Pilotdeck Trade Manager

(Free edition: Pilotdeck One - same panel, risk calculator, one-click trading with drag lines and break-even.)

Plan the trade on the chart, see the risk before you click, and let the panel handle the exits.

Pilotdeck is a manual trade manager for MetaTrader 5. You drag Entry, Stop Loss and Take Profit lines on the chart; Pilotdeck calculates the lot size from your risk, shows money, percent, R:R and distance live next to each line, and sends the order with one click. After the entry it manages the position: partial take profits, break-even and trailing stop. A built-in prop-firm guard watches the daily loss limit, the maximum drawdown and the profit target, and can block new trades from the panel when a limit is reached.

Pilotdeck only executes what you click or drag. It has no automatic entry strategy, no grid and no martingale.

Visual Order Planning

• "New Buy" / "New Sell" places Entry, SL and up to 3 TP lines; drag them where you want.
• Live tags at every line: risk in account currency and %, profit per target, R multiple, distance in pips or points.
• Coloured risk and reward zones on the chart.
• Market order, or pending order at the entry line: Pilotdeck selects Buy/Sell Limit or Stop from the line position.
• Flip side with one click, cancel plan with one click.

Lot Size You Can Check

• Risk modes: % of balance, % of equity, fixed money, fixed lot.
• Uses tick value and tick size of the symbol, cross-checked with the terminal's own profit calculation; the larger of both losses is used, so rounding errors go towards less risk.
• Respects volume step, minimum and maximum lot, optional own maximum lot.
• Margin check before sending, stops level and freeze level check, optional spread limit.
• Works with forex pairs, metals, indices, energies and crypto CFDs (tested on 13 symbols, see "Tested").

Position Management

• Up to 3 targets per trade: the last target is the broker TP, the others close a part of the lot (% per target).
• Break-even after X R with an offset in points (covers costs or locks a small profit).
• Trailing stop by ATR, fixed points or candle high/low; starts after X R; minimum step to avoid spam requests.
• Close all, close buys, close sells, close profitable, close losing (this symbol or all symbols).
• Break-even now button.
• Manages its own trades by magic number; optionally also manual trades of the chart symbol.

Prop-Firm Guard

• Daily loss limit in % or money, measured from day-start balance, day-start equity or the higher of both; % can refer to the day start or to the initial account size.
• Daily reset hour in server time with a live countdown.
• Maximum drawdown, static or trailing from the equity peak.
• Profit target progress bar.
• Ring gauges show how much of each limit is used.
• When a limit is hit: optional close of positions (whole account or only Pilotdeck trades) and block of new panel trades until the reset.
• Pre-trade check: a new trade is blocked if its SL risk plus the open SL risk of running positions would exceed the remaining room. The reason is shown on the panel.

Panel

• Modern panel drawn on the chart: rounded cards, hover effects, tabs (Trade / Manage / Guard), collapsible.
• Dark and light theme, switch on the panel.
• Drag the panel by its header; size follows the screen DPI and shrinks to fit small charts.
• English and German interface.
• Settings, plan lines and target states survive a terminal restart (files in Common\Files\Pilotdeck).

Strategy Tester

• Runs in the visual tester. With "Auto demo" on, the tester places sample plans and trades so you can see the lines, partial exits, break-even, trailing and the guard working. The auto demo never runs on a live or demo chart.

Inputs (main)

• General: Language (English) - Panel language (English / Deutsch)
• General: Theme (Dark) - Start theme, can be switched on the panel
• General: Panel scale (0) - 0 = automatic from screen DPI
• General: Magic number (735100) - Magic of Pilotdeck trades
• Risk: Risk mode (% of balance) - % balance, % equity, money, fixed lot
• Risk: Risk value (1.0) - Value for the selected mode
• Risk: Default SL distance (0) - Points, 0 = 1.5 x ATR(14)
• Risk: Max lot (0) - 0 = broker maximum
• Risk: Allow min lot (false) - Use min lot when the wanted risk is smaller
• Risk: Max spread (0) - Block new trades above this spread (points)
• Risk: Confirm trade / close (false / true) - Second click needed
• Management: Manage manual positions (false) - Also manage magic 0 positions of the symbol
• Management: Targets per trade (2) - 1-3, last one is the broker TP
• Management: TP1/TP2/TP3 in R (1 / 2 / 3) - Default target distances
• Management: TP1 % / TP2 % (50 / 30) - Part of the initial lot closed at the target
• Management: Break-even after R / offset (1.0 / 20 pts)
• Management: Trailing mode (ATR) - Off, ATR, points, candle
• Management: Trailing start R (1.5) - 0 = at once
• Guard: Daily loss limit (5 %) - % or money
• Guard: Daily base (Day-start balance) - Balance, equity or higher of both
• Guard: Reset hour (0) - Server time
• Guard: Max drawdown (10 %) - Static or trailing
• Guard: Initial account size (0) - 0 = detected from history
• Guard: Profit target (8 %) - 0 = off
• Guard: Close positions on hit (true) - Account or Pilotdeck trades only
• Guard: Block panel trades until reset (true)
• Guard: Worst case pre-check (true) - Counts open SL risk
• Tester: Auto demo (true) - Tester only

Tested (version 1.00)

• Lot size check on a demo account, 13 symbols (EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, GBPJPY, EURCAD, XAUUSD, XAGUSD, US500, DE40, JP225, BTCUSD, ETHUSD, WTI): loss per lot from tick value against the terminal's profit calculation and, where possible, against contract size x distance. Largest difference 0.40 % (USDJPY, tick value vs. live cross rate); Pilotdeck then uses the larger loss.
• Live run on the same demo account (BTCUSD M1, 0.2 % risk): market buy and sell, buy limit, break-even move, daily-limit hit with closing of the own position and blocked follow-up trade, all with the reason shown on the panel.

Honest Limits

• Pilotdeck is a tool for manual trading. It does not find trades and makes no promise of profit; trading involves risk of loss.
• Partial targets, break-even and trailing are carried out by the EA: the terminal must be running and connected (use a VPS for this). The final TP and the SL are set at the broker.
• The prop-firm guard works with the values you enter. Firms use different rules (time zone of the reset, equity vs. balance, inclusion of commission). Check your firm's rules and set the inputs accordingly. The guard cannot prevent losses from gaps or slippage beyond the SL, and it only blocks trades placed from the Pilotdeck panel, not trades from other EAs or the phone.
• If the EA was not running at the daily reset, the day-start equity is estimated from the day-start balance.
• SL and TP are real broker levels; there is no hidden (virtual) SL/TP mode in version 1.00. SL/TP are set by dragging lines (or a default distance input), not by typing prices.
• Hedging and netting accounts are supported; on netting accounts one position per symbol exists, so several plans on one symbol add up.