Wire it once. Test it on paper. Then trade.

Install BridgePit.

Download the Mac app, open the file, drag BridgePit into Applications, and launch it. Your browser opens at 127.0.0.1:8787 - an address that means this computer. Your settings, credentials, and controls live there and answer to no one else.

The first screen asks you to set a password for the dashboard, at least 8 characters. Pick one you will keep: there is no account behind it and no recovery e-mail, so if you lose it the only way back in is deleting the app's auth.json by hand.

Give your machine an address TradingView can find.

Here's the thing this step solves: TradingView lives on the internet, and your computer - on purpose - can't be found from the internet. So we give it one address, for one door, once. A free app called Tailscale does it. Four small moves:

1. Install Tailscale and sign in. Download it at tailscale.com/download, open it, and sign in with Google or Apple - the free personal plan is all you need.
2. Answer the two macOS questions - the second one properly. First macOS asks to add a VPN configuration: click Allow. Then it says Tailscale would like to use a new network extension, offering OK and Open System Settings. Click Open System Settings, find Tailscale in the list, and switch it on. Clicking OK looks like it worked and doesn't turn anything on - Tailscale then sits there half-installed with nothing to tell you why.
3. Open Terminal. Press ⌘ space, type Terminal, press return. A plain text window opens - you'll type exactly one line in it, ever.
4. Paste this line and press return:

tailscale funnel --bg 8787
https://your-mac.tail1234.ts.net/
|-- proxy http://127.0.0.1:8787

Terminal. The first line - yours will show your own machine's name - is your new address. Done; you can close the window.

The first time, you'll probably get a link instead of an address. It looks like https://login.tailscale.com/f/funnel?node=… That is normal: this feature is switched off on new accounts, and Tailscale is asking you to switch it on. Open that link in your browser, approve it, then run the same line again - the second run gives you the address above. Nothing went wrong, and you still only ever type the one line.

That's the whole trick, and you never have to type it again. From now on the app shows your finished webhook address - your new address with /webhook on the end - ready to copy, under Settings → Your webhook:

Settings → Your webhook. Top box: the address alerts go to. Bottom box: the token that proves an alert is yours, kept hidden so a screenshot of this screen cannot give it away. You will not have to type either one.

Is a public address safe? With the setup on this page, yes: through it the app answers alerts and nothing else - and only alerts carrying your token. Your dashboard, settings and broker login are not reachable through it. Set the tunnel up exactly as described here; other tunnelling tools work differently and this guide doesn't cover them.

A saved address is not a live one. Your line is saved for good and you never type it again, but the address only answers while Tailscale is running and serving it - and a Mac that has restarted comes back with neither Tailscale nor BridgePit running until you log in and start them. TradingView fires each alert once and never retries, so an alert sent to a dead address is simply gone, and the one you can least afford to lose is an exit. BridgePit re-tests the address in the background, dashboard open or closed. When it stops answering, the top of the dashboard says so. Once you are live and Telegram or email is on, a real outage also reaches your phone. In Tailscale's settings, switch on Launch Tailscale at login. BridgePit does not start itself: after a reboot, open it, or add it in System Settings → General → Login Items.

Connect your broker.

Connections → + Add connection. Enter the Rithmic login your broker or prop firm gave you - Rithmic is the broker BridgePit connects to today - then Save & Connect. The status pill turns green.

Your orders stay on paper until you click "Set as execution" on the connection card. That click is deliberate and it is the one that makes fills real. A connection can sit green and connected for days without ever placing a live order.

Connections. Your login is shown masked. Connect logs in; the pill goes green. Set as execution is the separate click that makes fills real - until you press it, everything is paper.

The green pill records your last successful login, not a live heartbeat. If the broker link drops later the pill can still read Connected - BridgePit tells you through your alerts and writes a CONN_DOWN row in Recent activity, so trust those over the pill.

