Trade Journal and Dashboard

Real-Time Performance Analytics & Trade Journal on Your Chart

What Is It?

Trade Journal & Dashboard is an on-chart analytics panel that automatically tracks every closed trade and calculates professional performance metrics in real time. No spreadsheets, no external apps — everything you need to evaluate your trading performance lives directly on your MT5 chart.

It reads your trade history, computes win rate, profit factor, expectancy, drawdown, streaks, and more — updated every second.

Support: https://www.mql5.com/en/channels/vuongphamtrading

Dashboard Metrics

Hero Section

• Net P/L — total profit/loss for the selected period (large, color-coded)
• Trade Count — total trades with Win/Loss breakdown
• Win Rate % — percentage of winning trades
• Profit Factor — gross profit / gross loss (>1.0 = profitable system)

Key Metrics Grid

Streaks

• Current streak (e.g., "3W" or "2L")
• Max consecutive wins
• Max consecutive losses

P/L by Day of Week

Visual breakdown showing trade count and P/L for each day (Mon–Sun). Instantly see which days are profitable and which are bleeding money.

Open Positions Monitor

• Live position count with Buy/Sell breakdown
• Unrealized P/L (updates on every tick)
• Lots and P/L per direction

Account Summary

Balance, Equity, Free Margin, Drawdown %

Time Period Selector

Click < > arrows to cycle through periods:

• Today — trades closed today
• This Week — Monday to now
• This Month — 1st of month to now
• Last 7 Days — rolling 7-day window
• Last 30 Days — rolling 30-day window
• All Time — entire account history

Click the scope button to toggle between Current Symbol and Entire Account.

Key Formulas

Win Rate = Wins / Total Trades × 100

Profit Factor = Gross Profit / Gross Loss

• PF > 1.5 = Good | PF > 2.0 = Excellent | PF < 1.0 = Losing

Expectancy = (Win% × Avg Win) - (Loss% × Avg Loss)

• Positive = profitable system over time
• This is the single most important metric for any trading strategy

Risk-to-Reward = Avg Win / Avg Loss

• R:R > 1.5 with 40%+ win rate = solid strategy
• R:R > 2.0 with 35%+ win rate = excellent strategy

CSV Export

Click EXPORT CSV REPORT to generate a detailed CSV file containing:

• Every closed trade: ticket, symbol, type, volume, price, time, profit, swap, commission
• Summary section: all calculated metrics

Files are saved to: MQL5/Files/TradeJournal/

Auto-export option available (exports once daily at reset hour).

Input Parameters

General

Display

Export

Installation

1. Copy TradeJournal_Dashboard_v1.mq5 → MQL5/Experts/
2. Restart MT5 → drag onto any chart
3. Configure scope and period → OK
4. Dashboard appears immediately with your trade history

Note: The EA does not place or manage any trades. It is purely an analytics/monitoring tool. Safe to run alongside any other EA.

Use Cases

Daily Review — Set period to "Today", review win rate and P/L after each session. Export CSV for your trading journal spreadsheet.

Weekly Analysis — Switch to "This Week" to spot patterns. Check which day-of-week performs best/worst.

Strategy Evaluation — Use Magic Number filter to analyze individual EA performance. Compare profit factors across strategies.

Prop Firm Tracking — Monitor daily P/L, drawdown, and win rate to stay within challenge rules.

Psychology Check — Watch your streak counter. If you're on a 4+ loss streak, it might be time to step away.

Complete Trading Toolkit (5 EAs)

Entry → Management → Protection → Risk Control → Analysis

This EA is a monitoring tool only. It does not execute trades. Always test on demo first.