Anchor Trade Manager

Anchor Trade Manager

Anchor: The EA Manager

A coordination system for traders running multiple EAs. Anchor ensures only one EA can trade at a time, preventing conflicting positions and keeping your portfolio safer.

Attach Anchor to any chart. Configure your EAs and their magic numbers. Anchor handles the rest.

Built for portfolios. Built for discipline. Built for prop firms.

The Problem

Running multiple EAs on the same account creates risk. Two gold EAs can open opposite positions on the same candle. Three EAs can stack correlated trades. One bad minute can trigger every system at once.

You planned for 2% risk per trade. Instead you're running 6% because three EAs all fired at the same time on XAUUSD. Even worse if you're running multiple grid strategies.

Manual monitoring doesn't scale. You can't watch every chart 24 hours a day.

The Solution

Anchor monitors all your registered EAs in real time. When one EA opens a position, Anchor instantly pauses every other managed EA until that trade closes. No conflicts. No stacking. No surprises.

When the trade closes, all EAs resume automatically. The cycle repeats, every second, without intervention.

Your EAs don't need modification. They don't need to know Anchor exists. Works with any EA, from any vendor, on any symbol.

One trade at a time. Always.

Drawdown Protection

Set per-EA or account-wide floating loss limits. When an EA's drawdown hits your threshold, Anchor closes its positions and pauses it automatically. Other EAs keep trading normally.

Account-wide protection monitors total floating loss across all managed EAs. Option to close every position on the account, including non-managed trades, when the limit is hit.

Manual resume via an on-chart button when you're ready to restart.

News Filter

Built-in economic news filtering using the ForexFactory calendar feed.

Anchor pauses all managed EAs before high-impact news events and keeps them paused until the volatility window passes. Configurable minutes before and after, currency filters, and impact level selection.

Option to automatically close all managed positions before news, or simply pause new entries and let existing trades manage themselves.

No more NFP surprises.

Scheduler

Automated daily and weekly trading windows.

Set a close time and resume time in broker hours. Anchor pauses all EAs outside your defined trading window. Choose every weekday or Friday only for weekend risk protection.

Like the news filter, the scheduler can either pause EAs only or close all positions and pause.

Stop trading at 18:00. Resume at 08:00. Set it once and forget it.

Multi-Pair Portfolio Management

Run a single instance to coordinate one group of EAs, or run multiple instances for independent groups across different instruments.

One instance manages your three gold EAs on XAUUSD. Another manages your two AUDCAD strategies. A gold trade doesn't pause your AUDCAD group. Each instance operates with its own state, its own schedule, and its own news configuration. Fully independent.

What's Included

One-at-a-time trade coordination across your entire EA portfolio.

Automatic pause and restore with full settings preservation. No EA modification required.

Per-EA and account-wide drawdown protection with automatic position closure and manual resume.

Same-name EA support for running multiple instances of one EA on different symbols.

Terminal restart recovery. Anchor remembers its state through unexpected shutdowns.

ForexFactory news filter with configurable currency, impact, and timing windows.

Daily or Friday-only scheduler with broker-time close and resume.

Live on-chart status overlay showing state, active EA, paused EAs, news countdown, and schedule status.

Simple configuration: EA1:12345;EA2:67890. Up to 64 registered EAs.

Requirements

MetaTrader 5. One chart per Anchor instance, any symbol, any timeframe. WebRequest permission for the news filter (optional - URL provided in the input panel for easy setup).

Not compatible with the built-in MQL5 VPS. Requires a full MT5 installation (local or Windows VPS).

Important Notes

Do not manually change EA charts managed by Anchor while trades are paused.

The news filter fetches data every 4 hours and caches locally. Multiple instances sharing the same terminal coordinate automatically to avoid duplicate requests.

Anchor is a coordination tool, not a trading strategy. But as always, test your configuration on a demo account first.

About

Built by developers from the Trident trading community.

We build tools we use ourselves. Anchor runs on our own accounts, coordinating our own portfolio.

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