MetaTrader 5 Auto-Trade

Connect your MetaTrader 5 account, field by field.

Triggon asks for four things: a trade server, an account number, a password and an optional label. This page tells you exactly where each one lives, what to press to get it, and what you should see at every stage. Follow it top to bottom and you will not need to search for anything.

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The four values, and where each one comes from

Part A collects them. Part B types them in. If you already have all four, go straight to Part B.

Broker trade serverA name like ICMarketsSC-Demo. In MetaTrader 5: View → Navigator, under Accounts, it is the text after the account name. Step 04 →

Account number (login)The digits your broker issued, usually 6 to 9 of them. The same Navigator → Accounts line, at the start. Step 03 →

Master passwordThe password that can place orders, not the read-only investor one. Your broker issued it; you can change it yourself. Step 05 →

Label (optional)Any name you like, so you can tell several connected accounts apart later. Nothing depends on it.

Two more things, neither of them a value to copy. Algorithmic trading has to be switched on for the account (Tools → Options → Expert Advisors, step 07), and you need a live subscription to the Strategy, because Auto-Trade is an add-on to one.

You do not need to keep MetaTrader 5 running. Triggon reaches your account through your broker's server, not through a copy of the terminal on your computer. You are opening MetaTrader 5 to read four values and check one setting.

Part A

In MetaTrader 5, and at your broker

Eight steps. Steps 01 and 02 are skippable if you already have an account and the terminal installed; everything after that is reading values off a screen.

Get an account, if you do not have one

Where: your broker's own website. Triggon does not issue MetaTrader 5 accounts and does not introduce brokers.

Do: open a demo account first. Brokers issue them free and instantly, they quote real prices and enforce real broker rules, and no real money is involved. You can also create one inside the terminal with File → Open an Account.

You should receive: an email containing the account number, a master password, an investor password, and the server name. Keep it. If you already trade on MetaTrader 5, that email is the fastest route through the rest of Part A.

Install MetaTrader 5 and log in

Where: download it from your broker's own site so you get the build pointed at their servers, or from the official MetaTrader 5 download page. There are Windows and macOS builds, phone apps, and most brokers offer a web terminal that installs nothing.

Do: open the terminal and choose File → Login to Trade Account. Fill in Login, Password and Server from your welcome email, then press OK.

You should see: the bottom right of the window changes from No connection to a connection speed, and your account appears in the title bar. If it will not log in here, it will not connect from Triggon either, so solve it at this step.

Read the account number (login)

Where: View → Navigator (keyboard: Ctrl+N) opens the Navigator panel. Expand Accounts. Each account is listed as the number, then your name, then the server.

Also: the terminal's title bar shows it, and your broker's client portal lists it under your accounts. It is the same number your broker's emails call the login.

Write down: the digits only. No spaces, no letters, no account-type words.

Read the trade server name

Where: the same Navigator → Accounts line, after your name. It is your broker's name joined to a label for the particular server.

Also: the Server box in the login dialog from step 02 lists every server your broker runs; the one currently in use is selected. View → Toolbox (Ctrl+T) then the Journal tab logs the server name on every login.

Write down: the name character for character, including hyphens, digits and any suffix. ICMarketsSC-Demo and ICMarketsSC-Demo02 are different servers. This is the value people get wrong most often.

Watch out: demo and live accounts almost always sit on differently named servers. Read it off the account you actually mean to connect.

Use the master password, not the investor one

Every MetaTrader 5 account has two passwords. The master password can place orders. The investor password is read-only: it can watch the account but cannot trade. Auto-Trade places orders, so only the master password works, and Triggon refuses the investor one by name.

To change or reset it: in the terminal, right-click the account under Navigator → Accounts and choose Change password, or use Tools → Options → Server and the Change button. The dialog asks which password you are changing: choose master.

