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Trader and algorithmic developer focused on risk-managed automation for the Forex market. I build Expert Advisors that prioritize capital protection and survivability over hype — real strategies, transparent results, and live monitoring.
My flagship is SurfBot, a bidirectional mean-reversion grid with portfolio-level exposure control and an optional trend hedge. Everything I publish runs on real accounts with public signals, so you can verify performance before you buy.
I value clear documentation and responsive support. Questions are always welcome — reach out anytime.
My flagship is SurfBot, a bidirectional mean-reversion grid with portfolio-level exposure control and an optional trend hedge. Everything I publish runs on real accounts with public signals, so you can verify performance before you buy.
I value clear documentation and responsive support. Questions are always welcome — reach out anytime.
Joao Prata Silva Yglesias
Produits publiés
Grid Survival Ruler answers one question that decides whether a grid survives: how far can price move against you before the last layer is filled, and how often has THIS pair actually moved that far? Enter your spacing (% of price) and your maximum layers. The indicator draws the ladder on the chart, marks the last layer in red (book full), and shows the total adverse move in % and in price, plus how many average daily ATRs it represents. Then it tests that distance against the pair's own D1
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Spacing Audit measures the grid spacing your EA REALLY uses, from its own closed trades, not from its inputs and not from the gaps between open layers. Why: I spent a week believing my grid used ATR-based spacing because UseATR was true. It did not. Every pair sat on the minimum-spacing floor, 2.8x to 5.1x tighter than intended, and the book kept clogging. The inputs said one thing; 1,120 closed trades said another. The method: in a grid where each layer carries a take-profit one spacing away
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Code publié Contract Sizer: ladder, floor and a breaker that survives a deposit
Trois mécanismes de protection liés au dimensionnement des positions qui fonctionnent différemment ; c’est en les confondant que tant de comptes se retrouvent à zéro :
- « ladder » : un contrat par X du solde, toujours appliqué comme un plafond (CAP), même en cas de dimensionnement manuel des lots ;
- « floor » : en dessous du capital minimum, le système ne négocie plus ; un nouveau dépôt est nécessaire ;
- « breaker » : s'arrête à X % en dessous du pic, quelle que soit la taille du compte, et ne se réactive pas automatiquement.
Ce que cette bibliothèque résout, et que presque aucune autre ne fait : un dépôt n’est pas un bénéfice, et un retrait n’est pas une perte. Le « breaker » mesure la baisse par rapport au pic du solde. Sans traitement particulier, un dépôt effectué PENDANT un drawdown fait augmenter à la fois le solde et le pic, et la protection cesse de détecter la baisse exactement au moment où elle serait utile. Ici, les dépôts et les retraits font varier le pic du même montant.
Le pic est enregistré dans un fichier : un « breaker » qui oublie le pic lors du redémarrage du terminal n’est pas un « breaker ».
La démo simule un dépôt au plus bas d’un drawdown. Lancez-la avec et sans dépôt, puis comparez la colonne « baisse ».
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Code publié Safe Logger: why your log lines vanish while FileOpen keeps returning success
Four EAs writing to the same file, all with FILE_SHARE_READ|FILE_SHARE_WRITE, FileSeek(SEEK_END), FileWrite, FileClose. Looks correct. Every FileOpen returns success. No error in the log. And the lines vanish.
Reason: FILE_SHARE_WRITE lets all four open at the same time. All four call FileSeek(SEEK_END) and get THE SAME offset, because none has written yet. All four write at the same position. Whoever closes last wins. Three lines vanish silently. In my case: 12 events expected, 8 in the file.
The fix is to open EXCLUSIVELY (no FILE_SHARE_WRITE) and retry while another EA holds the file. And to shout in the log when the retries run out: a log that fails silently is worse than no log at all, because you trust it.
The demo script reproduces both modes. To see the loss, drag it onto four charts at the same time with safe mode off and count the lines in the CSV. On a single chart the defect does not show up - which is why it passes in testing and breaks in production.
