Ushana Kevin Iorkumbul / Profil

This article presents CSymbolMetaCache, an MQL5 layer that preloads contract specifications and trading-session schedules for monitored symbols at EA startup and then serves typed getters from memory. It explains which properties are safe to cache versus dynamic ones, including the semi-dynamic tick value on cross-currency pairs, and implements an in-memory IsMarketOpen() evaluator. A benchmark quantifies latency reduction across a set of twenty symbols.

An MQL5 script reconstructs closed trades from raw deal history and replays them on the chart bar by bar, drawing entry, exit, stop, target, and an annotation with per‑trade statistics. Four classes separate concerns: a trade data record, history reconstruction with a two‑pass SL/TP lookup and partial‑close aggregation, chart rendering, and a controller with polling‑based keyboard navigation. This enables consistent, fast visual review of each trade in its original candlestick context.

This article implements recursive least squares in native MQL5 with a constant O(1) update per bar, avoiding the per‑bar O(n) rebuild of a rolling OLS. It derives and codes the Sherman–Morrison rank‑1 update, explains the forgetting factor through its effective window, and provides a reusable class. Two coordinated indicators plot a 1‑step‑ahead price forecast on the chart and the signed slope in a correctly scaled subwindow for practical trend tracking.

This article builds a sequential CUSUM breakpoint detector for MetaTrader 5, starting from the statistical construction and ending with a working indicator. It explains standardized log-returns, dual accumulators, the role of k and h, and the ARL₀ baseline from Siegmund. The code walkthrough covers buffer persistence, recalculation handling, idempotent chart objects, and a three-pass engine, so you can compile, attach, and use the detector to flag structural regime shifts earlier than fixed-window smoothers.

A rolling-window Approximate Entropy oscillator for MQL5, built without external dependencies. Covers the full mathematics of template matching, Chebyshev distance, and the Phi-function derivation before presenting a reusable CApEnCalculator class and a color-zoned subwindow indicator. Includes a synthetic-data verification script and an honest discussion of bias, parameter sensitivity, and computational cost.

This article builds a constant-memory EW covariance engine and a chart heatmap for monitoring cross-symbol correlations in MQL5. CEWCovariance updates in O(N²) time per bar and exposes covariance/correlation accessors; CHeatmapRenderer shows a five‑symbol matrix with values and colors. You will learn λ-to‑window mapping, how to set a meaningful min_obs warm‑up, and how to size the variance guard epsilon for real FX M1 data.

The article presents CJsonConfigLoader and a typed SStrategyConfig that move EA inputs to a shared JSON file. A hand-written, quote-aware tokenizer parses a flat object without any DLLs. A hotkey triggers reload so all instances can pick up new lot size, SL/TP, and spread limits without reattaching the EA. On malformed input, the loader falls back to safe defaults and keeps the previous configuration.

Volatile-market failures such as requotes, connection drops, and partial fills expose a common weakness in EAs: unclassified retries and no cumulative failure control. This article introduces CRetryExecutor with exponential backoff and explicit error classification, plus a three-state CCircuitBreaker with cooldown and half-open probes, unified in CExecutionGateway. You can plug it into an EA to stop futile retries, prevent duplicate submissions, and improve diagnostics.

A templated CCircularBuffer class for MQL5 replaces the O(n) ArrayCopy array-shift pattern with O(1) insertion using a fixed-capacity ring buffer. The implementation is shown end to end and integrated into a rolling standard deviation indicator. Benchmarks across multiple window sizes compare both approaches and quantify the impact on real-time indicator calculations.

Parameter optimization inside MetaTrader 5's Strategy Tester routinely produces strategies that perform well in-sample and collapse on forward data. This article builds a native MQL5 Walk-Forward Efficiency scoring engine that quantifies how much of a strategy's in-sample Sharpe ratio transfers to each out-of-sample window. The distribution is rendered as a CCanvas histogram and validated against real EURUSD Daily backtest data.

Abnormal bars inflate mean and standard deviation estimates, distorting ATR, Bollinger Bands, and moving averages. We implement a native MQL5 indicator that detects such bars with the Modified Z-Score applied to four features: body, upper wick, lower wick, and tick volume. The indicator marks flagged bars on the chart and plots a composite score in a separate subwindow, helping you diagnose contamination in rolling-window indicators.

This article presents a multi‑broker CSV normalization framework. An MQL5 include file enriches exports with broker metadata. A Python module resolves schema divergences — pip conventions, symbol aliases, time offsets, commission models, and currency denomination — producing a unified canonical dataset. Comparative visualizations of slippage distributions and net‑of‑cost performance enable reliable cross‑platform strategy analysis without silent data corruption.

Implement a session-focused volume profile in MQL5: acquire ticks with CopyTicksRange(), bin prices, and compute POC, VAH, and VAL by the 70% approach. The indicator renders directly on the chart as native objects, supports fixed-width scaling for consistent geometry across timeframes, and refreshes on each new session. This provides objective reference levels without external dependencies.

MetaTrader 5 provides no native tool for visualizing intraday return patterns across time dimensions simultaneously. This article implements a custom indicator that aggregates historical bar returns into a 5×24 matrix indexed by weekday and hour of day, then renders the result as a color-interpolated heatmap inside an indicator subwindow using CCanvas. Green cells represent positive average returns, red cells negative, with color intensity encoding return magnitude.

A lightweight persistence design lets EAs retain counters, flags, and timestamps between terminal restarts. Using only MQL5, CPersistentStore writes a human-readable key=value file in MQL5/Files and serves reads from a CHashMap write-through cache via a typed API. The article analyzes O(1)/O(n) operations, partial‑write risks, and lack of locking, compares with GlobalVariables/SQLite, and provides a demo that reloads state deterministically.

Multi‑timeframe EAs that initialize every indicator handle in OnInit() pay a fixed startup cost even when most handles are never used. CIndicatorCache applies lazy loading with composite‑key lookup, reference‑counted Acquire/Release, and a deterministic FlushAll() for cleanup. Handles are created on first request and reused across ticks, reducing startup latency, avoiding repeated heap allocation, and preventing terminal resource leaks through centralized ownership.

The article implements rolling OLS regression channels in MQL5 and computes confidence and prediction bands with Student's t critical values instead of a fixed standard-deviation multiplier. It explains the leverage-driven widening at window edges, contrasts the result with Bollinger and Donchian channels, and reviews OLS assumptions on price data. A five-line rendering is documented to ensure reliable display in MetaTrader 5.

Nested if-else logic inside OnTick() creates implicit states that are hard to isolate, debug, and extend without regressions. A formal finite state machine in MQL5 uses an IState interface, a CStrategyContext mediator, and four concrete states to separate detection from behavior. A three-file include structure resolves circular dependencies and keeps declarations, definitions, and instantiation clean, making changes safer and debugging faster.

This article describes a live data export framework for MetaTrader 5 built around a decoupled, three‑layer design. The MQL5 component batches bar and tick records via a write buffer and rotates CSV files daily; a Python daemon tails the stream, renders a live dashboard, and flags anomaly thresholds. The demo indicator illustrates integration points, enabling real‑time monitoring and auditability during trading sessions.

This article presents a custom MetaTrader 5 indicator that computes a rolling annualized Sharpe ratio and plots configurable z-score significance bands based on Lo's asymptotic standard error. It uses a circular return buffer with incremental variance to keep O(1) updates. We explain the n^(-1/2) uncertainty scaling, the inflation of intervals at high Sharpe values, and how to set per-instrument annualization for correct deployment.