Slack is a team-chat app, and it provides incoming webhooks for alerts. An incoming webhook is a unique URL to which any external program can send a JSON payload, and Slack will post it in a channel. As Slack’s API docs state, “Incoming webhooks are a way to post messages from apps into Slack”. Traders use this by configuring a Slack webhook and programming the EA (or TradingView/Zapier) to POST trade signals or status messages to that URL. This instantly publishes alerts in Slack channels.

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