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Unfortunately, I discovered that some brokers are a bit sloppy with the server time change due to the daylight saving time (DST), which I did not expect and which surprised me a lot. Here is a script with which anyone can check their broker.

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Exports one CSV line per closed trade with the numbers a statement does not carry: the best unrealised profit the trade showed (MFE), the worst unrealised loss it survived (MAE), how much of the MFE was actually kept, how many bars it spanned, and how long it was held. Same measurement as the Trade Excursion indicator, written to a file instead of drawn, because the questions worth asking of this data are ones a chart cannot answer: does the capture ratio depend on the hour of entry? Are the trades I close early the ones I hold longest? Do losers on Mondays reach a different MAE than on Fridays? Those are one pivot table away once the CSV exists. Output is semicolon separated with a header row, in MQL5\Files; opens in any spreadsheet. Measurement limit: excursions come from bar highs and lows on the chosen timeframe; the path inside a bar is unknown. The bars column reports the resolution each trade got, and the summary counts single-bar trades separately instead of averaging them in.

The script provides a quick estimation of an exponent/power factor for transformation of variable-length price increments into uniform distibution, that makes them a "random walk". The estimated value characterizes current symbol as more profitable when using in a particular trading strategy.

Functions for use instead of ChartXYToTimePrice and ChartTimePriceToXY, working correctly and quickly over the entire range of input parameters

This script helps traders understand the distribution and breadth of candlesticks over a specific period, which can be useful in making trading decisions such as which Take Profit or Stop Loss to use based on historical values.

This script is a reference solution for mapping symbol names configured by users in MetaTrader 5 EAs or scripts to the actual names provided by the broker. It uses the Levenshtein distance algorithm to automatically identify the most similar symbol in Market Watch. Ideal for developers facing compatibility issues with prefixes or suffixes in symbol names. It is a customisable starting point to suit any specific need.

It is a script to display the time remaining until next bar arrives.

Script for displaying updating data on open positions.

Reports, month by month, whether your symbol really has ticks or only bars - so you know which part of your backtest ran on generated ticks before you trust the curve. The Strategy Tester gives you one History Quality figure after the test has finished, and it never says which months were the problem. This script asks first.

This is a script to export rates and ticks of current chart's symbol into CSV-files compatible with MT5's export/import format.

The script provides a set of functions for creating all standard graphical objects for use in your own developments. The functions presented in the script can be used "as is" or modified to your requirements.

This function gives me the shortened names of the timeframes Example: "M1" instead of "PERIOD_M1"

Real-time display of Binance quotes

Population-based optimisation algorithms are collected here. The archive contains all necessary files to run the algorithms on test functions.

Unfortunately I had to realise that some brokers are a bit careless with the server time changeover, which I had not expected and which surprised me a lot. Here is a script with which everyone can check their broker.

Unfortunately, I found that some brokers Changing the time on the server is a bit incorrect, which I didn't expect. and which surprised me a lot. Here is a script that anyone can use to check their broker.

A professional script that automatically sets Stop Loss and Take Profit for all open positions based on a customizable Risk:Reward ratio. Perfect for traders who want to maintain consistent risk management across their trades.

The script removes all autotrading icons from the current chart

The Clean Market Watch script is a simple utility tool designed to quickly remove all symbols from your MetaTrader 5 Market Watch window with a single click. This is particularly useful when you want to start fresh with a clean workspace or when your Market Watch has become cluttered with too many symbols. Purpose Over time, traders often accumulate numerous symbols in their Market Watch window, making it difficult to focus on the instruments they actively trade. Manually removing symbols one by one can be tedious and time-consuming. This script automates the entire process, clearing all symbols in seconds.

Download all OHLC data history available and save it in a file, either for just one symbol or for many in Market Watch

NeuroPro Verbalisation Converter for MQL5

The script retrieves your broker’s actual spread from the ‘spread’ field of the M1 bars and displays the median, the 90th and 99th percentiles in price units, in pips and as a percentage of ATR, and also exports the average and maximum spreads for each hour of the day to a CSV file. This is needed to test strategies against the actual costs on your account, rather than against a ‘typical’ spread estimated from memory.

Translate risk percentages to the monetary figure based on the account balance

This MQL5 script exports candlestick data for various timeframes into a CSV file, capturing essential market information like open, high, low, and close prices. It analyzes each candlestick's characteristics, including body and wick sizes, while calculating additional metrics such as candle gaps. After processing the latest 21 bars, it notifies the user upon successful data export.

This is a tester script that extends the standard MetaTrader 5 optimisation capabilities, allowing you to evaluate strategies according to complex user-defined criteria (with separation into in-sample and out-of-sample periods, advanced metrics and statistical tests).

A tool to align the trading sessions names with broker server time, and local time

This Screener was created to simplify the process of finding assets trading at discounted prices. Initial usage may take slightly longer due to the data loading process for all selected instruments. The tool can scan all available broker assets or be limited to specific asset classes.

This script saves a predefined set of economic events from the MetaTrader's built-in economic calendar into CSV file.

Multi_BreakEven is a script file that enables setting multiple entry positions to breakeven, either through pips or a target price, once the trade becomes favorable.

This script saves all the OHLCV data available on the chart to a CSV file.

This script was developed for displaying saved Strategy report from the Strategy Tester into a chart.

Trading XAUUSD (Gold) is often influenced by major economic news events like USD, GBP, or EUR releases. To mitigate risks during these volatile periods, using a News Filter in your Expert Advisor (EA) is essential. In this article, I’ll share how to create a simple News Filter on MT5 and apply it to XAUUSD trading.

This is an example of ascending sort a struct list by a field. You can find out and customize the above algorithm depending on the purpose of use, this is the most basic example is also a direction to resolve the arrangement in an array of structure. The algorithm used in this example is Quick Sort and Merge Sort.

Exports comprehensive trading statistics to a CSV file with optional date filter.

Portfolio Scorer is a standalone MQL5 script that evaluates the quality of a multi-EA portfolio across three critical dimensions that most algo traders overlook. The script reads daily profit and loss data from CSV files (one per Expert Advisor), computes a full Pearson correlation matrix between every strategy pair, maps trading activity by UTC hour and weekday, detects asset class diversity, and produces a weighted composite score with a letter grade from A+ to F. How it works: The tool runs in four sequential stages. First, the Data Loader reads and validates CSV files containing daily returns for each EA in the portfolio. Second, the Correlation Engine calculates the complete NxN Pearson correlation matrix and flags pairs that exceed a configurable threshold. Third, the Coverage Analyzer maps which hours and weekdays have active trading and identifies blind spots. Fourth, the Scoring Function combines all three dimensions into a single composite score using adjustable weights.

Utility script that exports your MetaTrader 5 trading history to a CSV file. It automatically calculates Maximum Favorable Excursion (MFE), Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE), and Forward Returns (Time-Based Excursions) in whole points for deep quantitative analysis in Excel. It will allow you to understand whether you close your trades too early and can help optimize overall trading execution.

Triple-barrier labeling pipelines frequently use an arbitrary constant (0.5–1.0%) or a legacy spread assumption as the min_ret threshold. A threshold set below the actual round-trip transaction cost causes the pipeline to label cost-driven noise as tradeable signal. The labeled dataset then systematically overstates edge, and any model trained on those labels overfits to an artifact of the labeling scheme rather than to genuine market structure. TransactionCostCollector.mq5 is a standalone script that resolves the data-collection step of this problem.

Script to set Stop Loss on every open position based on a target loss in the account's currency (e.g. $50 per position). Works on any deposit currency and any forex symbol. Validates broker stops/freeze levels. Currency conversion handled automatically.