Live Signals

Live Signals paints the active mrD-Indicators trade ideas directly on your chart — one triangle marker at the bar where the signal opened, dashed lines at the entry zone, stop-loss (SL) and take-profit (TP) levels, and a running info panel that tracks the current PnL. A signal here is a directional trade idea with predefined entry, SL and up to six staggered take-profits (TP1 through TP6); Live Signals doesn't generate those — it consumes the same feed that powers the USDⓈ-M and Spot signal hubs and renders it in the trading terminal so you can watch a setup form, hit and unwind in real time.

Settings reference

The dialog is split into three blocks — Sources for which feeds you watch, Timeframe for what to render against the current chart, and a collapsible Display block for the visual knobs. A MASTER PLAN strip at the bottom unlocks per-symbol auto-trading.

The action bar at the bottom of the panel (eye, ✕, ✓) is the per-symbol Auto-Trading control — it surfaces the active signal for the chart's loaded symbol and gives you one approve, one reject, plus a preview toggle that drops draggable entry / SL / TP handles on the chart so you can edit the levels before sending.

What it draws

Per signal, on the chart:

• Direction triangle + label at the open bar — a small green up-triangle with LONG (or BUY on Forex) under the swing low, or a red down-triangle with SHORT / SELL over the swing high. Marks the bar where the signal fired.
• Entry zone — dashed line at ET1 (entry price) and, when the signal has a two-leg entry, a second dashed line at ET2 with a translucent green / red band filling the zone in the trade's direction.
• SL line — a red dashed line at the stop-loss price with an SL … label. Once price actually trades through it, a red X cross appears at the line and the SL switches off; the signal is closed.
• TP ladder — up to six dashed lines (TP1 … through TP6 …) at progressive take-profit prices. Each line dims and gets a tick mark the moment price touches it; the line stays drawn so you can read how far the trade extended.
• TP / SL zones — when enabled, the area between entry and the last TP gets a soft green wash, and the area between entry and the SL gets a soft red wash. Reads as "the room the trade has on each side".
• Max-profit badge — anchored at the bar of peak unrealised gain since the trade opened. Shows +X.XX% (multiplied by your Leverage setting if set) or +N pips on Forex, plus a Long / Short / Buy / Sell Max Profit caption. Only paints once TP1 has been hit, so it's a measurement of "how far this winner ran", not a forecast.

In the bottom-left of the chart, a compact info panel prints the live state of the most-recent active signal — side (LONG / SHORT / BUY / SELL), entry, current price, running PnL%, TPs hit out of total, SL price, leverage multiplier, and the peak max-profit since the signal opened. Hover the chart over any signal's zone and the panel updates to that signal instead. When no signal is active for the symbol, the panel shows No active signals so you know the indicator is connected and quiet.

If you're on a free or basic plan, the triangle markers still draw but at a dim opacity and the price numbers are replaced with ●●●●● — enough to see that a setup fired, not enough to act on it. Upgrading to Premium unblocks the live read.

How to read it

• Price inside the entry band, signal still active — the trade hasn't filled yet (limit / split entry). Wait for a close beyond ET2 in the trade's direction before treating it as a working position; an entry that takes too long to fill often gets cancelled by the upstream signal logic.
• Price between entry and TP1, info panel PnL positive — the trade is running in your favour but no take-profit has triggered yet. Watch the TP1 line; the first hit is the most-common partial-exit trigger.
• TP1 ticked, TP2 still pending — the trade is in profit-protected territory; many traders trail their stop to ET1 once TP1 fills. The Live Signals overlay leaves the original SL in place — that's the level the upstream signal uses, not your manage-the-trade plan.
• Max-profit badge sits a long way past the last TP — the trade had significantly more room than the ladder captured. Useful for calibrating your own targets versus the published ones.
• Faint marker, no zone or lines — Match chart's TF is on and you're looking at a signal from a different TF. Switch the chart's TF (or set the indicator to All timeframes) to see the full overlay.
• Side badge cycles through multiple signals — more than one signal is open on the symbol. The header shows + N next to the side; hover each zone to swap the info panel to that specific trade.

Common pitfalls

• Treating Live Signals as financial advice. Signals are research output — directional ideas with explicit levels for transparency, not buy/sell instructions. Always size, place stops and decide entry timing against your own risk plan. This indicator is educational; it is not financial advice and trading involves risk.
• Stacking sources you don't actually trade. Leaving both USD-M Futures and Forex on while you only trade one of them clutters the chart with signals you won't act on. Turn off the source you don't need — the panel keeps at least one on so you never end up with an empty chart by accident.
• Reading the dim ●●●●● markers as a free preview of the numbers. The masked view tells you a signal fired and which direction — it does not show entry, SL or TP. Trying to guess them from the bar position is a recipe for a bad fill; upgrade or wait for a free-tier setup on the Signals hub.
• Forgetting the Leverage knob is for display only. Setting it to 20x triples the PnL number in the info panel but does nothing to the broker order. Always check your real leverage in the order ticket before sending — Auto-Trading reads its own risk template, not this dropdown.
• Mistaking the max-profit badge for a forecast. The badge is a historical mark — "this is the peak the trade made since opening". It tells you what did happen, not what will. Don't chase price back to a badge that's already in the rear-view mirror.
• Running the chart on a TF the signal wasn't built for. A 4H signal viewed on a 1m chart will look like the SL is "miles away" because intra-bar wicks dwarf the published levels. Either match the chart TF to the signal's TF, or use Match chart's TF to mute out signals built on a different horizon.

What's next

• USDⓈ-M Signals overview — the off-chart feed of the same signals, with history, win-rate per strategy, and the alerts pipeline.
• Spot Signals overview — the spot-market equivalent, useful for cash-only traders who can't trade perps.
• mrD Pullback — the on-chart pullback indicator that often pairs with the same setups you'll see Live Signals fire.
• RSI — multi-TF RSI confluence read; helps confirm a Live Signals entry before you approve it in Semi-Auto.