Anchor Trade Manager

Anchor: The EA Manager

Your EAs manage their own trades. Anchor manages the account around them.

Anchor gives you one place to control your EAs, manage risk and decide when trading is allowed. Any EA, any vendor, any broker or symbol. No source-code changes required.

The Problem

Most EAs only know what they are doing. They cannot see when another EA is already trading, when several EAs open and are stacking risk or when the account has reached your loss limit.

Even using just one EA, it may not include the account protection, news controls, or trading schedule you want. And you cannot watch every chart 24 hours a day.

The Solution

Anchor adds one control layer around the EAs you already use. It does not replace their strategies or change how they find trades.

Choose how many EAs may trade at once. Keep it at one for one-at-a-time trading, or allow up to several EAs to trade while still limiting total exposure. When the limit is reached, other managed EAs wait until a place becomes available.

Optional Strict Priority decides which EA takes priority when several try to trade at the exact same time. EAs with open positions can also be allowed to finish managing them before pausing.

Pause or resume individual EAs from the on-chart panel, or control them all at once. Use Anchor with one EA today and add more later; it supports up to 64.

Setup is simple and fast: just one chart and one line containing your EA names and their magic numbers. That's it. No companion indicators on everything or anything like that.

Who Is Anchor For?

Anchor is for anyone who wants more control over EA trading, from someone using a single EA to a trader managing a full EA portfolio. It is also useful when trading manually alongside EAs, running a personal account or working under prop evaluation or funded-account rules.

Protection

Anchor provides up to three layers of drawdown protection. Per-EA limits watch each EA's floating loss. Account-wide limits watch the whole account. Daily limits count both closed and floating losses, then reset automatically at your chosen time.

Set limits by percentage or account currency. Choose Close and Pause or Pause Only, which leaves the positions open for you to manage.

Trade manually alongside your EAs? Eligible trades can be included in protective closing actions.

Push notifications can send drawdown protection events, pauses, trading schedule resumes, and forced closes to the MT5 mobile app.

News, Schedule, and Trade Controls

The news filter can pause managed EAs before selected economic events and resume them after the risk window. Choose the timing, currencies and impact levels, or pause only EAs exposed to the affected currency.

The scheduler controls trading hours in broker time. Set daily, overnight or weekend windows and choose whether to pause, wait until positions close, or close selected positions. An optional force-close time adds a final deadline.

Direction controls can restrict selected EAs to buy-only or sell-only trading. Pending orders can also be cancelled when an EA is paused so an old order cannot open a new position while the EA is inactive.

Clear and Reliable Control

The panel shows which EAs are ready, trading, paused, blocked or waiting. Anchor keeps its control state through normal chart reloads, terminal interruptions, and restarts.

If MetaTrader or the broker prevents an important action from completing, Anchor keeps the situation visible instead of assuming it finished.

Requirements

MetaTrader 5. One chart per Anchor instance, any symbol, any timeframe. WebRequest permission for the news filter (optional). Before first use, open Tools > Options > Expert Advisors and uncheck the "Disable Algorithmic Trading when..." options.

Not compatible with the built-in MQL5 VPS. Requires a full MT5 installation (local or Windows VPS).

Strict Priority and manual-trade coverage require a hedging account.

Full documentation included with purchase. Direct support through MQL5 messages.

Anchor is a coordination and risk-control tool, not a trading strategy or signal provider. Test your complete setup on a demo account first. Trading involves risk and Anchor cannot guarantee trading performance or prevent every loss.