🔢 Tradivo Profit Shield EA MT5 Settings: Complete Inputs Explained
Tradivo Profit Shield EA is an automated trading Expert Advisor designed with configurable buy and sell controls, pending-order management, adaptive trailing stops, momentum-based trade management, and daily profit protection. Its input parameters provide control over lot sizing, entry distances, stop-loss behavior, execution safety, and floating profit or loss thresholds.
The EA also includes an ATR-based reference framework, adaptive trailing speed adjustments, retry mechanisms for order execution, and license verification settings. Understanding these parameters helps traders configure the system according to their trading strategy, broker conditions, and risk-management requirements.
⚙️ Trading Control Settings
🔹 TradingEnabled = true — Enables the EA's trading functionality. When set to true, the EA can execute its configured trading operations, subject to the remaining conditions and safety controls.
🔹 BuyEnabled = true — Enables buy-side trading, allowing the EA to place or manage buy orders when its entry conditions are satisfied.
🔹 SellEnabled = true — Enables sell-side trading, allowing the EA to place or manage sell orders when its entry conditions are satisfied.
🔹 MagicNumber = 990001 — Assigns the unique identifier 990001 to trades managed by the EA. This helps distinguish its positions from trades opened by other EAs or manual trading.
🔹 EAComment = tradivofx.com — Sets the comment associated with EA orders or positions to tradivofx.com, helping identify the source of trades in the trading terminal.
🔹 safety cap: pendings + positions combined = 4 — Limits the combined number of pending orders and open positions covered by this safety control to 4, helping prevent excessive order accumulation.
⚙️ Lot Size Settings
🔹 StartingLot = 0.01 — Sets the starting trade volume to 0.01 lots. The actual monetary exposure depends on the traded instrument, contract specifications, leverage, and broker conditions.
⚙️ Reference and Distance Settings (ATR-Adaptive)
🔹 OFF by default - see fixed values below = false — The setting is currently false, meaning the fixed-distance mode is not selected through this switch. The EA's exact operating mode depends on how the remaining reference and distance parameters are implemented.
🔹 ATR_Period = 14 — Sets the Average True Range calculation period to 14 bars. ATR measures market volatility and can be used to adjust reference distances according to changing price movement.
🔹 ATR_Timeframe = 15 Minutes — Specifies the 15-minute timeframe for ATR calculations, even if trading or chart analysis takes place on another timeframe.
🔹 EntryDistance = ATR * this (only if ATR mode re-enabled) = 1.5 — Defines an ATR-based entry-distance multiplier of 1.5 when ATR mode is re-enabled. The resulting distance would depend on the ATR value and the EA's price-unit conversion.
🔹 SLReferenceOffset = ATR * this (only if ATR mode re-enabled) = 0.8 — Sets the ATR-based stop-loss reference offset multiplier to 0.8 when ATR mode is re-enabled. This determines the reference offset relative to the calculated ATR value.
🔹 100 pips ($1.00) each side of reference - Buy Stop and Sell = 1.0 — Sets the fixed reference distance using the displayed price convention of 100 pips = $1.00. The configured value is 1.0, associated with the Buy Stop and Sell Stop reference distances as described by the parameter label.
🔹 base ratchet offset in PRICE units ($) once trailing is under = 0.375 — Sets the base trailing ratchet offset to 0.375 price units. This defines the baseline offset used by the trailing mechanism once its trailing conditions are active.
🔹 HARD CAP: 500 pips = $5, safety ceiling in case ATR mode = 5.0 — Establishes a hard distance ceiling of 5.0 price units, corresponding to the displayed convention of 500 pips = $5. It acts as a safety limit when ATR-based distance logic is used.
⚙️ Initial Stop-Loss and Trailing Behavior
🔹 true (current spec): SL starts trailing the moment a trade = true — Enables the configured behavior in which stop-loss trailing starts as soon as a trade is opened, rather than waiting for a separate profit threshold.
🔹 only consulted when TrailImmediatelyFromEntry = false = 2.0 — Sets a secondary trailing-related threshold to 2.0. According to the parameter label, this value is only consulted when TrailImmediatelyFromEntry is false; its precise operational meaning depends on the EA's implementation.
⚙️ Adaptive Trailing Speed Settings
🔹 $ / sec reference-price speed treated as 'slow/choppy' - offset = 0.02 — Defines a reference price-speed threshold of 0.02 price units per second for identifying slow or choppy market movement. This threshold helps determine how the adaptive trailing logic should respond to slower price changes.
🔹 $ / sec speed treated as 'fast' - offset tightens toward = 0.5 — Sets the fast-movement reference speed to 0.5 price units per second. The trailing offset is designed to move toward the configured tighter offset when price velocity reaches the fast-movement region.
🔹 tightest the base offset can scale to during fast moves = 0.5 — Sets the minimum scaling factor for the base trailing offset during fast market movements to 0.5, allowing the offset to tighten relative to its base value.
