Building a Visual Pending-Order Assistant for MetaTrader 5
Summary
The article describes an MQL5 Expert Advisor that places pending Forex orders through an interactive chart interface. Traders choose Buy Stop, Sell Stop, Buy Limit, or Sell Limit, enter a lot size, and adjust entry, stop-loss, and take-profit levels by dragging chart elements. Buttons place, cancel, or close the tool, while chart labels show the selected price levels.
The implementation uses chart objects for the controls and price markers, plus MQL5’s trading library to submit orders. The article presents a compiled visualization and describes dragging the markers and placing trades as a functional check. It does not report measured execution quality, error rates, or a systematic backtest, so the evidence supports interface behavior rather than trading performance. Risk-management features are mentioned as future work; the described tool does not establish position sizing from account risk or validate whether an order is appropriate for market conditions.
Key ideas
- An on-chart interface can make pending-order prices adjustable through draggable entry, stop-loss, and take-profit markers.
- The tool supports four pending-order types and allows the user to specify trade volume.
- MQL5 chart objects provide the visual controls, while its trading library handles order submission.
- The article demonstrates interface behavior but does not provide quantitative evidence of trading performance.
- Risk-based sizing and other advanced safeguards are outside the implementation described.
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