ChartDeck PRO: MT4/MT5 Indicator Panel

We've watched the same chart happen more than once: a Triple MA sitting on top of Bollinger Bands, on top of a manually drawn pivot ladder, each one opened from its own Inputs dialog, each one with its own timeframe buried three tabs deep. Seven indicators means seven sets of buffers, seven properties windows, and seven places a setting can quietly drift out of sync with the rest.

MetaTrader 5 doesn't stop you from stacking indicators like that. It just doesn't help you manage them once you have.

This post covers ChartDeck PRO, a single indicator for MT4 and MT5 that runs seven chart analysis tools from one dockable icon panel. Click a tool on, drag its settings open, and adjust it on the chart itself. No Inputs dialog is required for day-to-day tuning.

ChartDeck PRO: one panel, seven tools, docked to whichever chart edge stays out of your way.

Contents

1. The Problem With Running Seven Separate Indicators
2. What ChartDeck PRO Does
3. The Dockable Panel: Drag, Dock, Collapse
4. Seven Tools in One Instance
5. Settings Drawer: Every Parameter, No Inputs Dialog
6. Alerts Per Tool, Not Per Chart
7. Persistence: The Panel Remembers Your Setup
8. Built to Stay Light
9. Who ChartDeck PRO Is For
10. Setup: From Download to Running Tools
11. Frequently Asked Questions
12. Pricing and Guarantee

The Problem With Running Seven Separate Indicators

Add seven indicators to an MT5 chart and you get seven Inputs dialogs, seven sets of chart objects, and seven independent instances competing for the same limited screen space. Want to check whether your ZigZag pivots line up with a weekly Fibonacci pivot set? That's two windows open side by side, cross-referencing settings by memory.

The clutter compounds with alerts. MT5's native alert system is per-indicator and per-condition, so a trader running moving average crosses, band touches, and pivot alerts together ends up managing three separate alert configurations, none of which know about the others.

None of this is a bug in MetaTrader 5. It's what happens when seven programs, each written independently, get loaded onto one chart. ChartDeck PRO exists because the fix isn't a better indicator. It's fewer indicators.

What ChartDeck PRO Does

ChartDeck PRO runs seven chart tools inside a single indicator instance: Triple MA, Bollinger Bands, ZigZag, Support & Resistance, Pivot Points, Sessions, and Daily News. One set of chart buffers instead of seven. One panel instead of seven Inputs windows.

Every tool keeps its own timeframe, its own parameters, and its own alert settings. A tool switched off calculates nothing and draws nothing. It costs no more than not having it installed. Turning a seventh tool on never means paying the performance cost of seven separate indicator programs, because only the enabled ones actually run.

The panel is the control surface for all of it. It appears the moment ChartDeck PRO is attached to a chart, ready to dock to any edge.

The Dockable Panel: Drag, Dock, Collapse

The panel is a row of icons, one per tool. Click an icon and that tool switches on or off. Nothing else changes. No dialog opens, no chart redraw delay, no confirmation step.

Drag the panel to the left, right, top, or bottom edge of the chart and it docks there. When screen space matters more than visibility, collapse it to a thin strip with one click and expand it again when needed. Icon size, colour theme, button text, and checkbox visibility are all configurable from the indicator's Inputs on first attach. After that, the panel is the only surface you touch.

Dragging the panel to a chart edge: it docks and stays there until you move it again.

Seven Tools in One Instance

Each tool below runs independently inside ChartDeck PRO. Switch on the ones you need for the current chart; the rest stay dormant.

Triple MA

Three moving averages, each with an independent period, timeframe, method, and applied price. Any single line can be hidden while the other two keep running, and cross alerts follow whichever lines are currently visible across all three pairs.

Bollinger Bands

Upper, middle, and lower bands, each with its own period, deviation, and timeframe (including a timeframe set higher than the chart itself, for reading volatility from a higher-frame context while trading a lower one). Alerts fire the moment price touches either band, a technique we cover in more depth in our Bollinger Bands trading guide.

ZigZag

Swing structure calculated from depth, deviation, and backstep. No separate indicator file, no iCustom call from another EA needed to read it. Completed legs are final and never repaint. Only the current leg, the one still forming, can still move, which is true of every swing-detection method and not a quirk of this one.

