MATTRIX 8x / MetaTrader 5 / v2.02 (beta)

AutoQuickTrade — Quick Manual

One-click trade panel for single pairs and currency baskets, with pyramiding, auto-pyramiding and line-triggered pending entries.

IN CHART VERITAS ⚡

01What it is

AutoQuickTrade puts a compact panel on your chart. One click opens or closes a whole position — a single broker pair, or a full MATTRIX basket traded as its real legs. On top it adds rule-based pyramiding (manual or automatic) and pending entries you set with a line on the chart.

02Setup

Chart symbol decides the mode. Any broker symbol → PAIR (1 leg). A MATTRIX synthetic chart → basket: #Big8 (7 legs), #RON/#ROFF (8), #RONm/#ROFFm (4 — the half baskets, handled like any custom basket below), #FIX (28 — must be enabled with Allow #FIX trade).
Custom baskets — any other # chart works too, and its members come straight from the symbol description that SyntheticCharts writes (AMD+CSCO+CVX+JNJ+...). Stocks, indices, metals, up to 8 legs, and fewer is fine. Nothing to configure: change the synthetic, and the EA follows.
Baskets need the SyntheticCharts EA to have created the # symbols first. AutoQuickTrade trades the real pairs; the # chart is only the host.
Hedging account required — each pyramid layer is its own ticket.
AlgoTrading must be ON (terminal toolbar) for any order to go through.
Charts opened from Basket Strength are opened by AutoQuickTrade, so the EA on the new chart inherits permission to trade. That needs three things at once: AlgoTrading on in the terminal, the calling AutoQuickTrade allowed to trade, and a template that contains AutoQuickTrade and was saved with Allow Algo Trading ticked. Miss one and the new chart’s EA loads but cannot trade.

#FIX (28 pairs) — a hot iron. One BUY / SELL / PEND acts on all 28 legs at once. Per-pair settings (pyramiding, AUTO, per-pair spread, anti-hedge) run on each leg on their own; basket settings (basket spread, max trades) apply to the summed 28. Risk multiplies by 28 — 0.1%/layer ≈ 2.8% across the basket — and up to 5 layers × 28 = 140 open tickets. Locked by default — use it on a DEMO account, for testing only.

Netting / exchange accounts: detected on load → the panel forces pyramiding and AUTO off. (An add on netting merges into the one net position and silently overwrites your SECURE / BE stop.) Single trades, SECURE, TP and partial closes still work correctly — a red ! NETTING - pyramiding OFF notice stays on the panel. For the full basket / pyramiding feature set, use a hedging account. Manual re-adds remain your responsibility.

Settings do not travel between charts. Opening a chart from Basket Strength carries the permission to trade — it does not carry your settings. Magic number, lot mode, risk, ATR parameters and SL/TP on the new chart come from its template, not from the chart you clicked on. A basket chart running risk-based sizing with magic 1112 can therefore open a pair chart that trades fixed lots with magic 1111 — both are behaving correctly. Check the panel before you trade a freshly opened chart, and keep the template you configure in Basket Strength in step with how you want those charts to trade. The journal records where the chart came from: Opened from #EUR.

03The panel

Actions

BUYSELL open at market, now.

PEND BUYPEND SELL arm a line-triggered entry.

CLOSE closes the whole pair/basket.

SECURETP protect & target open positions (server-side).

-25%-50% close part of every leg, now.

AUTO arms automatic pyramiding (only shown when enabled).

Info lines

Lot mode & risk
SL / TP basis (panel unit or ATR)
AutoPyr status (step & max layers)
P/L — net: profit + swap − est. commission (c:); with TL off the pip / point sum
Spread & block reason

A few seconds after load / profile switch the panel re-asserts itself on top, so indicator labels never cover it.

Switch row — timeframe bar and TL

A row above the panel holds switches that act on all open charts: the timeframe buttons on the left and TL on the right, directly above + / −. The row stays visible with the panel collapsed; a highlighted button (cyan) shows the current state of this chart. Panel Y position sets the top of this row (default 20); the panel starts one row lower.

