The 24/7 watchdog for MetaTrader 5. Detects crashes, restarts your terminal, monitors Expert Advisors, tracks equity — and alerts you instantly via Telegram and email.
Sentinel MT watches the terminal. When MT5 stops responding — a silent freeze, a failed broker handshake, a memory leak — recovery begins within fifteen seconds. The operator does not intervene.
The tool monitors six independent health signals: EA heartbeat, tick activity, equity drawdown, broker connection, margin level, and risk per trade. Each runs on its own cycle, with its own configurable thresholds. A failure in one never affects the others.
When something breaks, Sentinel MT creates a backup of the current profile, force-restarts the terminal, reloads the Expert Advisors, captures a GPU screenshot, and pushes the recovery alert to Telegram and email simultaneously. End-to-end recovery typically completes in under three seconds for a clean crash. Hung processes that require force-termination take up to forty-five seconds.
Everything runs locally. Account credentials, trade history, equity curves, and screenshots stay on the machine. The only outbound traffic is license validation and whatever notification channels the operator has configured. No analytics, no tracking, no cloud sync.
Each profile represents an operator who treats trading infrastructure as a production system and cannot accept silent failure as an outcome.
An independent trader runs Expert Advisors around the clock on a personal PC or VPS. The unacceptable failure is the silent one: MT5 freezes at 02:14, the EA stops processing, and by morning the trader discovers six hours of missed signals.
Sentinel MT closes that gap. Terminal restarted within seconds, EAs reloaded automatically, Telegram alert with a screenshot before the market moves against the position.
A funded trader operates prop firm accounts where a missed drawdown reset, unreported equity spike, or undetected disconnect can trigger account violation and erase the funded slot in a single session.
Sentinel MT is a compliance instrument as much as a recovery tool. Equity, P&L, free margin and connectivity tracked continuously. Periodic summary reports build a defensible record of every session.
A developer writing strategies needs to know not just whether the EA is profitable, but whether it is actually running. A silent freeze or missed tick window corrupts forward tests and wastes weeks of evaluation time.
Guardian Heartbeat writes a structured status frame every 15 seconds. When the heartbeat stops, Sentinel knows immediately. The developer gets an actionable signal — not stale data.
A manager runs several MT5 terminals across multiple brokers. With five or ten terminals in parallel, manual monitoring is impossible and a single disconnect can compromise an entire book.
PRO Multi, Enterprise Multi and Institutional tiers support up to 5 PCs with up to 20 monitored programs. Centralized alerts, per-terminal recovery, and consolidated reports replace guesswork.
Every capability ships inside the same standalone executable. No plugins, no add-ons, no runtime downloads.
Detects MT5 crashes within 15 seconds. Restarts the terminal, loads the correct profile, resumes all Expert Advisors.
Guardian Heartbeat EA writes a structured status frame every 15 seconds. Detects frozen EAs, hung terminals, silent communication failures.
Monitors equity drawdown, margin level, risk per trade, floating P&L. Configurable WARNING and CRITICAL thresholds.
Captures the MT5 terminal after restarts and critical events. Sent to Telegram and email for visual confirmation.
Instant notifications for crashes, restarts, equity alerts, broker disconnects. HTML-formatted with contextual data.
PDF reports on demand from the dashboard. Periodic summaries via Telegram and email — daily, weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly.
Local web interface at localhost:8080. Health score, equity, open positions, event log, license status. Optional LAN access.
Main engine, redundant supervisor, system watchdog, Task Scheduler entries, Auto-Logon recovery path. Self-healing at every layer.
No trading data, credentials, or financial information leaves the machine. Config stays local. License check only.
Download the ZIP, extract anywhere. No installer — SentinelMT.exe is a standalone portable binary.
Copy the bundled .ex5 file to your MT5 Experts folder. Drag it onto any chart and enable AutoTrading.
