Visual Guide to the Dashboard Buttons
Every button and info row on RiskManager EA's “Trading” and “Utility” tabs, plus all three Executive Hub categories — “Draw,” “Label,” and “Indicator” — is numbered with its explanation alongside it, for a quick understanding of what each part of the panel does.
Trade execution and live risk controls
This is the tab you work with during a trade: opening positions, managing risk, and cooldown status. On the left of the chart you can also see Executive Hub's three minimized buttons (sections 3-5).
Executive Hub (minimized) companion panel
The Ind / Label / Draw buttons belong to Executive Hub — the independent analysis toolkit that sits next to the EA; see sections 3-5 of this guide.
Trading / Utility tabs tab switcher
Switches between the current trading tab and the Utility tab, which holds chart tools and performance reports (section 2).
Status bar status bar
“READY TO TRADE” means no lock or cooldown is currently active and the EA is ready to execute; the same line shows the relevant message while a lock is active or while you're picking an SL.
Open Risk / Floating
Current open risk against the configured ceiling (Open Risk: 0.00%/5.00% — the v70 default ceiling is MaxTotalRisk) and the live floating profit/loss percentage of the account.
Risk Toggle Full/Half Risk
Switches between full risk and half of the risk defined in RiskPerTrade; reducing risk is always one click, increasing it requires going into Inputs — a deliberate design against impulsive risk escalation. Every risk input also carries an independent hard ceiling that auto-clamps a value if it's set too high.
RR cycle button
Cycles the reward:risk ratio through 1 to 5 with each click; TP is calculated from this.
MARKET ORDER
Immediate entry at the current market price; lot size is calculated from the distance to the selected SL and the configured risk percentage.
PENDING ORDER
Places a pending order (limit/stop) at the price you select on the chart; it's the activation of this order, not its placement, that counts as a behavioral event (Entry Interval).
Break Even
Moves SL to the entry price (plus BEextra pips). Has two modes: Individual (each position moves separately, default) or Basket Average (every same-direction position moves together to one shared weighted breakeven).
Half Close
Closes 50% of the position; if price is at or beyond +1R at the moment of the click, the remainder is exempt from Behavior Cooldown tracking.
BULK CLOSE
Closes every open position at once — an irreversible action, colored red per the dashboard's color language for “destructive/warning.” (This button was named Full Close in older versions.)
Auto Trail
Toggles the automatic trailing-stop engine on/off; it has two modes — Candle (based on candle structure) or EMA (follows an EMA, default period 70) — chosen in Inputs, and can be triggered manually or automatically at a configured trigger RR.
Mkt CD Market Cooldown
Consecutive stop-loss count against the lock threshold (0 of 4 here); reaching the ceiling locks new entries for 2 hours. The streak resets automatically after 3 hours with no stop-loss.
Beh CD Behavior Cooldown
Behavioral strike count (early exit, management before +1R, or SL change) against the lock threshold (0 of 4); reaching SL or +1R resets the counter.
[-] Performance
Collapsible performance panel; clicking this header collapses or expands it.
Daily / Weekly / Monthly table
Percentage and R value of daily, weekly, and monthly drawdown against each one's configured limit.
Chart tools and performance reports
This tab isn't about the live trade; it covers visual chart tools and historical performance stats. Compared to older versions, Export CSV, Tag Trades, Session, and Key Time were added as separate buttons.
Executive Hub (minimized)
The same Ind/Label/Draw buttons, independent of the Utility tab — sections 3-5.
Trading / Utility tabs
Same tab switcher as above; Utility is active here.
Status bar
“Trading Reports: expanded” means the performance report drawer (item 18) is currently open.
Open Risk / Floating
The same open-risk and floating readouts, shared between both tabs so they're always visible.
[Tools]
Header for the chart's visual-tools section.
CANDLE TIMER
Countdown timer to the current candle's close, shown on the chart. Active/green in the screenshot.
BE REF LINE
Shows/hides a horizontal reference line on the chart for the Break Even level. Active/green in the screenshot.
D H/L Daily High/Low
Shows the daily high/low on the chart with one click.
W H/L Weekly High/Low
Shows the weekly high/low on the chart.
M H/L Monthly High/Low
Shows the monthly high/low on the chart.
MARKERS Entry/Exit Markers
Entry and exit markers for trades, drawn on the chart.
Hide Objects
Hides every currently-enabled visual tool on the chart at once, without turning them off.