Button	Effect
TL	Trade levels on / off — the terminal's Show trade levels on every open chart. With TL off the panel also hides money: P/L in pips / points instead of the account currency, the lot line without its amount (`$/pip: --`), and the pending / OCO line labels without lot and money, showing distances only.
1 · 5 · 15 · H1 · H4 · D1 · W1	Sets every open chart to this timeframe. Charts running an EA named in Timeframe bar: not on charts running these EAs are left alone (default: SyntheticCharts, BasketViewer — a timeframe change re-initialises them).

TL off for screenshots. Before posting a chart on social media, switch TL off: trade lines, money and lot sizes disappear, pips and points remain. The terminal's Trade tab (balance, positions) is not part of the chart — close it before taking the screenshot.

A timeframe change restarts every program on the chart. Indicators and EAs re-initialise, the panel is rebuilt and keeps its state, as with a manual timeframe change. Pip P/L with TL off counts every layer equally, whatever its lot — with pyramids of different lot sizes it can differ in sign from the money P/L.

By default the panel starts collapsed — useful when nine charts share one screen. Click + to open it, − to fold it back to the header line; a pure timeframe change keeps whichever state you left it in. Set Start with the panel collapsed to false for charts you actively trade from.

04Entering trades

Market: click BUY or SELL. For a basket, every leg opens at once (wide legs may be skipped — see Spread).

Pending (line-triggered):

1st click on PEND BUY/SELL → a cyan dashed line QT_ENTRY appears (labelled P-BUY / P-SELL) and the button shows DRAG & ARM.
Drag the line to your level (at least 0.03% away from price).
2nd click → ARMED. The EA fires the moment price reaches the line, from either side. Before the touch you can keep dragging it; after the touch it is locked.
Cancel anytime: click the armed button again, or delete the line.
While one direction is set up/armed, the opposite PEND button is locked.

Behaviour on touch: if spread is temporarily too wide, the EA keeps retrying (throttled) until it clears — bounded by Pend timeout seconds and the Pend max dist % chase limit. Any other rejection disarms and is logged.

Pending SL / TP lines (single-pair charts): arming a pending also places two draggable lines, pre-set to the distance your current settings would produce:

SL (red dashed) and TP (green dashed), each with a live label: distance in the panel unit, the resulting lot, the RR ratio, and what the level is worth in money — amount in account currency plus the share of your balance, e.g. -19.16 USD (-0.19 %).
The labels are right-aligned and end at the current candle, so they stay readable however long they get.
Drag either line and the entry uses exactly that level instead of the calculated one.
In Risk % + ATR mode the lot follows the SL distance, so your risk stays constant: drag the stop further out and the lot shrinks. The label updates as you drag.
Delete the TP line to enter with no take profit. Delete the SL line to fall back to the calculated stop.
The lines survive timeframe changes and re-appear on the level you dragged them to.

About those amounts. They are calculated with the broker's own contract size and currency conversion, not estimated — and they are net: the round-trip commission is subtracted, which makes the loss at the stop bigger and the gain at the target smaller. One caveat: the figure assumes a fill at the line you drew. For market execution it holds; for a pending in a fast market it is a close estimate, not a promise.

The EA refuses to fire on an impossible setup rather than letting the broker reject it: a line on the wrong side of the entry shows ! SL WRONG SIDE - trade blocked, and a lot the account cannot margin shows ! LOT > MARGIN, and a lot above the broker's maximum per order shows ! LOT > MAX. The pending stays armed — fix the line (or drag the stop further out to shrink the lot) and it triggers on the next touch. The reason is named in the journal.

OCO straddle and timed breakout (pair charts)

With OCO mode set to Breakout or Fade, PEND BUY and PEND SELL each place their own line and both can be armed at the same time. The first line touched fires; the other line is removed (one cancels the other). Click 1 places the line one ATR away on the correct side, click 2 arms it, click 3 cancels it.

