How to use GenG Edge
GenG Edge is a diary for your trades. You write down each trade, or it comes in by itself from MetaTrader 5. GenG Edge then does the maths, shows you what's working, and warns you before you break your own limits. This guide shows every screen, step by step.
Contents
See GenG Edge in 5 minutes
Follow these five steps to learn the basics, or to show GenG Edge to someone else.
- Add a tradePress N. Type the pair, prices and size. The profit shows up before you save.
- Open itClick the trade. It gets a grade from A to F for how well you traded, win or lose.
- Check your dashboardSee your profit, how often you win, and your best day and pair.
- Look at the newsOpen Market news and tap an event to see what it means for your pairs.
- Share a tradePress Share on a trade to get a picture and a link you can post.
Getting started
It takes about five minutes.
- Create your account.You get every feature free for 30 days. No card needed. After that, the free version keeps working and your trades are never deleted.
- Confirm your email.Click the link we send you. Didn't get it? Press Resend link in the app.
- Set your starting balance.Go to Settings → Accounts. Give your account a name and enter how much money it started with. Your returns and limits are worked out from this number.
- Follow the checklist.The Getting started box on the home screen ticks itself off as you go.
Handy keys
| Press | To |
|---|---|
| N | Add a trade, from any page |
| Ctrl + Enter | Save the trade |
| Ctrl + S | Save your daily journal |
| → Space | In practice mode (backtesting): show the next candle, or play and pause |
Your home screen
The dashboard answers one question: how am I doing?
- Your account. Pick which account you're looking at.
- Menu. All the pages, in three groups: Journal, Analyze and Improve.
- Time range. Show the last 30 days, 90 days, or everything.
- Customize lets you hide boxes you don't need. Share results makes a picture of your week or month.
- Trades to review. Trades that came in from MT5 and are waiting for your notes.
- Your main numbers: total profit, how often you win, profit factor, average profit per trade, account balance and your current streak.
- At a glance: four simple boxes, shown below.
Where you do best, and your habits
- Where your edge is: your best pair, best time of day (session) and best strategy, and the pair that loses you the most.
- Your habits: how many trades you take a day, how long you hold them, how often you use a stop loss, and how often you write notes. Green bars mean you're doing it most of the time.
- Further down: your balance over time, your loss limits, a calendar of daily profit, recent trades, your goals and upcoming news.
Adding a trade
Press Log trade, or N. Only the top part is required. The rest is mostly one tap each, and it makes your reports much smarter.
- The trade. The pair (for example EURUSD), buy or sell, the price you got in and out at, the size in lots, and the times.
- Stop loss and take profit (optional). Add a stop loss and GenG Edge can measure your risk. Commission is what your broker charged; swap is the overnight fee.
- Instant result. Your profit or loss, after costs, before you even save.
- Why did you take it? Tap a strategy and write one or two sentences about what you saw.
- When was it? The session (Asian, London or New York) is filled in from the time. Tap the chart timeframe you used.
- How did you feel? Tap one feeling. Feeling tired, angry or greedy lowers the trade's grade, because those moods often lead to mistakes.
- Two quick taps: how sure you were, and whether you followed your plan.
- More details: setup, market type, lesson and tags. Hidden until you open it.
- Your rules Premium Mark each rule as kept or broken. GenG Edge then shows what breaking each rule costs you.
- Save trade, or Ctrl + Enter. You can also add chart pictures.
Your trades and their grades
Click any trade to see all its details. Every trade gets a grade from A to F. The grade is about how you traded, not whether you won.
- The grade and the checks behind it: Did you use a stop loss? Did you risk the right amount? Did you get out at your stop? Did you let your winner run? Did you follow your rules? Did you write down why? Were you in a good mood?
- Ask the coach about this trade Premium gives you a short written review.
- The numbers: profit, costs, how much you risked, and how much you aimed to make.
- Share the trade as a picture and a link (Chapter 8).
- Edit, Duplicate or Delete the trade.
Connect MetaTrader 5
PremiumConnect once, and every trade you close in MT5 appears in GenG Edge by itself, with the exact profit and fees from your broker. It takes about two minutes.
- Download your file.Pick your account and press Download my EA file. (An EA is a small add-on for MT5.) Your private key is already inside it.
