Account Protector is a risk management expert advisor for MetaTrader 4 and 5 designed to monitor account health and prevent excessive drawdowns. It allows users to set specific triggers based on floating profit or loss, equity levels, free margin, spread, or daily performance. When these conditions are met, the EA auto
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1,978 free, open-source expert advisors for MetaTrader 4 and 5, each linked to its source code on GitHub.
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This expert advisor provides automated schedule management for the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 platforms. It allows users to define specific time windows for each day of the week to toggle the platform's global AutoTrading status. Beyond simple scheduling, the utility can close active positions and delete pending ord
JT Prop Firm Trade Manager is a risk management utility for MetaTrader 4 designed to protect accounts from violating equity and drawdown rules. It monitors daily loss limits and maximum drawdown, allowing users to configure thresholds in either currency or percentage. The tool features time-based filters to restrict ov
Prop Firm Manager is a risk management utility for MetaTrader 4 designed to help traders comply with prop firm rules and protect account equity. The tool monitors maximum loss per trade and daily drawdown limits using either fixed dollar amounts or percentages. It manages trading sessions by restricting overnight and w
This MetaTrader 4 collection provides a set of utilities focused on risk management and order execution. It includes scripts and expert advisors designed to automate the closing of open positions and the removal of pending orders. The logic specifically targets closing trades that have reached a specific gain threshold
Equity Protector is an account management utility for MetaTrader 5 designed to safeguard capital against significant drawdowns. It operates by monitoring account equity and balance at a user-defined frequency, such as every second. When the floating loss reaches a specified percentage or limit, the utility automaticall
ICCapitals Secure is a risk management utility for MetaTrader 5. It acts as a supervisor to monitor and enforce trading parameters across an account. The expert advisor calculates position sizing based on a user-defined risk percentage per trade and manages risk-to-reward ratios. It features a timer-driven function to
This collection of utilities for MetaTrader 5 focuses on protecting open positions during periods of high volatility or spread widening. The SpreadHourDodger tool manages stop loss orders during market rollover by either removing them entirely or widening them based on historical spread data stored in a CSV file. The N
Mask Protected Trading Panel is a manual execution utility for MetaTrader 5 designed to enforce discipline and strict risk management. It acts as a protective layer, blocking manual orders that violate pre-set rules such as maximum daily trades, drawdown limits, or minimum reward-to-risk ratios. The tool includes a man
Secure Risk Manager is a MetaTrader 5 utility designed to provide a framework for account protection and trade sizing. This expert advisor does not execute independent trade entries; rather, it functions as a risk control tool that calculates lot sizes based on a user-defined risk percentage and risk-to-reward ratios.
This MetaTrader 4 utility calculates and displays a five percent daily drawdown limit directly on the chart. It determines the daily starting balance by analyzing the account history and subtracting current-day profits from the total balance. Designed as a monitoring tool for traders following specific risk management
EddyTrader is a risk management tool for MetaTrader 5 designed to enforce trading discipline through account-wide loss limits. It monitors the total financial performance of the account regardless of the symbol or strategy. Once a user-defined maximum loss is reached, the expert advisor automatically closes all open po
This MetaTrader 5 expert advisor serves as a risk management and execution framework rather than a standalone trading strategy. It monitors account equity in real-time to enforce daily drawdown limits. If a predefined monetary loss threshold is reached, the engine can trigger a kill switch to block further trading or f
Scorpion Risk Infrastructure is a MetaTrader 5 expert advisor focused on capital protection and trade execution. Originally derived from a smart money strategy, this framework handles position sizing based on balance risk, enforces daily loss limits, and applies cooldown periods after trades hit stop loss. It protects
This risk management expert advisor for MetaTrader 5 functions as an account-wide watchdog. It monitors equity fluctuations against user-defined thresholds for daily loss, total drawdown, and profit targets. When a limit is breached, the EA automatically closes all open positions and can optionally delete pending order
This MetaTrader 5 expert advisor serves as a compliance protection layer designed for proprietary trading firm accounts. It implements three primary risk guards: an equity-anchored daily loss limit that resets at midnight, a static overall maximum loss halt based on starting balance, and a news filter that blocks new e
This MetaTrader 5 utility serves as a risk management tool designed to monitor equity and drawdown across multiple magic numbers. It tracks realized and floating profits for up to twenty individual strategies, allowing users to define specific drawdown limits for each. The EA features an emergency stop function that ca
Moises Risk Manager is a risk management framework and expert advisor for MetaTrader 5. It offers automated lot sizing through fixed volumes, balance or equity percentage risk, and the Paroli positive progression system. The tool includes a persistence engine that saves trade states to global variables and CSV files, e
This MetaTrader 5 expert advisor serves as a risk management tool designed to monitor manual trades. It checks active positions at regular intervals, defined by the user in seconds, and automatically closes them if the drawdown per order exceeds a specific percentage. The utility includes features for performance repor
JT Prop Firm Trade Manager is a risk management utility for MetaTrader 4 designed to help traders adhere to strict account drawdown and timing rules. It monitors account equity to enforce maximum daily drawdown limits and per-trade loss caps in either currency or percentage terms. The tool includes features to restrict
This MetaTrader 5 expert advisor serves as an equity monitoring utility designed to alert traders when their account equity hits a specific target. It operates by continuously scanning the account status and comparing the live equity value against a user-defined parameter. When the threshold is met, the program sends a
This MetaTrader 4 expert advisor focuses on account protection and risk management. It monitors various drawdown levels, including weekly, monthly, and emergency thresholds, and enforces trading pauses if these limits are exceeded. The tool also evaluates trading performance by checking the risk-to-reward ratio of hist
Equity Tracker is a risk management utility for MetaTrader 4 designed to monitor account equity in real time. It serves as a global protection mechanism by automatically closing all open and pending positions when equity reaches a predefined target or drops below a minimum threshold. Users can configure these exit leve
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Free, plain-English guides: find an EA, install it, set it up, test it and run it safely.
