EdgityCore — Indicator Input Parameters Reference

Input Parameters Reference

This reference covers the settings shared by every EdgityCore indicator's Inputs tab in MetaTrader 5. Changes take effect immediately — the indicator redraws and the statistics panel updates instantly without restarting.

This document covers the common settings only. Every EdgityCore indicator also has its own strategy-specific inputs — the signal detection logic that makes each indicator unique (for example, FVG First Strike's FVG Settings and Entry Mode groups). Strategy-specific inputs are documented in the User Guide of each indicator, not here. This reference and your indicator's User Guide together cover every setting in the Inputs tab.

Stop Loss, Risk Mitigation Level (RML), Take Profit and Trailing Stop are not in the Inputs dialog — they are configured from the on-chart Strategy Panel. The Strategy Panel and Strategy Profiles (.str) are common to every indicator and are described later in this Reference; your indicator's User Guide gives the folder it saves them in.

In the Inputs dialog the settings are organised into numbered groups — 1. General & Date Filters, 2. Core Trading Configuration, 3. Multi-Symbol & Asset Selection, 4. Risk Management & Position Sizing, 5. Trade Execution: Entry, SL & TP, 6. Alerts & Notifications, 7. Interface & Visuals. The shared Trading Mode, Quant Analysis and Shared groups sit at the top of the Inputs tab, followed by every indicator's own strategy-specific groups (typically) and then the numbered groups. The corresponding Scanner and EA for each indicator use the same group structure, so settings line up across the tools. This reference groups parameters by topic for readability; the topic headings below do not necessarily match the dialog group order.

Statistic Export Range — Two settings that must align with the export range

1. Days of history to scan and draw must cover the full export range. If it is set to 365, only the last year is available — the export shows empty rows for all earlier years, whatever the export year range. For a 2015–2025 export, keep it at 4020 or higher.

2. The date range filter must also cover the export range. If Restrict signals and statistics to this date range is enabled, only days within that window are scanned. For example, if the date range is set to 2026.01.01–2026.12.31 and the export requests 2015–2025, there is no data for those years and the export is empty. Either disable the date range filter, or set it to match the full export period (e.g. 2015.01.01–2025.12.31) before clicking the Yearly button.

Session Signal Limit — Per-Direction Behaviour

The session limit is applied independently to bullish and bearish signals. For example, if Session max signals per day is set to 1, the indicator may display one bullish signal and one bearish signal during that session (up to 2 total signals), provided both signal types occur. Setting the value to 2 allows up to 2 bullish and 2 bearish signals for that session.

Sessions — Time Zone / Broker Time

Sessions are defined in broker (server) time, which is the time shown on your MT5 chart. If your broker uses UTC+2 and you want to trade the London open at 08:00 local time, enter 07:00 in the session settings.

Always verify your broker's server time offset before configuring session hours — the same session window entered on two different brokers may cover a different slice of the trading day.

Weekends and Holiday Gaps

If the market is closed and no candle exists at the configured session start time, the indicator waits for the next available bar within the session window. No signal is generated for missing bars. On weeks with public holidays or thin liquidity gaps, a session may produce no setup at all — this is correct and expected behaviour.

Stop Loss, RML, Take Profit and Trailing Stop are not in the Inputs dialog.

They are configured from the on-chart Strategy Panel — including the stop-loss line's colour, width and style, the fallback stop distance, each Take Profit level and its R multiple, and the trailing step and activation objective. The Strategy Panel is common to every indicator; your indicator's User Guide describes only what is specific to that indicator. The per-symbol stop-loss table and the point multiplier below remain Inputs.

Supported instrument types

EdgityCore indicators support any instrument where the broker's point size maps cleanly to one of the two multiplier values. The determining factor is the Digits value in the symbol specification — not the instrument category.

Important — Digits are broker-dependent. The same instrument can have different Digits on different brokers. XAGUSD may be Digits=3 on one broker and Digits=2 on another. Always verify before configuring a new instrument.

How to check Digits in MT5: right-click the symbol in the Market Watch window → Specification. The Digits field is listed in the specification table.

Using .set files to switch between instrument profiles

Because the point multiplier, SL distances, and session times differ between forex pairs, metals, commodities, and indices, the cleanest workflow is to maintain separate input profiles saved as .set files in MT5.

To save a .set file: in the indicator's Inputs tab, configure all settings for your forex/XAUUSD profile, then click Save and name it EdgityCore_Pairs.set. Reconfigure for indices and commodities (multiplier=100, updated SL distances), click Save again and name it EdgityCore_Indices.set.

To load a .set file: open the Inputs tab on any chart, click Load, and select the appropriate profile. All parameters update instantly — no manual re-entry required.

This eliminates the risk of forgetting to change the multiplier when switching instrument types, and makes it straightforward to maintain consistent, tested configurations across multiple charts.

A .set file covers the Inputs only. Trade Management (Stop Loss, RML, Take Profit, Trailing Stop) is saved and restored separately with a Strategy Profile (.str) from the Strategy Panel.

TP/SL Line Labels

Each stop loss and take profit line displays a text label at its left end showing the level name and its distance from entry in points — for example RML  250 pts, TP2  500 pts, SL  500 pts. Labels are drawn in the same colour as the line and update automatically whenever any parameter is changed. On completed losing trades where the gray-out option is enabled, labels are also drawn in gray.

The point values shown use the same scaling as the statistics panel — indices with the point multiplier set to 100 will display the points you see on the chart.

Export files — where they are saved

The statistics panel has six buttons: four CSV report exports (Stats, Yearly, CW|CL, DD) and two configuration exports (Export Scanner.set, Export EA.set). The two .set buttons are currently shown greyed out and cannot be clicked; an indicator with no Scanner or EA companion does not show them. In Trading Mode every EdgityCore Indicator adds a seventh export on the Current Signal Panel — Export Trade History (see the Trade History Report Guide) — while Yearly is greyed out in Trading Mode and CW|CL is available only while the Circuit Breaker is disabled. Every file is written inside the MetaTrader 5 data folder — go to File → Open Data Folder → MQL5 → Files — organised in a fixed per-product folder tree named after the indicator (<ProductName>, e.g. OpenPulse, FVGFirstStrike):

The folders are created automatically on first use. Report files are named using a short prefix, symbol, timeframe and a timestamp (for example Stats_GBPUSD_M15_20260526_073352.csv — the exact prefix is specific to each indicator, see your indicator's User Guide); .set exports carry a timestamp too. Each export is a new file — nothing is overwritten — and the exact path is shown in the confirmation message.

EdgityCore validates all settings when it loads. If any value is invalid or any combination is illogical, the indicator displays a popup alert and refuses to start — no signals are drawn, no statistics are calculated. This prevents silent wrong results from misconfigured inputs.

Find the exact message in the table below to understand what is wrong and how to fix it.