Mode	Buy line	Sell line	Stop	Target
Breakout	above price	below price	the opposite line	range × OCO breakout TP (default 2, 0 = none)
Fade	below price	above price	beyond the line by OCO fade buffer (% of the range, default 20)	the opposite line

The range is the distance between the two lines. While both lines exist, each line shows its stop, target and lot, and dotted lines preview the stop and target levels; a line on the wrong side for the mode shows ! WRONG SIDE and cannot be armed. A single armed line without its counterpart behaves like a classic pending with the normal SL/TP settings. The fill uses the same gates as BUY/SELL (spread, margin, ! LOT > MAX); a blocked fill keeps the line armed and retries after 5 seconds. Lines and armed state survive a timeframe change.

Kept simple on purpose: OCO and timed breakout work on pair charts only; on basket charts the classic PEND BUY/SELL applies. While a position opened by OCO is open, AUTO makes no adds on that chart — one entry, one stop, one target. A line can only be armed if its target pays for the costs: TP must be at least OCO minimum TP / cost (default 3) × spread + round-trip commission, otherwise the label shows ! TP < COST and arming is refused (a timed breakout with a too-small range is skipped). The labels show the lot and the result at SL and TP in money, net of commission.

Timed breakout (OCO mode = Timed breakout) works like Breakout, but places the lines itself. One click on PEND BUY or PEND SELL arms it (button: BO WAIT hh:mm). When the reference candle closes — start Timed breakout time in server time (HH:MM), length Timed breakout minutes, built from M1 — both lines are drawn on its high and low and armed. If the price is already outside the range at that moment, the breakout is skipped as stale (no late entry). Unfired lines are removed Timed breakout expiry minutes after the candle close (0 = end of the server day). Clicking again while waiting or armed cancels everything. Each click arms one breakout; it does not repeat the next day.

OCO breakout SL buffer (% of the range, default 0) moves the stop of Breakout and Timed breakout beyond the opposite line.

Two risks remain: a price jump across both lines fills only the side that is touched first, and a false breakout can reverse straight into the stop at the opposite line.

05Lot sizing & stops

Fixed lot (LOT_AUTO): every layer = your lot, or a fixed $ / pip. SL/TP in pips.
Risk % + ATR (LOT_RISK_ATR): each layer is sized to a % of equity with an ATR-based SL and TP = SL × reward:risk.
$ per 1% move (LOT_DOLLAR_PCT): each layer is sized so that a 1% price move is worth $/PCT: money per 1% move; SL and TP are set in percent of price (stop distance in %, target distance in %, 0 = off). This is $ / pip for instruments whose points do not compare: one point on an index near 44,000 and one near 2,400 are the same number but a very different move — one percent is not. Sizing and stops share the same unit on purpose. With money per 1% move = 0 the fixed lot is used.
Broker maximum per order. Every broker caps the lot of a single order (e.g. 10 ETH, 100 SOL, 1,000 XRP lots). If the calculated lot is above that cap, AutoQuickTrade refuses BUY, SELL and pending fills rather than sending a smaller lot — a silently smaller lot would be a silently smaller risk. The panel shows ! LOT > MAX, and the journal names the symbol, the lot needed and the maximum. On a basket, one leg above the cap blocks the whole basket. Lower the amount ($/PCT or $ / pip) or use another lot mode; on load the journal also states the highest amount per 1% the maximum allows.
Custom baskets behave the same way. In Risk % + ATR every member is sized to the same risk, which evens out the volatility difference between, say, a $170 and a $610 stock. With a fixed $ / pip every member gets the same lot instead — that equalises $ per point (index style) but not risk, and the EA says so once in the journal.

Units — the spread is your yardstick. The panel labels every distance in the symbol's own unit, and the spread reading is the anchor: whatever unit it shows is exactly the unit your SL / TP / SECURE values use.
• Forex & metals → pips (e.g. EURUSD 0.8 pips, Gold 1.1 pips).
• Indices, crypto, stocks → pts, where 1 pt = one whole price unit (index point / $1): US30 0.7 pts, BTCUSD 12 pts. So a SECURE trail of 10 on US30 is 10 index points; on BTCUSD it is $10. That is why the settings read panel unit rather than "pips". (In Risk % + ATR mode the entry SL/TP are ATR-based and self-scaling anyway; the panel unit governs the manual buttons.)

