Tool version: O!kurra Capital Defense EA 2.00
19.1 Why visualize trades
Positions opened by the EA exist in three “places”: in the Trade tab (the list of current ones, a table), in the History tab (the list of closed ones, a table) and on the chart (graphically, at the places and times where they happened).
The tables are complete, but without market context. The line “buy XAUUSD 0.01, 2400.50, closed 2402.20” tells you it was profitable — but not in what phase of the market. Did you enter on a pullback? In a trend? Under resistance? The table will not tell you.
The chart shows the context. An arrow at the open price, another at the close price, connected by a line — you immediately see where and how the EA reacted: how long the position lasted, whether it was closed at TP, SL or by BEa, what the context was. This is the basic tool for analyzing the EA’s behavior — after an hour of watching the chart with the history you see the patterns: where the robot does well, where it generates false positives, which configurations need adjusting.
Positioning of the tool. Visualization supports observing how the EA behaves in market context. Decisions to change the configuration arising from those observations are part of your experiment on a demo account.
19.2 T. Levels — open positions on the chart
T. Levels (the button label on the panel, short for “Trade Levels”) shows on the chart the price-level lines of open positions. You control them with the T. Levels button in the panel’s Trade Markers section (chapter 8.8) — a click toggles them on/off (the button is green when active). Off by default (on a crowded chart with many positions the lines can be visual chaos).
What exactly gets drawn depends on the “Markers Own Only” cell (the Panel: Trade Markers section in OkurraGlobal, enabled by default):
- Markers Own Only = enabled (default). The EA draws its own dotted horizontal lines — one for each open position of this EA instance (and only this one): blue for BUY, red-orange for SELL, at the position’s open price. Hovering over a line shows the details (button, direction, lot, entry price, position number). The lines do not show SL/TP — this is deliberate: with virtual (stealth) SL/TP the broker does not know them anyway, and you see the basket’s protective levels on the BEa line and the Target Lines. Manual positions, other EAs’ positions and other O!kurra instances’ positions are not drawn — the chart shows exactly what this instance manages (consistent with the “own only” mode, chapter 5.5).
- Markers Own Only = disabled. The EA enables MetaTrader’s standard feature (native position lines): all positions on the symbol — from every source — with SL/TP lines, if they are set on the broker side.
When to enable: active basket management (you see where the positions sit relative to the price and how far it is to the BEa line), verifying “what exactly this instance manages” when several robots run on one instrument. When to disable: pure price-structure analysis, or many parallel positions (then use only the BEa line and the Target Lines — they are single, per basket).
T. Levels affect display only — the EA works identically regardless of their state.
19.3 T. History — the history of closed trades
T. History (the button label on the panel, short for “Trade History”) shows closed trades as arrows on the chart. You control it with the T. History button in the Trade Markers section (green when active).