ArgosWatch Prop Consistency Guard

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Consistency Guard MT5 — your best trading day, and your best single

trade, as a share of total profit, against the cap you set.

Drawdown is visible: equity moves and the platform shows it moving.

Consistency is a property of the distribution of results across a whole

evaluation, and MetaTrader computes nothing of the kind.

THE ARITHMETIC

    best day    = largest single trading day's net realised result

    best trade  = largest single closing deal's net result

    total       = net realised result since the challenge start

    day ratio   = best day   / total x 100

    trade ratio = best trade / total x 100

Both are computed. Which one is gated is an input: best day, best trade,

or both - and "both" gates on whichever of the two is higher, because

that is the one that fails you.

Net means net. Profit, commission, fee and swap are all included. Fee is

a separate field from commission and some brokers charge there instead,

so a tool that reads only commission understates the cost of every trade

on those accounts.

Commission charged at entry is counted in the day it was charged. The

money left the account that day and belongs in that day's total.

Deposits, withdrawals, credits and corrections are also deals in the

history. They are excluded by deal type - counted as profit, a deposit

becomes the best day of the evaluation on its own.

Trades closed against an opposing position carry DEAL_ENTRY_OUT_BY rather

than DEAL_ENTRY_OUT. They are included in the best-trade comparison. On an

account that never uses close-by this changes nothing; on one that does,

whole trades would otherwise be invisible.

THE DAY BOUNDARY IS AN INPUT

Firms do not agree on when a trading day starts. Some use the broker

server's midnight, some a fixed hour. If this tool buckets from one

boundary and your firm audits from another, a trade closed in between

falls in a different day in each calculation and the two answers never

reconcile.

The reset hour is yours to set. Keep it identical to whatever your

drawdown monitor uses, or the two tools will disagree with each other as

well.

THE FIRST DAY READS 100% AND IT IS NOT A BREACH

On the first trading day, that day is the entire history. Best day equals

total profit and the ratio is exactly 100% the moment the day closes

positive:

    500 / 500 x 100 = 100.0%

Below two trading days no ratio is shown at all. Not a red 100% - the

field reads "-- / 30.0%", the status reads COLLECTING DATA, and the panel

says which it is: "No closed trades yet", or "Only 1 trading day so far.

Needs 2+ days before a consistency picture makes sense." The realised

result so far is shown instead, because that part is real.

No alert can fire below two days either.

Two days is the minimum for the ratio to be defined. It is not the

minimum for it to be stable, so the number of trading days is printed

next to it and the start date with it.

THE CHALLENGE START

Detected as the earliest deal in the account's history, or set by hand -

which is what you need after a phase reset, when the history still holds

the previous phase and you are being judged only on this one.

CORRELATED CURRENCY EXPOSURE

Long EURUSD, long GBPUSD and long AUDUSD is not three positions. It is

one short-USD position of three lots wearing three names.

Every open position is split into its base and quote currency, a buy

counting positive on the base and negative on the quote, and the lots are

netted per currency. What you see is your directional exposure to each

currency, with the number of positions producing it, against a cap in

lots that you set.

This covers instruments named as two three-letter currency codes. Broker

suffixes are fine - EURUSD.m works. Indices, most CFDs and anything that

does not split into two valid codes are left out of the exposure netting

rather than force-fitted into it, and still appear in the position table.

OPEN POSITIONS

Listed by how much they are moving the account, largest absolute result

first. Which position is dominating, at a glance.

ALERTS

Two watches - the consistency ratio, and the worst currency exposure -

each at a warning share of its cap and again at the cap itself.

An alert fires when the level rises, not while it sits there. Crossing

into warning rings once; staying in warning is silent. Popup, sound, push

and email are separate switches.

THE PANEL

Three sizes, and a button that collapses it to its title bar when the

chart is wanted back. X and Y offsets move it clear of the price. The

exposure section and the position table can each be switched off, and

every colour is an input.

WHAT IT CANNOT TELL YOU

The ratio is a lagging measurement of a distribution, not a live risk

gauge. Unlike drawdown, where the next tick can breach a limit,

consistency moves only when a day closes. A figure sitting at twenty

percent today can be past forty by tomorrow evening. It tells you where

you have been, and it constrains what you can safely do next. It does not

warn you in the moment.

The thresholds are not the tool's to assume. The share, what counts in

the denominator, whether the test applies to days or trades or both, the

daily boundary, and whether the rule is checked continuously or only at

payout - all of these vary by firm and change over time. Every one is an

input for exactly that reason. A tool that measures the wrong rule

correctly is worse than no tool, because it is believed.

It places no orders and modifies no positions.

REQUIREMENTS

MetaTrader 5. Currency netting expects standard FX naming; everything

else is monitored for consistency and shown in the position table.

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