Building an MQL5 Dashboard for Multi-Symbol Positions and Account Metrics
Summary
The article describes an MQL5 dashboard that consolidates position and account information across symbols. It tracks buy and sell positions, trade and pending-order counts, lots, profit, swaps, commissions, balance, equity, and free margin. A configurable magic-number filter can limit the view to selected expert-advisor activity, and the interface organizes figures in a sortable grid with totals and CSV export.
The implementation uses structures to hold per-symbol values, periodically refreshes the display, and supports sorting columns and exporting a time-stamped report. The article explains the intended architecture and presents code, but the supplied text omits much of the implementation and gives no quantitative performance or usability results. Its backtesting section refers to a visualization without reporting measured outcomes. This is a monitoring tool rather than a trading strategy; dashboard figures can help review exposure and account status, but they do not themselves assess risk or recommend trades.
Key ideas
- The dashboard aggregates position, order, and account metrics across multiple symbols.
- A magic-number setting can filter displayed positions and orders.
- Sortable columns and totals help organize the monitoring view.
- CSV export provides a report for later analysis.
- The article describes a monitoring interface, not a signal-generation or risk-control method.
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