Gold Command Dashboard Pro

Gold Command Dashboard Pro is for gold traders who cannot watch the chart all day. The free version shows you the state of the market; Pro tells you when it changes: the next high-impact news, a session closing with a one-line briefing, macro and trend lining up, price reaching a key level or an auto-detected support / resistance zone.

It does not draw buy/sell arrows, does not generate signals and does not trade. It gives you context and timing; your strategy makes the decision.

New here? Try the free version first: Gold Command Dashboard (Free) has the core panel (sessions, range, macro verdict, trend bias, key levels).

What you get in Pro

• Economic calendar - works out of the box. "Next News" shows the next 3 events with a live countdown, impact color and forecast / previous on hover. You choose the source: MetaTrader's built-in calendar (no extra EA, no web permissions) or the Companion EA weekly feed (independent of your broker). Filter by currency (default USD) and impact (default High).
• Alerts that matter (popup, push, Telegram), sent only when something changes:
  • Session briefing when a session closes: range vs the 10-day average, open to close, macro verdict, strength.
  • Macro + Trend aligned: macro TAILWIND with H1 and H4 up, or HEADWIND with both down.
  • Session open, ADR reached, price at a key level or S/R zone, macro verdict flip, news 15 minutes before.
• Strength meter 0-100 for gold: trend, momentum and macro combined into one reading.
• Auto support / resistance zones from swing highs and lows, grouped by ATR, with the number of touches.
• Session range vs average: is today's London (or Tokyo / New York) session running hot or quiet compared with the last 10 days?
• Asia high / low and weekly open levels, up to 8 levels on the panel.
• Full macro breakdown: USD / Risk / Yield contributions and the raw numbers on hover.

Free vs Pro

What the panel shows

• SESSION - active session (Tokyo / London / New York, overlaps shown as "LONDON + NEW YORK") with countdowns.
• RANGE - today's range as % of ADR with a progress bar (green below 70%, amber 70-100%, red above 100%), ATR, live spread (Normal / Wide / High), and the active session's range vs its 10-day average.
• MACRO - TAILWIND / HEADWIND / MIXED with a score from -1 to +1 and the USD / Risk / Yield contributions.
• TREND BIAS - M15, H1, H4, D1: strong up, up, neutral, down, strong down.
• STRENGTH - 0-100 meter: 60 or more = BULLISH, 40 or less = BEARISH, otherwise NEUTRAL. It blends the 4-timeframe trend (weight 0.45), gold's own move so far versus what is normal for the time of day (0.30) and the macro score, inverted so a tailwind counts as up (0.25). Missing components are dropped and the weights re-scaled. Below it, Macro + Trend shows ALIGNED UP / ALIGNED DOWN / not aligned.
• KEY LEVELS - the 8 levels nearest to price with distance, also drawn on the chart with tags: round numbers, PDH/PDL, daily open, weekly open, Asia high / low and SR 4120 x3 zones (price and number of touches).
• NEXT NEWS - next 3 events from your filter with countdown.

Quick start

1. Attach the indicator to your XAUUSD chart (M5-H4). The panel reads data for the symbol in Gold symbol; level lines are drawn only when the chart symbol is that symbol.
2. If the panel says "Symbol not found", set Gold symbol to your broker's name (XAUUSDm, GOLD, XAUUSD.r ...).
3. If your broker adds a suffix to forex pairs, enter it once in Suffix for the 7 USD pairs (missing symbols are added to Market Watch automatically). The Risk index symbol is detected automatically from a list (US500, SPX500, USA500, US500.cash); change it if your broker uses another name. Leave Yield symbol empty if not available.
4. Session hours are UTC/GMT and do not follow daylight saving time. Defaults: Tokyo 00:00, London 08:00, New York 13:00, 9 hours each. Adjust the start hours when your markets change to summer/winter time.
5. Choose the news filter (currency and impact) and the alerts you want. For push notifications enter your MetaQuotes ID in Tools > Options > Notifications and enable Push notification in the inputs.
6. Drag the panel by its title to any place on the chart. Position, size and collapsed state are remembered for each chart.

