Why it isn’t one click by default
TradingView can only send orders to brokers that are connected to its trading panel. Spotware offers brokers an official TradingView integration for cTrader, but it only helps if your broker has switched it on — many prop firm cTrader accounts can’t be traded from TradingView’s own panel. FTMO, for example, offers TradingView as a separate platform: an account is either cTrader or TradingView.
Option 1: retype the order in cTrader
Read entry, stop-loss and take-profit off the chart, open cTrader, type them in and calculate the lot size. Free and always available, but slow, and every copied price is a chance for a typo — usually in the stop-loss, where it hurts most.
Option 2: alert webhooks and a bridge
A TradingView alert sends a webhook to a bridge — a cBot running in cTrader or a paid cloud service — that turns it into an order through the cTrader Open API.
- Good for automated strategies that already fire alerts.
- Webhook alerts need a paid TradingView plan.
- A cBot bridge has to keep running, usually on a VPS.
- For discretionary trades you set up an alert message for every trade, which is slower than placing it by hand.
Option 3: send the position you drew
Trade Governor is a browser extension for Chrome and Edge. You draw a Long or Short Position on your TradingView chart, click Load from chart, and entry, stop-loss, take-profit, direction and symbol fill in from the drawing. It calculates the lot size from your risk and places the order on your cTrader account through the official cTrader Open API — on one account or several at once.
- Sign in at tradegovernor.app with Google and connect cTrader with the official cTrader sign-in.
- Set your risk per trade for each account.
- Install the extension and open its side panel next to TradingView.
- Draw the position, load it and send.
Get the prices right
Chart the same market your broker quotes. Index and commodity futures (NQ1!, GC1!) trade at different prices than the CFDs on your cTrader account, so a stop drawn on a futures chart lands in the wrong place. Use your broker’s CFD symbol or a spot feed instead — see supported markets.