Trade Pad - expert pour MetaTrader 5

Trade Pad puts the orders you place by hand on one panel: buy, sell, the lot, and four ways to manage what is open. Every button answers the mouse with light and movement, and every action is confirmed in plain words on the panel and in the journal.

Trade Pad in practice mode on EURUSD: lot, buy, sell, breakeven, close all with confirmation, collapse and expand

The panel is drawn on a canvas with antialiased shapes and smooth transitions. It works on the symbol of the chart, on hedging and netting accounts. A button in the header folds it into a slim bar that keeps the floating result in view, and it can be dragged anywhere on the chart by its header. The code is a single file and uses only the standard Trade and Canvas libraries.

The buttons

• BUY / SELL: a market order at the lot shown, with the live ask and bid on the buttons and the spread between them.
• Lot: minus and plus move the lot by one step of the symbol, inside its minimum and maximum. Under it, the margin required and the value of one point for that lot.
• CLOSE ALL: closes the positions the pad manages. It asks for a second click: the button turns into CONFIRM for three seconds.
• CLOSE PROFIT: closes only the positions in profit.
• CLOSE LOSS: closes only the positions at a loss, with the same second click.
• BREAKEVEN: moves the stop loss to the open price on the positions in profit.

Built to be safe

• An order is sent only by a real click on the visible panel. A double click places one order, and a double click on CLOSE ALL only arms the confirmation.
• A button covered by an object of another program, or lying outside the chart window, is switched off and says so.
• By default the pad manages manual trades and the trades it opened. The positions of other Expert Advisors on the same symbol are left alone unless you choose otherwise.
• A stop loss or take profit closer than the broker allows is refused with a message that names the minimum.
• The header shows DEMO or REAL, and the buttons take a disabled look when trading is switched off in the terminal.
• Practice mode: every button moves and answers, and the status line says what would have been sent. A good way to get to know the panel.

Inputs

• Distance from the left edge / top edge: starting position of the panel, in pixels. After that the panel remembers where it was dragged, chart by chart.
• Panel size, percent and Accent color.
• Starting lot: 0 starts from the minimum lot of the symbol. The pad then remembers the last lot used.
• Stop loss, points and Take profit, points: 0 means none.
• Maximum slippage, points and Magic number.
• Positions the pad manages: manual trades and trades opened by this pad (default), only trades opened by this pad, or every position on the symbol.
• Practice mode (no orders are sent).
• Allow other programs to press the buttons: off by default. When on, a signed custom chart event can press a button; the format is documented at the top of the source file.

Attach it to a chart like any Expert Advisor and allow algorithmic trading. Try it first on a demo account or in practice mode.