How to Start with MT5, a summary ! - page 11

[Thomas Eduard Van Der Jagt]

Logitech1977 #:

Can you please tell me how to pay for VPS hosting from Russia? Do I understand correctly that after the end of the test period the fee will be deducted from the brokerage account? Or not?

Sergey is right, VPS hosting is separate from your broker account.

After the trial period, the payment is taken from your MQL5 account balance, not your trading account. So you’ll need to top up your MQL5 account to keep it running.

You can check/manage it via VPS → Subscriptions in your MQL5 profile.

[Sergey Golubev]

custom color schemes for MT5 -

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Something Interesting

Sergey Golubev, 2021.11.20 14:57

There is one interesting thread in Russian forum about templates:

Color templates for MT5. 40 templates.

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How to use those color templates (custom color schemes)?
Download the script from post #17 (it is for MT5).
Yes, it is the script, place it in Scripts directory (for example, to C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\D0E...\MQL5\Script) and compile in MetaEditor:

Open any chart you want to use, attach script to the chart to change color scheme to the custom color scheme:

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By the way, I like caribean_beach color scheme:

[Sergey Golubev]

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MetaTrader 5 Beta Build 5955: MCP and Agentic AI support

MetaQuotes, 2026.06.26 15:44

We're introducing a new beta version of MetaTrader 5 with built-in support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agentic AI. These new capabilities are now available in both the client terminal and MetaEditor, and we invite all users to participate in the public beta.

How to Get the New Version

To update to the AI-enabled beta, connect to the MetaQuotes-Demo server: use an existing demo account or create a new one. If the server is not listed in your platform, enter access.metatrader5.com in the account opening dialog and click 'Find your company'.

What Is MCP?

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that enables applications to communicate with AI agents. Unlike traditional chatbots, AI agents can independently complete complex tasks by breaking them down into a sequence of actions and using the capabilities of connected applications.

With built-in MCP support, MetaTrader 5 becomes a fully featured source of market data and trading functionality for modern AI agents. They can access market information, analyze charts, work with the trading environment, and perform required operations through the standard MCP interface.

In addition to the built-in AI assistant, you can also connect external systems that support MCP, including OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, and other compatible solutions.

No Configuration Required

To start using AI features, simply sign in to your MQL5.community account. After updating, the platform automatically configures everything you need: MQL5.community is selected as the default AI provider, and the required API key is added automatically.

If you prefer, you can use your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, or other supported providers, and select your preferred model directly in the terminal settings.

Your AI settings are automatically synchronized between the trading terminal and MetaEditor.

AI Assistant in MetaTrader 5

The built-in AI Assistant helps you analyze markets. It can explain current market conditions for a symbol, review your open positions, analyze your trading history, answer questions about financial instruments, and provide context on recent market events.

Example prompts:

• Analyze the current EURUSD situation on the H1 timeframe. Identify the trend, the nearest support and resistance levels, and explain what's happening in the market.
• Analyze my open positions. Which trades currently carry the highest risk, and why?
• Analyze my trading history for the last three months. Identify my most profitable trades and suggest ways to improve my trading strategy.
• Scan all symbols in Market Watch and identify those where an important level breakout or a strong trend is currently developing.

Important: AI-generated responses are provided for informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice. Use them as an additional analytical tool and always make trading decisions based on your own judgment.

AI Assistant in MetaEditor

The AI Assistant in MetaEditor is now a full-featured development assistant. It can:

• Generate new MQL5 programs
• Analyze existing code
• Detect errors and suggest fixes
• Explain complex algorithms
• Explain complex algorithms

Launch the assistant from the File menu, the toolbar, or the Navigator context menu. Then simply describe your task in natural language.

Example prompts:

• Create an Expert Advisor that opens a position when the EMA 20 crosses the EMA 50, uses a 500-point Stop Loss, a 1000-point Take Profit, and risks 1% of the account deposit.
• Analyze this MQL5 code, identify potential issues, explain their causes, and provide a corrected version.
• Optimize this indicator to reduce calculations and improve performance without changing its logic.
• Convert this MQL4 Expert Advisor to MQL5 using modern language features and the Standard Library.
• Explain how this Expert Advisor works. Describe its trading logic, the indicators it uses, its entry and exit conditions, and any potential weaknesses in the strategy.

The more detailed your request, the more accurate and useful the generated results will be.

Your conversation history is available in the Chats tab of the Navigator.

Join the Beta Testing

The integration of MCP and agentic AI introduces an entirely new way to interact with the trading platform. We will continue to expand these capabilities and invite traders and MQL5 developers to help us test them.

Try the new features, share your feedback, and help us make AI-powered tools in MetaTrader 5 even more capable, intuitive, and effective.

[Sergey Golubev]

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How to Start with Metatrader 5

Sergey Golubev, 2026.06.26 19:21

This is very interesting:

No Configuration Required

To start using AI features, simply sign in to your MQL5.community account. After updating, the platform automatically configures everything you need: MQL5.community is selected as the default AI provider, and the required API key is added automatically.

[Sergey Golubev]

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AI assistants, SMEs, and other AI-powered agents

Renat Fatkhullin , 2026.08.10 14:04

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MCP is a self-documenting protocol. It explains itself in detail and therefore doesn't require separate descriptions.

[Sergey Golubev]

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Traders Have Already Used 1 Trillion Tokens in AI Assistant for MetaTrader 5

MetaQuotes, 2026.08.11 07:47

Just three weeks after the official launch of MCP support and the built-in AI Assistant, MetaTrader 5 users have already processed more than 1 trillion tokens through the free MQL5 Lite model. This marks the first major milestone for the new service and highlights how quickly traders and developers have adopted artificial intelligence as part of their everyday workflow. 

Tokens are the basic units of text that AI models process to understand requests and generate responses. To understand the scale, 1 trillion tokens is approximately equivalent to:

• 700–750 billion English words
• 2.5–3 billion pages of text, assuming 250 words per page
• Around 9 million books, each containing approximately 80,000 words
• Nearly 7,000 years of continuous reading at a pace of 200 words per minute

These figures demonstrate how actively thousands of MetaTrader 5 users are applying AI Assistant for a wide range of tasks — from market analysis to automated trading strategy development.

How It Works

AI Assistant is integrated directly into MetaTrader 5 and MetaEditor. It helps traders analyze markets, review trading history, identify trading opportunities, understand the behavior of financial instruments, and create or improve MQL5 programs. Simply launch the assistant from the menu or toolbar and describe your task in natural language.

Free Access for All MQL5.community Users

No API keys or third-party service setup are required to get started. You only need to sign in to MetaTrader 5 with your MQL5.community account, and the free MQL5 Lite model will be available automatically.

For additional flexibility, you can connect your own API keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, or other compatible AI providers.

Explore the capabilities of agentic AI for trading and programming — simply open MetaTrader 5 and get started.

[Sergey Golubev]

Automating Terminal Startup for Service Tasks

Starting from MetaTrader 5 build 4230 an interesting opportunity has appeared for platform users:

• The terminal now features support for the ShutdownTerminal parameter in the [StartUp] section of the user configuration files. It is used to launch the platform to execute one-off tasks using scripts. 
  For example, you have a script that takes a screenshot of the chart. You can create a configuration file that launches this script along with the platform. If you add ShutdownTerminal set to 'Yes' to this file, the platform will automatically shut down immediately after the script completes.
• MQL5 now features the MQL_STARTED_FROM_CONFIG property in the ENUM_MQL_INFO_INTEGER enumeration. It returns true if the script/Expert Advisor was launched from the StartUp section of the configuration file. 
  This means that the script/EA had been specified in the configuration file the terminal was launched with.