- Copy it into MT5.In MT5, click File → Open Data Folder → MQL5 → Experts, and put the file there.
- Allow GenG Edge.In MT5, open Tools → Options → Expert Advisors. Tick Allow WebRequest for listed URL and paste the address shown on the GenG Edge page.
- Turn it on.In the Navigator panel, right-click Expert Advisors → Refresh. Drag GenGEdgeSync onto any chart and press OK. Make sure the Algo Trading button is on. GenG Edge shows Connected within a minute.
- New trades arrive every few minutes while MT5 is open. Trades you closed while MT5 was off arrive the next time you open it.
- The same trade is never added twice.
- Trades that came straight from MT5 get a verified badge. If you change their prices or size, the badge goes away. Notes don't affect it.
- The add-on can't place trades and never sees your password.
- Want older trades too? Use Import statement with a report from MT5.
Review inbox
PremiumTrades from MT5 wait here for the one thing your broker can't send: why you took them.
Daily journal and calendar
Plan your day before you trade, and look back on it afterwards.
Analytics
Charts and tables that show what's working, what isn't, and what it costs you.
Advanced
Premium- Scores from 0 to 100 for discipline, risk, consistency and edge.
- Results by hour of the day, how long you held, setup, mood and more.
- Which trades are missing a stop loss or notes.
Bad habits it spots, and what they cost
- Revenge trading: a bigger trade right after a loss
- Too many trades in one day
- Losing more than you planned to
- Closing winners too early
- Trading without a stop loss
AI coach
PremiumA written review of your trading, based only on your own trades. It tells you what you're doing well and what to fix. It never tells you what to buy or sell.
- Pick a time rangeFor example, the last 30 days.
- Press Generate reportYour report appears in a few seconds. Press Print / PDF to save a copy.
- Ask a questionTry "What is my biggest mistake?", "Which session should I avoid?" or "Give me a plan for next week".
Market news
Big economic news (like interest-rate decisions or job numbers) can move prices fast. This page shows what's coming, what just happened, and what it means for your pairs.
Tap any event to open its brief:
- The numbers: what was expected and the last result. For the actual result, tap the ForexFactory link.
- What it is, in plain words.
- How price moved after it came out, on a small chart.
- What usually happens if the number is higher or lower than expected.
- Which pairs it moves, and which way.
- How you've done when trading this currency.
- Safety tips for trading around the news.
Practise on past prices (backtesting)
PremiumTrade old charts as if they were live, without risking money. It's the safest way to test an idea.
Replay: practise by hand
- Press New sessionPick a pair, a timeframe and a starting balance. Prices download by themselves.
- Press PlayOr press → to show one candle at a time.
- Place tradesSet your size, stop and target in pips, then press Buy or Sell.
Strategy tester: let it run for you
- Choose a simple rule (like moving-average crossovers), and GenG Edge tests it over years of prices in seconds.
- It also checks the result on data it didn't use, to warn you if a strategy only looked good by luck.
- Backtest vs live compares your practice results with your real trades.
Your rules and goals
PremiumWrite down your trading rules once. Tick them on each trade. GenG Edge shows you what breaking each rule really costs.
- Pick a goalMake a profit, win more often, have bigger winners, take fewer trades, don't overtrade, or protect your account.
- Choose the numberWeekly or monthly. Use − and +, or tap a common number.
- Add itCheck the sentence, like "Win at least 55% of my trades this month", and press Add goal.
Loss limits (Risk)
Set the most you're allowed to lose in a day, and in total. GenG Edge warns you before you get there. Perfect for prop-firm challenges like FTMO.
- Daily loss limit: the most you can lose in one day.
- Max drawdown: the most your account can fall in total.
- Profit target: the profit you're aiming for (for example, to pass a challenge).
- You can also set the risk per trade and the most trades per day.
