Trade Excursion Report: MFE and MAE of every closed trade, to CSV - script for MetaTrader 5

Your statement tells you what you KEPT. It does not tell you what you HAD. This indicator reads your own closed trades from the account history and draws, for each one, the full range it travelled: the best unrealised profit it ever showed (MFE) and the worst unrealised loss it survived (MAE). The gap between what a trade showed and what it paid is where two common problems hide, and neither is visible in a balance curve: winners closing far below their best point (the exit leaves money behind), and losers whose worst excursion barely passed the stop (the stop sits inside the noise). The number to look at is the CAPTURE RATIO: of the profit a winner showed at its best, how much did you take home? 90% says the exits are well placed; 30% says the market kept offering and the exit kept refusing. Limit, stated up front: excursions come from the bars each trade spanned, on the chart timeframe; the path inside a bar is unknown. Predicts nothing; measures trades that already happened.

A daily process writes "today's decision" (which strategy runs, or FLAT) to a file the EAs read at the open. One day the writer did not run. The EAs read yesterday's file, compared its date with TimeCurrent() - the server clock, which had stepped back to the previous day overnight - saw a match, and traded all morning on a 24-hour-old decision. No error anywhere. Two rules, both in this class: 1) staleness is judged against TimeLocal(), which always moves forward; TimeCurrent() is the last tick's stamp - it freezes without ticks and can step back on reconnect. 2) When in doubt the answer is FLAT: missing file, bad date, wrong day, empty line - every failure path returns "do nothing", and each is logged ONCE per state change, not on every tick and not never. File format: line 1 = ISO date, line 2 = decision string. The demo writes a fresh, a stale, a malformed, an empty and a missing file, and shows that only the first is allowed to trade.