MQL5 Programming Articles

Establishes persistent daily-session management for Prop Firm Guard in MetaTrader 5. The EA derives the session identity from the trading-server date, account login, and server, persists state in SQLite, and adds a confirmation step for the daily starting balance. A timer detects trading-day changes and restores the confirmed baseline after EA removal or terminal restarts, ensuring a stable reference for daily risk checks.

We map the parts of Algo Forge that impact day-to-day MQL5 work: opening repos in MetaEditor, README translation, Units, branch/tag protection, browser patching, packages, and CI on a Windows host. The article shows exact settings, required runner labels, and how to gate merges on builds. You leave with reproducible steps to protect code, automate compiles, and ship artifacts.

Permutation tests that assume exchangeable observations miscalibrate feature screens for overlapping financial labels, yielding a tenfold false‑positive inflation on EURUSD. This article implements a calibrated three‑gate pipeline: ADF+KPSS for stationarity, uniform‑grid entropy with modal occupancy, and mutual information corrected via a joint permutation null and Westfall–Young max‑T. The ScreeningReport summarizes gate outcomes and effective test count so you can filter features reliably before fitting models.

This article demonstrates how natural-language prompts generate MQL5 producer programs that place native chart objects, and how a deterministic Expert Advisor (AIObjectTrader) reads them through a structured naming and geometry contract. We compare indicator and script routes, using three cases: horizontal resistance, a persistent Andrews' Pitchfork, and Fibonacci Time Zones. Readers gain a reproducible workflow to connect AI-built objects to TOUCH/BREAK/ZONE evaluation and optional execution.

A practical route from the option chain to probability levels inside MetaTrader 5. For GLD, SLV, SPY, and USO, the risk-neutral density implied by each ETF's options is recovered with the Breeden-Litzenberger identity and checked for static arbitrage, after the method itself is validated against an analytic lognormal. A Python feed publishes the percentiles; an MQL5 service rescales them onto a related symbol, draws levels, and alerts when price leaves the risk-neutral 5 to 95 percent band. Every reading carries its own diagnostics, and full source is included.

An LLM agent with SQL memory in MetaTrader 5 — an architecture that eliminates the main limitation of traditional LLM Expert Advisors (EAs): the loss of context between queries. Each agent decision is recorded in SQLite along with the market conditions at the time of the signal — RSI, MA alignment, volatility — and after the position is closed, the outcome is written to the database. When the next request comes in, the agent reviews its own history — similar past RSI conditions and the last three agent decisions — and only then analyzes the current market. The result is a system that remembers its errors between restarts and adapts its behavior based on accumulated statistics, rather than starting from scratch with each new bar.

The article introduces the concepts and tools for working with random processes in trading: definitions, characteristics, autocorrelation functions, and a practical classification. The article covers white noise, random walks, Wiener and Poisson processes, as well as Markov chains and martingales. MQL5 scripts demonstrate the generation of sample paths and allow you to simulate equity, highlighting the mathematical limitations of strategies.

This part adds library-wide validation to the double-bottom toolkit. VALIDATE ALL applies the single-sample rule engine to the stored collection, counts its four outcomes and exports a separate CSV report. The report includes settings, sample context and detailed results. Source samples remain unchanged, and export errors are reported separately from completed validation.

This article adds a symbol metadata layer to the MQL5 portfolio framework, normalizing contract specifications across instruments with different tick sizes and profit currencies. A CSymbolRegistry class loads a symbol universe from file, queries broker data, and converts tick values into account currency, including cross-rate and CFD tick/point cases. The Portfolio Controller publishes per-symbol lot limits from this metadata, and Instrument Agents recover automatically once the controller becomes available.

The framework evaluates boundary sensitivity by rebuilding shifted target-timeframe bars from completed M1 sources and running one Strategy Tester pass for each boundary offset. It includes a ShiftedBarBuilder, a demonstration EA, and a deterministic self-test. An XAUUSD M15 case study reports net profit, Profit Factor, maximum relative equity drawdown, and total trades across all 15 offsets to quantify dependence on the bar grid.

We implement the Harris Hawks Optimization algorithm in MQL5 and analyze five movement modes of agents controlled by a single parameter — the decaying escape energy E. The C_AO_HHO class is introduced; it is compatible with the unified test bench and features a reproducible implementation of Lévy flight. The algorithm was tested on the Hilly, Forest, and Megacity functions with 5, 25, and 500 coordinates — the results indicate anomalous behavior.

The article builds an Ollivier–Ricci curvature library in MQL5 for multi‑symbol analysis. A basket becomes a correlation network, and the reading captures network geometry rather than correlation level. It includes an exact optimal transport solver with an internal certificate, a rolling fragility metric with two informative nulls, an indicator that plots the reading against its null band, and a demonstration expert that uses it as a risk gate.

This work adds an explainable validation module to the recording toolkit for double bottoms. It finds and filters swing lows, selects the neckline, quantifies depth, low similarity, symmetry and recovery, and assigns a rule-based status and scores accepted pairs. The settings are configurable, the process is reproducible, and the original sample data remains intact for comparison across rule sets.

Envelopes define percentage boundaries around a moving average, but a boundary touch alone does not identify whether the market is trending or ranging. We build Envelope_Alligator_Strategy.mq5, a custom indicator that reads the built-in Envelopes and Alligator buffers. Ordered Alligator lines classify directional states; interwoven lines identify a neutral state. This context changes how envelope crossings are interpreted and produces testable, non-trading chart signals.