How-To: Automate Notifications from MetaTrader to Discord – My Trading – 27 April 2023

Are you looking for a way to send automated notifications from MetaTrader to a Discord channel? Here is your step-by-step guide:

1. Pick the product that matches your version of MetaTrader:

   
          [MT5]                [MT4]

2. Enable MetaTrader to send web requests to Discord:
   “Tools” menu → “Options” → “Expert Advisors” → check “Allow WebRequest for listed URL” and add “https://discord.com”

3. Find the webhook URL for your desired Discord channel, here’s an example on doing so: https://progr.interplanety.org/en/how-to-get-the-discord-channel-webhook-url/

4. Attach the tool to the chart you want to monitor (or simply drag-and-drop on top of the chart area)

5. In the Inputs section, enter the Discord Webhook and customize the settings to get notified when and how you prefer

Inputs:

General Settings

• Discord Webhook: the URL for the Webhook to your channel

• Magic numbers filter:

• Enter a comma-separated list of magic numbers (e.g., “11111, 22222, 33333”)

• Or use “ALL” to avoid filtering

• Symbol filter

• Enter a comma-separated list of symbols (e.g., “EURUSD,GOLD,[DJI30]”)

• Or use “ALL” to avoid filtering

• Time format: pick your preferred format

• Force pip value: force your own pip value

• Pip value: custom pip value

Notifications

Screenshot Settings

Messages Formats

• Customize your message in this section

• You can enter a mix of text and placeholders to build your messages

• Use “\n” for a new line

• Placeholders are all capitalized and will be replaced with the corresponding order information. You can use the you can use the following data points:

• [TYPE] → Order type

• [TIME] → Time stamp for the corresponding change in state (created, modified, etc.)

• [SYMBOL] → Order symbol

• [TICKET] → Order ticket

• [SL] → Order stop loss

• [TP] → Order take profit

• [SLPIP] → Order stop loss in pips

• [TPPIP] → Order take profit in pips

• [ENTRY] → Entry price

• [RRR] → Risk to reward ratio

• [LOTSIZE] → Lot size

• [PROFIT] → Trade profit

• [PROFITPIP] → Profit in pips

• [REASON] → Order reason

• [RISK] → Risk involved in trade  

• [RISKACCOUNTPERCENTAGE] → Risk involved in trade based on account percentage

Happy trading!