MetaTrader 5 Now Talks to AI Assistants

Something changed in MetaTrader 5 that is easy to miss, because it arrived as a platform feature rather than as a product launch. The terminal now supports the Model Context Protocol, which means an AI assistant can read your account directly. Not a plugin someone wrote, not a service we sell you. It ships with the terminal, and you get it by updating.

What follows is what the terminal actually exposes, what that lets you ask, and the one setting worth understanding before you connect anything to a live account.

What the terminal puts on the table

Four things, and the fourth is the one that matters most.

Your charts and the price data behind them, so the assistant is looking at the same bars you are.

Your open positions, what you are exposed to and what it is costing you in margin, read straight off the account the terminal is signed in to.

Your whole watchlist, with Market Watch there to be swept for breakouts and trends without opening another tab.

And every trade you have ever closed, available all at once rather than one row at a time. This is the one that changes what is possible. It is the difference between an assistant that knows about trading and one that knows about your trading.

What that lets you ask

There is no interface to learn here. You type a question.

"Go through my closed trades and tell me what is costing me most." What comes back is the pattern underneath the losses: the hour, the symbol, the size, or the trade you take straight after a red one.

"Which sessions do I actually make money in?" Your history split by hour and by day, so the answer is your trading rather than a rule of thumb you read somewhere.

"If I am risking one per cent on this setup, what lot size is that?" The arithmetic done against your real balance and the price on your screen, not a generic calculator that has never seen your account.

"At my current win rate and average size, what do the next hundred trades look like?" Your own numbers run forward, with the drawdown you would have to sit through on the way, which is usually the part nobody models.

The common thread is that all of it is analysis over data the terminal already holds. None of it requires the platform to predict anything.

The setting to decide first

This is the part to read twice. MetaQuotes put it plainly:

▎ AI operations are governed by configurable security settings. You can explicitly allow or prohibit AI-initiated trading operations, or require manual confirmation.

An assistant that can read your account and one that can place orders in it are two entirely different arrangements. The terminal lets you pick, and the choice is yours, made in software that sits with MetaQuotes rather than with us. Decide which one you have opened before you connect something, not after.

Getting it running

Open Help, then Check for Updates. Native MCP support is in the current terminal, so there is nothing to install and nothing to buy.

Sign in with an MQL5.community account to apply the free MQL5 Lite plan and get sensible defaults. If you already pay for Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, the terminal settings will take your own key instead.

Then start asking. MetaQuotes name OpenAI Codex and Claude Code, and any other MCP compatible assistant connects the same way.

An assistant answers questions about your account. It is not advice, and a projection built from trades you have already taken is not a promise about the ones you have not. Trading involves risk.