Account Status Monitor MT5

KNOW HOW FAR YOU ARE FROM A MARGIN CALL BEFORE THE BROKER TELLS YOU: ONE PANEL FOR EQUITY, DRAWDOWN, MARGIN AND TODAY'S RESULT.

What changed for you: a new STOP-OUT BUFFER row shows, in money and in percent of equity, how much you can still lose before your broker's stop out closes positions for you, with an optional alert when that buffer gets thin. Alerts now keep firing even while the panel is minimised.

Fits your account: hedging and netting accounts, any broker, any symbol and timeframe, beside any Expert Advisor or trade copier on the same terminal. A symbol scope and a magic filter decide which trades it counts. It never opens, changes or closes a trade on a live account.

Built for traders who run several positions or several EAs and lose the overview. One promise: the numbers that decide whether your account survives a bad day are always in one place, in plain colours. Mechanism: it reads the account every second, tracks the equity peak, measures the distance to stop out and raises an alert once when a limit you set is crossed, never a flood.

Try it free first: load Account Status Monitor in the Strategy Tester with visual mode on. It opens a few small demo positions there on purpose, so you can watch the drawdown bar fill, the position table sort itself by loss and the alerts arrive in the history.

Who this is NOT for: traders who want a robot that trades or closes positions for them. This is an instrument panel and an alarm, not an autopilot. It tells you when to act; the decision stays yours.

In short

• Drawdown from peak equity as a bar, with an amber marker at your alert level and a red end at your limit. The peak can be since attach, reset every broker day, or all-time (kept across restarts).
• STOP-OUT BUFFER: equity minus the equity at which the broker stops you out, for percent and money stop-out modes.
• Equity, today's P/L with percent, floating P/L, margin level next to the broker's stop-out level, balance, free and used margin, positions with buys and sells, total lots, peak equity, connection, trade and Algo Trading state, broker, leverage and server time.
• Position table sorted by the biggest loss first, with each position's share of the total loss as a bar.
• Four alerts, each edge-triggered with a recovery gap and a cool-down: drawdown, margin level, daily loss and stop-out buffer. Pop-up and push to your phone.
• Quick buttons: mute alerts, switch between whole account and chart symbol, reset the peak.
• English, Arabic or both for the labels. Four colour themes. No DLLs, no web requests.

START HERE

Attach it to any chart, for example EURUSD H1. One copy watches the whole account. Keep the defaults for the first day: drawdown limit 20 percent, drawdown alert at 10 percent, margin level alert at 200 percent, peak reset every broker day. Enter your own daily loss limit in money if you trade under a prop-firm rule, and set the stop-out buffer alert (for example 30 percent) if you use leverage heavily. Turn on push notifications in the terminal options if you want the alerts on your phone.

Why the balance lies and the equity does not

Your balance only changes when a trade is closed. A basket of open positions can lose a third of the account while the balance still shows yesterday's number. Equity, margin level and the distance to stop out are what the broker looks at, and they move every tick. Most traders check them only after something has gone wrong. This panel keeps them in front of you and speaks up once when a line is crossed, so you can cut size, hedge or close by your own choice instead of the broker's.

One trading day on the panel

Morning. At the broker day start the peak is reset (in daily mode) and today's P/L starts at zero. The banner reads ACCOUNT INSIDE ALL SAFETY LIMITS or NO OPEN POSITION IN SCOPE.

During the day. Every second the panel refreshes equity, margin level, stop-out buffer and the position table. The drawdown bar turns amber at half of your limit and red at 80 percent of it; the header line and the status pill change colour with it (WATCHING, CAUTION, DANGER, NO LINK).

A line is crossed. You get one alert, it is written to ALERT HISTORY with the time, and the same alert is not repeated until the value has recovered past a 15 percent gap and the cool-down has passed. Today's P/L counts closed deals of the day with swap, commission and fees, plus the open floating result.

Inputs, every one explained

Display

InpUserName = Trader. Your name in the panel's subtitle.

InpShowLogin = false. Show the account number in the BROKER row (leave off for screenshots you share).

InpLanguage = Both. Row labels in English, Arabic or both.

InpTheme = Carbon / Teal. Colour theme: Carbon / Teal, Midnight / Amber, Daylight, Graphite / Mint.

