MT5 Account Management
Complete guide to manage your MetaTrader 5 accounts in TPL Cloud.
What is a Cloud Account?
An account in TPL Cloud represents a connection to your real MT5 account. When you add an account, the system automatically creates a dedicated MT5 terminal in the cloud and connects your account.
Add a New Account
- Name: A descriptive name to identify the account (e.g., "IC Markets Real")
- Login: Your MT5 account number
- Password: The trading password (not the investor one)
- Server: Your broker's server (select it from the dropdown list)
Account States
Accounts can have different states that indicate their current situation:
The account is connected and ready to receive signals. You can see balance, equity, open positions and webhook events.
The account is not connected. This may be due to incorrect credentials, network issues or broker server disconnection.
The account is in the connection process. The system is creating the terminal or attempting to authenticate. This state is temporary.
Edit an Account
To edit an existing account:
- Click the "Edit" button on the account card
- Modify the account name or credentials as needed
- If you change credentials, the system will automatically update the connection
- Click "Save changes"
Account Information
On the accounts page you can see detailed information for each account:
- Balance: The current account balance
- Equity: The current equity (balance + floating profit/loss)
- Available Margin: The free margin available for new trades
- Float P&L: The profit/loss of open positions
List of all open positions in the account, including symbol, type (buy/sell), volume, opening price and current profit.
List of all webhooks that are connected to this account through mappings in the Connection Editor. This allows you to quickly see which strategies or alerts can execute orders on this account.
History of all signals received from webhooks and executed on this account, including the result of each execution.
Account Options
From the account card, click Options (slider icon) to open the account options. There you can configure no-trade time slots, weekly scheduled close, safety close and floating loss alerts. The system checks floating loss every 60 seconds.
You can define time slots during which no trades from TradingView will be executed on this account—neither opening nor closing positions. You can still trade manually in MT5. Useful for avoiding trading during news, low liquidity or your chosen rest times.
- In Options, use "Add slot" to add a slot. You can configure up to 3 slots per account.
- For each slot you choose the days (e.g. every day, weekdays, weekend, or a specific day) and the start and end time. Times are in UTC (UTC+0). Overnight slots are allowed (e.g. 23:00 to 01:00).
You can set a day and time (UTC) at which the system will automatically close all open positions on that account, once per week. For example: every Friday at 19:00 UTC to close exposure before the weekend.
In Options, enable the checkbox and choose the day of the week (Monday to Sunday) and the time in UTC. The close runs only once per scheduled day; if the account was disconnected at that time, the close will not be retried until the next week.
When enabled, if the floating loss exceeds the threshold you set, the system will try to close all open positions on the account (whether opened from TradingView or otherwise). The threshold is set like the alert: fixed amount in the account currency or percentage of balance.
When enabled, you will be notified when the account's floating loss exceeds the threshold you set. You can define the threshold as:
- Fixed amount: A value in the account currency (e.g. 500 USD).
- % of balance: A percentage between 1 and 99.99 (maximum 2 decimal places).
Economic Calendar
Each MT5 account has its own Economic Calendar. From it you can see upcoming economic events (e.g. NFP, CPI, interest rates), filter them and—if you want—enable auto-close before event: the system will close all open positions on that account a few minutes before the event. Ideal for avoiding volatility around news and for protecting funded or prop accounts.
On the accounts list, each account card has a Calendar button (calendar icon). Click it to open the Economic Calendar for that account. The calendar is private to that account: the events and auto-close settings you configure apply only to that account.
At the top of the calendar you can filter events:
- Date range: e.g. Today, This week, Next week.
- Importance: Low, Medium or High. High-impact events (e.g. NFP, CPI) move the market the most.
- Currency: Filter by the currency of the event (USD, EUR, GBP, etc.) or "All currencies".
- Timezone: Choose the timezone in which the event times are displayed (e.g. GMT+1 Madrid/Paris, UTC, etc.).
Events are updated automatically by the system. You will see the event name, time, currency (with flag), importance, and the Actual / Forecast / Previous values when available.
This option lets you close all open positions on that account a few minutes before a specific economic event. You choose how many minutes before (e.g. 5, 15, 30, 1 hour, 2 hours). When that time is reached, the system will attempt to close all open positions on that account. Useful to avoid holding positions during high-impact news (e.g. NFP, CPI) and to meet rules on funded or prop accounts.
How to use it:
- Open the Economic Calendar for the account (Calendar button on the account card).
- In the Auto-close column, check the box for each event before which you want to close positions.
- For each event you have enabled, choose how many minutes before the event to close (dropdown: 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 2h, etc.).
Example: if the NFP is at 15:30 and you choose "30 minutes before", the system will close all positions on that account at 15:00.
- You cannot enable auto-close for events that have already passed; the checkbox will not be available for those.
- The system requires a minimum of 5 minutes between "close time" and the event. If the option you choose would leave less than 5 minutes, it will not be allowed (you will see the option disabled or a message).
- Auto-close only affects that account. Other accounts are not affected.
The list of economic events is synchronized automatically by TPL Cloud. You will see the "Last sync" date and time at the top of the calendar. No need to refresh manually; the calendar is always up to date with the events used for filters and auto-close.
Troubleshooting
- Verify that the login and password are correct
- Check that the server is correct (must match exactly with your broker's)
- Make sure to use the trading password, not the investor one
- Wait a few minutes, the connection process may take time
- Check that the broker doesn't have IP restrictions
- Review that the credentials haven't expired or changed
- If the problem persists, contact support
- Make sure the status is "Connected"
- Click "Refresh" to update the data
- If information still doesn't appear, the account may be disconnected
- The Calendar button is on each account card in the list; if you don't see it, scroll the card or check that you are on the MT5 Accounts page.
- If you cannot tick an event for auto-close, the event may already have passed or the "minutes before" chosen would leave less than 5 minutes until the event; try another event or a larger "minutes before" value.
- Auto-close runs at the scheduled time; make sure the account is connected so that the system can close positions.