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Code publié Clock Diagnostic: TimeCurrent() freezes and steps backwards
TimeCurrent() is not a clock. It is the stamp of the LAST TICK. Two consequences break robots in production:
1. It freezes. With no tick it does not move: illiquid instrument, end of session, unstable connection - and any rule based on it stops with it.
2. It steps backwards: on a symbol switch, a reconnection or a tick from another instrument, the value can go back.
The case that cost me a whole protection: I compared the date of a daily decision with TimeCurrent() to reject an expired one. The server clock stepped back to the previous day, the comparison matched, and four EAs accepted YESTERDAY's decision as valid. The gate that should have failed closed failed open - without a single error in the log.
Rule: TimeLocal() for timestamps, dates, day changes, expiry - all that must always move forward; TimeCurrent() for session hours and market data.
The script measures the divergence in your environment and reports both symptoms live. Run it with the market closed.
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Code publié Trade Excursion Report: MFE and MAE of every closed trade, to CSV
Exporte une ligne CSV par transaction clôturée, contenant les données qui ne figurent pas sur le relevé : le meilleur bénéfice non réalisé enregistré par la transaction (MFE), la pire perte non réalisée qu’elle a subie (MAE), la part du MFE effectivement réalisée, le nombre de barres couvertes par la transaction et la durée de détention. Il s’agit des mêmes mesures que celles de l’indicateur « Trade Excursion », mais elles sont enregistrées dans un fichier plutôt que représentées graphiquement, car les questions pertinentes à se poser à propos de ces données sont celles auxquelles un graphique ne peut pas répondre : le taux de capture dépend-il de l’heure d’entrée ? Les transactions que je clôture prématurément sont-elles celles que je conserve le plus longtemps ? Les transactions perdantes du lundi atteignent-elles un MAE différent de celles du vendredi ? Il suffit d’un tableau croisé dynamique pour obtenir ces réponses une fois le fichier CSV créé. La sortie est séparée par des points-virgules avec une ligne d’en-tête, au format MQL5\Files ; elle s’ouvre dans n’importe quel tableur. Limite de mesure : les excursions proviennent des plus hauts et des plus bas des barres sur la période choisie ; le tracé à l’intérieur d’une barre est inconnu. La colonne « barres » indique la résolution attribuée à chaque transaction, et le récapitulatif comptabilise séparément les transactions sur une seule barre au lieu de les intégrer dans une moyenne.
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Code publié Trade Excursion: how much of each winner you actually kept (MFE/MAE from your own history)
Your statement tells you what you KEPT. It does not tell you what you HAD. This indicator reads your own closed trades from the account history and draws, for each one, the full range it travelled: the best unrealised profit it ever showed (MFE) and the worst unrealised loss it survived (MAE). The gap between what a trade showed and what it paid is where two common problems hide, and neither is visible in a balance curve: winners closing far below their best point (the exit leaves money behind), and losers whose worst excursion barely passed the stop (the stop sits inside the noise). The number to look at is the CAPTURE RATIO: of the profit a winner showed at its best, how much did you take home? 90% says the exits are well placed; 30% says the market kept offering and the exit kept refusing. Limit, stated up front: excursions come from the bars each trade spanned, on the chart timeframe; the path inside a bar is unknown. Predicts nothing; measures trades that already happened.
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Code publié Decision Watchdog: refuse yesterday's decision, fail closed, log once
A daily process writes "today's decision" (which strategy runs, or FLAT) to a file the EAs read at the open. One day the writer did not run. The EAs read yesterday's file, compared its date with TimeCurrent() - the server clock, which had stepped back to the previous day overnight - saw a match, and traded all morning on a 24-hour-old decision. No error anywhere. Two rules, both in this class: 1) staleness is judged against TimeLocal(), which always moves forward; TimeCurrent() is the last tick's stamp - it freezes without ticks and can step back on reconnect. 2) When in doubt the answer is FLAT: missing file, bad date, wrong day, empty line - every failure path returns "do nothing", and each is logged ONCE per state change, not on every tick and not never. File format: line 1 = ISO date, line 2 = decision string. The demo writes a fresh, a stale, a malformed, an empty and a missing file, and shows that only the first is allowed to trade.
