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How Many Demo Trades Are Enough Before Live Deployment? By Cree Lawson / Prismatic Algos There is no universal “100 trades and go live” rule for an EA. The number depends on the net edge you need to detect and the variation between trade outcomes...

iVISTscalp5 indicator: Knowing Which LAPs to Filter in Market Analysis Strategic foresight is the hallmark of a professional trader. The iVISTscalp5 indicator empowers this by projecting LAPs (Liquidity Activation Points) for any financial asset in MetaTrader 5 up to a full week in advance...

Version 1.10 of AETHERIS Signal Studio adds AI tools that work with your own key, and it comes with 12 recommended gold signals. This post shows what the 12 signals did together on the real ticks of 16 brokers, where to follow them on a real account, and what the AI tools do and never do...

This guide covers installation, the broker checks, the risk levels, the status panel and every input. Try the free demo in the Strategy Tester on your own broker's data before you trade a live account...

Running more Expert Advisors does not automatically create diversification. Five robots can produce five different labels while taking the same underlying bet. Real diversification begins when strategies respond differently to the same market event...

Last week was risk-off, but investors did not seek protection in gold. Stress around AI-infrastructure financing hit technology stocks and Treasury yields, escalation around Iran supported oil, while metals were sold off...

"Minimum deposit: $100" appears on a lot of EA product pages. What that number tells you is that the EA can open a trade . It doesn't tell you whether the account can survive the strategy . Those are different questions, and the second one comes down to arithmetic...

Two Weeks Later: Has the Performance Gap Widened? On October 12, I published a data-driven comparison between Smart Golden Portfolio (SGP) and My AI Gold , using their publicly available MQL5 live trading statistics...

Fairway is a grid Expert Advisor for AUDCAD on M5 with a hard basket stop. This post explains how it trades, why the basket stop is there, what the dashboard shows, how to install it, what every input does and how to size it for your balance. Product page: https://www.mql5...

Suppose an Expert Advisor has just finished a busy week. Its trading history is full of green numbers. The win rate looks glorious. So why does the account's equity look as if it has just been told the restaurant bill is not being split...

Introduction You finish an Expert Advisor, it runs cleanly in the Strategy Tester, you upload it to the Market - and the automatic validation rejects it...

Vectron is an automated scalping robot for the US30 (Dow Jones) index. It waits for short-term setups that match the market direction, enters with pending orders, and protects every trade with a real stop loss placed at entry. No grid, no martingale, no averaging, and at most 3 trades a day...

If you are a customer of AI for Gold, released in 2023, you will get these revolutionary updates for free. You can access its live performance in real-time here: 👉️ https: //app.ai-backbone.com/publiclive/u_68fc6f50 This new update transforms the EA into an AI managed EA...

Discover a different approach to automated gold trading. Three Symbols. One Balanced Strategy . Triangle XAU is an Expert Advisor built around the interconnected relationship between three instruments : XAUUSD, XAUEUR, and EURUSD...

By Cree Lawson There is usually another setting you can change, another period you can try or another filter you can add. At some point, I want to know whether the next test will answer a useful question...

Technical Analysis — October 23, 2026 Overview Today’s key themes are the continued shift toward yen strength, deterioration in European equities and some major U.S. indices, and strength in crude oil. USD/JPY is strongly bearish across all timeframes...

You run an EA from the Market on your own account and it behaves. You pay for a prop firm evaluation, attach the same EA with the same settings and, one afternoon, the email arrives: account failed. The EA did not break any rule of its own...

Today’s Options Overview October 23, 2026 Spot Rates EUR/USD: 1.1210 USD/JPY: 156.87 GBP/USD: 1.3388 USD/CHF: 0.8214 USD/CAD: 1.4010 AUD/USD: 0.7006 NZD/USD: 0.5691 EUR/GBP: 0.8371 Today — October 23 EUR/USD 1.1125: €531 million 1.1150: €556 million 1.1175: €615 million 1.1200: €755 million 1...

Today’s Market Outlook October 23, 2026 USD/JPY Rebounds from the Low 156s; Focus on Renewed Equity Weakness and U.S. PMIs Market Overview The yen strengthened on risk aversion earlier today, but buying pressure eased as equities recovered. USD/JPY fell to 156...