The PineHook Beta Is Open: Automate TradingView on MetaTrader 5

Hi, and welcome to the PineHook beta. I'm Gabriel, one of the co-founders, and I've been looking forward to writing this post for a long time.

We've spent months getting here. Not months of piling on features, but months on the parts nobody sees: the redundancy, the failover, the tests that run before every release, the monitoring that tells us something is wrong before you have to, and the slow work of shaving milliseconds off delivery without trading away any of the rest. A relay is only worth having if it fires every time, and reaching the point where we trusted it with our own money took far longer than shipping something that merely works would have. I'm proud of where it landed, and I'm glad we finally get to hand it to you instead of talking about it.

PineHook lets you automate your TradingView alerts on MetaTrader 5. Your alert fires, and the trade lands on your own MT5 terminal, hands-off. While the beta runs you get all of it free, 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, and it's yours for as long as the beta is active.

What we're asking in return is simple. Use PineHook for real, with a strategy you actually care about, and tell us what you find. The beta is how we harden the product before launch, which means things may occasionally change or break along the way. When they do, your bug report is how we hear about it fastest, and honestly we'd rather hear it from you this week than find it ourselves six months from now. Nothing is too small to send.

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

How does PineHook automate your TradingView alerts?#

The whole idea fits in a paragraph. A PineHook signal is a webhook you send from a TradingView alert. The Expert Advisor 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 we're the fast, secure connection in between.

Both CSV and JSON work, and we detect the format automatically, so you can use whichever you find easier to read. Here is the same trade written both ways.

CSV is short enough to type straight into a TradingView alert box. The first three fields are ordered, and the parameters after them can come in any order:

YOUR_LICENSE_KEY,buy,EURUSD,size_lots=0.1,sl_pips=50,tp_pips=100

JSON is more verbose, but easier to build from a Pine Script placeholder and easier to read back when you are debugging an alert:

{
  "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:

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

The documentation walks you through every step.

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 prefer.

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 instead of being generic. If it can't sort something out, you can 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, so I'd rather over-explain it than have you sitting on something because you weren't sure it was worth sending.

Send us bugs first of all, meaning anything that didn't behave the way you expected. If you can include a signal or trade ID we can chase it down much faster. Send us the rough edges too, whether that's a confusing step, a setting you couldn't find, or a doc that left you hanging. Those are the easiest things to miss from the inside, because we already know where everything is and we've stopped seeing the parts that trip up someone arriving fresh. And send us ideas, anything you wish PineHook did or anything that would make your setup easier.

All of it goes through the dashboard, and we read every single one. The features you ask for are the ones we build next.

Thanks for being here this early. Welcome aboard.

Gabriel J., Co-founder