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Code publié Exposure Cap: one position limit per symbol across all your EAs
Four EAs on the same symbol, each one honest on its own: each checks "do I have a position?" with its own magic number, sees none, and enters. On a demo account this reached 22 contracts on a symbol meant to carry 1, and a watchdog had to close 16 positions in one morning. The cap belongs at the door, not after the fact. ExposureCap::Allowed(symbol, lots, cap) sums the volume of every open position on the symbol - all magic numbers, manual trades included - and refuses the order BEFORE it is sent when it would breach the cap. One log line with the three numbers (held, requested, cap) says why. Deliberately simple: gross exposure, no netting of longs against shorts, no per-EA quota. It is a check, not a lock: two EAs deciding on the same tick can both pass; in practice EAs on different charts decide on different ticks. The demo script prints held / cap / room for the current symbol and shows the refusal line. Nothing is traded.
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Code publié Server Time Offset: the three clocks in MQL5 and how timestamps shift on export
A datetime in MQL5 is seconds since 1970 - but server time (TimeCurrent, bar times, deal times) is the broker's wall clock stored AS IF it were UTC. Export it to CSV, read it in Python or a spreadsheet with a "seconds since 1970 UTC" parser, and every timestamp shifts by the server's UTC offset. On a UTC-3 broker that is three hours: the daily bar dated 00:00 reads as 21:00 of the previous day, and "yesterday's session" silently becomes "today's, half formed". That happened to a morning report of mine before this script existed. The script prints TimeTradeServer, TimeCurrent, TimeGMT and TimeLocal, the three offsets between them, the tick lag, and this chart's last bar time in server time and in real UTC - then states the rule: export server timestamps as wall-clock text, or export the epoch together with the offset, and never let the consumer apply its own timezone.
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Code publié Elder Force Index (faithful to the book definition)
Índice de Força, conforme definido por Alexander Elder: Volume x (Fechamento de hoje - Fechamento de ontem), e a série resultante é então suavizada. Dois comprimentos, 2 e 13, ambos de seus livros.
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5 Signal MetaTrader publié
SurfBot 2.06 — one-direction Forex grid with hard capital caps, running on a real FXGlobe account. This is the live record of the exact engine sold on the MQL5 Market as SurfBot (product 179990, magic number 880001): https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/179990 WHAT IT DOES: one grid per pair, on ONE side only (long or short), chosen by the better swap. Each layer has its own take-profit one spacing away. There is NO stop-loss per trade, by design. WHAT KEEPS IT ALIVE: max 12 layers per pair
Joao Prata Silva Yglesias
Produits publiés
SurfBot Radar is a free breakout and trend indicator for MetaTrader 5. It plots a Donchian channel (the highest high and lowest low of the last N bars), marks the first bar that breaks the channel, and confirms each breakout with flow — the net of directional volume over a recent window. Breakout + matching flow shows a clear BUY or SELL signal; a breakout without flow is flagged as "no confirmation". A graphical on-chart panel (placeable in any corner) shows the current state, the flow, the
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Produits publiés
SurfBot — one-direction Forex grid with hard capital caps. No stop-loss per trade, by design. 🔴 Live performance (verified, real account, this exact engine): https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/2383326 WHAT IT DOES Runs one grid per pair, on ONE side only (long or short). The side is chosen by the better swap (GridSide=AUTO) or forced by you. Each layer has its own take-profit one spacing away; there is no stop-loss per trade. Spacing comes from a built-in table per pair (percent of price), widened