# Dashboard & GUI

Banana EA displays an on-chart dashboard panel that gives you a real-time view of account state, session status, strategy settings, and open trades — without opening the inputs dialog.

## Main dashboard panel[​](#main-dashboard-panel "Direct link to Main dashboard panel")

The main panel appears on the chart and can be moved or collapsed by the dashboard controls supported by your build.

### Sections[​](#sections "Direct link to Sections")

| Section              | What it shows                                                           |
| -------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Header**           | EA name, version, build date, optimization set name                     |
| **Account**          | Balance, equity, free margin                                            |
| **Session**          | Current session status (Active / Inactive), time to next session change |
| **Strategy**         | Active patterns (B1/B2/B3/Seed), signal engine mode                     |
| **Market Analysis**  | Current ATR, EMA values, daily range %                                  |
| **Trading**          | Open trade count, max trades allowed, scale-in mode                     |
| **Risk**             | Current lot size, risk per trade, active drawdown protection status     |
| **Trade Management** | Break even, partial close, trailing stop current status per open trade  |
| **Drawdown**         | Daily DD used, weekly DD used, HWM distance                             |
| **Status**           | License status, last signal, last action                                |

### Buttons[​](#buttons "Direct link to Buttons")

The dashboard includes action buttons:

| Button        | Function                                    |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| **Theme**     | Cycle through colour themes                 |
| **S**         | Open / close the Smart Risk Monitor window  |
| **Rearrange** | Reset all windows to stacked default layout |

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## Trade info panels[​](#trade-info-panels "Direct link to Trade info panels")

Each open trade has its own draggable **trade box** showing:

* Ticket number, symbol, direction (BUY / SELL)
* Entry price, current SL, TP
* Floating P\&L in pips and currency
* Current partial-close level status, such as compact PC1/PC2/PC3 progress text
* **Close** button (closes the full position)
* **TC** button (candle trailing stop)
* **ST** button (swing trailing stop)
* **BE** button (manual break-even)

Trade boxes are draggable by their caption bar when that dashboard feature is enabled in your build.

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## Smart Risk Monitor[​](#smart-risk-monitor "Direct link to Smart Risk Monitor")

The Smart Risk Monitor (opened by the **S** button) shows a separate draggable window with advanced risk metrics:

* Daily drawdown used vs limit
* Weekly drawdown used vs limit
* Trailing HWM distance
* Consecutive loss count
* Session profit vs lock threshold
* Challenge mode progress bar

It uses the same 260px width as the main dashboard to fit neatly alongside it.

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## Account History Report[​](#account-history-report "Direct link to Account History Report")

A separate draggable window (optional) showing closed-trade performance statistics for the current terminal session.

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## Themes[​](#themes "Direct link to Themes")

The **Theme** button on the dashboard cycles through available colour schemes. See [Themes](/banana-ea/mt5/docs/dashboard/themes.md) for details.

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## Positioning[​](#positioning "Direct link to Positioning")

The current MT5 dashboard framework stores dashboard position and display state internally. If the dashboard appears off-screen, remove and reattach the EA or reset the chart layout from the dashboard controls available in your build.