Economic calendar: choose one of two sources

Set Calendar source in the inputs. The two sources are not mixed; the panel and the news alert use the one you choose.

• Both sources use the same filter: currency (default USD) and minimum impact (default High).
• If the chosen source has no data (or the data is older than 48 hours), the panel says "No calendar data" instead of showing wrong events. Switch to the other source if that happens.
• The calendar is not available in the Strategy Tester.

Optional: Telegram alerts (Companion EA)

MetaTrader does not allow indicators to access the internet, so Telegram messages are sent by a small helper EA, GoldCommand_Companion. It does not trade and never places orders. It is sent free to every buyer: after purchase, send a message through the Market message box and you will receive the file. It is also the optional source for the economic calendar (see above). Everything else in Pro, including popup / push alerts and the built-in calendar source, works without it.

1. Copy GoldCommand_Companion.ex5 to MQL5\Experts (File > Open Data Folder) and refresh the Navigator.
2. In Tools > Options > Expert Advisors tick Allow WebRequest for listed URL and add https://api.telegram.org (and https://nfs.faireconomy.media if you use the EA as calendar source).
3. Open a separate chart (any symbol) and drag the EA onto it - only one EA can run per chart. Keep Algo Trading enabled.
4. Inputs: bot key (create a bot with @BotFather) and chat id (your user, group or channel id).
5. In the indicator keep Send to Companion EA (Telegram) enabled. The indicator finds the EA on your other charts automatically.

Your Telegram bot key is only an input of the EA. It is never written to logs, charts or files.

How the Macro score works

• USD strength - move of 7 USD pairs (EURUSD, GBPUSD, AUDUSD, NZDUSD, USDJPY, USDCHF, USDCAD) since the reference point (default: daily open), each normalized by its own typical volatility and combined with the median (robust to one outlier). Stronger USD = headwind for gold.
• Risk - move of a US stock index. Risk-on = mild headwind. Yield - optional US yield symbol. Rising yields = headwind.
• Weights default to 0.60 / 0.28 / 0.12; missing components are removed and the remaining weights re-scaled.
• Score above +0.20 = HEADWIND, below -0.20 = TAILWIND, otherwise MIXED (with hysteresis against flicker).
• Missing data is shown as "--", never as 0. Fewer than 5 of 7 USD pairs = no verdict.

Weights and thresholds are sensible defaults, not an optimized or back-tested strategy. The strength meter and the auto S/R zones are likewise context tools, not entry signals.

Main inputs

• General - panel size, Dark / Light theme, refresh seconds, gold symbol, panel position.
• Session - start hours (UTC) and session length. Session range - on/off.
• Range - ADR period, ATR period / timeframe, spread thresholds.
• Macro - pairs, suffix, risk and yield symbols, weights, threshold, hysteresis, reference point (1 hour / 4 hours / daily open / previous close).
• Levels - round numbers and step, PDH/PDL, daily open, draw lines, Asia range, weekly open.
• Strength meter - on/off and the three weights. Auto S/R - on/off, timeframe, bars scanned, swing strength, cluster tolerance, minimum touches, zones per side.
• News filter - currencies, minimum impact, calendar source.
• Alerts - popup, push, Telegram, each alert type on/off (including briefing and Macro + Trend aligned), ADR alert %, touch distance in points.

Good to know

• No DLL. The indicator makes no web requests and never places orders.
• Calculations run on a timer (default every 5 seconds), so the panel stays live when ticks are slow.
• All chart objects use the prefix GCD_ and are removed when the indicator is removed.
• Level distances are in price units (+1.5 = 1.5 in gold price).
• Calendar and Telegram do not work in the Strategy Tester.

Free version: Gold Command Dashboard (Free)

Risk disclaimer: this indicator provides market context only. It is not financial advice and not a trading system. Past behaviour does not guarantee future results. Trading leveraged products carries a high level of risk.