1,589 baskets closed in profit. Then one didn't. A new $1,000 account, opened on October 1, had $57 left the next morning. That's the version you can buy today, on its default settings. This is the Quantum Queen EA review I wanted to read before paying $1,199...
SX Chart Tools is one MetaTrader 5 indicator with two jobs. STYLE gives all your charts the look you want with one click. SYNC links charts into groups, so they change symbol, scroll, show the crosshair and share drawings together. Everything is done from one small panel on the chart...
Every signal page on MQL5 carries a small row called Recovery Factor. Most readers skip it on the way to the growth figure. It is one of the few rows on the page that puts the profit and the pain into one number, and it takes ten seconds to read properly...
Ask for the worst month of a backtest and most reports and screenshots will show the month with the largest loss in money. In a compounding test that month is usually a late one, simply because the balance is larger...
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...
The ICT Liquidity Matrix: Automating New York Session Sweeps & Market Structure Shifts on NAS100
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, five set files and, new in version 1...
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...