06Protect & take profit — the offline bracket

Three one-click tools manage open positions. SECURE and TP place server-side stops and targets, so they keep working even when MT5 is closed — together they bracket the position for a walk-away.

SECURE — break-even & trail

Secure distance = 0 → locks the stack's net break-even (entry ± round-trip cost + SECURE net-BE buffer, default 3 panel units) once it is profitable enough. > 0 → trails that many pips behind the current price, but never looser than break-even — BE is a floor under the trail. Tighten-only; re-click to trail up.

Live: PROTECTED (every leg has a stop) · NAKED: n (n legs unprotected).

TP — the ceiling

Sets a server-side take-profit TP distance pips ahead of the current price on every leg — re-click to trail it. A green TP: n set flash confirms your target was placed.

-25%-50% Partial close: close that share of every leg's volume, immediately — discretionary profit-taking / de-risking. Lot-safe: a leg is skipped if the closed part or the remainder would fall below the broker min lot.

Net P/L & cost model: the panel P/L is net — profit + swap − estimated round-trip commission, learned automatically from your fills per symbol and shown as c:. Set Round-trip commission / lot to override, or leave 0 to auto-learn.

Offline vs online: SECURE and TP survive offline (real SL / TP orders on the broker). The -25% / -50% partials are manual clicks — online by nature, but their result is permanent. Anything account-wide or trailing stays online-only.

07Basket exit lines — SET SL / SET TP

On a basket chart the panel shows two extra buttons. They place a price level on the synthetic chart that closes every leg of this basket when the basket price crosses it — a basket-level exit that sits above whatever stops the individual legs carry.

1st click → the line appears at the current price, button shows DRAG&ARM. Nothing is active yet.
Drag it wherever you want it — close to price is your call.
2nd click → ARMED. The chart label reads SL-ARMED / TP-ARMED.
3rd click (or deleting the line) removes it.

Same three-step rhythm as the pending lines: click to place, drag to position, click to arm. An armed line can still be dragged — the side is re-taken, so moving it never triggers it.

Wrong side is refused: a long basket takes SL below and TP above (short: the other way round). The EA works the direction out from the open legs, or from an armed pending if nothing is open yet, and shows ! wrong side for a LONG basket instead of arming.
Buttons unlock as soon as one leg is open or a pending is armed — so you can prepare the exit before the entry fires. With nothing open and nothing armed they stay greyed out.
When one fires, all legs close, both lines are cleared and any armed pending is disarmed. If the basket goes flat by other means, the levels clear themselves.
The armed state survives a timeframe change, recompile or restart.

Online only. These levels are watched by the EA, not held at the broker. They need the terminal running with this chart loaded, and they do not replace the stops on your individual legs — they overlay them.

08Pyramiding

Adding to a winning trade, on your terms. Same rules whether you click or AUTO does it:

Only add in profit — block adds while the weakest layer is red.
Min pips on weakest layer — how far in profit before the next add (0 = off).
Move to BE + BE buffer — pull earlier layers to break-even on each add.
An added layer is never larger than your first layer (prop-style cap, applied in both lot modes).

Add purely on your own confirmation regardless of profit? Set Min pips = 0 and Only add in profit = false.

In Risk % + ATR mode: lot, SL and TP scale with volatility, but Min pips and BE buffer stay pip-based — scale them to the instrument like SL/TP (on BTCUSD a 1000-pip add step ≈ $100).

09AUTO pyramiding — two switches

AUTO does exactly what a manual add would, automatically. It fires only when both are on:

Level 1 — Settings: Enable AUTO Pyramiding (makes the panel button appear).
Level 2 — Panel: the green AUTO button (arms it for this session).

Safety reset: AUTO returns to OFF after every restart, profile switch, symbol change and parameter change — you re-arm deliberately. It is preserved only across a pure timeframe change. AUTO is local: it runs only while MT5 and the chart are live.

