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Check out the new article: Creating an HTML Dashboard for Strategy Tester and Prop Firm Challenge Analysis in MQL5.
This article demonstrates how to build a reusable prop‑firm evaluation module for MQL5 Expert Advisors and export results to an HTML dashboard. The module monitors balance and equity during backtests, simulates single or rolling challenges, checks profit target, daily and overall drawdown, and minimum trading days, then outputs both a terminal summary and a browser‑readable report.
A profitable Strategy Tester run alone does not answer whether an Expert Advisor would pass a prop‑firm style challenge. Prop challenges are rule sets — profit target, daily loss limit, overall drawdown limit, minimum trading days, and sometimes a strict time window — and a single backtest start date can be misleading.
This article presents a practical, reusable evaluation layer: a small MQL5 module that monitors balance and equity during a test, normalizes them to a configurable “virtual” challenge account, and simulates either a single attempt or a rolling series of attempts (daily/weekly/monthly starts).
The evaluator reports whether each simulated attempt would have respected the specified rules, why it failed or remained incomplete, and produces two immediate outputs: a concise terminal summary and a shareable HTML dashboard. The module is intentionally a testing aid, not a certified replica of any firm's legal rulebook.
Author: Roberto Danilo Riccio