History of MQL5.community development

Mantis is a versatile tool for in-depth time series analysis that can be flexibly scaled to accommodate any financial scenario. Learn how a combination of patching, local convolutions, and cross-attention enables a highly accurate interpretation of market patterns.

What if lunar cycles and seasonal patterns influence the foreign exchange markets? This article shows how to translate astrological concepts into the language of mathematics and machine learning. I built a Python system with 88 features based on astronomical cycles, trained CatBoost on 15 years of EURUSD data, and obtained some intriguing results. The code is open-source, the methods are verifiable, and the conclusions are unexpected — ancient wisdom meets gradient boosting.

We present a native MQL5 implementation of the catch22 feature set: all 22 canonical time-series characteristics in a reusable class validated against pycatch22. Using a leak-free pipeline (chronological split, purging, embargo), we run a three-arm ablation—classic indicators, catch22, and combined—for volatility-regime classification. Finally, we deploy the combined model as a Strategy Tester regime filter to quantify its impact on a simple baseline strategy.

The article shows how to build an MQL5 EA that writes every deal to an SQLite database the moment it appears, using the built-in Database API as the SQLite bridge. It implements an event data model, a prepared INSERT workflow reused across calls, session-safe recovery after restarts, and deal detection via OnTrade(). You can open the resulting file with any SQLite client to run queries for analysis and reporting.

Meet Mantis — a lightweight foundation model for time series classification based on a Transformer architecture, featuring contrastive pre-training and hybrid attention that deliver record-breaking accuracy and scalability.

Close-to-close volatility ignores the high, the low, and overnight gaps. We build a reusable MQL5 library implementing four range-based estimators from Parkinson to the gap-robust Yang-Zhang, and put it to work in a comparison indicator and a set of adaptive volatility bands.

We continue our acquaintance with the Mamba4Cast framework. Today, we will delve into the practical implementation of the proposed approaches. Mamba4Cast was designed not for lengthy warm-up on every new time series, but for immediate deployment. Thanks to the concept of Zero-Shot Forecasting, the model can produce high-quality forecasts on real-world data without additional training or hyperparameter tuning.

Let's move on to using multiple terminal instances on the server by setting up a simple control panel for starting and stopping them. Now it is time to expand the functionality and move on to the next stages — implementing more complex features, such as managing multiple terminal instances, state persistence, integration with the MetaTrader 5 API, and a web interface with comprehensive information about the terminals.

How can we conveniently monitor multiple terminals running Expert Advisors, especially when they are on different computers? Let's try to create a web interface for managing the launch of MetaTrader 5 trading terminals and viewing detailed information about the operation of each instance.

The article presents an implementation of the Blue Monkey metaheuristic algorithm, which is based on a model of the social behavior of blue monkeys. The article examines the key mechanisms of the algorithm — the group structure of the population, following local leaders, and generational renewal through the replacement of the worst adults with the best offspring — and analyzes the test results.

This article focuses on EA architecture rather than signal design. Starting with a flawed Moving Average crossover EA, we add new‑bar detection to prevent duplicate entries, Magic Number and position awareness, ATR‑based risk levels, and data and trade result validation, along with basic safeguards. You obtain a practical base to build and test advanced systems.

An MQL5 script reconstructs closed trades from deal history using a two-pass SL/TP lookup and exports them to an Excel-compatible XLSX file without third-party libraries. Four cooperating classes handle trade data, history reconstruction, SpreadsheetML XML generation, and ZIP assembly via .NET's ZipFile class through a direct ShellExecuteW call with marker-file polling. The output opens in Excel and Google Sheets with correct numeric types, formatted date columns, and a bold header row.

This article delivers Bayesian Online Change-Point Detection as a single, dependency-free MQL5 class that maintains a per-bar, causal probability of a regime break. We use it three ways: a live monitor, a moving average that flushes on breaks, and a risk overlay with a matched-frequency random control. Readers get a reusable primitive to watch structural change, adapt indicators, and gate exposure after detected shifts.

A market-neutral trading strategy based on the empirical return distribution offers an alternative to traditional technical analysis methods, replacing price direction forecasting with the statistical placement of orders at levels the price is likely to reach. This article provides a detailed analysis of the mathematical framework for calculating percentiles, algorithms for weighting position sizes based on the probability of an order being triggered, and mechanisms for adapting to changing market conditions through grid expiration. A complete implementation in MQL5 is provided.

The Crow Search Algorithm (CSA) is an elegant metaheuristic inspired by crows’ ability to hide food and find other crows' caches, solving optimization problems by balancing following successful solutions with random exploration of the search space. Let's find out how well the algorithm performs.

The article discusses flat (non-directional) and trend-following (directional) option strategies and their implementation in MQL5. The EA described in the previous article is updated. The display of option levels has been added. Now it is time to examine the strategies used by options traders in practice and put them into action.

The EA learns each symbol's volatility profile before trading by processing 1000 bars and summarizing candle ranges, bodies and wicks, noise ratio, trend runs, pullback size, and true‑range dispersion. A classifier assigns regime and structure labels per pair. The stop‑loss optimizer maps those labels to a symbol‑specific ATR multiplier, and the risk module sizes lots to maintain constant percentage risk.

Learn to assemble an MT5 Expert Advisor that hosts a chart management dashboard written in MQL5. The guide walks through shared definitions, symbol acquisition and filtering, chart lifecycle functions, and a UI panel with search, scrolling, and state indicators, all driven by events and a timer. The result is a reproducible tool that reduces clicks and accelerates multi-symbol analysis.

This article builds a complete MQL5 Expert Advisor that implements the original Turtle Trading rules from Curtis Faith. It covers both systems: 20/55-day breakouts, the System 1 skip rule, N (Wilder ATR) for volatility-adjusted sizing, a four‑unit pyramid with N/2 adds, a unified 2N stop, and 10/20-day exits. You will get compilable code, implementation details, and a backtesting procedure on EURUSD.