10Spread filters

Setting	Effect
Max spread per pair	Skips individual wide legs and opens the rest of the basket.
Max basket spread	Sums all legs; if the total is exceeded the whole basket is rejected (0 = off).

On wide-cross baskets (e.g. #GBP) raise the basket limit or set it to 0, and set the per-pair limit to suit your style.

11Magic number — your separation tool

AUTO and pending only manage positions whose magic matches Magic Number (default 1111). Trades from the panel carry it automatically; manual platform orders carry magic 0 and are ignored. Use the magic to keep discretionary and tool-managed trades apart.

Not "0 = all". Unlike the Position Monitor (where a magic filter of 0 means every position), in AutoQuickTrade the magic is a literal stamp & filter. Each chart manages only its own magic. Setting Magic Number to 0 therefore manages manual trades (they carry magic 0) — not the panel's own trades, and not "all". One panel cannot manage a mixed set (e.g. own 1111 + manual 0) at once — by design.

12Safety & limits

Online-only: AUTO and pending watch in real time — they act only while MT5 + the chart + EA are running with AlgoTrading on.
Kill switch: turn AlgoTrading off, or remove the EA, to stop all activity instantly. CLOSE always works.
Baskets are correlated: #FIX = 28 legs in one direction is the extreme case — size accordingly.
Strategy Tester: in the MT5 tester the panel cannot be clicked, so the EA runs a simple Donchian breakout demo instead (Donchian lookback, default 20 bars) to show the order handling. It has no meaning outside the tester and never runs on a live or demo chart.
Beta build: AutoQuickTrade is still in beta, and a beta build may carry an expiry date. After it, the EA opens no new trades — BUY, SELL, PEND and AUTO are blocked and an armed pending is cancelled — while CLOSE, SECURE, TP and partial closes stay available, so open positions can always be managed. The header tooltip shows the date of your build; a newer build replaces it.

13Key settings — quick reference

Group	Setting	Note
Trade	Lot size / Target $ per pip	Fixed-lot mode
Trade	SL / TP (panel unit)	0 = off
Trade	Magic Number	Separation key (1111)
Trade	Max spread per pair / per basket	Skip leg / reject basket
Trade	Anti-Hedge, Max positions, Allow #FIX	Guards
Lot mode	Lot sizing mode	Fixed lot · Risk % + ATR · $ per 1% move
Lot mode	Risk %, ATR period / TF / SL mult / RR	RISK_ATR only
Lot mode	Money per 1% move, stop / target distance in %	$/PCT only, 0 = off
Pyramiding	Enable, Only in profit, Min pips, Move to BE, BE buffer	Apply to manual & AUTO
Auto-pyr	Enable AUTO Pyramiding	Level 1 switch
Auto-pyr	Max layers, Cooldown (sec)	Automation guards
Pending	Pend timeout (sec)	Retry window, 0 = until filled/cancelled
Pending	Pend max dist (%)	Chase limit, 0 = off
OCO	OCO mode	Off (classic) · Breakout · Fade · Timed breakout
OCO	OCO breakout TP (range ×)	2, 0 = no TP
OCO	OCO fade buffer (% of range)	20
OCO	OCO breakout SL buffer (% of range)	0 = SL on the opposite line
OCO	OCO minimum TP / cost (× spread + commission)	3, 0 = off
OCO	Timed breakout: start (server HH:MM) / minutes / expiry	15:30 · 15 · 120 (0 = end of day)
Protect	SECURE trail distance behind price (panel unit)	0 = net break-even
Protect	SECURE net-BE buffer (panel unit)	Locked above cost break-even (3)
Protect	TP distance from current price (panel unit)	0 = off
Cost	Round-trip commission per lot	0 = auto-learn from fills
Display	Start with the panel collapsed	Default on — click + to open. Kept across a timeframe change.
Display	Timeframe buttons 1 5 15 H1 H4 D1 W1 (all charts)	Default on
Display	Timeframe bar: not on charts running these EAs	Comma list, default `SyntheticCharts,BasketViewer`
Tester	Donchian lookback (bars)	Strategy Tester demo only (20)