Credentials are encrypted on your machine with a key that never leaves it, used only to open your broker session. They never touch our servers - we couldn't read them if we wanted to.

Two things to sort out with your firm before you try, because neither is ours to switch on. First, they have to enable Rithmic API access for your account, and they charge their own fee for it - paid to them, not to us. Second, your Rithmic account needs a paid subscription with them: demo and trial Rithmic logins cannot connect at all. That is not a CME market-data licence and it is not something you buy from us - your charts stay on TradingView and BridgePit only sends orders. Paper mode inside BridgePit works regardless, so you can test the whole chain first.

Some firms also have to whitelist BridgePit itself on their Rithmic system, separately from your login. If your first connection is refused on permissions, that is what it means - your password is not the problem. Ask your firm to whitelist BridgePit for your account.

Name your strategy. Wire the alert.

On Strategies, add your strategy. The name is the handshake - your alert must send exactly the same one.

"Contracts per signal" is your size, and it multiplies. BridgePit takes the contract count in the alert and multiplies it by this number - a 1-lot signal at 3 sends 3 contracts. It also refuses any order that would take the net position above it. Leave it at 1 unless you deliberately want to scale, and if your TradingView strategy already trades more than one contract, leave it at 1 or the two multiply and the order is refused. Do not set it to your firm's maximum as a safety ceiling - that is the opposite of what it does.

Your strategies. One row each. Contracts is your size and it multiplies the alert's; the same number is the ceiling any order is checked against before it leaves. Emergency stop is optional, in points - blank means none.

Emergency stop is the rail the lid and a dead internet cannot take with them. Leave it blank and there is none. Put a number and every fill rests a real stop at the broker that many points away, so a closed lid or a dropped line still has a cap. The line under the field is that distance in dollars.

Don't type the alert message. The app writes it for you. Open Settings → Alert setup, pick your strategy, and press Copy block. Your token is already in it, so there is nothing to fill in and nothing to mistype.

Then, in TradingView, open the alert window - the ⏰ alarm-clock icon on the right toolbar, then Create alert. Two rows, one thing on each:

Your TradingView alert window. ① Message - click it, clear what's there, paste the block. ② Notifications - click it, switch on Webhook URL, and paste your address from step two. The condition shown here is only an example of the dialog - set yours to your strategy, as the box above says.

Set the alert's Condition to your strategy itself, not to the indicator or the symbol. {{strategy.order.action}} and {{strategy.order.contracts}} only fill in when the condition is the strategy - otherwise they arrive empty and every alert is refused with qty <= 0.

Best: in the app, Settings → Alert setup → Copy block. That fills your strategy name and token. If you are wiring from this page, copy below, then change two lines only. Leave every {{...}} exactly as written - a missing quote or a swapped clock and the alert will not trade.

{
  "strategy_name": "YourStrategyName",
  "data": "{{strategy.order.action}}",
  "quantity": "{{strategy.order.contracts}}",
  "price": "{{close}}",
  "bar_time": "{{time}}",
  "fired_at": "{{timenow}}",
  "token": "YOUR-TOKEN"
}

Two clocks, two jobs. bar_time must be {{time}} - the bar's time - so the same signal cannot fill twice. fired_at must be {{timenow}} - the moment the alert fired - so a late entry is refused. Do not swap them: putting {{time}} in fired_at would refuse every entry on a 5-minute chart, because the bar is already minutes old the instant it fires. And nothing about accounts belongs in this message: which account a strategy trades is set in the app, under the strategy's Account field, with Also run this strategy on for more.

BridgePit trades the instrument you picked on the strategy, not the chart the alert fired from, and always at market. Change the instrument on the strategy, not in TradingView.

Coming from PickMyTrade? /v2/add-trade-data still answers, so the URL edit is all your tooling notices - but the message needs two changes: add "strategy_name" matching the strategy you added in the app, because BridgePit routes by strategy and not by symbol, and swap in your BridgePit token. Easiest path is Copy block above.