TVH Glossary — Terms and Definitions
Every TradingView Hub-specific term in one place. Definitions are short on purpose — each term links to the page where it lives in full.
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alertTimestamp — Idempotency key. TVH deduplicates repeat signals inside a 5-minute window. Recommended value from Pine: "{{ticker}}-{{timenow}}". See timing & idempotency.
API Key — Exchange-issued credential pair (key + secret) linked to your TVH account. One set per exchange and account. Add via the TVH dashboard. See account & API keys.
ApiKeyName — Human-readable label you assign to each API key. Used in the apiKey field of a TradeCommand. See parameter reference.
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BNFCR — Binance Futures Credits trading mode. EU MiCA-compliant alternative wallet for USDⓈ-M futures. See Binance exchange page.
Broadcast Signal — Outbound copy-trading trigger. When you send a trade with broadcastSignal set, every follower of your signal source receives the same trade. See broadcast a signal.
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Classic Endpoint — Low-latency webhook variant that bypasses the queue and executes inline; no automatic retry or dedup. Path: /api/ExecuteTradeSignalClassic. See webhooks.
Copy Trade — Your subscription to another user's signal source. You set size, leverage, and optional SL/TP overrides. The signal owner triggers, you mirror. See follow a signal.
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DCA (Dollar Cost Averaging) / Order-Mesh — Multi-leg entry pattern. One market order plus N evenly-sized limit orders below (long) or above (short) the entry. Fields: useDca, dcaPercent, dcaOrderCount. See DCA & scaling.
Demo Account — Exchange-side paper trading account. Setup is identical to live — just enable the "Demo Account" checkbox in TVH. Supported on Bybit and OKX. See common setup.
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Hedge Mode — Binance Futures dual-position mode. Lets you hold both a long and a short on the same pair at the same time. Field: hedgeMode. See hedge mode feature.
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Idempotency — The property that repeating an identical signal executes only once. TVH implements it via alertTimestamp over a 5-minute window. See timing & idempotency.
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Limit Order Chasing — Auto-re-places open limit orders at the current best price. Default: 180 attempts at 20-second intervals. Field: chaseLimitOrder. See limit order chasing.
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Order Type — The direction field on a TradeCommand: "buy", "sell", or "close". Maps to isBuy / isSell / isClose internally. See core parameters.
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Pair — A trading pair in the target exchange's native format. Examples: BTCUSDT on Binance, BTC-USDT-SWAP on OKX, XBTUSD on BitMEX. See exchange quirks.
Pine v5 — TradingView's scripting language (version 5). TVH consumes alerts produced by alert() calls or by strategy.entry() / strategy.exit() with alert_message. See Pine Script overview.
postOnly — Order flag that prevents a limit order from filling as a taker. Default in TVH: true. Set to false when your limit must fill aggressively. See parameter reference.
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Queue — TVH's signal buffer between webhook receipt and the exchange call. Default behavior across the main endpoint; bypass it with the Classic endpoint. See webhooks.
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ReduceOnly — Order flag that only modifies an existing position — never opens a new one. Used by trailing-stop logic and by manual close commands. See parameter reference.
Risk % — Position-sizing mode that defines what percentage of capital is risked per trade. Requires a stop loss to be set; TVH back-calculates the size. See sizing.
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Scaled Orders — A ladder of limit orders distributed across a price range. Fields: scaledUpperPrice, scaledLowerPrice, scaledOrderNumbers. See DCA & scaling.
Signal Source — Your named copy-trading channel. You broadcast trades to it; followers mirror them. See create a signal.
strategyComment — TradingView strategy's comment="..." parameter, forwarded by TVH. Parsed for auto-close tokens: close, exit, flat. See strategy alerts.
strategyCloseValue — Override for the auto-close tokens parsed out of strategyComment. Pipe-separated for multiple tokens, e.g. "close|exit|flat". See strategy alerts.
Sub-Account — An exchange-side isolated account that sits under your master account. TVH routes to it by registering one API key per sub-account and selecting it with apiKey (there is no working subAccount payload field). Available on Binance, Bybit, OKX, and KuCoin. See sub-accounts.
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Token — Your TVH User Token, a GUID issued to your account. Required in the body of every webhook call for authentication. Treat it like a password. See account & API keys.
TradeCommand — The JSON object TVH accepts on its webhook. 84 fields. See TradeCommand anatomy and the full parameter reference.
Trailing Stop — A stop-loss that follows price upward (long) or downward (short) once it has moved enough in your favor. Fields: useTrailingStopLoss, trailingStopLossPercent, trailingStopLossActivationPercent. See stop loss.
TV — Short for TradingView. Used throughout the docs.
TVH — Short for TradingView Hub. The product these docs describe.
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UTA (Unified Trading Account) — Bybit's account model that combines Spot, Derivatives, and Options under one wallet. Required for several Bybit features. See Bybit exchange page.
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Webhook — The HTTP POST endpoint that TradingView (or any client) calls to send a trade signal. Primary host: https://alerts.tv-hub.org. See webhook URLs and IP.
Working Type — Binance Futures setting that picks which price triggers a stop-loss or take-profit. Either "mark" (default in TVH) or "contract". See Binance exchange page.
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