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Trading guides
Practical answers about MT5 capture, trade data, performance metrics, review workflows and AI integrations. Each guide states its sources, assumptions and limits.
MT5 setup and capture
Connect the reporter, understand terminal requirements, and diagnose missing journal data.
Is importing MT5 history the same as recording trades live?
Understand why completed trade records and captured chart context can have different coverage.
Can I journal trades placed in the MT5 mobile app?
Understand why mobile MT5 trades need a connected desktop terminal or VPS for automatic journal capture.
Why does an automatic MT5 journal need the terminal running?
Learn what stays active in the terminal-to-journal reporting model and how to distinguish capture from display.
Is the MT5 Journal tab the same as a trading journal?
Distinguish terminal diagnostic logs from a structured record used for trade review and performance analysis.
What should I check when MT5 blocks the reporter's WebRequest?
Diagnose the allowed URL, terminal environment and logs before changing unrelated MT5 permissions.
Does the Chart Reporter EA need Algo Trading enabled?
Separate the permissions for reporting MT5 activity from permission to execute automated trades.
What happens to MT5 reporting when I rotate my API key?
Plan a reporter-key rotation across all connected terminals without confusing it with MCP authorisation.
Why is my MT5 terminal online but my journal looks empty?
Use account, filter, access and trade-state checks to distinguish an empty view from a reporting failure.
Trade data and reconciliation
Understand fees, partial exits, account currency, and the scope of a journal record.
Why does a trade appear on different dates in Local and Broker time?
Understand calendar boundaries and timezone filters before comparing daily MT5 journal results.
Can I add results from trading accounts with different currencies?
Keep account denominations, cent units and currency conversion separate when reviewing multiple MT5 hubs.
Why does the initial stop differ from the stop shown at exit?
Keep original risk separate from later stop changes when reviewing an MT5 trade and its R multiple.
Why can a profitable MT5 trade show a negative net result?
Work through profit, commission and swap with their recorded signs before comparing trading-journal totals.
Why do older trades disappear when I change my journal view?
Check history entitlement, archive state and filters before treating an absent trade as deleted data.
How should a journal count partial closes in MT5?
Distinguish execution events from completed trade records so partial exits do not inflate count or P&L.
Why does cumulative journal P&L differ from my broker balance?
Distinguish realised closed-trade results from account cash flows, floating P&L and live equity.
How do I reconcile a trading journal with an MT5 statement?
Use a small known sample and matching scope to locate disagreements between broker history and journal results.
Performance metrics
Read trading statistics with explicit formulas, worked examples, and sample limits.
What is the difference between expectancy in money and expectancy in R?
Keep account-unit averages and risk-normalised averages separate when comparing trading results.
Why does candle resolution matter when reviewing MAE and MFE?
Understand excursion coverage and intrabar uncertainty before drawing conclusions about stops or exits.
What can a trading-journal Monte Carlo simulation actually tell me?
Interpret resampled R sequences as a conditional model rather than a forecast or live equity simulation.
Why can a trade's price R differ from its net R?
Work through initial stop distance, signed price movement and costs without treating missing risk as zero.
How should I calculate profit factor after trading costs?
Calculate profit factor from net trade outcomes and interpret zero-loss and empty samples correctly.
What does realised drawdown tell me about my trading journal?
Interpret declines in cumulative closed-trade P&L without confusing them with live account equity risk.
How much confidence should I place in a small trade sample?
Use sample size, coverage and selection discipline when interpreting journal statistics and subgroup rankings.
Why is win rate an incomplete measure of trading performance?
Read winning-trade frequency alongside net payoff, costs and sample definitions.
Trade review workflows
Build repeatable reviews using notes, strategies, sessions, and captured chart context.
How can I compare two trading periods without changing the question?
Control date length, timezone, filters, units and sample coverage when reviewing previous-period changes.
Why can a journaled trade have no replay candles?
Diagnose absent, insufficient and partial candle history separately from the trade record.
How should I define a trading session that crosses midnight?
Use explicit session windows and timezones instead of relying on ambiguous calendar-day labels.
How can I review a losing trade without rewriting the original decision?
Separate the information available at entry from later outcomes when writing trade-review notes.
Why does my saved journal view not appear on another device?
Understand which review settings are browser-local and which notes and tags are stored with your account.
When should I use a screenshot instead of trade replay?
Compare a captured chart image with reconstructed broker-candle context and understand what each can establish.
What is the difference between a strategy and a tag in a trading journal?
Use stable strategy identity and descriptive tags without turning every observation into a new strategy.
What should a repeatable weekly trade review include?
Build a review around a complete sample, record checks, one question and a documented follow-up.
AI and journal integrations
Give an assistant useful trading context while checking permissions, evidence, and capability boundaries.
Can an AI assistant read my Chart Reporter screenshots and notes?
Understand the difference between stored journal material and what the current MCP tools return.
How can I check whether an AI trade-review report is inventing facts?
Audit identity, sample coverage, arithmetic and provenance before relying on a generated journal summary.
Is the reporter API key the same as an MCP access token?
Distinguish terminal reporting authentication from an assistant's journal-reading authorisation.
What evidence should I ask for when evaluating an automatic MT5 journal?
Compare capture requirements, reconciliation, context, privacy boundaries and exportable evidence.
Why use a persistent journal alongside a terminal AI connection?
Separate live terminal tasks from historical journal review and verify each integration's permissions.
What questions can an AI assistant answer from a trading journal?
Match review questions to available trade records, scope and evidence instead of expecting predictions from history.
What does read-only MCP access to trading history actually permit?
Understand the execution boundary and the sensitivity of account-scoped journal access.
What should I include in a prompt for an AI journal review?
Specify scope, definitions, evidence and output requirements so an assistant can produce an auditable review.