Drawdown monitor for peaceful sleep
- Utilities
- Version: 2.1
- Updated: 7 September 2026
- Activations: 10
Drawdown monitor constantly monitors your account, preventing you from blowing your account and losing more money than you expected!
You can monitor the overall drawdown as well as up to two additional drawdowns for specific magic numbers
This licensed version of Drawdown monitor EA can be used both on demo and live accounts without any limitation.
Before using Drawdown monitor EA on a live account, I advise you to configure and test all parameters and verify that its operation meets your needs.
For a complete description of all functions and settings, please refer to the user manual:
For any doubts, questions, or suggestions, do not hesitate to contact me
Drawdown monitor EA will constantly monitor every single open position and close it if the set safety limit is exceeded.
It is essential for all traders who use 'risky' EAs that may not have been thoroughly tested or which use dangerous martingale or grid strategies that could suddenly increase your drawdown, resulting in your account being blown out if you are not constantly present.
Or more simply, if you want an additional security when the risky EA is trading with real money and you are not sure that it uses truly reliable capital protection strategies.
The price of this Drawdown monitor EA is negligible compared to the loss you would suffer if your account were blown out.
Technical Description of Drawdown monitor EA
New powerful and useful monitoring functions have been added to this version of Drawdown monitor EA.
Above all, monitoring can be carried out for individual positions, which are closed individually when the set values are reached.
In addition, a total drawdown can be set which, if exceeded, closes all open positions.
An important option allows positions with a specific magic number to be excluded from the max. drawdown calculation. This allows general positions to be differentiated from those of a specific EA.
Drawdown monitoring is fast even if tick refreshing is slow, e.g., at certain times of the day or in situations of low market activity.
New Feature starting from V2.1
Historical Peak Drawdown Logging (Today, D-1, D-2) To help users optimize their risk management settings and fine-tune their emergency closure thresholds, this update introduces a daily peak drawdown tracking module.
Multi-Period Tracking: The EA continuously records the maximum equity drawdown reached during the current trading day (Today), the previous day (D-1), and two days prior (D-2).
Granular Data: Daily maximums are calculated separately for overall account equity, Magic Number 1, and Magic Number 2.
Automatic Daily Journal Summary: At the end of each trading day (at midnight / bar close), the EA logs a formatted summary of these peak drawdown metrics to the Expert Journal.
This historical visibility provides actionable data regarding normal equity fluctuations, allowing traders to set realistic drawdown thresholds that prevent premature trade closures while maintaining adequate capital protection.
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Drawdown monitor EA can be dragged either onto the chart you use for manual trading or onto a separate chart if another EA is already present (see screenshots).
The currency pair and chart timeframe are both irrelevant.
Using Drawdown monitor EA on Strategy Tester does not make sense.
List of parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Drawdown monitor mode | Drawdown monitoring mode: percentage or absolute value: true = drawdown percentage related to current equity false = absolute value in currency |
| Max. drawdown in percentage single positions | Drawdown max. considered for single positions, as percentage of the account equity |
| Max. drawdown in currency single positions | Drawdown max. considered for single positions, as absolute value in current currency |
| Max. total drawdown in % | Total drawdown max. as percentage of the account equity - all positions except specified magic number |
| Max. total drawdown in currency | Total drawdown max. as absolute value in current currency - all positions except specified magic number |
| Max. total drawdown in % - magic 1-2 only | Total drawdown max. as percentage of the account equity - only for the specified magic number |
| Max. total drawdown in currency - magic 1-2 only | Total drawdown max. as absolute value in current currency - only for the specified magic number |
| Specific magic number 1 or 2 to monitor | If a magic number is entered, open positions with this magic number are considered separately in the total DD |
| Skip monitoring from hour | Disable monitoring from a specific time (hour) to avoid price spikes due to increased spreads when the market closes trading |
| Skip monitoring from minute | Disable monitoring from a specific time (minute) to avoid price spikes due to increased spreads when the market closes trading |
| Skip monitoring until hour | Disable monitoring until a specific time (hour) to avoid price spikes due to increased spreads when the market closes trading |
| Skip monitoring until minute | Disable monitoring until a specific time (hour) to avoid price spikes due to increased spreads when the market closes trading |
| Skip Saturday/Sunday | Disable monitoring on weekend |
| Pre-warning percentage | If 25 is entered, a pre-warning is issued when the DD reaches 75% (25% before the position is closed) |
| Specific magic number to monitor | If a magic number is entered, open positions with this magic number are considered separately in the total DD |
| Mobile notification | Enable/disable pre-warning Mobile notification |
| E-mail notification | Enable/disable pre-warning e-mail notification |
| Prefix mail subject | Prefix that will be indicated in the subject line of the e-mail to identify that it is a pre-warning from Drawdown monitor |
| Alert notification | Enable/disable pre-warning Alert notification (pop-up box) |
| Sound notification | Enable/disable pre-warning sound notification (only if Alert notification is disabled) |
| Broker commission per lot in account currency | Broker commissions per lot to be considered in the drawdown calculation |
| Control panel X position | Position in X of the Control Panel |
| Control panel Y position | Position in Y of the Control Panel |
| Display actual values | True = visualization of actual values False = visualization of set values |
| Background black | The background of the chart will be all black. |
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