Cable on TradingView, from chart to MT5 order.

Type GBPUSD on TradingView and the providers line up: OANDA:GBPUSD, FOREXCOM:GBPUSD, FX:GBPUSD and more. All of them track one price: how many dollars one pound buys. The nickname Cable is older than the platforms — the dollar-sterling rate was quoted across the Atlantic by a submarine telegraph cable in the 1800s, and the label never left. On the chart it behaves like a classic major: deep liquidity, clean technical levels, and a London session that sets the tone.

The standing rules apply: pick one feed and stay on it, and remember the chart is analysis only — TradingView never sends an order by itself. Execution is the alert’s job.

In MetaTrader the pair wears broker suffixes like every other instrument: plain GBPUSD, GBPUSD.m on standard accounts, GBPUSD.r or GBPUSD.pro on raw ones. Same instrument, different strings — and an alert carrying the wrong one fails silently: it fires on TradingView, no order opens, no error on screen. The fix: Market Watch in MT5 (Ctrl+M), copy the exact string into the alert JSON. The SignalForge EA resolves the common suffixes (.m, .r, .pro, .raw and friends) on its own; the complete failure walkthrough is in wrong symbol, lot size or account in MT5.

Cable’s day has a shape: quiet in Asia, ignition at the London open, widest ranges in the London/New York overlap. The UK event calendar lands in those hours: Bank of England decisions and their vote split, CPI mornings, fiscal statements (the UK’s budget events have a history of moving the pound violently), and PMI runs. On those mornings spreads widen for minutes and stops sit exactly where the wicks reach — the liquidity map applies to Cable with special force.

Automation makes the approach explicit: trade the events on purpose, or let the news filter stand the strategy down around releases, and give end-of-session alerts an expiry so nothing stale fires into a thin book.

The automation is one alert on your GBPUSD chart:

{
  "symbol": "GBPUSD",
  "action": "buy",
  "lot": 0.1,
  "sl": 20,
  "tp": 40
}

Sizing note: Cable’s ranges run wider than EURUSD’s — the same 20-pip stop that is generous on EUR can be tight on GBP. Derive the lot from the stop distance with the lot size calculator instead of carrying a lot across pairs. Fields: the body is the schema documented in the webhook JSON examples; use {{ticker}} if one template should serve several charts. SignalForge routes the alert into MetaTrader 5 in milliseconds and the EA manages SL, TP and trailing — the path in the bridge guide. Rehearse on demo first (the paper trading pattern); on funded accounts, Prop Firm Shield enforces the daily loss limit across everything Cable fires. The siblings: USDJPY and XAUUSD get the same walkthrough.