Live monitoring
A robot almost never stops working all at once. It drifts. The point is to measure that drift rather than guess at it.
The bridge, read-only
The bridge is an Expert Advisor you install on your MT4 or MT5 terminal. Every minute it sends the account state — balance, equity, margin, open positions — and the transactions closed since the last call.
It receives no password and has no way to open a position. Authentication uses a token specific to the account, which you generate in your workspace and can revoke at any moment. Revoking cuts the link immediately, without touching your trading account.
What monitoring computes continuously
Current drawdown
Measured from the highest equity ever reached, not from the start of the day. That is the definition that matters for your capital, and the one most funding firms use.
Daily loss
Computed against the equity recorded at the first measurement of the day. That reference is frozen so a mid-session rebound cannot mask a loss already taken.
Drift against the backtest
Expectancy per trade over the last forty real trades is compared with the reference backtest. An adverse gap of 30% raises an alert, well before the curve becomes visibly bad to the eye.
The grade, recomputed
Every metric and every detector is reapplied to the real trades. A ten-point drop between two recalculations signals a genuine change in behaviour, not a fluctuation.
Why drift matters more than performance
A robot sold with a brilliant backtest almost always underperforms live: real spread exceeds the tester's, execution slips, latency costs a few points. A gap of 10 to 20% is normal and tells you nothing.
It is beyond that point the signal becomes actionable. A robot returning €12 per trade in simulation and only €4 live is not merely "less good": its edge has probably gone, and what remains is noise you are paying fees on. Catching that after twenty trades rather than after three months is the difference between a course correction and a straight loss.
And if the terminal shuts down?
Monitoring stops — no magic is possible. That is why an "account offline" rule exists: past the delay you set, an alert goes out. Without that rule, a stopped VPS looks exactly like a quiet day.