Installation

Below you can find set-up instructions, which should be sufficient fo you to set TradingConnector up on your own. You need to install all 3 components.

COMPONENT 1/3: Chrome Extension

1-a. Go to CHROME EXTENSIONS WEBSTORE and install “TradingView.com Alerts to MT4/MT5” extension.

1-b. After installing TradingConnector extension, click its icon to the right of Chrome’s Address Bar, to open a popup as in the screenshot below.

1-c. Click one of 4 black “PayPal Subscribe” buttons to start subscription. You need to be Signed-In to Chrome to launch and use TradingConnector. Without being signed-in to Chrome you won’t even see those black PayPal buttons. Subscribing to “Monthly” plan starts 7-days free trial. Whether you intend to pay with PayPal or just credit card (without setting up PayPal account), we are using PayPal as subscription granting service, also for setting-up free trials, so it all needs to start with these “PayPal Subscribe” buttons. There is no other way.

1-d. After starting a subscription (paid or trial) subscription ID, should be entered into the field below 4 black buttons. It should happen automatically, but if it doesn’t or if you are reinstalling the extension, you’ll need to find it in email received from PayPal and enter manually (copy-paste).

Common mistake: we have noticed users having several Google Accounts, what causes a confusion to our licensing API. Entire time when using TradingConnector in Chrome, you need to:

  • be logged in to Chrome with the account you have used when starting a subscription

  • PayPal subscriptionID must be entered correctly.

If Google Account + PayPal SubscriptionID don't match, TradingConnector will not work, leading to “Service not authorized” error in TradingConnector.exe.

COMPONENT 2/3: TRADINGCONNECTOR.EXE

Before: Have MetaTrader installed before (but not launched), to have TradingConnectorEA installed automatically as well.

  1. DOWNLOAD and launch installation file.

  2. Go through the installation process (ignore Microsoft Defender security message on blue background by clicking “More info” -> “Run anyway”).

COMPONENT 3/3: EXPERT ADVISOR

1. Restart your MT4/MT5. If you had MetaTrader installed (but not launched) on your Windows machine before installing TradingConnector.EXE, ExpertAdvisor (TradingConnectorEA) should be automatically added and you should be able to see it in the Navigator pane. If you don’t see TradingConnectorEA, check how to add it manually at the bottom of this page.

2. Find “TradingConnectorEA” in Navigator pane, right-click to “Attach to Chart”.

3. In TradingConnectorEA properties Common tab, enable “Allow DLL imports” and “Allow live trading”. Inputs tab contains parameters for trading - it is explained in AlertsSyntax webpage.

4. Enable AutoTrading in main MT4/MT5 window (Ctrl+E).

5. If all went well, you should see smiling face in upper right corner of your chart.

 

EXPERT ADVISOR - ADDING MANUALLY (IF YOU DON’T SEE TRADINGCONNECTOR_EA in METATRADER’s NAVIGATOR PANE).

In case TradingConnectorEA wasn’t automatically added to your MetaTrader (and you cannot find it in the Navigator), you can do it manually:

1. DOWNLOAD for MT4 or DOWNLOAD for MT5 and Install TradingConnectorEA as any other EA:

  • in your MT4 (or MT5) go to File->Open Data Folder

  • this will open Windows Explorer in MT4 (or MT5) terminal folder

  • go to MQL4 (or MQL5)->Experts folder

  • copy-paste TradingConnectorEA.ex4 (or .ex5) into Experts folder

  • proceed with further steps as described in previous ExpertAdvisor section.