Trend Dashboard MTF Strength and Trade Advisor

Trend Dashboard is a free multi timeframe trend indicator for MetaTrader 5 that shows trend direction and trend strength for every symbol on your list, across up to six timeframes from M5 to D1, in one panel. Rows come from your own symbol list or straight from Market Watch (up to 100 symbols by default, 300 at most), so forex pairs, gold (XAUUSD), indices, metals and crypto sit side by side on one screen. Color gives the direction, a rounded bar gives the ADX strength, and the right-hand column turns the classic top-down reading into plain advice: the higher timeframes set the bias and your trading timeframe sets the timing.

Stop flipping through charts. See the whole market at a glance.

NO REPAINT — direction and strength are read from the LAST CLOSED bar, and a cell is only read once the terminal reports that symbol's history as synchronized (it shows a loading mark until then), so a printed reading does not flicker tick by tick or change after the fact. (Need earlier reads? Switch on the forming-bar mode.)

WHAT YOU SEE

- Direction = color (green = up, red = down, gray = flat)

- Strength = rounded bar length (driven by ADX; a longer, brighter bar means a stronger trend)

- Trade advice per symbol (LONG / SHORT, or a dash when there is no bias) with a sub-note: enter now, wait pullback, or M15 only when just your trading timeframe shows a direction

HOW THE ADVICE WORKS (top-down logic)

Pick the timeframe you actually trade. The panel splits the timeframes into BIAS (the higher timeframes that define the direction) and TIMING (your timeframe, used to enter). It suggests trades in the direction of the higher-timeframe bias and tells you whether to enter now or wait for a pullback. This is the multi-timeframe method professionals use. When none of the higher timeframes shows a direction, the card changes shape instead: a dark outlined card marked M15 only (your trading timeframe), not counted as enter now, with a legend entry and the reason shown on hover. When your trading timeframe is the top column, the advice rests on it as before.

WORKS ON

Forex, Gold (XAUUSD), indices, metals and crypto — any symbol your broker offers. MT5, all brokers, no DLLs, lightweight.

FEATURES

- Any symbols, and any subset of six timeframes (M5, M15, M30, H1, H4, D1)

- Direction via EMA, strength via ADX; a cell reads flat while ADX is below the threshold (18 by default, adjustable)

- Clean, modern rounded UI rendered on canvas

- Drag to move, resize (S / M / L / XL), snap to any corner, minimize

- Remembers its position and size

- Bilingual: English / Japanese

MARKET WATCH MODE

By default the rows still come from the Symbols input. Set Where the rows come from to SRC_MARKET_WATCH and the panel lists the symbols selected in Market Watch under the broker's exact names, so EURUSD and EURUSD# stay two rows, with no renaming, merging or automatic matching. It follows Market Watch, re-reading it about every five seconds; the reload button does it at once. A status line counts the ready, loading, partial and no-data rows on the page shown; a loading row shows a loading mark and gives no advice until its data is in. Rows that do not fit the chart are split into pages; every symbol is recalculated on each refresh, on screen or not, so a longer list is more work for the terminal. Market Watch mode takes up to 100 symbols by default; set Market Watch: max rows to take up to 300 (the status line counts those left out). Each symbol keeps its own history, so memory grows with the list: in our test the terminal used about 1.5 GB at 100 symbols with default chart settings, and a long list takes time to fill in, roughly a minute for every 100 symbols.

HOW TO USE

1. Drop it on any chart.

2. Set your symbols and your trading timeframe.

3. Trade in the direction the BIAS shows; enter when your timeframe agrees.

Color = direction. Bar = strength. Right column = what to do.

Questions or ideas? Post them in the Comments — I read and reply.

If this dashboard earns a spot on your charts, leaving a rating helps other traders find it. Thank you! Every input and every row of the panel is explained in the user guide on the author's blog: Trend Dashboard user guide

Trend Dashboard PRO

Trend Dashboard PRO is a sister product for traders who want the panel to do the watching for them. It scores every symbol with a four-condition vote instead of a single indicator, fires popup, sound, push and email alerts the moment a signal lines up, and adds a currency-strength row and one-click chart switching. The user guide linked above compares the two.