Anchor Trade Manager

Anchor: The EA Manager

Run your full EA portfolio without conflicts, without stacked risk, and without watching every chart yourself. Anchor coordinates up to 64 Expert Advisors on a single account so only one trades at a time.

Attach Anchor to any chart. Type your EA names and magic numbers in one line. Anchor handles the rest.

Built for portfolios. Built for discipline. Built for prop firms.

The Problem

Running multiple EAs on the same account creates risk. Two gold EAs can open opposite positions near the same price. Three EAs can stack correlated trades. One bad minute can trigger every system at once.

You planned for 2% risk per trade. Instead you're running 6% because three EAs all fired at the same time on XAUUSD. Even worse if you're running multiple grid strategies.

Manual monitoring doesn't scale. You can't watch every chart 24 hours a day.

The Solution

Anchor monitors all your registered EAs in real time. When one EA opens a position, Anchor instantly pauses every other managed EA until that trade closes. No conflicts. No stacking. No surprises.

When the trade closes, all EAs resume automatically. The cycle repeats, every second, without intervention.

Your EAs don't need modification. They don't need to know Anchor exists. Works with any EA, from any vendor, on any symbol.

One trade at a time. Always.

Why Anchor

• Simple setup. One chart, one line of input. Anchor begins coordinating immediately. No companion indicator on every EA chart, no boilerplate, no EA modification.
• Up to 64 EAs per instance. Plenty of headroom for full multi-strategy portfolios.
• Pending order cancellation. No stale buy stops or sell limits filling while an EA is supposed to be inactive.
• News filter, scheduler, and drawdown limits — all built in. One tool, not a stack of utilities to wire together.
• Wraps any EA in extra protection. Anchor's drawdown limits and news filter apply to your whole portfolio, so EAs without these features built in get the same safety layer the moment they're registered.
• Survives terminal restarts. Anchor rebuilds its state from disk and keeps paused EAs paused through unexpected shutdowns.

Drawdown Protection

Set per-EA or account-wide floating loss limits. When an EA's drawdown hits your threshold, Anchor closes its positions and pauses it automatically. Other EAs keep trading normally.

Account-wide protection monitors total floating loss across all managed EAs. Option to close every position on the account, including non-managed trades, when the limit is hit.

Manual resume via an on-chart button when you're ready to restart.

News Filter

Built-in economic news filtering using the ForexFactory calendar feed.

Anchor pauses all managed EAs before high-impact news events and keeps them paused until the volatility window passes. Configurable minutes before and after, currency filters, and impact level selection.

Option to automatically close all managed positions before news, or simply pause new entries and let existing trades manage themselves.

No more NFP or FOMC surprises.

Scheduler

Automated daily and weekly trading windows.

Set a close time and resume time in broker hours. Anchor pauses all EAs outside your defined trading window. Choose every weekday or Friday only for weekend risk protection.

Like the news filter, the scheduler can either pause EAs only or close all positions and pause.

Stop trading at 18:00. Resume at 08:00. Set it once and forget it.

Multi-Pair Portfolio Management

Run a single instance to coordinate one group of EAs, or run multiple instances for independent groups across different instruments.

One instance manages your three gold EAs on XAUUSD. Another manages your two AUDCAD strategies. A gold trade doesn't pause your AUDCAD group. Each instance operates with its own state, its own schedule, and its own news configuration. Fully independent.

Setup

Three steps. Attach Anchor to any chart. Type your EA names and magic numbers in one line:

MyEA1:123456;MyEA2:200000;MyEA3:300000

Click OK. Anchor begins coordinating immediately.

What's Included

• One-at-a-time trade coordination across up to 64 EAs
• Automatic pause and restore with full settings preservation, no EA modification required
• Per-EA and account-wide drawdown protection with automatic position closure and manual resume
• Pending order cancellation on pause
• Same-name EA support for running multiple instances of one EA on different symbols
• Terminal restart recovery — Anchor remembers its state through unexpected shutdowns
• ForexFactory news filter with configurable currency, impact, and timing windows
• Daily or Friday-only scheduler with broker-time close and resume
• Live on-chart status overlay showing state, active EA, paused EAs, news countdown, and schedule status

What's New

Per-EA and account-wide drawdown protection with configurable dollar and percentage limits.

Pending order cancellation when EAs are paused, preventing stale orders from filling outside coordination.

Smart close modes for the news filter and scheduler — pause only, close all, close profitable, or close losing positions.

Improved status panel with live floating P/L per EA and visible drawdown thresholds.

Manual resume button on the chart overlay after a drawdown event.

Requirements

• MetaTrader 5
• One chart per Anchor instance — any symbol, any timeframe
• WebRequest permission for the news filter (optional — URL provided in the input panel for easy setup)
• Not compatible with the built-in MQL5 VPS. Requires a full MT5 installation (local or Windows VPS).

Important Notes

Do not manually change EA charts managed by Anchor while trades are paused.

The news filter fetches data every 4 hours and caches locally. Multiple instances sharing the same terminal coordinate automatically to avoid duplicate requests.

Anchor is a coordination tool, not a trading strategy. Test your configuration on a demo account first.

Roadmap

Suggestions under exploration: individual drawdown limits per EA, equity-curve dashboard, expanded news source options, and multi-account coordination across linked terminals.

We don't promise features until they're tested. But Anchor will keep evolving alongside the portfolios it manages.

About

Built by Trident Trading Systems for traders managing multi-EA portfolios. We run Anchor on our own accounts every day, coordinating the same EAs we trade. We build tools we use ourselves — and we keep them simple, because portfolio management is hard enough.

Full documentation included. Direct support via MQL5 messages. Active trading community of 200+ traders.

Please message us after purchase for the manual and to join our trading community. Contact us if you need additional license activations.

Anchor is a coordination utility, not a trading strategy or signal provider. Results depend on the EAs you choose to run with it. Always test on demo first. Trade only with capital you can afford to lose.