InpCorner = Top left. Where the panel starts; afterwards the MOVE button drags it anywhere.

InpXOffset = 12, InpYOffset = 22. Distance in pixels from that corner.

InpAutoFit = true. Shrinks the font and drops the least important rows when the chart is too small.

InpMaxWidthPct = 60, InpMaxHeightPct = 100. How much of the chart the panel may use when auto-fit is on.

InpUIScale = 1.0. Font multiplier, for example 1.3 on a 4K screen.

InpFont = Segoe UI. Font for captions; numbers use Consolas so digits line up.

InpAccent = none. Your own accent colour instead of the theme's.

MaxTableRows = 6. Rows in the position table. MaxHistoryRows = 4. Rows in the alert history.

Data

InpScope = Whole account. Whole account or chart symbol only, for P/L, positions and lots (equity and margin are always account values). The SCOPE button switches it live.

InpMagicFilter = Any magic. Any magic, manual trades only (magic 0), or only the magic number InpMagic. Useful when one EA's result must be seen apart from the rest.

InpMagic = 0. The magic number for the last option.

InpRefreshSec = 1. Refresh period in seconds, 1 to 60.

InpUpdateOnTick = true. Also refresh on new ticks (limited to about two times a second).

InpDayStartHour = 0. Server hour at which your trading day starts, for today's P/L and the daily peak.

InpPeakMode = Reset each day. Since attach, reset each broker day, or all-time (saved in a GlobalVariable with a file backup, per account).

Safety

InpDDLimitPct = 20. The full length of the drawdown bar.

InpDDAlertPct = 10. Alert when drawdown from the peak reaches this percent (0 = off).

InpMarginAlertLv = 200. Alert when the margin level falls to this percent (0 = off).

InpDailyLossAlert = 0. Alert when today's loss reaches this amount in account currency (0 = off).

InpSOBufferAlertPct = 0. Alert when the stop-out buffer falls to this percent of equity (0 = off).

InpAlertCooldownMin = 15. Minutes before the same alert can fire again.

InpPopupAlert = true. Terminal pop-up. InpPushAlert = false. Push notification to the MetaTrader app on your phone.

Logging

InpLogLevel = Errors only. Silent, errors only, or errors plus the start message. Repeated lines are suppressed for 5 minutes.

Strategy Tester demo

InpTesterDemo = true. In the Strategy Tester only: one 0.01 lot position every 6 hours on the chart symbol while its session is open, alternating buy and sell, at most 3 open, closed after 18 hours, margin checked times 1.5 first, stopped after a 20 percent equity drop. This code never runs on a live or demo chart.

The panel

Header with name, MOVE and minimise buttons, your name, the scope and the status pill. DRAWDOWN FROM PEAK bar. ACCOUNT STATUS rows. POSITIONS, BIGGEST LOSS FIRST with symbol, side, lots, magic, swap, profit and loss share. ALERT HISTORY. A status banner in plain words. QUICK CONTROLS: ALERTS ON or MUTED (the panel still shows every warning), SCOPE ACCOUNT or SYMBOL, RESET PEAK. It measures its own text, so nothing clips on any screen, and the right side of the chart with the price scale stays clear.

What it cannot do

It does not close or hedge anything for you, and an alert is only as fast as your reaction to it. It only works while the terminal runs. Today's P/L includes the full floating result of positions opened before today, because that is what today's equity really carries.

What was tested

Strategy Tester, 1 to 30 June 2026, H1, 1-minute OHLC, deposit 10000, leverage 100: EURUSD and XAUUSD runs with 63 demo orders each and no journal error. Daily loss and drawdown alerts fired and re-armed as designed; the magic filter and chart symbol scope were used in the gold run. On a live demo chart the panel ran beside 4 open EURUSD positions. Margin level and stop-out buffer alerts were not triggered in these runs; please check them on a demo account with your own broker.

Try it in the Strategy Tester

Choose Account Status Monitor, XAUUSD, H1, any recent month, visual mode, and set InpDDAlertPct to 0.5 and InpDailyLossAlert to 5 so you see the alerts within minutes.

If the panel helped you keep your account out of trouble, or you miss a number on it, an honest review on the product page helps other traders decide and tells me what to build next.