This indicator monitors the vital constants of your trading account to keep it healthy and away from excessive risks. It monitors all trades,
absolute exposure, account floating point and leverage currently in use, using different color codes for your interpretation. [
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- Amazingly easy to understand
- The indicator is clean and simple
- It calculates exposure by pairs and currencies
- Keep your used leverage controlled at all times
- Find out your currency exposure at a glance
- Orange labels indicate caution
- Red labels indicate danger
Using too much leverage is the reason why most retail traders fail. Respect the following rules to keep your trading account healthy.
- Keep your used leverage between 1:1 and 1:5
- Never allocate more than 1:10 leverage on your account
- Avoid trading more than 5-6 Forex pairs at the same time
- Avoid excessive exposure to a single currency
Most brokers offer up to 1:400 leverage, but this should not be confused with the leverage you actually decide to allocate. Leverage is the
ratio between your equity and the total market exposure of your trades, and more leverage means more odds of decimating your trading
account. Think of leverage as hamburgers: if you go into a fast food restaurant, you can probably order and eat 4000 burgers, but you’ll
probably die of indigestion.
Usage and details
- The indicator is evaluated tick by tick
- Load the indicator just once in an empty chart
- The indicator calculates net exposure for each symbol
- Symbols with more than 6 characters in their names are ignored in the currency exposure table
Input Parameters
- Caution Drawdown Level: Drawdown level for the indicator to indicate caution (default is 10%)
- Danger Drawdown Level: Drawdown level for the indicator to indicate danger (default is 20%)
- Caution Leverage Level: Leverage level for the indicator to indicate caution (default is 1:5)
- Caution Leverage Level: Leverage level for the indicator to indicate danger (default is 1:10)
- Color Settings: Set colors for labels and alert levels.
Support
I am happy to provide free products but given my limited time, they come without support of any kind. My apologies.
Author
Arturo López Pérez, private investor and speculator, software engineer and founder of Point Zero Trading Solutions.