Setup guide

Connect your MT5 in minutes.

xTriel reads your MetaTrader 5 accounts through one lightweight Expert Advisor. Attach it, and your terminal streams live — balance, equity, floating P&L, and positions — straight to your dashboard, with instant Telegram risk alerts. No broker permissions change. Your data stays yours.

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Read-only EA • Any MT5 broker • Self-hosted

Step by step

From zero to live in four steps.

Attach one EA per terminal, and the rest is automatic.

01

Create your xTriel account

Sign up at app.xtriel.com and open your dashboard. Start on the Free tier — no card required — and connect your first MT5 account right away.

02

Attach the xTriel Expert Advisor

Drop the lightweight xTriel EA onto any chart in MetaTrader 5 — one EA per terminal. It only reads and streams your account data; it never places, modifies, or closes trades. Enter your terminal key when prompted and you're linked.

Read-only — no trading permissions
03

Your account starts streaming live

The EA pushes telemetry to your xTriel gateway in real time over Server-Sent Events. Within seconds your terminal appears on the dashboard — balance, equity, floating P&L, open positions, and a live / stale / offline status dot. Add more terminals and they show up automatically.

04

Set risk rules + link Telegram

Define per-terminal thresholds — drawdown %, profit targets, stale-terminal detection — and connect Telegram. When a rule trips or a new position opens, xTriel pings you instantly, with batching and cooldowns so you get the signal and never the spam.

Instant Telegram alerts

The EA reads — it never trades.

The xTriel Expert Advisor is a one-way bridge. It streams account telemetry out to your own gateway and has no authority to open, modify, or close a single position. Your broker login, your funds, and your execution stay exactly where they are.

Good to know

What you need before you start.

A short list — most traders already have all three.

Any MT5 broker

xTriel is broker-agnostic. If your account runs in MetaTrader 5, it works — connecting through the EA, nothing more. No special account type, no broker approval, no API keys to request.

A terminal that stays online

Live data streams only while the MT5 terminal running the EA is on — the same as any EA or copier. Most traders run it on a VPS so monitoring continues 24/7 without leaving a home machine on.

Telegram (optional, for alerts)

Want risk pings the moment a threshold trips? Link a Telegram account when you set up rules. The dashboard works without it — Telegram just adds instant notifications wherever you are.

Nothing changes on the broker side.

Attaching the EA doesn't touch your broker permissions, leverage, or settings. It's a read-only monitor that lives alongside whatever else you run in MetaTrader 5 — your own EAs, manual trading, or a copier — without getting in the way.

Troubleshooting

If something looks off.

The three things traders ask about most — and the quick fix for each.

Make sure the EA is attached to a chart and that "Algo Trading" is enabled in MetaTrader 5 (the toolbar button should be green) — the EA needs it running to stream. Confirm the terminal key in the EA inputs matches the one in your xTriel account, and that the terminal has internet access so it can reach your gateway. Give it a few seconds after attaching; the card appears as soon as the first snapshot arrives.

A stale (amber) status means xTriel hasn't received a fresh snapshot recently — usually the MT5 terminal went offline, lost its connection, or the chart with the EA was closed. Check that the terminal is still running and online; if it's on a VPS, confirm the VPS is up. Once data flows again, the dot turns green automatically. You can also set a stale-terminal rule so xTriel pings you the moment a feed goes quiet.

First, confirm Telegram is linked in your settings and that you have at least one active risk rule with a threshold that can actually trip. Remember that batching and cooldowns intentionally group rapid-fire events, so you may see one consolidated alert rather than many. On the Free tier alerts are capped per day — if you've hit the cap, upgrade for unlimited delivery. Check your alert history to confirm whether a rule fired.

Ready to connect?

Attach the EA. Watch it stream.

Create your account, drop the Expert Advisor on a chart, and your first MT5 terminal is live in minutes.

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