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Check out the new article: Profit Factor Stability Chart Across Rolling Windows in MQL5.
A modular MQL5 toolkit computes and visualizes rolling Profit Factor over fixed trade-count windows. It presents the statistical motivation, an incremental algorithm that avoids recomputation, and a dedicated CCanvas rendering pipeline. The dashboard adds reference lines, shading for weak periods, and summary metrics, while a separate test suite validates the math, giving a practical way to monitor stability and detect deterioration in strategy behavior.
Most trading platforms summarize an entire history of closed trades with one Profit Factor. It is a convenient number, but it compresses years of decisions into a single static figure, and a single figure cannot describe how a strategy actually behaved over time.
Consider two strategies that both report a lifetime Profit Factor of 1.60. The first strategy oscillated gently between 1.50 and 1.75 throughout its life. The second opened with a Profit Factor above 3.00 during its first months, then declined steadily below breakeven for the remainder of its history. Both strategies report identical lifetime statistics, yet they describe completely different risk profiles.
A single lifetime number cannot answer the questions traders actually care about:
This article builds a reusable MQL5 framework to compute Profit Factor across rolling trade windows and render it as a CCanvas dashboard. It also explains the statistical rationale, the incremental O(N) algorithm, and the modular, testable architecture.
Author: Ushana Kevin Iorkumbul