Launch SentinelMT.exe and configure terminals, Telegram, email, thresholds and periodic reports from the visual wizard.
Register the Task Scheduler ONLOGON entry from the wizard. Sentinel MT launches on every login and runs from the system tray.
A trading watchdog that itself can crash is useless. Sentinel MT is built so that no single component failure can leave MetaTrader 5 unattended.
Reads Guardian Heartbeat status frames, runs the six monitors, evaluates thresholds, dispatches notifications, generates the dashboard, and orchestrates recovery sequences.
An independent process whose only job is to verify that the main engine is alive and restart it if it stops responding.
Watches both the main engine and the supervisor. If both stop, the watchdog brings them back. Three layers forming a recovery triangle.
Four scheduled tasks with ONLOGON triggers. After any login event — including automatic login after a Windows Update reboot — these tasks restore the full three-process configuration.
Configures Windows to log the operator account back in automatically after an unexpected reboot, so that ONLOGON entries fire without human presence.
Six situations from real production environments, and the response Sentinel MT generates for each one.
| Situation | Sentinel MT response |
|---|---|
| MT5 crashes silently at 02:14 | Heartbeat timeout within fifteen seconds. Profile backup, terminal restart, EA reload, alert with screenshot. Under forty-five seconds total. |
| Internet drops, EA freezes mid-tick | Tick activity timeout fires. Broker disconnect confirmed. Notification sent. When connectivity returns, heartbeat resumes and downtime is logged. |
| PC reboots from Windows update | Auto-Logon completes. Task Scheduler ONLOGON entries fire. Sentinel MT, MetaTrader 5, and all EAs restored. Recovery alert sent. |
| MT5 exhausts memory, stops responding | Process probe detects unresponsive state. Graceful shutdown with twenty-second window. Force-termination if needed. Fresh launch, profile reload, alert. |
| Equity drops 4% in a session | WARNING at 3% (default), then CRITICAL escalation. Both thresholds trigger separate notifications. Event documented in the periodic summary report. |
| Operator is asleep, away from computer | All alerts route to Telegram and email simultaneously with screenshot. Dashboard accessible from any device on LAN, or remotely via Chrome Remote Desktop. |
| Failure mode | Without Sentinel MT | With Sentinel MT |
|---|---|---|
| Overnight MT5 crash | Discovered at morning open. Hours of missed signals. No record of when it happened. | Detected within fifteen seconds. Auto-restart under three seconds. Telegram alert with screenshot. |
| Frozen Expert Advisor | EA appears running but stops processing. No signal until manual inspection. | Heartbeat timeout fires. EA reloaded, alert sent with terminal name and last tick timestamp. |
| Broker disconnect | Trading halts silently. Position management pauses until the operator notices. | Connection monitor fires. RTT degradation logged. Notification on disconnect and reconnect. |
| Windows Update reboot | MT5 does not auto-launch. EAs do not resume. Downtime discovered hours later. | Auto-Logon, scheduled tasks, full restart. Recovery alert confirms everything is back. |
| Excessive drawdown | Operator sees the damage when checking the terminal manually. | WARNING and CRITICAL alerts at configurable thresholds. Periodic reports document the event. |
| Prop firm rule violation risk | No defensible record of session monitoring. | Continuous logging. Periodic reports build an auditable session history. |
On first execution, the Sentinel MT Windows binary triggers a Microsoft SmartScreen notice identifying the application as "unrecognized". This is the expected default for any newly released Windows binary before it accumulates Microsoft's download reputation — independent of the code itself and independent of whether the binary carries a code-signing certificate.
Sentinel MT publishes the SHA-256 hash of every release so that the operator can verify integrity directly:
Independent scan: VirusTotal report
The operator bypasses the SmartScreen notice via More info → Run anyway. The binary then runs normally. A Sectigo code-signing certificate is part of the JYXOS infrastructure roadmap; deploying it accelerates SmartScreen recognition but does not change the software's behavior.
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