The article describes the transition from four-voice debates to the Council of Fifteen: ten analysts, four independent risk managers, and a Chair, with strict voting rules. It examines the roles of the participants, the three-phase architecture, and the parallel execution of a full cycle in 10–15 seconds. It shows the operational log, the risk-gate rules, and backward compatibility so you can quickly connect the system to an Expert Advisor.
This article describes an MQL5 Expert Advisor that models the market as a random graph rather than a fixed structure. Bars are encoded into discrete states; bar-to-bar moves form a decaying, Laplace-smoothed transition matrix, and a k-step random walk yields a bounded directional signal gated by an Erdos–Renyi null-model test. A separate trade-outcome graph over R-milestones learns survival probabilities to manage exits, turning position management into evidence-based rules.
This MQL5 dashboard aggregates closed deals by symbol and UTC hour, calculates win rate and average reward‑to‑risk, and displays the results as two color‑coded heatmaps. A companion table in the Experts tab highlights the strongest and weakest symbol/hour cells, with an option to require a minimum trade count to reduce noise.
In this article, we continue implementing the ST-Expert framework approaches, focusing on the practical aspects of applying them using MQL5. Earlier, we examined the theoretical foundations and key components of the model; now we move on to working directly with graph attention algorithms and local and global attention distribution. The main goal of this work is to demonstrate how ST-Expert's conceptual ideas are transformed into workable solutions for analyzing and forecasting financial time series.
The article extracts the series' divergence logic into DivergenceEngine.mqh, a reusable header for MQL5 indicators and Expert Advisors. It details the struct-based design, oscillator options (MPO4 or RSI), pivot and state handling, and the minimal access API. A Parabolic SAR EA demonstrates integration by adapting the acceleration factor from the detected divergence, providing a clear pattern you can reuse without duplicating code.
The series develops state persistence for MQL5 Expert Advisors. Part 1 delivers a crash-safe key-value store: a CStateStore class that saves through a temporary file and a rename, carries a versioned header with a checksum, and stores integers, doubles, strings, booleans, and double arrays, plus a demo advisor that resumes a counter and a rolling window after a restart. Readers get a compact include file and a pattern that protects the live state file if the process dies mid-save.
In this article, we will explore the ST-Expert framework, which ensures the robustness of forecasts under market uncertainty by taking local and global dependencies in time series into account. Its flexible architecture promotes model adaptability and improves the accuracy of predictions.
The article implements intrinsic-time analysis in MQL5: an event-based directional-change operator that splits ticks into directional-change and overshoot sections. We reproduce the core scaling laws on 17.8 million live EUR/USD ticks and compare them to a random-walk baseline. Finally, we build a hedging-account Expert Advisor that trades the Alpha Engine with limit orders, detailing thresholds, inventory skew, and liquidity control for practical reuse.
The Extralonger framework demonstrates a unique ability to integrate spatial and temporal factors into a single model, ensuring high forecast accuracy. Its architecture allows it to adapt to different planning horizons and financial instruments while maintaining the system's transparency and manageability.
Volatility arrives in clusters: one large move makes the next large move more likely, and quiet spells stay quiet. This article builds a Hawkes self-exciting point process in pure MQL5 to measure that effect directly, ending in a single number, the branching ratio, that says how reflexive a market currently is. You get a small, tested library, an indicator that plots the fitted intensity live, and a demonstration Expert Advisor, along with the honest limits of all three.
The article describes the architecture of a multi-agent trading system based on the grok-4-fast language model, in which, instead of a single system prompt, four independent analysts with fundamentally different roles operate: a bull, a bear, a risk manager, and an arbiter. Three analysts run in parallel using a ThreadPoolExecutor and, within 3–5 seconds, formulate well-reasoned positions based on the same market data; after that, a deterministic judge renders a final verdict according to strict rules.
This article extends the candlestick encoding framework by separating previously unclassified bullish and bearish candlesticks into distinct symbols. Using an MQL5 script, historical data were automatically encoded, sequential patterns were extracted, and frequency statistics were generated. The results show that these newly identified candles represent a significant portion of market activity, revealing structural information previously hidden by the generic underscore notation. The expanded taxonomy improves the completeness of the symbolic representation while preserving an objective, quantitative framework for large-scale market structure analysis.
We are continuing our work on implementing the approaches proposed by the authors of the Extralonger framework. This time, we will focus on building a Global-Local Spatial Attention module using MQL5, examining both its structure and its practical integration into the overall computational process.
We turn the ONNX reader into an interactive graph viewer on a MetaTrader 5 chart. The parser is extended to carry tensor shapes and node attributes, and a canvas with anti-aliased drawing renders nodes and labeled connections. The layout arranges layers by depth, while zoom, pan, and clicks let you inspect operators and the tensors they read. This makes a model's structure and data flow visible directly in MQL5.
