TradingView to MT5 on a prop-firm account

Prop firms care about who touches the account. A cloud bridge puts a company between your TradingView alert and your terminal: your signals cross its servers — and with some tools, their cloud even runs your MetaTrader terminal for you. A self-hosted bridge removes that party entirely.

• •Your prop login stays put. PlugTrade never asks for, stores, or transmits your broker password — there is no MT5 password field anywhere in the app. It attaches to the MT5 terminal you already logged in on your VPS, picked from an auto-discovered list.
• •No third-party server in the order path. TradingView posts the alert over HTTPS to a webhook address that belongs to your VPS; PlugTrade receives it there and places the order in the MT5 terminal on the same machine.
• •Orders originate from your own machine — the same place an EA running in your terminal would place them. No external service signs into your account and no relay routes your trades.
• •Your trading stays local. Alert contents are processed in memory on your machine, and your trade history is journaled to a local database on your VPS. The desktop app ships no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting.

What our servers receive is a periodic license check-in — license key and install ID, plus your account email and a VPSLink name only if you set those up; never account numbers, trades, or balances — and your VPS's public IP if you use the HTTPS webhook address. The exact, field-by-field list of what does and doesn't leave your machine is documented on the security page.

Every prop firm sets its own rules on automation, EAs and third-party tools — and those rules vary by firm, by program, and over time. FTMO, for example, publishes its own terms on trading style and automation; so does every other firm. PlugTrade is a local execution tool, not a guarantee of compliance: read your firm's current policy before you run any automation on their account. We can't guarantee any firm's approval, and you should distrust any tool that claims otherwise.

What you can verify is the architecture. Because execution happens on your own VPS, the questions a firm might ask — who holds the login, where do orders come from, what third party is involved — all have the same answer: you, your machine, none.

Prop traders rarely run one account. The Prop plan is $99/month + tax and installs on up to three of your own VPS simultaneously, with unlimited bridges — so a challenge on one machine and funded accounts on others run in parallel, each executing locally on its own VPS. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial ($0 due today) and carries a 14-day money-back guarantee.

One webhook can also drive several terminals at once: if multiple MT5 terminals share the same bridge token, a single TradingView alert executes on all of them — useful when the same strategy trades more than one account.

Prop-firm risk rules reward precision: when a strategy stacks several entries on the same symbol, you want an alert to close or adjust exactly one of them, not all of them. PlugTrade's Track System assigns a custom ID to a position when it opens — "track": "signal_A" in the alert — and later commands reference that ID instead of an MT5 ticket number your Pine Script can never know. Modify the stop, take partial profit, or close by name; the alert touches only the position you named. It's included in every plan.