🔹 widest the base offset can scale to during slow/choppy moves = 1.5 — Sets the maximum scaling factor to 1.5 during slow or choppy conditions, allowing a wider trailing offset when price movement is less decisive.
🔹 EMA smoothing (0-1) on the velocity estimate so one noisy = 0.3 — Sets the velocity-estimate smoothing factor to 0.3. This parameter controls the degree of smoothing applied to the estimated price speed, helping reduce the influence of short-lived fluctuations.
⚙️ Momentum Ride (AstraVail-Style) Settings
🔹 widen the trail during strong moves instead of tightening it = true — Enables the option to widen the trailing distance during strong directional price movements rather than automatically tightening it. This may allow trades more room to continue moving favorably before the stop is reached.
🔹 favourable move ($) inside the window that counts as full momentum = 3.0 — Sets the favorable price movement threshold to $3.0 for recognizing full momentum within the configured measurement window. The actual monetary effect depends on the traded instrument and position volume.
🔹 window for measuring that move = 60 — Sets the momentum measurement window to 60 units, likely representing seconds based on the surrounding speed-related settings. The exact unit should be confirmed against the EA's implementation.
🔹 trail distance ($) behind the extreme at full momentum; partial = 1.5 — Sets the trailing distance behind the favorable price extreme to 1.5 price units when full momentum is detected, as described by the parameter label. The precise behavior during partial momentum depends on the EA's internal logic.
⚙️ Daily Risk Circuit Breaker
🔹 once today's REALIZED P&L (this symbol+magic) reaches this = 15.0 — Sets the daily realized profit-and-loss threshold to 15.0. The label indicates that the circuit breaker evaluates realized P&L for the current symbol and Magic Number; the exact action triggered at the threshold should be verified in the EA's implementation.
⚙️ Execution Safety Settings
🔹 ABSOLUTE safety ceiling in PRICE units ($) - never trade above = 2.0 — Sets an absolute price-distance ceiling of 2.0 price units. The label describes this as a limit that the EA should not exceed when placing trades or calculating relevant distances.
🔹 spread must also stay under this fraction of EntryDistance = 0.25 — Requires the spread to remain below 25% of the configured EntryDistance for the relevant execution check to pass. This helps prevent entries when transaction costs are too large relative to the intended entry distance.
🔹 deviation for OrderSend - this ONE stays in broker points = 20 — Sets the permitted order-price deviation to 20 broker points. The actual price difference represented by these points depends on the symbol's digits and broker specifications.
🔹 min price change ($) before a modify request is sent = 0.2 — Sets the minimum price change required before the EA sends a modification request to 0.2 price units. This can reduce unnecessary stop-loss modification requests.
🔹 MaxRetries = 3 — Allows up to 3 retry attempts for supported operations when an order request or modification encounters a recoverable execution issue.
🔹 RetryDelayMs = 300 — Sets the delay between retry attempts to 300 milliseconds, equivalent to 0.3 seconds.
⚙️ Fixed Basket TP/SL Settings (Experimental)
🔹 false = existing trailing-SL behaviour, untouched = true — The current value is true, despite the descriptive label associating false with preserving existing trailing-stop behavior. This appears to enable the experimental fixed basket TP/SL functionality, but the exact effect should be confirmed through testing because the label is phrased ambiguously.
🔹 close at market when floating profit reaches this ($ per reference) = 1.1 — Sets the floating-profit threshold to 1.1 per reference unit, as described by the parameter label. When the corresponding condition is satisfied, the EA may close positions at market if this feature is enabled.
🔹 close at market when floating loss reaches this = 0.9 — Sets the floating-loss threshold to 0.9. The label indicates a market-close condition when floating losses reach the configured level, subject to the EA's basket management logic.
🔹 $ values above are per this lot, scaled with real volume = 0.01 — Defines the reference lot volume as 0.01 lots for scaling the floating-profit and floating-loss thresholds. The resulting thresholds may change with actual trade volume according to the EA's implementation.
⚙️ Debug Settings
🔹 EnableDebugLog = true — Enables debug logging. This can help record diagnostic information about the EA's decisions, trading operations, and potential execution problems, depending on the logging functionality provided.
🔢 Conclusion
The Tradivo Profit Shield EA MT5 inputs combine entry-distance controls, immediate stop-loss trailing, adaptive price-velocity management, momentum-based trailing adjustments, execution safeguards, and daily realized-P&L monitoring. Its default configuration enables both buy and sell trading, uses a starting lot of 0.01, caps the combined pending orders and positions at 4, and sets a daily realized-P&L threshold of 15.0.
Before live deployment, particular attention should be given to the experimental fixed basket TP/SL switch, the relationship between the fixed and ATR-based distance modes, and the units used for price-distance thresholds. The displayed labels alone cannot establish the exact implementation of every parameter. Testing in the MT5 Strategy Tester and on a demo account can help verify order behavior, trailing-stop updates, daily circuit-breaker actions, and broker-specific execution conditions. No configuration can guarantee profits or eliminate trading risk.
