Trimline Risk First Trade Manager

Launch price: 39 USD until 31 December 2026, then 69 USD.

Trimline is a trade manager for MetaTrader 5. You set your risk, drag the stop line and send. Trimline works out the size, checks your rules before every order and manages the trade by your plan. If something is wrong, it blocks the order and tells you why.

Why Trimline

Traders report the same problems with trade panels again and again:

• A 1% risk setting on gold that risks far more, because the size was calculated wrong.
• A second chart on the same symbol that closes the same partial target a second time.
• A trade opened from the phone that sits in the market without a stop.
• A prop account that breaks its daily loss limit because nobody watched the open risk.

Trimline is built around three promises:

• Your risk, sized the broker's way. The size comes from your broker's own profit formula, with spread and commission, and is rounded down. Swap counts when you set the nights you plan to hold. If an order breaks a rule, it is blocked instead of sent.
• Nothing happens invisibly. Before you send, you see size, loss at stop and targets on the chart. Afterwards, every action is in the log with its reason.
• Your rules apply everywhere. The plan travels with the order and survives restarts and a move to a VPS. Trades opened from your phone get a stop from your risk.

Functions

Risk and size

• Risk in % of balance or equity.
• The loss per lot comes from the broker's profit formula for the symbol. Spread, commission per lot and, if you set the nights you plan to hold, the worst-case swap are added. The size is rounded down.
• Optional maximum size in lots, for prop rules.
• Margin is checked with the broker's own formula.

Twelve checks before every order: algo trading, broker permission, direction, stop distance, minimum size, risk, open positions without stop, daily loss limit, margin, maximum drawdown, trades per day, profit target. If one fails, the button shows "Blocked" and "Why?" names the reason in one sentence. On start, a self-test runs 587 calculation cases. If it fails, trading is disabled.

Lines on the chart

• Drag the stop line. Buy or sell follows from the side the stop is on.
• Pending mode adds an entry line. Trimline picks limit or stop order by itself.
• "Swap side" mirrors the stop to the other side.
• Labels on the lines show the loss at stop in money and the size in lots.
• Drag a target line to change its R value.

Plan for each trade

• Up to 3 targets in R, each closing the share you set. The last target sits at the broker as take profit.
• Stop to entry after target 1 or at a chosen R, including your commission.
• Trailing by R, ATR, low or high of the last candles, or points. The stop only moves in your favor and keeps the broker's minimum distance.
• The plan is stored in the order comment and read back from the opening deal.
• Hidden stop (optional): stop and targets stay in Trimline, and the broker holds only an emergency stop further out. Size, loss at stop and the limits use your stop. Trimline closes when the price reaches it. With a daily or drawdown limit set, the emergency stops are kept close enough that the limit holds even with the terminal off.
• Risk, plan and news mode apply to every symbol. One input overrides them per symbol, for example "XAUUSD risk=0.25 t1=1.5". It moves to a VPS with the other inputs.

Prop guard (each limit optional)

• Rule templates named by rule type, for example "Equity day 5% · static DD 10% · target 10%", set all limits at once. "Custom" uses your own values. The panel shows the active rules.
• Daily loss in %, measured from the balance at day start, the equity at 00:00 server time or the higher of both. Maximum drawdown (static or trailing), profit target, trades per day.
• A new order is blocked if its loss at stop would break a limit. For the daily limit, the open risk at the stops counts too.
• At 95% of the daily loss or drawdown limit, and when the profit target is reached, Trimline closes all positions and pending orders and pauses trading for the rest of the day.
• News guard (optional): high-impact events from the MT5 economic calendar for your symbol's currencies. Minutes before the window, Trimline warns, blocks new panel orders and, as you choose, deletes pending orders, removes the take profit of its own trades or closes positions on the symbol. Inside the window it sends nothing itself. Orders placed by hand cannot be stopped; Trimline warns about them.

Trades from elsewhere

• Positions on the chart's symbol that were opened from the phone or by another EA without a stop get a stop from your risk.
• One chart manages one symbol. A second Trimline chart on the same symbol stays passive, so a partial close cannot happen twice.

Operation

• Position list with close half (½), stop to entry (BE) and close (×).
• Sending needs a second click. You can switch this off.
• Panel in English or German, light or dark to match your chart.
• No DLL, no web requests. Trimline only opens a trade when you click.

Strategy Tester results

108 runs in the Strategy Tester (MetaQuotes demo server, hedging account, 1-minute OHLC):

• Symbols EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, XAUUSD, AUS200 and USDTRY, timeframes M1 to W1, deposits of 10,000, 100 and 1 USD.
• Test periods range from one week (M1) to the period since January 2025 (D1, W1).
• 6,545 orders sent, 7,913 attempts blocked with a reason, 0 error lines in the tester logs.
• Largest actual loss per trade in the tester report: 0.520% at a 0.5% target. In one run a position was held overnight with 0 nights set, and its swap raised the loss to 0.575%.
• With 1 USD, every order was blocked with a reason, for example "Smallest size already risks more than your target".

These runs show the mechanics. They are not a strategy and say nothing about profit.

Set up in 3 steps

1. Attach Trimline to the chart of the symbol you trade and turn on Algo Trading.

2. In the inputs, set your risk and your commission per lot. For a prop account, also set the guard limits.

3. Drag the stop line to where your trade idea is wrong, check size and loss at stop, and click Buy or Sell twice.

FAQ

Does Trimline trade by itself?

No. It only sends an order when you click, and then manages it by your plan. In the Strategy Tester a demo mode places orders so you can watch the management.

Why is my order blocked?

Click "Why?". The list shows the failing check in one sentence, for example "Stop is closer than the broker allows".

Does it work on gold, indices and JPY pairs?

The loss per lot comes from your broker's own profit formula for the symbol, so the same method applies to every symbol. The tester runs covered EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, XAUUSD, AUS200 and USDTRY.

What happens after a restart or a move to a VPS?

The plan is in the order comment, so Trimline picks the trade up again. Settings you change in the panel stay on this terminal. For a VPS, set your defaults, the rule template and the symbol profiles in the inputs.

Does my prop firm allow it?

Rules differ between firms and change over time. Some firms count any tool that sets stops or sizes as an EA. Please check your firm's EA rule.

What if my broker changes the order comment?

Then the plan cannot be read. The position is shown as "not managed" and Trimline leaves it alone.

Limits

• Commission must be entered in the inputs. Trimline cannot read it before the trade.
• Swap is counted only for symbols whose swap is set in points or in account currency. For other symbols the panel says so.
• The size of a pending order is fixed when it is placed. If you move its stop later, the size stays the same.
• Swap counts only when you set the nights you plan to hold. If a position stays open overnight with 0 nights set, the swap adds to the loss.
• Slippage and price gaps can push the loss of a trade above your risk target.
• The guard's day starts at 0:00 server time.
• The hidden stop only works while the terminal runs. If the connection drops, the emergency stop at the broker applies. Without prop limits, the loss can reach its distance. Gaps and slippage can go past any stop.
• Netting accounts: one position per symbol. While a position or order is open on the symbol, a new order is blocked.
• MetaTrader 5 only.

Trimline toolkit

Part of the Trimline toolkit. Tools that stop avoidable account losses and show why.

• Trimline Challenge Calculator: free. Your pass chance for a prop challenge, how attempts fail, and the risk per trade with the best chance, before you pay. https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/208033
• PGuard Basic: free. Daily loss and drawdown at a glance, lot size from your risk. https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/166332
• PropGuard OS: prop risk guard with a lockout before your limits, a news filter and a trade panel. New features are developed in Trimline. https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/164901