break. When they do, your bug reports are how we hear about it fastest. Nothing is too small to send.

When the beta ends, we'll give you plenty of notice and a clear path to keep going, with no surprise charges. As a thank-you for testing with us early, every beta user gets 20% off for their first 12 months on any paid plan.

How does PineHook automate your TradingView alerts?#

Here's the whole idea in a minute. A PineHook signal is a webhook you send from a TradingView alert. The Expert Advisor (EA) running on your own MetaTrader 5 terminal receives it and places the trade. Your strategy stays on TradingView, your funds stay with your broker, and PineHook is the fast, secure connection in between.

Both CSV and JSON work, and the format is detected automatically:

{
  "license": "YOUR_LICENSE_KEY",
  "action": "buy",
  "symbol": "EURUSD",
  "size_lots": 0.1,
  "sl_pips": 50,
  "tp_pips": 100
}

For the fuller picture of what PineHook is and how we run it, read Welcome to PineHook.

How do I connect TradingView to MT5?#

Five steps take you from zero to your first automated trade:

Create a license key in your dashboard.
Download the EA and DLL and add them to your MetaTrader 5 terminal.
Install and configure MetaTrader 5, including switching on algo trading.
Drag the EA onto any chart to bring it online.
Set up your TradingView alerts with your license key.

The documentation walks you through every step.

Run it on a VPS if you can

PineHook relays signals only while your MetaTrader 5 terminal is online. A home PC that sleeps or drops Wi-Fi will miss trades. If you can, run MetaTrader on a VPS so it stays connected around the clock.

Is PineHook free during the beta?#

Yes, completely. For as long as the beta runs you're on a free Standard plan, and we never ask for a card. That means a real license, all the signal volume a live strategy needs, and the whole dashboard, running against a live or demo account, whichever you like.

How do I get help?#

The fastest way to get unstuck is the AI support assistant built into your dashboard. Ask it anything about PineHook, in any language, day or night. It draws on our documentation and your own account, so the answer actually fits your situation. If it can't sort something out, open a support ticket right there in the chat and a human on our team takes over. The support chatbot guide covers what it can do.

Tell us what to fix#

This is the part of the beta we care about most. Tell us what you run into:

Bugs. Anything that didn't behave the way you expected. A signal or trade ID helps us chase it down.
Rough edges. A confusing step, a setting you couldn't find, a doc that left you hanging.
Ideas. Anything you wish PineHook did, or anything that would make your setup easier.

Send any of it from the dashboard, and we read every one. The features you ask for are the ones we build next.

Thanks for being here this early. Welcome aboard.

Gabriel J., Co-founder

The PineHook Beta Is Open: Automate TradingView on MetaTrader 5