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Install

  • Installer (CheapTrader-0.1.0-setup.exe) or the portable zip (CheapTrader-0.1.0-win64.zip: unzip anywhere, run CheapTrader.exe).
  • You need Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). For real prices and trading, install MetaTrader 5, log in to a (demo) account and leave it open: the welcome tour finds it by itself.
  • Windows may say "Windows protected your PC" because the program is not signed: click More info, then Run anyway. Compare your download with SHA256SUMS.txt (Get-FileHash <file> -Algorithm SHA256).
  • Orders from the app are off until you switch them on in the MetaTrader menu. Trading carries a high risk of losing money: try it on a demo account first.

What is in 0.1.0

Charts and data

  • TradingView-style candlestick chart with live prices from MetaTrader 5, a watchlist of every symbol the
    broker offers, all intervals, saved layout, price tags, right-click menu.
  • A persistent bar store: history is fetched once and then served locally.
  • Runs without MetaTrader on a synthetic market; connects to MetaTrader by itself, without a restart, as soon
    as a terminal is open and logged in.

Trading

  • Market orders and limit / stop orders (placed from the ticket, the chart's right-click menu or a position box),
    stop loss and take profit that can be dragged on the chart, pending orders shown and editable on the chart.
  • Long / short position boxes that can place their trade: buy or sell now with their stop and target, leave a
    limit order at the entry, put their levels on an open position, and size the trade by risk (percent of
    balance, an amount, or lots). After a fill the box's entry line moves to where the trade opened.
  • Orders from the app are off in a fresh install. A switch in the MetaTrader menu turns them on.

Drawing tools

  • Trend line, long / short position, rectangle (extended to the right), parallel channel. Saved per symbol; can
    be locked (no moving, no deleting), removed for one symbol or all, and added from Python or the REST API.

Indicators

  • Built-in indicators and your own in Python (compute(df, params)), overlays and panes, shapes drawn with
    ct_draw, run in a sandbox.

Replay

  • Bar replay with a paper account, stop loss / take profit, trade markers and a performance report.

Windows program

  • CheapTrader.exe (one file, no Python needed) and an installer; a welcome tour on first start that checks
    and connects MetaTrader; in-app documentation; About window with credits.

Safety

  • Listens on 127.0.0.1 only and refuses requests from other web pages and for other host names.
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