Everything the book could not print because it changes: which bridges exist right now, the free webhook-to-MT5 listener from Chapter 10, and every template from Appendix D. For readers of From Manual Trader to Automated Trader.
Four ways to turn a TradingView alert into an MT5 order. The book's rule still applies: a bridge that cannot check a secret, size by risk percentage, enforce a daily loss limit and write a log is not for real money. No affiliate links on this page.
Hosted service + EA
Good for: First build. Most-used hosted bridge; secret (licence ID) in every message, risk % sizing, daily loss limit, multi-symbol from one chart.
Watch out: Monthly fee. Message format is its own: change the labels in the EDIT HERE block of the book script (Chapter 10, Part E).
VisitHosted service + EA
Good for: Several smaller services offer the same shape as above, sometimes cheaper. Apply the Chapter 10 checklist: secret, % risk, daily loss fence, logs, a trial.
Watch out: If a service cannot do the secret, the % sizing and a daily loss limit, do not use it for real money.
Runs on your own VPS
Good for: Full control, no middleman, no monthly fee. Exactly what the book describes as the Python route. Needs Python installed on the Windows VPS and ten minutes of setup.
Watch out: You maintain it. Use plain http only on demo; put a certificate in front (Caddy) before real money.
DownloadSomeone runs option 3 for you
Good for: You want the result, not the project. Ask the eight questions from Chapter 16 first, every time.
Watch out: A flat fee, your own broker account, visible fences and readable logs, or walk away.
Ask usA single Python file that runs on your Windows VPS next to MetaTrader 5. It does the nine jobs listed at the end of Chapter 8: receives the alert, checks the secret, reads the message, maps the symbol, checks the fences from your risk sheet against the live account, sizes the trade from the live balance (rounded down, skip if zero), closes an opposite position on a reverse, sends the order with stop and target, and logs every decision. Optional Telegram messages and a maximum message age so a late alert is dropped, not placed.
Bridges come and go and the script will get fixes. One email per change, nothing else.
All eight are in the book's Appendix D and in the free sample. Fill them in for your own strategy; the example values are the running example from Chapter 4.
Twelve headings. If a line is blank, the strategy is not finished.
Risk per trade, the five fences, the kill switch, who may change it and when.
The one-line strategy alert, plus indicator-alert templates for long, short and close.
20/50 EMA cross, 1.5 × ATR stop, 2:1 target, session filter, alert message builder. Pine Script v6.
All 22 tests: normal operation, fences, deliberate failures.
Thirteen yes/no items. Every one is a yes, or you are not live yet.
Five questions, five minutes. Six questions, fifteen minutes.
I see… / look at… / usually… for the nine common faults.
Because products change faster than print. The book teaches the sequence and the settings every bridge has; this page keeps the current names. Check the date at the top before relying on it.