Support & Resistance

Zones derived from the ZigZag structure and scaled by ATR, so one height setting works across both a quiet major pair and a volatile index. Zones rank by how many times price has tested them, lookback is measured in bars of the analysis timeframe, and zone labels are optional. If you want the mechanics behind zone-from-swing detection, we walked through the same underlying method in our ZigZag support and resistance zones piece.

Pivot Points

Daily, weekly, or monthly pivots in Classic, Fibonacci, Camarilla, Woodie, or DeMark form. Up to fifty historical periods can be shown at once, support and resistance visibility toggle independently, and the current period's levels can extend to the chart's right edge. For how to actually trade off these levels, see our guide to trading with pivot points.

Sessions

Asia, Europe, and New York session highs and lows, with a broker-GMT offset that can be set automatically or by hand. Choose how many past sessions stay visible, and optionally add the daily high and low alongside them. We cover why these levels matter for timing entries in our session high/low trading guide.

Daily News

MT5 uses MetaTrader's built-in economic calendar. MT4 reads a local calendar feed maintained by the included FxTT-NewsFeed companion EA because MT4 indicators cannot use WebRequest. Both editions draw events as vertical lines with an on-chart panel, currency and impact filters, a countdown, and a configurable number of rows.

Triple MA, Sessions, Support & Resistance, and Daily News running together on one chart, one indicator instance.

Settings Drawer: Every Parameter, No Inputs Dialog

Below each icon sits a settings strip. Open it and every parameter for that tool becomes a stepper, an inline toggle, or a read-only pair, laid out horizontally so nothing is hidden behind a scroll. A boolean is always a single clickable field, never split across a checkbox and a separate label the way MT5's native Inputs tab often does it.

Every control carries a tooltip. When something is locked, the tooltip explains why before you click it, not after. A period field greyed out because the timeframe doesn't support it says so on hover.

Stepping timeframes, periods, and filters from the drawer, without reopening the Inputs dialog.

Alerts Per Tool, Not Per Chart

Each tool arms its alerts independently: popup, push, and email delivery, set per tool from that tool's own Alerts section in the drawer. Moving average crosses and price touches, band touches, support/resistance and pivot touches, and a configurable lead time before a news event: each condition fires once per level per bar, so a single candle sitting on a level doesn't repeat the same message five times.

Push notifications need a MetaQuotes ID configured in the terminal, and email needs the terminal's own mail settings filled in. ChartDeck PRO cannot configure either one. Set them once in the notification options for your MT4 or MT5 terminal.

Persistence: The Panel Remembers Your Setup

Chart persistence is on by default. Panel position, docking edge, the set of tools left switched on, and every parameter touched in a drawer all get restored the next time the chart opens. Each stored value is checked before use and falls back to its input default if it no longer applies. A saved timeframe that's invalid for a tool doesn't crash the panel; it quietly resets.

Want the exact same setup on a different chart? Save the chart as a template. Panel position, active tools, and every parameter travel with it in one step, which matters more than it sounds like it should the first time a multi-timeframe layout needs to be rebuilt from scratch on a second symbol.

Built to Stay Light

Chart updates are incremental. Only the bars added since the previous tick get recalculated, not the full history on every refresh. A tool that's switched off consumes nothing at all: no buffer allocation, no chart objects, no background calculation waiting for you to turn it on.

No DLL or external library is required. MT5 reads price data, the built-in economic calendar, and broker server time from the terminal. On MT4, ChartDeck reads the local Daily News file while the included FxTT-NewsFeed companion EA makes the anonymous calendar request.

Who ChartDeck PRO Is For

ChartDeck PRO fits traders who already run several separate MT4 or MT5 indicators and want one panel instead of a stack of Inputs windows. Multi-timeframe analysis is where it earns its keep. Every tool has its own timeframe field, so a weekly pivot set or a higher-frame Bollinger Band can run alongside an intraday chart without a second indicator instance competing for the same buffers.

It's not a signal generator. ChartDeck PRO draws standard analysis tools and reports the conditions you configure through alerts. It doesn't open trades, close trades, or modify positions, and it needs no Algo Trading permission to run.

