Fox Trade Monitor

Fox Trade Monitor

Stop switching between the Terminal, the History tab and an economic calendar website. Fox Trade Monitor packs your whole trading picture into one clean, translucent panel drawn straight on the chart — equity, drawdown, growth, closed trades, daily results and the week's economic calendar, all refreshed in real time.

It is a non-trading utility. It reads your account and the market, it never writes. No order is ever sent, no position is ever modified, and no algorithmic-trading permission is needed.

The 16-card information board

Sixteen compact cards, arranged in two columns, give you the complete state of the account at a glance:

Colour that follows the number. Every card body glows with a very see-through tint of its own number's colour — a blue card under a blue figure (equity, balance, free margin, margin level), a green card under a positive result, a red card under a negative one, and a plain glass body while the figure carries no colour at all. The tint is deliberately light so the chart stays readable underneath.

Growth curve and Daily Bars — the same size, side by side

The Growth panel plots your equity curve over the selected period, and the Daily Bars panel draws the profit or loss of each of the last ten days as a bar — green above zero, red below. Both panels share exactly the same width and the same height, so the row always looks aligned and never drifts out of shape.

Each panel carries its own period pills — DAY / WEEK / MONTH — so the growth curve and the bars can be compared over the same window.

Closed-trade log

A clean list of your closed trades with Today / Week / Month filters: ticket, symbol, direction, lots, open and close price, and the result, coloured the same way as the rest of the panel.

Economic calendar, built in

The panel reads the Forex Factory calendar and shows two views:

• TODAY — only the releases of the current calendar day.
• WEEK — the trading week ahead, from today until the end of Friday.

For every event you get the time, the currency, the event name, the impact, the forecast and the previous value.

• Impact colour coding: High = strong red, Medium = orange, Low = white.
• Verdict tag: once a release is printed, the panel compares the actual value against the forecast using Forex Factory's own better/worse classification and tags the row as positive or negative — the verdict comes from the data source, never from price movement.
• Automatic expiry: a release that has already happened disappears from the WEEK list at the end of its own day. The window is recalculated on every refresh, so the list rolls over at midnight by itself — no restart, no reattach.

Sessions bar

A full-width bar across the top of the chart shows the four major sessions — Sydney, Tokyo, London, New York — with the currently open ones highlighted. On a narrow chart the chips shrink automatically and the names fall back to their initials (S / T / L / N) so the bar never overlaps the cards below.

One switch bar, remembered between sessions

TRADES · NEWS · INFO · BARS · TIME — every panel can be shown or hidden from one switch bar, and the chosen state is saved and restored the next time you attach the panel. Your layout stays the way you left it.

Display-only alerts

Fox Trade Monitor can warn you about the situations that usually cost money:

• drawdown above a percentage of your monthly target,
• a position opened without a stop loss,
• floating loss above a chosen amount,
• monthly target reached,
• a new deal closed.

Alerts are visual and journal-based. The indicator never acts on them.

How it works

Fox Trade Monitor is an MQL5 custom indicator, not an Expert Advisor. It subscribes to account and market events, reads positions, deals and history through the standard MQL5 API, and redraws its panels with cached, pre-built bitmap surfaces so the chart stays smooth even on a busy account.

Because it is an indicator:

• it cannot place, modify or close orders — the code contains no trade call of any kind,
• the Algo Trading button does not need to be enabled,
• it runs on a real or a demo account without any special permission,
• it removes only the objects it created when you detach it.

Main inputs

All panels are scaled relative to the chart size, so the layout stays proportional whether the chart is a small floating window or a full-screen monitor.

Requirements

• MetaTrader 5 build 6000 or newer
• A real or demo account (the indicator reads the account, it does not trade it)
• Internet connection only for the economic-calendar panel
• No DLLs, no external libraries, no additional files

Disclaimer

Fox Trade Monitor is a non-trading visualization and information utility. It is not an Expert Advisor, it does not open or manage positions, and it does not provide trading signals or investment advice. It cannot and does not guarantee any profit. All figures are derived from the data your terminal provides; the economic-calendar data is supplied by Forex Factory and its accuracy and availability are outside the author's control. Use it at your own discretion and always test on a demo account first.