This article is for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice or an investment recommendation. Trading in financial markets carries a high risk of loss...

By Ilias Saoudi | Quantitative Algorithmic Developer & Institutional Systems Architect...

1-Minute Scalping: Combining Stochastic Momentum with Standard Deviation Volatility Regimes on MT5 By Ilias Saoudi | Quantitative Algorithmic Developer...

An Expert Advisor can have a carefully developed trading strategy and still produce disappointing results when its parameters are unsuitable for the account, broker or market. The strategy decides what constitutes a potential opportunity...

A grid backtest can look smooth for months, then lose a large part of the account in one strong trend. The curve alone does not tell you which kind of system you are looking at. These five checks help you find out before you risk real money. 1...

Disclosure first: I build and sell Gold Aegis Protocol, Gold Obsidian Crown and Gold Pantheon Sovereign. The Gold Reaper is another developer's EA on the MQL5 Market, and it's the benchmark I test my own work against. I ran it next to mine on identical data...

This article is for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice or an investment recommendation. Trading in financial markets carries a high risk of loss. Introduction Most traders judge a strategy by how often it wins...

My lot sizer floored a size onto the symbol's step, clamped it between the minimum and maximum, then rounded it to a number of decimals. The decimal count came from a lookup that knew only 0.01 and 0.1; every other step got none. I rebuilt the old function and stepped it over a volume grid...

This article is for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice or an investment recommendation. Trading in financial markets carries a high risk of loss...

I found a money bug in my own trade-cost auditor: a trade that had been reversed could vanish from its per-trade report. The defect was real. The fix is in the source, and the build I ship today carries it...

This post is about Prop Swing Combo, a swing trading Expert Advisor for prop firm style challenges and funded accounts. It covers the risk presets, a separate Darwinex Zero mode and five set files...

Moving Average Crossover Strategy: The Complete Forex Trading Guide to Buy and Sell Signals One of the biggest challenges Forex traders face is identifying trend reversals early and finding high-probability entry and exit points...

Almost all of the rise in a major equity index is earned overnight, and a long index CFD pays financing for every night you hold it. I read two abstracts, not the papers: Strikingly Suspicious Overnight and Intraday Returns (2020) and Does Overnight News Explain Overnight Returns? (2025...

This post explains how I tested Aurelia Forge on XAUUSD, why I threw away part of my first results, and which three sets I use now. The set files are attached at the end. Everything below is a backtest in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester...

I wanted to write down which settings I use for Pullback Sniper X on XAUUSD H1 and how I got to them. So here is the whole story: the data, the search, what did not work, the numbers for the four sets, and the set files themselves (attached at the end of this post...

You've seen people talk about Claude for trading, and you want to try it on your own chart without writing a line of code. A Claude Opus trading bot in MT5 needs two things: a model that can read the market context, and an EA that can send it that context and execute the decision...

Default values are shown for reference, not as recommendations for every account. 1. Backtest Speed default: Normal Use Fast for screening and real ticks with Normal for final verification. This setting affects the Strategy Tester only. 2. Magic Base default : 50800800 Identifies EA trades...

I personally use what I sell in MQL5! Here are my trading results for the last few days using the ULTRA manual trading system: Looks good! 😎🤘 Don't waste time! Join this profitable trading ride! It's not the Holy Grail, but it works really well! I personally love it...

The US midterm elections are on Tuesday 3 November. This post will not tell you who wins or what any market does next. Nobody can, and a robot cannot either...

2025 is the most recent full calendar year in the published MT5 backtests of 9 of our EAs. We took each test's closed trades, split them by year, and asked one question: how did 2025 compare with the other full years of the same test...