Setup: From Download to Running Tools

MetaTrader 5

1. Download and install. After purchase, open File → Open Data Folder in MT5, then MQL5 → Indicators. Copy the delivered ChartDeck-PRO.ex5 file into the Indicators folder. Restart MT5, or right-click the Navigator panel and select Refresh.
2. Attach to a chart. Drag ChartDeck PRO from Navigator → Indicators onto any chart. The icon panel appears ready to dock. Choose a screen position, dark or light theme, icon size, and optional button text or checkboxes in the indicator's Inputs.
3. Switch on your tools. Click a tool's icon to draw it on the chart. Only enabled tools calculate. Open the settings strip below the icon to tune timeframe, periods, method, and display options.
4. Arm your alerts. Enable popup, push, or email delivery per tool from its drawer's Alerts section. Push and email delivery also need to be configured once in MT5's own notification options.
5. Dock, collapse, save. Drag the panel to any chart edge and dock it there, or collapse it to a thin strip once the setup is complete. Save the chart as a template to carry the same configuration to another chart.

Startup defaults get set once in the Inputs dialog. Day-to-day tuning happens entirely in the on-chart drawer after that.

MetaTrader 4

The MT4 package is a ZIP, not a single .ex4 file, because Daily News needs its companion EA to reach the calendar. Skipping the folder layout is the most common way to end up with a panel that draws six tools and a dead Daily News icon.

1. Open the MT4 data folder. In MT4, select File → Open Data Folder, then open the MQL4 directory that contains Indicators, Experts, and Files.
2. Extract the complete ZIP. Extract the delivered ZIP into that MQL4 directory and keep its folder structure intact. Copying in only ChartDeck-PRO.ex4 isn't enough: Daily News requires the included FxTT-NewsFeed companion EA, and all seven runtime icons must stay under Files/FXTT/ChartDeck-PRO/images/.
3. Restart or refresh MT4. Restart the terminal, or refresh the Navigator, so it discovers both the indicator and the companion EA.
4. Attach the MT4 News Feed EA. MT4 indicators can't use WebRequest, so ChartDeck reads a local calendar file instead of calling out itself. Attach FxTT-NewsFeed to one dedicated, otherwise unused chart. MT4 allows only one EA per chart, so don't drop it onto a chart already running a trading EA. One running News Feed EA covers every ChartDeck PRO instance in that terminal; a second terminal needs its own EA, its own internet access, and its own allowlist entry.
5. Allow the calendar URL. Open Tools → Options → Expert Advisors, enable Allow WebRequest for listed URL, and add https://calendar.forextradingtools.eu/. The EA's request is anonymous: no account ID, query parameters, or trading logic attached.
6. Start ChartDeck PRO. After changing the allowlist, reinitialize or restart FxTT-NewsFeed, then attach ChartDeck-PRO to the charts you want it on.
7. Switch on tools and alerts. Click a tool's icon to draw it, open its settings strip to tune timeframe and parameters, and arm popup, push, or email alerts from the tool's own Alerts section and from MetaTrader's notification settings.

A red dot on the Daily News icon flags a feed problem — no News Feed EA attached, a blocked WebRequest URL, stale data, or a local file MT4 can't read — while the rest of the panel keeps running normally.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does ChartDeck PRO generate trading signals?

No. It draws the seven analysis tools and reports the conditions you enable through alerts. Placing, closing, or modifying trades is not something it does.

How many indicators does it actually load on the chart?

One. All seven tools run inside a single ChartDeck PRO instance, sharing one set of chart buffers instead of stacking seven separate programs.

Can a tool run on a higher timeframe than the chart?

Yes. Every tool has its own timeframe field, and it can be set to any period at or above the chart's own timeframe.

Does the ZigZag or Support & Resistance tool repaint?

Completed swing legs are final and don't change. The current, still-forming leg can still move until its bar closes, which is true of any swing-based method, not a quirk specific to ChartDeck PRO.

Is ChartDeck PRO available for MT4 and MT5?

Yes. Choose the package for your platform. The MT4 package includes the ChartDeck indicator, the FxTT-NewsFeed companion EA required by Daily News, and the runtime icons. The MT5 package contains the .ex5 indicator for MetaTrader 5.

Pricing and Guarantee

ChartDeck PRO is available for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. A one-time purchase includes the selected platform license, updates, and support for 12 months from purchase. Check the product page for current pricing.

A 60-day money-back guarantee applies: if ChartDeck PRO doesn't perform as described on your platform, a full refund is available within 60 days of purchase, no questions asked.

Get ChartDeck PRO →

Seven indicators, seven Inputs dialogs, seven places for a setting to drift. Or one panel that docks to an edge and stays out of the way until you click it. Attach ChartDeck PRO once, switch on the tools this chart actually needs, and leave the rest dormant.