MetaTrader 5 in your terminal

A small program runs in your own MT5 and reports to Tradeus. No password leaves your machine — and copying stops when the machine does.

MetaTrader 5 has no API for your own account. Every service that claims one is running a Windows terminal in a datacentre with a small program inside it, exactly like the one you are about to install — the only difference is whose computer it runs on. Tradeus gives you that program to run on yours.

So you type no password anywhere. Tradeus never signs in to your broker, and there is nothing stored on our side that could. For a prop-firm account that matters beyond privacy: handing a third party your master password is what most firms' rules call credential sharing, and this route never asks for one.

  1. 1
    Get your token
    Pick MetaTrader 5 on the connect screen. Tradeus shows you a token and an address, once. Only a fingerprint of the token is kept, so copy it before you leave the page.
  2. 2
    Install the program
    Download Tradeus.mq5, put it in your terminal's MQL5\Experts folder and press F7 to compile it.
  3. 3
    Allow the address
    In MetaTrader: Tools → Options → Expert Advisors → tick “Allow WebRequest for listed URL” and add the address Tradeus gave you. Skip this and the terminal silently refuses to talk to us.
  4. 4
    Put it on a chart
    Drag it onto any chart, paste the token and the address into its settings, and allow algo trading. Your account appears in Tradeus within a few seconds.
It only works while MetaTrader is open
The program asks Tradeus for work four times a second. Close the terminal, let the computer sleep, lose the connection — and copying stops until it comes back. Nothing warns you, because a program that has stopped asking cannot report that it stopped. If the account matters, run it somewhere that stays awake.

Tradeus will not guess at an account it cannot see. If the terminal has not reported for a few seconds, reading that account fails with a message saying so rather than answering from the last picture it had — because sizing a trade against an account that has since moved is the kind of mistake that only shows up on the statement.

What to expect
Speed
A copied trade arrives roughly a third of a second to a second and a half after the signal. Half of that is the wait until the program next asks.
Symbols
Your broker's own spelling is used — EURUSD.pro or XAUUSD.m rather than EURUSD. Where the name your alert uses differs, map it on the account.
Hedging or netting
Read from the account itself, never assumed. MetaTrader decides this per account and your broker sets it, and the two behave differently when an opposing signal arrives.
Stops
A stop and a target travel with the order itself, so there is no moment where the position is open and unprotected.

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