Atmaca Trade Manager MT5

Welcome to ATMACA

Most trade managers apply one recipe to every trade: move the stop to break-even at a set profit, then follow the price at a fixed distance. Behind ATMACA is a position management engine developed over years of measurement across different markets, with real trading costs. We have used this structure in our own trading for about five years; ATMACA is its version prepared for MetaTrader 5.

ATMACA first reads the trade. From your stop distance and the chart's timeframe it understands whether the trade is a scalp of a few minutes, an intraday trade, or a swing that will last for days. Then it stays with the trade for as long as it is open. On every new candle, every meaningful step in price and every new high of the trade, it weighs the situation again and decides at that moment when to protect, how much profit to lock, how closely to follow the price and when to exit.

Its aim is clear: keep the gain of a trade that is running in your favour, without cutting the winner short. The lot and risk calculation is done in milliseconds; all that is left to you is your trade idea.

Four steps to use it

1. Place the stop. Drag the white NEW TRADE STOP line on the chart to the level where you would say "if price gets here, my idea is no longer valid". This line is the only risk input ATMACA needs.
2. Choose the sizing mode. Before you press anything, the panel shows the lot, the money you would lose if the stop is hit, and the account usage.
3. Choose the direction. Press LONG or SHORT. The trade request is sent immediately; execution timing and price depend on broker and market conditions.
4. Watch the management. ATMACA stays with the position and shows every decision it makes on the panel in plain language.

You always decide the market, the direction and the entry. ATMACA never opens a trade on its own; it works with whatever you use, whether that is technical analysis, price action or your own system. The architecture behind it is complex; what you have to do is not.

How to try the demo in the Strategy Tester

Why ATMACA?

A classic trade manager applies the same recipe to every trade: "Move to break-even at 1R, start trailing at 2R, then follow the price by X pips." ATMACA works differently. The same +1R level does not have to lead to the same decision in two different trades; how the trade got there, how much it has given back and how volatile the market is can all be different.

Every trade is managed on its own horizon. ATMACA reads the timeframe and your stop distance together and places the trade in one of five horizons: micro scalp, scalp, intraday, swing or position. This sets how long the trade is expected to live, how much room the price is given and which timeframe the trade is managed on. No distance is a fixed number of pips; everything is measured in the trade's own initial risk (R) and the volatility of its own timeframe (ATR). That is why a swing on one instrument and a scalp on another are managed with the same logic, each on its own scale.

One decision per pass, in the right order. ATMACA's management is made of five decisions that watch over each other. In every pass it asks them in order of priority and makes the one move the moment needs. The decisions have simple names; the real work is putting each threshold in the right place. When to protect, how much profit to lock and how closely the stop follows the price were each set by measurement on a large number of trades across different markets.

1. Exit if the thesis has failed. One bad candle is not a reason to exit. ATMACA weighs independent signs together, such as a breakout that fails to hold, structure turning against the trade, the trade outliving its expected time and the move losing its strength. The exit comes when this evidence shows the breakdown at the same time: you are not shaken out by noise, and you do not wait through a real breakdown.
2. Protect if too much is being given back. ATMACA remembers the peak the trade has reached. If more of the gain than allowed starts to be given back, the stop is moved to the profitable side of the entry; a trade that has shown profit is protected as one.
3. Lock once the trade has travelled far enough. The lock comes when a distance measured in the trade's own risk and volatility is complete. It does not lock early and choke the winner, and it does not lock late and leave the gain behind.
4. Follow as the move extends. The stop advances behind the price and the trail tightens as the trade travels. It leaves room for a running trend and protects the profit more closely in a tiring move.
5. Exit on stagnation. A trade in profit that has far outlived its expected life and lost its energy is closed before the small profit melts away.

Protection that has been tightened is not loosened to take more risk during normal management. The stop is never moved beyond the initial stop you set at entry.

Which trade to take is your decision. ATMACA's job is to do that decision justice: let the winner run and keep the gain.

Three sizing modes

The mode button on the panel switches between three modes: AUTOMATIC, LOSS TARGET and LEVERAGED. All three answer the same question: how many lots will the next trade be? The only difference is which number you give. In every mode the lot is calculated from your stop line and is shown on the panel before you press anything.

• AUTOMATIC is for traders who say "choose a sensible lot for me". LOSS TARGET suits traders who want the same money at risk on every trade, and is ideal for prop firm accounts. LEVERAGED is for traders who think in position size and trade more aggressively.
• Changing the mode affects new trades only. An open position is never touched.
• If the broker's smallest lot creates more risk than your target, or the margin is not enough, the panel says so clearly before you confirm the trade.

Trading capital: you decide how much ATMACA sees

You can give ATMACA a part of your account instead of the whole account. For example, with 100,000 USD on the account, if you enter 10,000 in the Trading capital input, ATMACA works as if it were managing a separate 10,000 USD account. Every percentage, ceiling and panel figure in all three modes is calculated from that amount.

• The trading capital grows and shrinks with the results of ATMACA's trades; it can never be larger than your real account.
• The current capital and the amount you entered are always shown at the top of the panel; all ATMACA charts on the account use the same trading capital.
• To use the whole account, leave the input at 0. The default value is 0.

Across brokers and markets

ATMACA reads everything, such as contract size, tick value, minimum lot, lot step, margin and stop rules, directly from your broker's own symbol data. There is nothing to configure per broker or per symbol.

• Forex, metals, indices, energy, crypto CFDs, stocks and other markets your broker offers
• Hedging and netting accounts; personal accounts and prop firm accounts
• Any account size; every timeframe, from scalping to long-term positions

More features

• Stop preview: hover over the stop line and you see, in money, what the account would book if that stop were hit.
• IF ALL STOPS HIT: one row shows the total result if the stops of all open positions on your account were hit now.
• Rollover protection (forex): during the nightly rollover hour, it can temporarily move the stop out, within your initial risk boundary, by the spread spike measured at your broker. This reduces exposure to spread-only stop triggers but cannot eliminate them; broker conditions still determine execution.
• Weekend and session close: before a close, the panel shows the gap risk measured from that symbol's own history; whether to hold or close the position is your decision.
• TAKE CONTROL / RETURN TO ATMACA: take over the management of an open trade whenever you want, then hand it back to ATMACA.
• Continues where it left off: if the terminal or the chart restarts, ATMACA picks up the trades it manages where it left off. It does not touch trades you opened manually or positions of other systems.
• Close card: shows the result of each closed trade in money and in R.
• Sound cues: short sounds when a trade opens and closes (can be switched off in the inputs).
• Seven languages: English, Turkish, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and German. The language changes instantly with a button on the panel.
• Built-in guide: the ? button on the panel opens a guide that explains the whole workflow on the chart, from setup to the decision ladder.

Installation

1. Turn on Algo Trading in MT5.
2. Attach ATMACA to the chart of the symbol you want to trade. One chart per symbol is enough.
3. If you wish, set the Starting risk profile and the Trading capital in the inputs.
4. Choose the sizing mode on the panel, drag the stop line and open the trade with LONG or SHORT.

All active management works while the MT5 terminal is running and connected. If you do not use a VPS, your computer must stay on with MT5 open. When the terminal is closed, only the protective stop already placed at the broker remains active. A VPS is optional, not required.

For any questions, you can reach us through the MQL5 private message system.