The EA Panel

Tool version: O!kurra Capital Defense EA 2.05

A note on how the chapters are divided. This chapter is the anatomy of the EA panel — what you see on the chart after launching the robot and what each element does. How the individual mechanisms work (zones, BEa, limits, triggers) is covered in chapters 9–17. Here you learn the dashboard; there — the engines it controls.

8.1 What the EA panel is

The EA control panel is the graphical command center of the robot, drawn directly on the chart after launching the Okurra EA (chapter 3). It is a different panel than OkurraButton/OkurraGlobal — those are for designing configurations (design mode, chapters 4–7), this one belongs to the running robot (execution mode). A reminder from chapter 2.7: the design panels and the EA work on separate charts, so on the chart with the robot you only have its own panel.

What it is for: the EA carries the entire strategic configuration inside itself (loaded from a .set file via F7). The panel is for live tactical control — the things you adjust during a session, without stopping the robot:

• you enable and disable buttons (B1…B5),
• you draw activation zones and target lines,
• you arm Break Even Auto,
• you close positions (all / profitable / of a given direction),
• you set daily limits, Equity Guard and Profit Target live,
• you view the state of the account, filters, trading hours and connections between buttons,
• you control the trade visualization.

The boundary is the same as everywhere in the tool (chapter 2.3): strategic things come in through the .set file, tactical things you adjust here, on the panel.

The EA is self-sufficient. You can configure, save and launch the entire strategy directly from the EA itself — all parameters are in its Inputs, they can be saved as a .set file (MT5’s native save) and loaded (F7), and tactical control is on this panel. The OkurraButton/OkurraGlobal panels are therefore not technically necessary. They are, however, much more readable: they give you a preview on the chart, the golden change marker, thematic sections and less room for mistakes than the raw, long Inputs list. That is why we recommend designing in the panels and treating the EA as the execution mode (chapter 2.3).

After a restart the EA takes over open positions. After a recompilation, a settings reload (F7) or being dropped onto the chart again, the EA automatically takes existing positions back under supervision — it restores their virtual SL/TP (chapter 9). If a supervised position disappears without a trace of being closed, it raises an alert (popup + log). It similarly signals when, after a restart, BEa remains armed and may close an entire direction (chapter 12).

8.2 Anatomy of the panel — overview

The panel has a title bar and seven sections. From release 2.05 you can view them in two layouts: vertical (the factory one — the sections below the bar, top to bottom, described below) or horizontal with a bar of tabs (section 8.2a). The vertical layout, top to bottom (the seventh section — Time Setups — arrived in release 2.03):

1. Title bar — the name “O!kurra”, the collapse button for the whole panel (on the left), and on the right the robot’s switch ON/OFF, the layout switch H/V (from 2.05) and two info-mode buttons.
2. Strategy Buttons — five buttons B1…B5, each with a direction (BUY/SELL), a label and an ON/OFF switch.
3. Visualization — visualization switches for the filters of the previewed strategy, in two rows: Button (local filters: SAR / MMD / SR / OKUR) and Global (global filters: SAR / MMD / SR / OKUR and ATR).
4. Global Actions — buttons for actions executed globally (zones, target lines, BEa, closing positions).
5. Status Block — a live view of PnL, position counts, the state of limits and account guardians.
6. Target Blocks — editable limit cells (Daily Profit/Loss, Equity Guard, Profit Target, Basket Max Loss).
7. Trade Markers — controls for the trade visualization on the chart.
8. Time Setups (since release 2.03) — the list of live time setups with [C] / [X] / [R] buttons on each, the line-drawing toggle [D] and the archive [A]. The section is visible by factory default (the Show 'Time Setups' section field, section 8.11) and empty until the module has setups; how it works is described in chapter 19, section 19.13.