5-minute setup

Quickstart

Connect one MetaTrader 5 terminal to xTriel and watch it report live in about five minutes. This is the fast, happy-path setup: get your token, drop in the read-only Reporter EA, allow web requests, and see the account turn green on your dashboard.

Updated Jun 30, 2026 Quickstart MT5

Overview

By the end of this guide you will have one MetaTrader 5 account streaming into your xTriel dashboard. The connection is read-only: the Reporter EA sends balance, equity, drawdown, and open positions to xTriel, but it never opens, closes, or modifies trades. Your trading EA can keep running on the same terminal.

There are four quick moves: copy your Ingest Token, install the Reporter EA, allow the xTriel web request, then confirm the account shows up Live. Each step below takes about a minute.

Want the full walkthrough?

This is the condensed path. For every EA input, risk-rule field, and Telegram option, read the complete Connect MT5 Reporter EA guide.

Get your Ingest Token

The Ingest Token is your per-user key. It tells xTriel which account any incoming data belongs to, and the Reporter EA cannot send anything without it.

Open Connect your EA

Sign in to xTriel, open Profile, then open Connect your EA.

Copy the token

Generate or copy the Ingest Token. It starts with xti_. Keep it handy; you will paste it into the EA in a moment.

The token is shown once.

Copy it before you leave the page. If you regenerate it, every terminal still using the old token stops reporting until you paste the new one into each EA.

Install the Reporter EA

The Reporter EA is a single compiled .ex5 file. Get the package from the public setup page at xtriel.com/connect-mt5, then add it to MetaTrader 5.

Open the MT5 data folder

In MT5, choose File -> Open Data Folder, then browse to MQL5 -> Experts.

Drop in the .ex5

Copy the compiled XtrielReporterEA.ex5 into the Experts folder, then restart MT5 or refresh the Navigator so it appears under Expert Advisors.

Attach it to any chart

Drag XtrielReporterEA from the Navigator onto any open chart. In the inputs dialog, paste your token into IngestToken, then click OK.

One EA per terminal.

You only need the Reporter EA on a single chart per terminal. It reports the whole account, not just the chart symbol.

Allow WebRequest

MetaTrader 5 blocks outbound web requests by default. Add the xTriel API to the allow-list so the Reporter EA can send its snapshots.

Open Tools -> Options -> Expert Advisors, enable Allow WebRequest for listed URL, and add the xTriel API URL:

https://xtriel.com

Click OK to save. Make sure the MT5 Algo Trading button in the toolbar is enabled so the EA is allowed to run.

See it live

Open your xTriel dashboard at app.xtriel.com. Within about 30 seconds of the first successful send, the account appears as a terminal card with a green Live status.

You can confirm the same thing inside MT5. Open the Experts tab and watch the Reporter EA print its startup banner and the first successful send:

[Xtriel] Reporter EA starting...
[Xtriel] Ingest token  : xti_xx...xxxx
[Xtriel] #1 sent OK (HTTP 200)
  • Live means xTriel just received a fresh snapshot. You are connected.
  • If the card never appears, confirm Algo Trading is on, the EA is attached to a chart, the token is pasted, and https://xtriel.com is in the WebRequest allow-list.

Next steps

That is the whole connection. From here, the most common next moves are setting up alerts and building a backtest library:

  • Risk rules & Telegram alerts — set per-account drawdown, profit-target, and stale-terminal limits, then get an instant Telegram ping the moment one trips.
  • xAlmanac Upload API — push MT5 Strategy Tester results into xAlmanac from your own script, using the same xti_ Ingest Token.
  • Connect MT5 Reporter EA — the full guide, including every EA input and a troubleshooting reference.