How to Setup Professional Telegram Notifications in MT5 (Screenshots + News)
User Guide: Haven MT5 to Telegram
Professional Telegram Notifier for MetaTrader 5
Product Link: Haven MT5 to Telegram
Haven MT5 to Telegram is a professional tool for sending trade notifications to your Telegram channel or private chat. It supports screenshots, news monitoring, automatic reports, and full message customization.
🚀 Step 1. Terminal Preparation (MANDATORY)
To allow the Expert Advisor to send messages, you must grant the terminal access to Telegram servers.
- Open your MT5 terminal.
- Go to the menu: Tools -> Options -> Expert Advisors tab.
- Check the box Allow WebRequest for listed URL.
- Click the Add (+) button and enter the following address:
5. Click OK.
⚠️ Warning: Without this step, the EA will log an error, and messages will not be delivered.
🤖 Step 2. Creating a Bot in Telegram
- Open Telegram and find the @BotFather bot.
- Send the /newbot command.
- Choose a name (e.g., MyTradingBot ) and a username (must end in “bot”, e.g., MySuperTrade_bot ).
- BotFather will provide an API Token (a long string of characters). Copy it — this is the InpBotToken parameter.
How to find your Chat ID?
- Find the @userinfobot (or similar) and press Start. It will show your ID.
- If you want to send messages to a Channel:
- Add your bot as an administrator to the channel.
- Channel IDs usually start with -100… (you can find it by forwarding a message from the channel to the @getidsbot).
- Enter this ID into the InpChatID parameter in the EA settings.
🎨 Step 3. Message Configuration (Templates)
You can fully customize the look of your notifications. The EA supports HTML formatting and special tags.
📋 List of Available Tags
The EA will automatically replace these words with actual trade data:
| Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| {SYMBOL} | Trading pair | EURUSD |
| {TYPE} | Operation type | BUY / SELL |
| {LOT} | Lot volume | 0.10 |
| {PRICE} | Current / closing price | 1.0850 |
| {OPEN_PRICE} | Opening price | 1.0820 |
| {PROFIT} | Profit (with currency) | +15.50 USD |
| {PIPS} | Profit in pips | 30 |
| {TIME} | Server time | 2025.01.12 14:30 |
| {TICKET} | Ticket number | 12345678 |
| {DURATION} | Trade duration | 2h 15m |
| {TYPE_ICON} | Direction icon | 🟢 or 🔴 |
| {STATUS_ICON} | Result icon | ✅ or ❌ |
📂 Advanced Configuration (Via Files) — RECOMMENDED!
Editing long text in the narrow MT5 settings field is inconvenient. It is better to use text files.
📍 Where to create files and how to link them? (Important)
The EA works within a special protected folder (“sandbox”).
- In the terminal, click File → Open Data Folder.
- Go to the MQL5 folder, then into the Files folder.
- Create your template files exactly here (Right-click → New → Text Document).
⚠️ Watch the file extension! If file extensions are hidden in your OS, you might accidentally create open.txt.txt . Ensure the filename is exact.
⚙️ Linking the file to the bot settings
Enter the exact filenames into the corresponding fields in the EA settings (under Message Templates):
- InpFilePending — pending.txt
- InpFileOpen — open.txt
- InpFileClose — close.txt
📝 File Content Examples
Copy the text from the blocks below into the respective files (use UTF-8 encoding):
1. File: pending.txt (For pending orders)
⏳ PENDING ORDER
🤖 EA Assistant
📊 Symbol: {SYMBOL}
💠 Type: {TYPE}
💼 Volume: {LOT} lot
🎯 Price: {PRICE}
⏱️ Time: {TIME}
🆔 Order #{TICKET}
2. File: open.txt (For market entry)
🆕 MARKET ENTRY
🤖 EA Assistant
📊 Symbol: {SYMBOL}
{TYPE_ICON} Type: {TYPE}
💼 Volume: {LOT} lot
💰 Open Price: {PRICE}
⏱️ Time: {TIME}
🆔 Ticket #{TICKET}
3. File: close.txt (For trade closing)
{STATUS_ICON} TRADE CLOSED
🤖 EA Assistant
📊 Symbol: {SYMBOL}
💼 Volume: {LOT} lot
---------------------
💵 Profit: {PROFIT}
📉 Pips: {PIPS}
💰 Open: {OPEN_PRICE}
🏁 Close: {CLOSE_PRICE}
⏱️ Duration: {DURATION}
💡 Tip: If the InpFile… field is filled with a filename, the bot ignores the text in the InpTpl… field and pulls the template from the file.
📸 Screenshots and Graphics
The EA can send screenshots of trades with drawn levels.
- InpUseScreens: Enable sending images.
- InpDrawRR: Draws “Entry”, “Stop Loss”, and “Take Profit” zones (Green/Red zones) on the closing screenshot.
- InpWatermarkText: Watermark text (e.g., your channel name).
- InpHeight / InpWidth: Image resolution (default is 1920×1080).
💡 Smart System: If a trade occurs on a pair whose chart is not open, the bot will momentarily open a virtual chart, take a screenshot, and close it.
📰 Additional Features
- News Monitor: The bot monitors the economic calendar.
- InpNewsBefore: How many minutes before high-impact news (3 bulls) to send an alert.
- InpNewsUSD: USD news alerts will always be sent.
- Daily Digest: Daily report. At the specified time ( InpDailyTime ), the bot will send your daily trading statistics.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: The bot says “WebRequest unavailable” in the journal.
A: You skipped Step 1. Add https://api.telegram.org to the terminal settings.
Q: Messages arrive, but emojis show up as question marks ???.
A: When saving the template file (.txt), choose UTF-8 encoding.
Q: The bot takes too long to send screenshots.
A: Try reducing the InpScreenDelay parameter or the image resolution.