If you have forgotten it: MetaTrader 5 cannot recover a password, and neither can Triggon. Your broker issued it, so your broker resets it. Sign in to their client portal, find the account in the accounts list, and use its password or reset option; if there is none, their support can reissue it. A reset password reaches you the same way the original did.

Pick the right account, if you have several

Brokers hand out demo accounts freely, so most people have more than one. Three ways to be sure which is which, all in Navigator → Accounts:

By server: a demo account's server name usually contains a word like Demo, Trial or Practice; a funded one usually contains Live, Real or Pro. The name is the clearest signal you have.

By balance: double-click an account to log in to it, then read the balance in View → Toolbox → Trade. A demo account is normally opened with a round figure you chose.

By what you want to happen: connect the account you are willing to have trades placed on. If you are not sure, that is the demo account.

Switch algorithmic trading on

Where: Tools → Options, then the Expert Advisors tab.

Do: tick Allow algorithmic trading and press OK. The Algo Trading button on the toolbar shows the same state, so you can check it at a glance afterwards.

If it is disabled for the account itself: a few brokers offer account types with automated trading switched off, and only they can change that. Triggon's validation says so in as many words if this is what is missing, and the fix is a message to your broker's support asking them to enable algorithmic trading on the account.

Check the four values before you leave

Do: log out and log back in with exactly what you wrote down. File → Login to Trade Account, type the account number, paste the master password, select the server, press OK.

You should see: a successful connection, and in View → Toolbox → Journal a line recording the login against that server. If that works, the same three values will work in Triggon, because Triggon does the same thing with them.

If it fails here, the message in the Journal tab names which part was wrong, and it is worth fixing now rather than in the next screen.

MetaTrader 5's own manual covers every window named above, including the Navigator, the Toolbox and the Options dialog: the official MetaTrader 5 user guide. Menu wording differs slightly between builds and between Windows, macOS and the web terminal; where your broker's own instructions disagree with the paths above, follow your broker.

Part B

In Triggon

Eight steps, all in the Mini App. Nothing is charged until step 07, and you can close the sheet at any point before that without having changed anything.

Open Auto-Trade on the Strategy

Path: Marketplace tab → find the Strategy's card → Auto-Trade button on the card.

Do: open Triggon in Telegram and press Marketplace in the bar at the bottom. Scroll or search for the Strategy you subscribed to. Its card carries a row of buttons under the price; press the one labelled Auto-Trade. You do not need to open the Strategy's details first.

If the button says Manage, you have already set Auto-Trade up on this Strategy and it opens the management sheet instead. If there is no such button, this Strategy does not offer Auto-Trade.

Read the summary and continue

Screen: the first screen of the setup sheet, headed with the Strategy's name.

What it shows: the Auto-Trade price, Due now, Active until, the Market the Strategy trades, its Position mode, and a Recommended balance where the Provider set one.

Do: read it, then press Continue. Nothing is charged by this button.

If it says to subscribe first, you do not hold a live subscription to this Strategy. Subscribe from the same card, then start again at step 01.

Choose MetaTrader 5

Screen: Choose your exchange.

Do: press MetaTrader 5 in the list.

What the list contains: only the accounts this Strategy can actually run on. A line above it names the market the Strategy trades. If you have connected an account before, it appears lower down under or reuse a connected key, marked validated; choosing that skips steps 04 and 05 entirely.

Choose demo or live

Screen: the connect screen, headed Connect MetaTrader 5. The first control is Environment.

Do: press Demo account or Live (real funds). Demo is selected for you. The line underneath changes to describe the one you picked.

Pick the one that matches the account from step 06 of Part A. Triggon reads the account type back from your broker while validating and records what the broker says rather than what was selected here, so a wrong choice is corrected instead of believed, and it tells you.

Fill in the four fields

Screen: the same connect screen, below the environment buttons. A line above them says to enter the account exactly as you type it into the MetaTrader 5 login dialog.

