Alert fires but no trade reaches MT5

There are three links between a fired alert and an open position: TradingView sends the webhook, the bridge receives it and matches your licence, and the EA on MetaTrader executes it. Only one of them is broken, and each fails in a way you can identify.

Link 1: did TradingView actually send it?

Open the alert and check the Notifications tab. The Webhook URL box must be filled in *and* the Webhook checkbox ticked - the URL alone does nothing if the box is unticked. This catches a surprising number of cases, because the URL stays visible after the tick is cleared.

Link 2: did the bridge receive it?

Your bridge provider has a log or dashboard showing incoming commands. If nothing arrives there, the problem is upstream in TradingView. If the command arrives but shows an error, read it literally - the two common ones are an unrecognised licence and an unrecognised symbol.

Link 3: is the EA listening?

• •The EA must be attached to a chart - any chart, but it must be on one.
• •The face in the top-right of that chart must be smiling, not frowning.
• •The global Algo Trading button in the toolbar must be green.
• •The licence in the EA's inputs must match the licence in the indicator exactly. One character of difference is a silent no-op.

The order to test in

Do not change three things at once. Fire a single test command from the bridge's own dashboard - that skips TradingView entirely. If the test trade appears, the chain from the bridge onward is fine and the fault is in the alert. If it does not, you have isolated the problem to MetaTrader.