The landscape
How to automate TradingView alerts, and where the automation should run.
TradingView does the deciding: strategies fire, alerts go out as webhooks. It does not do the trading. Everything called TradingView automation is really about what catches that webhook. There are three honest answers, and they differ in who holds your broker login.
The part TradingView does
Any strategy or indicator alert can carry a webhook: one HTTPS message with the text you configure, sent the moment the alert fires. Webhook alerts are a paid TradingView feature; plans and alert limits change, so check TradingView's current plan table. That message is the entire interface. What happens next is not TradingView's business.
Three places the webhook can land
A cloud connector. Services like TradersPost or PickMyTrade receive the webhook on their servers and send orders to your broker. Nothing runs on your computer, and it keeps trading with your machine off. The price is structural: your broker access lives with them, and orders leave from their datacenter.
A VPS you rent. A bot or bridge you run on a rented machine. You hold the keys, but the machine is still a datacenter machine, awake around the clock, unsupervised by definition.
Your own machine. The webhook lands on your computer, the order leaves from your own IP, credentials stay local. It trades while you can see it and stops when the machine sleeps. This is what BridgePit is: TradingView to Rithmic on your own Mac, semi-automated by design, with the kill switch, contract caps, duplicate rejection and end-of-day flatten on from the first run.
If the account is a funded account
Then the question is not what is possible but what your firm permits, and published summaries contradict each other, sometimes about the same firm in the same month. The firm's own current rules are the only source that counts. We keep a plain-language guide to the five clauses that decide it: unattended operation, third-party access, order origin, copy trading, consistency rules.
Start on paper, whatever you pick
Every path above can misfire: a malformed alert, a duplicate, a position left open at the close. Run any automation on paper first and watch a full session. BridgePit's paper mode is free, needs no card and no broker connection, and the setup guide ends with a paper fill on your screen.
TradersPost and PickMyTrade referenced as examples of cloud-hosted webhook connectors; see our factual comparisons: TradersPost, PickMyTrade.