Auto-sync candles from MT5

An Export Bars file is a snapshot: its candles stop at the moment you saved it. With auto-sync, Red Candle Bridge runs inside your MetaTrader 5 and sends every closed candle (M5, M15, M30, H1, H4 and D1) to Red Candle. Similar Patterns and AI Analysis then read the market up to the last closed candle.

The bridge only reads prices. It never places, changes or closes trades.

Connect MT5

1. Open Settings → MetaTrader 5 → click Connect MT5. Red Candle finds MT5 on this computer and installs Red Candle Bridge into it.
2. In MT5, turn it on once: Navigator → Services → RedCandleBridge → right-click → Add Service → OK. Not in the list? Right-click Services → Refresh.
3. The card turns Connected within a few seconds.

You do this once. The service starts again every time you open MT5, and you don't type any symbol names: the bridge sends the pairs you use in Red Candle and finds your broker's names for them (for example XAUUSD → XAUUSD.ecn). If your broker has two names for a pair, show the one you trade in MT5's Market Watch.

What the card shows

• Source — the account server whose candles are imported, for example JustMarkets-Live. If you use more than one account (demo and live), pick the one you trade; candles from different servers never mix.
• Pairs — your pairs and your broker's names for them. Pairs your broker doesn't have are listed under the row.
• Last candle — the newest closed M5 candle and how long ago it closed.

When MT5 is closed

Red Candle doesn't need MT5 to run. While MT5 is closed the card shows MT5 closed and everything keeps working with the candles you already have. When you open MT5 again, the missed candles come in by themselves.

Good to know

• Candles arrive a few seconds after they close. The candle still forming is never sent.
• Auto-sync adds candles after your newest one. Candles you imported by hand stay as they are, and Import candles still works.
• Times are converted with your broker server time setting, like an import.
• Disconnect pauses the bridge; nothing more is imported. To remove it from MT5, right-click the service in Navigator → Delete.
• MT5 not found? Open MT5 once, or click Choose Folder… and pick its data folder (in MT5: File → Open Data Folder).