Operating the Trading Dashboard

The Trading page is the operational centre. Each connected MT5 account renders as a card showing balance, equity, connection status, current Risk%, and active Trading Windows.

Example account card, showing the Auto Trade toggle, Online status pill, and the Trading Window slider.

What a card shows

An expanded card carries the account nickname and type badge, the MT5 account number, the configured Risk%, balance and equity, the symbols the EA has reported, the chart count against your plan's limit, and the Trading Window summary.

The chart counter turns red and reads "limit reached" when the account is at its chart allowance, which is the first place to look when a new chart refuses to connect.

Collapse a card and it keeps only the nickname, account number and balance, which is the useful density when you run several accounts.

Connection status

• Online. The EA has polled recently.
• Offline. No heartbeat for 10 seconds, or Auto Trade is switched off.

The heartbeat threshold is tight because the EA polls once per second, so offline means roughly ten missed polls rather than a brief network hiccup.

Two details are worth knowing. The status check runs from your browser, every five seconds while the dashboard is open, so an account can sit marked as connected in the database while no tab is open anywhere. And switching Auto Trade off shows the card as Offline even though the EA is still connected and polling normally. That is a display decision, not a disconnection.

The Auto Trade toggle blocks webhooks, not manual trades

This is the most important thing on the page to get right.

Turning Auto Trade off stops webhook signals reaching the account. The check runs server-side: incoming alerts only select accounts that are connected and have auto trading enabled, so an alert arriving while the toggle is off never reaches your terminal.

It does not block manual trades. A trade sent from the Send Manual Trade form is queued and executed regardless of the toggle, because the manual path filters on connection only. If you switch Auto Trade off before a news event and then send a manual trade, that trade goes through.

The toggle also does not stop the EA. It keeps polling, keeps reporting balance and equity, and keeps managing trailing stops on open positions.

Reordering and collapsing cards

Drag a card by its grip handle to set the order. Collapse state and order are both stored in your browser's local storage rather than in your account.

That means the arrangement does not follow you to another browser or machine, and it is shared by anyone using the same browser profile, since it is not namespaced per user. Accounts that have no stored position sort last, so a newly added account appears at the bottom until you move it.

The manual trade form

Below the cards, a single-row form sends a trade through the same queue as webhook signals. Pick the target accounts, symbol, direction, stop loss and exit mode, then submit.

It is covered in full on Sending manual trades.