Local Trade Copier Dashboard (Blue Box)

When Local Trade Copier is attached to the chart it will begin to work. On the left top corner, you will have dashboard (Blue Box) with EA settings and other info with a “Server read” counter that should be incrementing. Dashboard displays EA settings and various information to help you know how EA operates. It shows many different information like: MT4 terminal path (helps to identify which MT4 instance it is when you have multiple MT4′s on the same computer), trade pair list to be ignored, broker time and broker server connection status, max broker delay, running trades info (including delayed trades) and EA input settings.

Local Trade Copier Blue Box Dashboard with icons

Client EA show “Delayed” trade count so you can see how many trades are delayed because of the price being too far from the entry. You can adjust the distance using MaxPriceDeviationPips setting. Please do not panic if you did not get some of the trades, maybe they are delayed.

Dashboard (Blue Box)

DashboardDisplay – this setting control how you want EA to display the dashboard (Blue Box). If this value is set to 0 (zero), EA will not display the dashboard. If you set this value to 1, EA will display the dashboard without background. If you set this value to 2, EA will display the dashboard with the background set by DashboardColor. To display dashboard on top of the chart you may need to uncheck “Chart on foreground” box in the chart properties window (F8) “Common” tab.
Dashboard position on screen were chosen wisely.
• Notice that the dashboard is aligned to the left but there are space left. This space is reserved for your trade ticket numbers. Notice when you open trade and MT4 platform display trade type (buy/sell) and ticket number at the left of the chart. This is why dashboard is moved a bit to the right to not cover that information.
• Vertical alignment of the dashboard is set to the top but there is some space left and that is where EA will display critical errors in red bold text. This is very helpful to not miss any critical errors.
• Dashboard icons are gray when they are not active and when EA wants you to notice something important the certain icons will turn red.

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