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Opening Gap Tracker: daily and weekend gaps with fill tracking, alerts and a CSV log : Marks daily and weekend opening gaps on any chart, tracks when each gap is filled, alerts on new gaps, logs one CSV line per gap and exposes the gap to iCustom. Author: Lee De Tai

Trade Environment Check: account mode, symbol trading rules and open positions in one report : Script that reports what an EA has to cope with here: hedging or netting, trade permissions, filling modes, stop and freeze levels, volume rules, swaps and the positions already open on the symbol. Saves a

New article Payments and payment methods is published: MQL5.community built-in services offer great opportunities both to MQL5 developers and ordinary traders with no programming skills. But all these features can't be implemented without in-house secure payment system, that provides a convenient

Check out the new article: How to Implement Metaprompting for Trading Signals in an MQL5 Expert Advisor . Metaprompting is an approach in which the LLM itself optimizes trading instructions based on actual P&L and signal quality metrics. The article demonstrates a practical implementation in Python

ICT Model Tracker - Sweep, MSS and FVG Setups with Honest Statistics : Detects the ICT model on closed bars (killzone liquidity sweep, MSS with displacement or inverted FVG, retrace entry with SL and TP) and follows every setup to its result with worst-case statistics. It never trades and never

Check out the new article: Numerical Fidelity Under Fire: Benchmarking Native MQL5, ONNX Runtime, and ALGLIB . This article benchmarks one MLP forward pass implemented three ways in MQL5: native code, ALGLIB, and ONNX Runtime. We quantify numerical fidelity versus a float64 ground truth and

Check out the new article: Implementing Session Volume Profile in MQL5 . Build a responsive session volume profile indicator in MQL5 from tick data with draggable session bounds and dual anchoring. The article details hash-based bucket aggregation for historical and live ticks, a timer-driven

Check out the new article: Building a Prop Firm Compliance Monitor in MQL5 (Part 3): Daily Drawdown, Overall Drawdown, and Profit Targets . This part turns stored account references into a financial monitoring engine for MetaTrader 5. It calculates daily drawdown from the confirmed session balance

Check out the new article: Creating a Cairo-Inspired Graphics Library for MetaTrader 5 (Part 6): Curves and Adaptive Flattening . This part introduces cubic Bézier curves and a quadratic verb, flattened on append by recursive midpoint splitting (De Casteljau). A conservative flatness test sums

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: Iterative Forecast Refinement Models (RAFT) . The RAFT framework offers a fundamentally different approach to forecasting market dynamics — not as a one-time snapshot, but as an iterative refinement of the state in real time. It takes both local

Check out the new article: Automating Chart Patterns in MQL5 (Part 3): The Head and Shoulders and Inverse Head and Shoulders . The article implements a deterministic MQL5 detector for head and shoulders and its inverse, validating structure from swing labels (HH, LH, HL, LL) rather than raw peak

Risk Lot Panel : On-chart panel that turns a risk setting into a lot size and shows what the broker's volume step and minimum lot do to that risk. Display only - it never places, modifies or closes an order. Author: Lee De Tai

Check out the new article: Buzzard Optimization Algorithm (BUZOA) . BUZOA is a population-based metaheuristic algorithm in which each agent randomly selects one of three hunting tactics at each iteration: a narrow search around its personal best, a classic PSO step toward the flock leader, or full

Point and Figure : Point & Figure draws a classic P&F chart (X columns for rising prices, O columns for falling prices) in a separate indicator window, on any symbol and timeframe. It also adds a trading panel and support/resistance lines on the main chart. Author: Marian Beceanu

BacktestOverfitting: probability of backtest overfitting (PBO) of an optimization : Probability of Backtest Overfitting (PBO) of an MT5 optimization by combinatorially symmetric cross-validation. Every pass sends its daily results as a frame, and the PBO is computed when the optimization ends

MSB Neon Account Dashboard for MT5 : Free neon-style MT5 account dashboard displaying balance, equity, floating P/L, daily realized P/L, win rate and open positions directly on the chart. Author: Kemal Mustafa Ozkan

DrawdownBootstrap: Monte Carlo of the maximal drawdown : Block bootstrap of daily results: how deep the drawdown of an account or strategy can get over the next months, with percentiles and a seeded generator for repeatable runs. Author: Mohamed-amine Baddir

PortfolioWeights: risk parity, HRP, minimum variance and maximum diversification : Portfolio weights from the returns of symbols or Expert Advisors: inverse volatility, risk parity, hierarchical risk parity, minimum variance, maximum diversification, Ledoit-Wolf covariance. Author: Mohamed-amine

TesterReport: read a saved Strategy Tester report into deals and trades : Reads a Strategy Tester report saved as HTML into its deals, closed trades, net profit and balance drawdowns, for comparing, combining or exporting backtests. Author: Mohamed-amine Baddir

Live Test Bench: automated checks of an EA on a demo account : Automated checks of an Expert Advisor on a live demo chart (restart, second copy, server history, chart button) with a PASS/FAIL report. Author: Mohamed-amine Baddir

AccountGuard - lock your EA to licensed accounts (single include) : Single-header account lock for MT5 EAs: licensed account numbers, optional demo allowance, expiry date, tester bypass. Licence compiled in with #define. No DLL. Author: Manit Chin

HTF Candles (ICT Power of Three) - higher timeframe candles next to your chart : Draws the last candles of one or two higher timeframes (auto: M15 -> H4 + D1, H1 -> D1 + W1) next to your chart at real prices, with a countdown, lines to the live candle's open, high and low, alerts and EA buffers

PropGuard Lite - daily and max loss guard for prop firm accounts : Risk tool for prop firm accounts: closes all positions and blocks new trades when the daily loss or max loss limit is reached. Never opens trades on a live chart. Author: Manit Chin

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: Building A Candlestick Trend Constraint Model (Part 11): Revealing Lower-Timeframe Triggers Within Higher-Timeframe Candle Relationships . This article develops an A-B-C-D candlestick constraint model for MetaTrader 5. Candles A and B establish a completed D1 relationship

MACD Signals for MetaTrader 5 : Indicator edition for new platform. Author: Андрей

Check out the new article: Bimodal Market Profile with Delta and Memory in MQL5 . The classic Market Profile from forty years ago is still replicated in dozens of indicators that differ only in the color of their bars. In this article, I examine three conceptual blind spots in the original theory —

New article Functions for Money Management in an Expert Advisor is published: The development of trading strategies primarily focuses on searching for patterns for entering and exiting the market, as well as maintaining positions. If we are able to formalize some patterns into rules for automated

Check out the new article: Offline Reinforcement Learning in MQL5: Conservative Q-Learning from Historical Trade Logs Without Live Exploration . Build and deploy a conservative, offline‑trained policy entirely in MQL5. Logged trades become a fixed dataset for a two‑layer Q‑network trained with

Line Master – Fast and Slow Trend Lines with Trend Change Signals : Line Master is a trend-following indicator for MetaTrader 5 that displays fast and slow dynamic price lines to help traders identify market direction and potential trend changes. Blue represents a bullish trend, while red represents