Do: complete them in order, from what you wrote down in Part A. The field list and where each value came from is directly below this step.

Then press Validate connection.

Validation, and what success looks like

What happens: Triggon logs in to the account and checks the values work, that it may trade rather than only watch, that algorithmic trading is on, that the broker's server is reachable, and what kind of account it is.

Success looks like this: the sheet moves straight on to the Configure screen. There is no separate confirmation to dismiss, so arriving at the next screen is the confirmation. The connection is listed as validated from then on and can be reused for other Strategies without typing anything again.

If it refuses, the reason appears under the fields and names what to change. Nothing has been armed and nothing charged. What each refusal means →

Set your limits, then activate

Screen: Configure, then Confirm activation.

Do, on Configure: set Position size per signal (a percentage of your balance, or a fixed amount, chosen on the toggle), Max leverage on the slider, and Max concurrent positions. Press Continue.

Do, on Confirm activation: read the price and the consent line, tick the box, and press the activate button, which carries the amount. This is the step that charges.

These two screens decide how much of your account a Strategy can reach. What each setting does →

The done screen

You should see: a green tick and Auto-Trade is live beside MetaTrader 5, with Charged, Active until, and a line saying new Signals from this Strategy will now execute automatically on this account.

Do: press Done. That is the whole setup. The next section is how to confirm it stays on.

Broker trade serverThe exact name from step 04. The field shows an example of the shape. Not a secret: it identifies your broker, and Triggon shows it back to you afterwards.

Account number (login)The digits from step 03.

Account passwordThe master password from step 05. Encrypted before it is stored, and never shown back to you.

Label (optional)Anything you will recognise later, for example the broker's name. Leave it blank if you only ever connect one account.

Confirm Auto-Trade is active

Three places show the same answer. Check one of them before you rely on it, and again whenever something looks wrong.

On the Strategy

Path: Marketplace tab → the Strategy's card → Manage.

One line per connected account, each with a state badge. It must read Active. Beside it: the first characters of the account, the date the add-on runs to, and how many positions are open.

On the Account tab

Path: Account tab → Current plan.

Each subscription shows its remaining days with an Auto-Trade badge beside it, which says at a glance whether it is active, paused, needs extending, or needs attention.

On the Board tab

Path: Board tab → Hub → the Auto-Trade card.

Every armed Strategy across all your connected accounts, with its state, open positions and a Manage button on each. The fastest way to see everything at once.

If validation refuses

Each message names what to change. Nothing has been armed or charged, so correct it and press Validate connection again as often as you need.

The login was refusedRecheck all three values against step 08: log in to the account in MetaTrader 5 with exactly what you typed here. The server name is the one most often wrong.

The account is read-onlyThis is the investor password. Use the master one, or change it as in step 05.

Algorithmic trading is disabledStep 07. Switch it on in the terminal; if it persists, ask your broker to enable it for the account.

The terminal could not reach the brokerA connection problem between Triggon and your broker's server, not something you typed. Usually brief. Try again shortly.

The account type does not matchYour broker reports a different type from the one chosen in step 04. Pick the type that matches and validate again.

This account is already connectedAn account belongs to one Triggon account. If it is already on yours, use that connection rather than making a second one.

The troubleshooting guide covers what happens after a connection is live, including one that stops working later.

Once it is running

A connected MetaTrader 5 account behaves like any other, so the setup guide's monitoring section applies unchanged. Two things are specific to a broker account.

Your broker spells the instruments

Triggon reads the instrument list from your own broker rather than holding a list of its own, and matches the Strategy's instrument to your broker's spelling. Brokers use their own suffixes and conventions for the same instrument, and that translation is handled for you.

Your broker's rules still apply

Margin requirements, instrument availability, trading hours and any account restrictions are your broker's, and your broker enforces them. A Signal your broker will not accept does not become a position, and Triggon cannot override that. Changing the account's master password with your broker ends Triggon's access immediately.

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