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When evaluating an Expert Advisor on the market, inspecting past profitability alone is rarely enough. The single most important factor determining whether an algorithm will survive long term or eventually wipe out an account is its underlying architecture...

VISTLAB — A Laboratory for Studying the Market Through Time From Knowledge to Understanding. From Understanding to Practice...

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...

An AI that can write clean Python or MQL5 syntax is not the same thing as an AI that understands market math. A new October 2026 benchmark study ( QuantitativeFinance-Bench ) tested 47 frontier AI coding configurations across 86 real-world practitioner quantitative finance problems...

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...

A ruler tells you a move was 500 points. It does not tell you whether 500 points in 12 bars is ordinary or rare on this symbol. Move Ruler does: drag it over any move and it compares the move with every past span of the same number of bars...

Automation Starts with Rules, Not Code When I talk about trading automation, many people imagine complex code, dozens of indicators, and years of programming experience. In practice, the process starts with something much simpler: a trading idea that can be expressed as clear, unambiguous rules...

Trade History, Performance Reports and Strategy Journaling in Multi Risk Manager Pro Successful trading requires more than opening and closing positions...

Gold (XAUUSD) ended the week of 19-23 October at 3,997.08, down 4.05% from the previous Friday's close of 4,165.76. The week's range ran from 3,975.61 to 4,190.42, a span of 5.16% of the previous close. The high came on Monday and the low on Friday...

A backtest report prints one win rate and one profit factor for the whole test. We split the published MT5 backtests of 9 of our EAs into calendar years and looked at how far those two figures moved from one full year to the next inside the same test. This article uses backtests only...

The short answer Yes, this one worked. Buying a stock index (like the US500 or the NASDAQ) after a short, sharp drop and selling a few days later made money over 14 years, also in the years we had not used to choose it. But the profit is modest: about 2% a year at a careful risk level...

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...