RISK/REWARD
Shows risk/reward preview lines (entry, SL, TP) on the chart before placing an order.
MEASURE MOVE
A tool for measuring the price move between two selected points on the chart.
EXPORT CSV
Manually rebuilds the CSV journal file; AutoExportOnClose already does this automatically after every trade closes.
TAG TRADES
Opens the trade-tagging window (Strategy/Setup + Mental State); the window stays open until manually closed so both kinds of tag can be set without reopening it.
SESSION Session-Level tagging
Automatically tags a trade's entry session (Tokyo/London/New York/out-of-session) based on the moment the trade opened.
KEY TIME
A key-time marker on the chart. Active/green in the screenshot.
[-] Trading Reports
Collapsible header for the trade-statistics report section.
DAILY / WEEKLY / MONTHLY
Selects the reporting period for the stats table below; “DAILY” is selected in the screenshot.
Stats table
For the selected period: Win Rate, Profit Factor, average R:R, Expectancy, drawdown (in R and percent), and trade count — all calculated live from trade history.
Drawing tools
Eight chart-drawing tools, each activated with one click and left on the chart until cleared with the master button or manually. These objects are independent of the Hub and stay on the chart even if the indicator is removed.
Master button — Draw
Opens/collapses the drawing tools below. Clicking it again hides every drawing currently on the chart at once — the feature this whole part of Executive Hub grew out of.
Shade 1
Solid-filled zone using preset color 1 (light silver by default, changeable in Inputs).
Shade 2
Solid-filled zone using preset color 2 (dark grey).
Shade 3
Solid-filled zone using preset color 3 (turquoise).
Shade 4
Solid-filled zone using preset color 4 (light pink).
Rectangle 1
Hollow (outline-only) rectangle in color 1.
Rectangle 2
Hollow rectangle in color 2.
Path
A multi-point path/broken-line drawing tool.
Line
A simple straight line between two points, red by default.
Labeling system
16 fixed labels for common price-action/smart-money concepts, so there's no need to type text on the chart by hand.
Master button — Label
Opens/collapses the 16 one-click labels below; each label drops a text object on the chart that can be repositioned.
LEG 1
Marks the first leg of a price move.
LEG 2
Marks the second leg.
LEG 3
Marks the third leg.
TR Trend/Range
Short label for trend or range state.
SP Support/Pivot
Short label for a support or pivot point.
CH Change of Character
Short label for a change in price character.
FVG Fair Value Gap
Marks a fair value gap.
POI Point of Interest
Marks a point of interest.
CHOCH Change of Character
The fuller label for a structural change of character.
SWEEP
Marks a liquidity sweep.
MEASURE
A label tied to move measurement (complements the Measure Move tool on the Utility tab).
LIQUIDITY
Marks a liquidity zone.
BREAKOUT
Marks a structural breakout point.
BREAKEVEN
A reference label for the breakeven level (complements BE REF LINE on the Utility tab).
GOLDEN ZONE
Marks the golden Fibonacci zone.
NY-EDGE
A label tied to the New York key level — complements the NY-Edge module in the Indicator category (next section).
Indicator-based tools
Unlike Draw and Label, which are plain chart objects, this category consists of real indicators (they consume buffers). The four EMA buttons, alongside the master button, let you toggle each line independently.
Master button — Indicator
Opens/collapses the tools below, each of which consumes a real indicator buffer (not just a chart object). Together these modules use 7 buffers — which is exactly why Ichimoku MTF, MTF MACD, and MTF RSI are deliberately kept outside the Hub (MT4 caps any single indicator at 8 buffers).
POC Point of Control
Plots the point of control (highest traded volume/density) on the chart.
WMAP Weekly Map
A map of weekly levels.
SOB Session Opening Box
The session opening box; currently active/teal on Tokyo — London and New York exist in Inputs but are off by default (only Tokyo is backtested as of this version).
NY-EDGE
The New York key level as a live line on the chart; currently active/teal.
MTFCP MTF Candle Preview
A preview of higher-timeframe candles alongside the current chart.
EMA10
Toggles the EMA line with a period of 10 on/off instantly.
EMA20
Toggles the EMA line with a period of 20 on/off instantly.
EMA60
Toggles the EMA line with a period of 60 on/off instantly.
EMA240
Toggles the EMA line with a period of 240 on/off instantly. All four EMAs also share three display modes (Four Lines / Active Cloud / Momentum Color), chosen in Inputs.