Risk Settings

• Allow Opening a new Trade – on/off opening new trades.
• Lot-sizing Method – select the lot sizing method according to the risk you want to take: Fixed Lots will use fixed lot size from the “Fixed lot” parameter, Dynamic Lots will use the Dynamic Lot parameter, Max Risk per Trade will calculate lots based on % risk per trade, three predefined will calculate risk automatically for you
• Fixed Lot – fixed trading lot
• Dynamic Lo t- balance/equity to be used per 0.01 lot
• Max Lot – Max allowed a trading lot
• Use Even LotSize – trading only with even lots to reduce commissions.
• Max Spread, in pips – max allowed spread for position closing
• Max Slippage for a non-ECN acc, in pips – the maximum allowed slippage
• Max Symbols at a time – max allowed the number of symbols that can be opened simultaneously by the Hunter Pro EA.
• Max Net Number of Currencies – limit the number of open trades with the same currencies (not symbols/currency pairs) in the same direction.
• Allow to Buy/Sell – on/off Buy/Sell trades.
• Maximum Drawdown Percent – if the current floating drawdown exceeds the specified % the Hunter Pro Robot will close open positions
• Max Daily Drawdown Limit % FTMO Rules in Money [0-disabled] – maximum daily drawdown limit in MONEY, calculated according to the FTMO rules. Non-trading operations (like withdrawals) during the day are not taken into account.
• Max Daily Drawdown Reset Hour FTMO Rules (Broker time) – hour to reset the max. Drawdown with the prop firm.
• Max Daily Drawdown Limit % FTMO Rules – maximum daily drawdown limit, calculated according to the FTMO rules. Non-trading operations (like withdrawals) during the day are not taken into account.

Time

• Minutes To Start/Stop Placing Orders – allows you to fine-tune the trading interval. Minutes To Start Placing Orders must be multiples of 5 (0, 5, 10, 15…50, 55)
• Rollover Start Time 23:XX – rollover start minutes.
• Rollover End Time 00:XX – rollover end minutes.
• Remove TakeProfit During Rollover – removes TP for all orders at the specified rollover time. This option helps to avoid closing trades via TP during bad trading conditions since slippage can turn a profitable trade into a losing one.
• Increase StopLoss During Rollover – increases SL for all orders at the specified rollover time. This option helps to avoid activating SL due to spread widening during bad trading conditions (which may lead to a big loss).
• StopLoss, in % ATR – volatility-based stop loss expressed as a percentage of the Average True Range indicator.
• Check for Instances of the EA – checks that only one instance of the EA is running at a time. If Hunter Pro EA detects other instances with the same UID, trading will be disabled.
• Trade on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday/Friday – enable/disable trading on Monday/ Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday
• Disable Trading on Holidays – enable/disable trading on bank holidays according to the real-time Economic Calendar ( This filter is currency-specific. For example, with it EA won’t take trades on USD pairs during bank holidays in the USA. It also works in Strategy Tester.

Strategy

• Symbols separated by comma – list of pairs to trade. A suffix needs to be included if your broker uses one!
• Hour to Start/Stop Placing Orders- when to start/stop placing pending orders. Set Smart Time Filter to false if you want to optimize these parameters.
• Smart Time Filter- on/off smart time filter
• Hour to Stop Trading (on Friday)- hour to stop trading (on Friday). All open positions will be closed at this hour.
• New Year Holiday Filter – on/off Christmas/New Year filter
• StopLoss, in pips – stop loss value in standard 4-digit pips
• Hide StopLoss – on/off SL hiding
• Rollover Time Filter – on/off the rollover filter
• Swap Filter – cancels trading on Wednesday evening in the direction of the negative swap.
• Max Negative Swap, in pips – max negative swap
• News Filter Enabled – on/off News Filter

News

• Medium Impact News – enable/disable news events with medium impact (2 stars news).
• Low Impact News – enable/disable news events with low impact (1 star news).
• Speaks – if false, then the Day Hunter Pro Robot will not take into account news events marked as Speeches/Speaks.
• News List Refresh Rate – news events list update frequency (selection from the drop-down list).
• Symbol Suffix – here, you can specify a symbol suffix if your broker uses one.
• Placing Orders During Rollover Time – enable/disable placing pending orders during rollover time.
• Friday Half Lots – halving trading lots on Friday evening.
• Handle Max Drawdown Events on Every Tick – enable/disable drawdown event handling on every tick (instead of once a minute, which is used by default, it may consume more CPU resources).
• Min Profit To Close Trade Before Midnight, in pips [0-disabled] – automatically closes profitable trades before midnight if the specified profit is reached.
• Hide TakeProfit – on/off TakeProfit hiding.
• Max Open Lots – here, you can put a value limiting the total lots that the EA can open on all currency pairs.
• Minutes to Stop Trading – minutes to stop trading.
• Block Trading for the Entire Day – prohibits opening new trades throughout the day if HV hits the specified level just once at any moment during the day.
• Show Stats – show a panel with some statistics.

Others

• Trade Comment – comment
• UID (0…9) – unique EA instance number. Usually, no need to change it
• ShowPanel –  on/off Info-panel
• GMT/DST Test – GMT offset in winter and DST in Tester. This parameter has no effect on live trading.