Using Control Tower

Run ControlTower.exe

When Control Tower opens it validates your license number and connects to your open MT4 app.  If the connection to MT4 is successful your account information will be displayed in the log window along with any currently open positions you have.  If Control Tower is unable to connect to MT4 please verify that MT4 is running and that you have correctly installed the Expert Advisor.

If your license is not valid and you think it should be, please contact us and provide your Customer ID (as provided in your registration email and also in the Log window).

Input License

When first run, Control Tower will ask for your license number in a pop up window.  Input the license number you received via email.

Licensing

The licensing pane displays your current license status and expiration date.

Webhook

The webhook is your unique URL to input into TradingView’s alert settings.  This only needs to be done once.  Refer to our documentation for how to setup alerts in TradingView using your webhook.

Session History

This field displays all incoming trade messages received while the app has been open. If you think you should have received a trade message but it didn’t execute within MT4, check here to confirm it was received by Control Tower.  Alert messages improperly formatted will not show up in this pane.  Please refer to our documentation for how to properly format an alert.

This field resets upon closing the app.

MT4 Log

This pane display all communication messages with MT4 as well as your initial loading sequence info when the app first opens.  When a trade order is sent to MT4 the result is confirmed here.  If successful you will see a message like this with 'error': 0.  Error: 0 means the trade was placed successfully.

Notice the timestamp in Control Tower is identical to the order placement time in MT4 illustrating that the order was executed in MT4 in the same second as received by Control Tower.

Errors

If there was an error with the trade order, you will see a message which includes 'error': followed by a code.  You can read about the possible codes here:  https://book.mql4.com/appendix/errors .  Errors are typically the result of incorrect trade parameters being sent.