- 1Types of EAsRobots, trade managers, copiers and risk tools, and what each is for.
- 2Using this librarySearch, filters, badges and what our checks do and do not mean.
- 3Install an EA in MT4 or MT5Data folder, compile, attach to a chart and switch on algo trading.
- 4EA settings explainedLot size, stop-loss, magic number, max spread and trading hours.
- 5Backtest in the Strategy TesterModelling, spread, the report and the over-fitting trap.
- 6Choose a safe EAA checklist for the code, the logic, the evidence and the fit.
- 7Run an EA 24/7VPS, forward testing on demo and going live small.
- 8Open-source EAs on GitHubLicences, compiling in MetaEditor and editing inputs safely.
- 9Forex robots: an honest guideWhat automation can and cannot do for you.
About the EA Library
The ForexR EA Library collects open-source expert advisors for MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 that are published on GitHub. Each entry links to the original repository, so you always get the author's latest code, issues and licence straight from the source. Star counts, last updates and licences are synced from GitHub every hour, and new repositories are added every week.
Every repository is checked automatically before it is listed: it must contain readable MQL source code for a real expert advisor, and repositories that ship executables, hide downloads behind archive passwords or show signs of bought stars are left out. The summaries and tags are written automatically from each repository's README and code. They describe what an EA does; they are not a recommendation, and nothing here is tested or endorsed by ForexR.
Trading with expert advisors is risky. Backtest any EA and run it on a demo account before you trust it with real money. CFDs and leveraged forex are complex instruments with a high risk of losing money rapidly.
EA Library FAQ
What is an expert advisor (EA)?
An expert advisor is a program that runs inside MetaTrader 4 or MetaTrader 5. It can open and close trades on its own, manage trades you opened (trailing stops, break-even, partial closes), protect the account, or connect MetaTrader to other tools such as Telegram or Python. EAs are written in MQL4 (MT4) or MQL5 (MT5).
Are the EAs in this library free?
Yes. Every EA listed here is published on GitHub with its source code, so you can read, download and compile it at no cost. Check each repository's licence before reusing the code in your own projects: some EAs state no licence at all.
Are these EAs safe to use?
ForexR lists only repositories with readable MQL source code and never hosts files. Repositories that ship executables, ask you to disable antivirus, hide downloads behind passwords or show signs of bought stars are left out automatically. That does not make any EA profitable or bug-free: read the code, backtest it in the Strategy Tester and run it on a demo account first.
How do I install an EA in MT4 or MT5?
Download the source from GitHub, open MetaTrader, choose File, then Open Data Folder, and copy the .mq4 (MT4) or .mq5 (MT5) file into MQL4/Experts or MQL5/Experts. Open it in MetaEditor and press Compile, then drag the EA from the Navigator onto a chart and allow algorithmic trading.
How does ForexR choose which EAs to list?
A crawler searches GitHub every week for MetaTrader repositories, reads their code and keeps those that contain a real expert advisor and pass the safety checks. Stars, updates and licences are refreshed from GitHub every hour. Summaries are written automatically from each repository's README and code, so treat them as a guide and check the source.
What do "High risk", grid and martingale mean?
A grid EA opens a ladder of orders at fixed distances; a martingale EA increases the lot size after losses. Both can show smooth equity curves for a long time and then lose a large part of the account in one strong trend. EAs that use either are marked High risk, and you can hide them with the "Hide grid and martingale" filter.
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