Settings, tools and the phone app
Everything else you might need.
| Where | What you can do there |
|---|---|
| Settings → Accounts | Add or rename trading accounts. Free: one account. Premium: as many as you like. |
| Settings → Broker sync | Connect MetaTrader 5 (Chapter 5). |
| Settings → Alerts | Phone notifications and Telegram (Premium), email alerts, and installing the app. |
| Settings → Sharing | Your shared pictures and mentor links. |
| Settings → Preferences | Light or dark look, the Monday summary email, and bringing back hidden boxes. |
| Your picture (top right) | Your name and photo, change password, sign out, send us feedback. |
Put GenG Edge on your phone
- AndroidOpen GenG Edge in Chrome and press Install (in Settings → Alerts or your picture menu).
- iPhoneOpen it in Safari, tap Share → Add to Home Screen, then open it from your home screen.
- Turn on notificationsSettings → Alerts → Turn on for this device.
Plans and prices
Every new account gets all features free for 30 days. After that, you can keep using the free version or upgrade.
| Plan | Price | Per month | You save |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | ₹599 | ₹599 | — |
| 6 months | ₹2,999 | ₹500 | ₹595 |
| Yearly | ₹4,999 | ₹417 | ₹2,189 |
| What you get | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Add trades by hand, home screen, calendar, daily journal | Yes | Yes |
| Trading accounts | 1 | As many as you like |
| Basic analytics, loss limits, tools, market news | Yes | Yes |
| Share pictures and trade grades | Yes | Yes, plus verified MT5 trades |
| Automatic MT5 sync and review inbox | — | Yes |
| AI coach | — | Yes |
| Backtesting and advanced analytics | — | Yes |
| Rules, playbooks and goals | — | Yes |
| Chart pictures, Excel export, phone and Telegram alerts | — | Yes |
- Auto-renew: leave it on to renew by itself, or switch it off to pay once. We remind you a week before. Turning it off keeps the time you've paid for.
- Invite friends: when a friend you invited buys a plan, you both get a free month.
- Refunds: ask within 7 days of your first payment.
Trading words, explained simply
New to some of these? Here's what they mean.
- P&L
- Profit and loss: how much money a trade made or lost, after costs.
- Pip
- The usual smallest price step. For EURUSD it's 0.0001; for USDJPY it's 0.01.
- Lot
- The size of a trade. 1 lot of EURUSD is 100,000 euros; 0.10 lots is a tenth of that.
- Stop loss
- The price where you get out if the trade goes against you, so a loss stays small.
- Take profit
- The price where you take your profit.
- Risk
- The money you'd lose if your stop loss is hit.
- R
- Your result counted in "risks". Risk $100 and make $250: that's +2.5R. Lose the $100: that's −1R.
- Risk : reward
- What you aim to make compared with what you risk. 1 : 2 means you aim to make twice what you risk.
- Win rate
- The share of your trades that made money.
- Payoff
- Your average win divided by your average loss. Above 1 means your wins are bigger than your losses.
- Profit factor
- All the money you won divided by all the money you lost. Above 1 means you're making money overall.
- Expectancy
- What you make, on average, on each trade.
- Drawdown
- How far your account has fallen from its highest point.
- Session
- The part of the day by market: Asian, London or New York.
- Prop firm challenge
- A test from a funding company (like FTMO) where you trade their money and must stay within strict loss limits.
- MetaTrader 5 (MT5)
- The trading app many brokers use.
- EA
- Expert Advisor: a small add-on for MT5. GenG Edge's EA only reads your closed trades.
- Backtesting
- Testing a trading idea on past prices before using real money.
- Process grade
- A score from A to F for how well you followed good habits on a trade, win or lose.
Something not working?
Quick fixes for the most common questions.
| If you see… | Try this |
|---|---|
| A ≈ sign before the profit | The pair needs an exchange rate. Edit the trade and add the rate at exit. |
| MT5 says the connection is blocked | Add the address from Settings → Broker sync in MT5 under Tools → Options → Expert Advisors, then drag the EA onto the chart again. |
| Trades from MT5 aren't arriving | Check the Algo Trading button is on, the chart corner says Connected, and your Premium is active. |
| No phone notifications | Turn them on again in Settings → Alerts, and allow notifications for GenG Edge in your phone's settings. |
| A "Premium feature" message | Your free trial or plan has ended. Choose a plan; nothing you saved is lost. |
| No email from us | Check your spam folder, then press Resend link. |
| You were signed out | Your password was changed, or someone pressed "sign out of all devices". Just sign in again. |