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Check out the new article: MQL5 Wizard Techniques you should know (Part 97): Using Convex Hull and a miniature GRU Network in a Custom Trailing Stop Class . For this article we look at a custom MQL5 Wizard class for Trailing Stops. Our implemented custom class ‘CTrailingConvexHullGRU’, is built from

Check out the new article: Beyond the Clock (Part 3): Building an Indicator Window for Alternative Bars in MQL5 . AlternativeBarsViewer is a subwindow indicator that renders all ten alternative bar types as color‑coded candles using the same CBarConstructor hierarchy as BarBuilderEA, ensuring

Check out the new article: Building a Divergence System: Creating the MPO4 Custom Indicator . We introduce MPO4, a pressure-based oscillator that emphasizes the body and direction of candles in the context of current volatility. The article details its mathematics, normalization into a bounded

Check out the new article: Implementing the Decorator Pattern in MQL5: Adding Logging, Timing, and Filtering to Any Indicator Non-Invasively . Cross-cutting concerns like logging, timing, and threshold filtering should not live inside indicator classes. We show how to apply the decorator pattern in

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: LSTM Optimization for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting (Final Part) . We continue to implement the DA-CG-LSTM framework, which offers innovative methods for time series analysis and forecasting. The use of CG-LSTM and dual attention allows

Quantum XAUUSD Silver Trader : Multi-indicator EA for Gold (XAUUSD) and Silver (XAGUSD): RSI, ADX and MA signals, adaptive ATR trailing stop and built-in capital protection. Author: Cristhian Alexander Gaibor Cuasquer

Check out the new article: Market Simulation: Getting started with SQL in MQL5 (IV) . Many people tend to underestimate SQL, or even not use it at all, because they do not fully understand how it actually works. When running queries against an SQL database, we are not always looking for a universal

Check out the new article: From Basic to Intermediate: Handling Mouse Events . This article belongs to the category of materials where simply looking through and studying the code is definitely not enough to understand the processes involved. In fact, you need to create an executable application and

003 - Weekly Day Reversal : Open-source Expert Advisor for testing day-of-week reversal and continuation effects. Built for systematic research, strategy validation, and further development by the MQL5 community. Author: Sergey Ermolov

Simple EMA Cross EA with SL/TP and Magic Number : A simple Expert Advisor based on the crossover of two EMAs (fast and slow), with configurable Stop Loss, Take Profit, lot size, and Magic Number. Author: Edgar Alexis Benitez

V1N1 LONNY MT5 : Asian Range Breakout day-trading EA. Multi-symbol, M15/M30/H1. Places pending stop orders during the London session outside the pre-London Asian range, using PSAR + MACD + Stochastic signals, with automatic London/NY DST handling, structural stops, trailing and break-even. Author

Check out the new article: Swing Extremes and Pullbacks (Part 4): Dynamic Pullback Depth Using Volatility Models . This article replaces binary swing validation with a volatility‑normalized pullback model. Retracement depth is measured as a ratio of the prior impulse and calibrated to a rolling ATR

V1N1 LONNY MT4 : Asian Range Breakout day-trading EA. Multi-symbol, M15/M30/H1. Places pending stop orders during the London session outside the pre-London Asian range, using PSAR + MACD + Stochastic signals, with automatic London/NY DST handling, structural stops, trailing and break-even. Author

Session Boxes : Session Boxes is a custom indicator for MetaTrader 5 that draws color-coded rectangular boxes on the chart representing the high-low range of the Asia, London, and New York trading sessions. The indicator uses H1 data internally and supports configurable session hours in GMT along

Check out the new article: Community of Scientists Optimization (CoSO): Theory . Secrets of effective optimization of trading strategies in metaheuristic approaches. Community of Scientists Optimization is a new population-based algorithm inspired by the mechanisms of the scientific community

Check out the new article: MQL5 Trading Tools (Part 27): Rendering Parametric Butterfly Curve on Canvas . In this article, we explore the butterfly curve, a parametric mathematical equation, and render it visually on a MQL5 canvas. We build an interactive display with a draggable, resizable canvas

Check out the new article: Shape of Price: An Introduction to TDA and Takens Embedding in MQL5 . The article presents a practical foundation for shape analysis of price series in MQL5. It implements Takens time‑delay embedding to build a phase‑space point cloud and computes the full pairwise

Check out the new article: MQL5 Trading Tools (Part 37): Adding a Per-Object Property-Editing Ribbon to the Canvas Drawing Layer . We add a descriptor-driven property stack and a floating ribbon that binds to the current selection on the drawing layer. The article covers the descriptor list for each

Check out the new article: Price Action Analysis Toolkit Development (Part 73): Building a Weekend Gap Trading Signal System in MQL5 . We extend the weekend gap toolkit with an indicator that turns gap structure into tradeable signals. When price confirms back into the gap, the indicator issues

Check out the new article: Overcoming Accessibility Problems in MQL5 Trading Tools (Part V): Gesture-Based Trading With Computer Vision . This article shows how to build a hands-free trading workflow for MetaTrader 5 by translating webcam-tracked hand gestures into MQL5 trade commands. We cover the

Check out the new article: Feature Engineering for ML (Part 6): Microstructural Features in MQL5 . The article introduces CMicrostructureFeatures, an MQL5 class for bar‑level microstructure features: Roll spread/impact, Corwin‑Schultz spread and sigma, Kyle's Lambda, Amihud's ILLIQ, and Hasbrouck's

RSI Grid EA Pro : RSI Grid Overlap Pro is a professional MT5 Expert Advisor combining RSI-based market entries with an adaptive grid recovery system. It features intelligent overlap order management to reduce drawdown, plus virtual trailing stop, breakeven, and three lot sizing modes — fixed

Check out the new article: Competitive Learning Algorithm (CLA) . The article presents the Competitive Learning Algorithm (CLA), a new metaheuristic optimization method based on simulating the educational process. The algorithm organizes the population of solutions into classes with students and

Swing Highs and Lows : Short description. Author: Rajesh Kumar Nait

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: LSTM Optimization for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting (DA-CG-LSTM) . This article introduces the DA-CG-LSTM algorithm, which offers new approaches to time series analysis and forecasting. It explains how innovative attention mechanisms and

Check out the new article: Price Action Analysis Toolkit Development (Part 72): Building a Gap Fill Indicator in MQL5 . An EA-ready weekend gap-fill tool for MetaTrader 5 that detects gaps, confirms complete fills, and posts deterministic buy/sell values to indicator buffers. It reconstructs

Check out the new article: Graph Theory: Network Flow of Commodities (Ford-Fulkerson Algorithm), Used as a Liquidity-Capacity Engine . The article presents an MQL5 Expert Advisor that adapts the Ford–Fulkerson max-flow method into a liquidity-capacity filter. Market structures—Swing Highs/Lows, Fair

Check out the new article: MQL5 Wizard Techniques you should know (Part 96): Using Wavelet Thresholding and LSTM Network in a Custom Money Management Class . In this article we consider a custom MQL5 Wizard class that processes Money Management. Our custom class is labelled ‘CMoneyWaveletLSTM’, and

Check out the new article: The Repository Pattern in MQL5: Abstracting Trade History Access for Testable EA Logic . Direct calls to the MQL5 History API inside analytics components create hidden terminal dependencies that make isolated testing structurally impossible. This article constructs an

Check out the new article: MQL5 Trading Tools (Part 36): Adding Shape and Annotation Tools with In-Place Label Editing to the Canvas Drawing Layer . We add eight shape tools and nine annotation tools to the canvas and implement a full in-place label-editing system. The article walks through