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Tab: Advanced

Dashboard, time filter, default SL/TP, signal handling, and architecture settings

Show Dashboard

Default: true

Shows or hides the visual information panel overlaid on the MT5 chart. The dashboard displays current signal status, active trades, connection status, and daily P&L.

Dashboard Theme

Default: DARK

Visual theme for the dashboard overlay. Options: DARK, LIGHT, MATRIX (green on black), TRADINGVIEW (matches TradingView color scheme).

Dashboard X / Y Position

Default: X=10, Y=30

Pixel position of the dashboard panel on the chart. Adjust to avoid overlapping with price action or other indicators.

Use Time Filter

Default: false

Restricts the EA to only open new trades during specific hours. Signals received outside the allowed window are ignored. Does not affect management of already-open trades.

Start Hour / End Hour

Default: 8 / 22 (broker server time)

Hour range during which the EA accepts new signals. Times are in broker server time (visible in MT5's Market Watch clock).

💡 Example: Start=8, End=20: the EA only trades between 8:00 AM and 8:00 PM broker time. Outside those hours, signals are received and logged but no orders are placed.
🌙 Overnight sessions: a window where Start is greater than End wraps around midnight, so Start=22 / End=6 means the overnight (Asian) session. Earlier builds could not express this — such a window blocked every hour of the day instead of the intended one.

Fixed SL (pips) / Fixed TP (pips)

Default: SL=50 / TP=100

Default Stop Loss and Take Profit in pips applied when a signal does not include these values. Ensures trades always have risk management even when signal providers omit SL/TP.

💡 Tip: Set Fixed SL to a value you are comfortable with. If a signal provides its own SL, that takes priority over the fixed value.

Gold Fixed SL (pips) / Gold Fixed TP (pips)

Default: SL=0 / TP=0

A separate Default SL/TP for gold only (XAUUSD, GOLD… with any broker suffix). A pip is not the same size on every market: on EURUSD 1 pip is 0.0001, on XAUUSD it is $0.10, so 50 pips is an ordinary stop on EURUSD but only a $5 stop on gold. These two values let gold have its own distance while every other symbol keeps using Fixed SL / Fixed TP. 0 = gold uses the normal Fixed SL / Fixed TP, so nothing changes until you fill them in.

💡 Example: Fixed SL = 50, Fixed TP = 100, Gold Fixed SL = 100, Gold Fixed TP = 200. A signal without SL/TP gets 50 / 100 pips on EURUSD (entry 1.1000 → SL 1.0950, TP 1.1100) and 100 / 200 pips on XAUUSD (entry 2650.00 → SL 2640.00, TP 2670.00 for a BUY).
ℹ️ Same rules as Fixed SL / Fixed TP: they are fallbacks, used only when the signal carries no SL/TP of its own — a provider's SL/TP always wins (to replace it, use Manual SL / Manual TPs). EA inputs: Default SL for Gold / XAUUSD and Default TP for Gold / XAUUSD; INI keys FixedSLInPipsGold and FixedTPInPipsGold.

Require SL

Default: false

If true, the EA rejects any signal that does not include a Stop Loss value. No trade will be opened without a defined SL. Use this with strict risk management requirements.

Wait for Complete Signal

Default: false

When enabled, if an initial message has direction but no SL/TP, the EA waits for a follow-up message with complete information before opening any orders. Useful for channels that send signals in two parts.

Wait Timeout (seconds)

Default: 60

Maximum seconds to wait for the complete signal follow-up. If no completion message arrives within this time, the EA either proceeds with the partial information or cancels the entry (depending on the Require SL setting).

Enable Multi-Cycle Architecture

Default: true

Enables the advanced concurrent cycle management engine. Each unique combination of channel + symbol + direction gets its own independent trading cycle, allowing the EA to simultaneously manage 100+ active cycles without conflicts.

✅ Recommendation: Always leave this enabled. It is required for multi-channel, multi-symbol operation and has no performance downside.

Manual TP Levels

Default: disabled

When enabled, the EA completely ignores the Take Profit levels provided in the signal and instead uses up to 10 fixed TP levels defined here (in pips from the entry price). This is useful when you want consistent TP distances regardless of what the signal provider sends.

  • Enable Manual TPs — Master toggle. When ON, signal TPs are ignored and these fixed levels are used instead.
  • TP1–TP10 (pips) — Distance in pips from the entry price for each TP level. Levels set to 0 are skipped.
💡 Example: Manual TP1 = 30 pips, TP2 = 60 pips, TP3 = 100 pips. Regardless of the signal's TPs, the EA will target these exact distances for partial closes and full exits.
⚠️ Note: This override applies only to main cycle trades, not to Pre-Signal orders. Pre-signals always use their own independent Take Profit for Pre-Signals (Pips) parameter. To optionally close pre-signals in sync with a Manual TP level, use Close Pre-Signal at TP (e.g. set to 2 to close all pre-signals when the cycle hits TP2). The existing Break Even and Trailing Stop triggers still work with these manual TP levels.

Manual SL (Override Signal SL)

Default: disabled

When enabled, the EA completely ignores the Stop Loss provided in the signal and instead places the SL at a fixed distance in pips from the entry price. This is the SL counterpart of Manual TP Levels, and it is the correct setting to use when you want a wider or tighter SL than the one your signal provider sends.

  • Enable Manual SL — Master toggle. When ON, the signal's SL is discarded and the distance below is used instead.
  • Manual SL (pips) — Distance in pips from the entry price. If left at 0 the override does nothing and the signal's SL is kept.
💡 Example: Your provider always sends a 100 pip SL but you want to give the trade more room. Set Enable Manual SL = true and Manual SL = 130: every trade from that signal opens with a 130 pip SL instead.
⚠️ Important: This is not the same as Fixed SL (pips). Fixed SL is only a fallback — it applies exclusively when the signal arrives with no SL at all, so it has no effect on providers that always include one. To override an SL that the signal does carry, you must use Manual SL. Lot sizing and R:R Ratio TPs are calculated from the Manual SL distance. The override does not apply to Pre-Signal orders, which keep their own Stop Loss for Pre-Signals (Pips).

R:R Ratio TP Levels

Default: disabled New in v17.3

Dynamic TP mode where each Take Profit level is automatically calculated as a multiple of the signal's Stop Loss distance. Instead of fixed pip values, you configure multipliers (ratios) and the EA adapts to every signal's SL automatically.

  • Enable R:R Ratio TPs — Master toggle. When ON, signal TPs are ignored and R:R-calculated levels are used instead.
  • R:R Ratio 1–10 — Multipliers applied to the SL distance. 1.0 = 1:1 (TP at same distance as SL), 2.0 = 1:2, 3.0 = 1:3. Set to 0 to skip a slot.
💡 Example: SL = 150 pips, R:R Ratio 1 = 1.0, Ratio 2 = 2.0, Ratio 3 = 3.0 → TP1 = 150 pips, TP2 = 300 pips, TP3 = 450 pips. The distances adapt automatically to every signal.
⚠️ Priority: Manual TPs take priority over R:R Ratio TPs. If both are enabled simultaneously, R:R Ratio TPs are ignored. R:R Ratio TPs do not apply to Pre-Signal orders.

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