RealCost Spread Guard
- Utilità
- Versione: 1.0
Overview
RealCost Spread Guard is a spread monitoring utility for MetaTrader 5. It does not trade, modify orders, or send data to external servers. It samples the current chart spread, displays live and historical spread statistics, optionally alerts when spread exceeds a configured threshold, and can write a local CSV file for later review.
This utility is useful before running manual entries, scalpers, grid systems, signal copiers, or any EA that is sensitive to spread spikes.
Typical Use Cases
- Check whether a symbol has stable spreads during a session.
- Watch spread behavior before manual entries.
- Review spread conditions before running an EA or copy-trading setup.
- Compare spread changes across market sessions.
- Export spread samples to CSV for a trading journal or later review.
Key Features
- Live chart spread in points.
- Average, p95, and maximum spread.
- Configurable spread alert threshold.
- Popup alerts and optional push notifications.
- Local CSV export with configurable write interval.
- Compact on-chart panel.
- No trading actions.
- No DLL, no WebRequest, no external service.
What It Does Not Do
- It does not trade.
- It does not modify positions or orders.
- It does not provide buy or sell signals.
- It does not reduce spread.
- It does not guarantee better execution.
- It does not provide financial or investment advice.
Input Parameters
- Spread sample interval, seconds - how often spread is sampled.
- Maximum samples kept in memory - rolling sample capacity.
- Alert if spread exceeds points - alert threshold, 0 disables it.
- Minimum seconds between alerts - alert cooldown.
- Show popup alerts and Send mobile push notifications.
- Write CSV spread log - enable or disable local CSV export.
- Write to common terminal files folder - optional common folder output.
- CSV file prefix - custom file prefix.
- CSV write interval, seconds - how often status rows are written.
- Panel corner, offset, and colors.
CSV Columns
- time
- symbol
- bid
- ask
- spread points
- sample count
- average spread points
- p95 spread points
- maximum spread points
Usage
Attach RealCost Spread Guard to the symbol you want to watch. Leave it running during your trading session, EA test, copy-trading period, or broker comparison. The panel shows live spread statistics, and the CSV file can be opened later in Excel, Google Sheets, or a trading journal.
For account-level loss, drawdown, exposure, trade-count, and optional protection controls, open the author's profile and review the other RealCost tools.

