Why we built Chartping
Most trading accounts aren’t lost to one bad idea — they’re lost to a limit crossed quietly, while no one was watching. Chartping exists to make that moment loud.
Ask a trader how they lost an account and you rarely hear about a single catastrophic decision. You hear about a number that moved a little too far while they were away from the screen — a daily loss limit crossed on a news candle, a trailing drawdown that crept up over a good week and then a bad hour, a margin level sliding toward a stop-out overnight.
The damage is almost never a surprise in hindsight. The limit was known. The math was knowable. What was missing was someone watching at the moment it mattered — and telling you it was happening.
The tools we had didn’t watch the right thing
MetaTrader can alert you on a price. Your exchange can email you a login. A prop firm’s dashboard will show you your drawdown — if you open it. But none of them watch account risk across everything you trade, or reach your phone as you approach a line you drew yourself.
So people improvise: a second monitor left on, a mental note to “check at the London open,” a custom script that works until the VPS reboots. It’s not that traders don’t care about risk — it’s that nothing was built to sit quietly in the background and get loud at exactly the right time.
What Chartping is
Chartping is a read-only monitor for trading accounts. You connect your MetaTrader 4/5 terminals and your exchange or broker accounts, you set the limits that matter to you — daily loss, drawdown-from-peak, margin level — and it warns you as you approach them. Alerts reach you as mobile push, on your desktop, by SMS or a voice call for critical breaches, or as a signed webhook to Discord, Telegram, Slack or your own backend.
Two principles shaped every decision:
- It only ever reads. Chartping cannot place, modify or close an order, and never has withdrawal access. It watches and tells you; you decide what to do. More on that in the security model.
- Silence is never “all clear.” If your terminal closes or the connection drops, you get a “monitoring stopped” alert. Losing visibility is treated as its own risk event — because it is.
What it isn’t
Chartping doesn’t give advice, generate signals, or promise an outcome. It won’t suggest a limit or a strategy — presets ship disabled, and you confirm every value yourself. Alerts are snapshot-based and best-effort: a monitor makes a bad line of defense if you believe it’s magic, and an honest one if you know exactly what it does.
If that’s the kind of quiet, honest safety net you’ve been improvising on your own, that’s the whole reason we built this. See how it works or everything it watches.