Install the Trading Extension
Before you install anything, know which Autoview you actually want. The webhook platform is the primary way to run Autoview today: it executes on our servers around the clock, no browser open, and it accepts alerts from any sender that can POST to a URL. The Chrome extension is the older, browser-local surface. It runs inside Chrome on your own machine, it is wired directly to TradingView alerts, and it only trades while that machine and Chrome are on.
So why would anyone still choose it? One reason, and it's a good one: your API keys never leave your machine. The extension stores them in its own local storage inside your browser; nothing is uploaded to Autoview's servers. If that trade-off suits you, this guide takes you from the Chrome Web Store to a connected exchange.
Step 1: Install from the Chrome Web Store
Open the Autoview.com Trading Extension on the Chrome Web Store and click Add to Chrome. The extension is built for Google Chrome; other browsers are not officially supported.
Chrome will show a permissions dialog that includes reading data on websites. That wording is Chrome's, and it's broad by design; the extension's page scripts only run on TradingView. If you want to check the listing before you commit, the extension security guide shows you how to verify the extension ID.
Step 2: Pin it and open the options page
After the install, Chrome tucks new extensions behind the puzzle-piece icon in the top-right corner of the toolbar. Click the puzzle piece. Find the Autoview.com Trading Extension in the list and pin it, and from then on the icon sits right on your toolbar where you can reach it.
Everything you configure lives on the options page. Right-click the pinned icon and choose Options, or open it from the same puzzle-piece menu. You'll see a sidebar with Your Account, Settings, Log, TradingView Listeners, and an Integrations list of exchanges.
Want to check which version you're running? Go to chrome://extensions, find the extension, click Details, and the version number is right there on the details page.
Step 3: Connect your Autoview account
On the options page, open Your Account and click Connect Autoview.com. This authorizes the extension to read your subscription information from your account, which is how it knows what you're entitled to trade.
That authorization expires periodically on purpose; it's a security measure, not a fault. When it lapses, the extension asks you to reconnect. If you find yourself reconnecting constantly, or the status reads "Disconnected" and won't clear, the disconnected guide walks through the fixes.
Step 4: Link TradingView
The extension reads alerts straight from TradingView, so it needs to see your TradingView session. Log in to TradingView, or refresh a TradingView tab if you're already logged in. That one page load is enough to register your account with the extension.
Back on the options page, open TradingView Listeners. Your TradingView username appears there with an Enabled toggle; flip it on or off to control whether the extension acts on that account's alerts, and remove accounts you no longer use.
Step 5: Add your exchange API keys
Now the part that lets it trade. The Integrations list in the options sidebar shows every venue the extension can connect. Pick your exchange, create a new account entry, and paste in the API credentials the exchange issued you. Each of the supported exchanges has its own getting-started guide covering how to create the key on that venue.
Two rules when you create those keys on the exchange:
- Grant trading permission, never withdrawal. Autoview places and cancels orders and reads balances; it has nothing to do with moving funds off the exchange. Leave withdrawal disabled. See are my API keys safe? for the full reasoning.
- Whitelist your IP where the exchange offers it. A key locked to your address is useless to anyone who steals it.
After saving a key, use the entry's Test button to confirm the extension can reach your account before any alert fires. And remember where these keys live: in your browser's extension storage, on your machine. They travel no further than the trade commands the extension sends to the exchange.
Step 6: Keep the browser alive
Because the extension trades from your browser, your browser has to stay up. Chrome features that put tabs or extensions to sleep, Memory Saver among them, can stall it; a laptop that sleeps takes your automation down with it. Read do I need my computer on? for what has to stay running, and the disconnected guide for keeping the extension healthy.
Before you trade real money
Installed, connected, keys saved. Don't go live yet. Fire a dry-run first: add d=1 to a test command and watch the log confirm what would have happened. The testing and debugging guide is the full routine. Ten minutes of testing is cheaper than one wrong live order.