We implement three MQL5 classes that replace fixed 1R/2R/3R targets with data-driven scale-out levels. CExcursionTracker records each closed trade's maximum favorable excursion in R, CExitLadderCalibrator derives runs from distribution percentiles with lookback and minimum-sample controls, and CLadderExecutor executes them on open positions. The ladder recalibrates as trades accumulate and uses a fallback until enough samples exist.
The Extralonger framework demonstrates an approach to integrating spatial and temporal factors into a single model, which makes it possible to account for both local patterns and long-term cycles simultaneously. This architecture makes time series forecasting more resilient to market noise and enables data analysis across different time horizons. The article takes a detailed look at how these ideas are put into practice using OpenCL and MQL5.
A complete MQL5 implementation of the Ljung-Box test helps verify independence in trading data and fitted-model residuals. It computes sample autocorrelations, the Q statistic over selected horizons, degrees of freedom with user-controlled adjustments, and right-tail p-values via the regularized incomplete gamma function. Run it on returns, deal outcomes, or external residuals and review decisions directly in the Experts tab.
In this article, we conclude our work on building the SAGDFN framework using MQL5, summarizing the development process and presenting the results of its practical testing. Let's combine the modules we've already implemented into a single system, highlight the strengths of this approach, point out its weaknesses, and discuss possible ways to improve it.
We optimize an MQL5 canvas interface to stay responsive under rapid input without changing its appearance. The article adds a direct-buffer canvas for block region copies, caches text widths and glyph coverage, caps repaints at 60 fps (16 ms), and limits drawing to panes and regions that actually changed. As a result, hover, scroll, and popups render smoothly without full-panel redraws.
This article introduces a lightweight OS-like helper for MQL5 that streamlines file and path operations using a Python-inspired interface. We implement getcwd, listdir, scandir with DirEntry, remove, rmdir, rename, mkdir, stat, and an os.path subset (exists, isfile, isdir, join, split, pardir). You will learn how to work consistently within the terminal Files/common sandbox and simplify everyday filesystem tasks.
We build an MQL5 program that detects and trades Double Top and Double Bottom patterns from confirmed swing pivots with rule-based logic. The detector matches peaks within a tolerance, derives the neckline, and applies leg-balance and spacing filters to reject weak shapes. It supports entry on a neckline break or an optional pullback, with a stop beyond the extreme and targets by measured move or reward-to-risk.
In this article, we will take a detailed look at the practical implementation of the key components of the SAGDFN framework. We will show how sparse attention and the selection of significant neighbors are organized for time series forecasting. The approaches presented strike a balance between forecast accuracy and computational efficiency.
The article examines three key obstacles to integrating LLMs with MetaTrader 5: the lack of direct access, strict rate limits, and API key security given the architectural limitations of MQL5. A configuration is proposed that uses a local Python server as a bridge between the Expert Advisor and OpenRouter. The article covers WebSocket and fallback to TCP, storing the key on the server, batch processing of multiple symbols, and constructing a technical prompt. Readers get a ready-made architecture that reduces latency and costs.
I know that many of you may have thought I would publish a few more articles to explain other aspects of this system. The missing elements are easy to implement. Even so, developing them will let you see how prepared you really are.
In this article, I will present our system for simulating market operations. Although everything is practically finished, there are still a few things to implement and a few changes to make. However, I have to admit that, after everything we've already developed, I'm tired of still being stuck on implementing this system.
The article discusses the parameters of the second stage of the automatic optimization pipeline for a multi-currency Expert Advisor. We analyze the criteria for filtering first-stage passes and the rules for forming groups of trading strategies. The article demonstrates how settings affect optimization results, discusses aspects of process reliability, and examines the balance between selection strictness and having enough candidates for the algorithm.
Code and build Python-based trading robots just like MQL5 Expert Advisors (EAs). In this article, we develop a Python-based replica of the MetaTrader 5 Python package, providing methods that closely resemble those of MetaTrader 5 during simulation. This allows us to backtest Python EAs in a simplified environment, using an approach similar to developing and testing Expert Advisors in MQL5.
We replace the embedded bitmap icons in our MQL5 canvas interface with a resolution-independent vector icon system. A small set of anti-aliased primitives (strokes, discs, rings, rounded rectangles, and polygons) draws every logo and sidebar glyph procedurally, then plugs into the header, sidebar, and theme toggle. You get smaller builds, theme-aware recoloring, and icons that stay sharp at any size.
This article presents a modular, object-oriented volatility trailing stop engine for MQL5 packaged as a reusable include class, it calculates dynamic stop-loss levels using a True Range average filter on closed bars, supports step-based trailing, includes a visual diagnostic indicator, and provides an Expert Advisor execution template.
Article revisits Trading Robot that merged Discrete Fourier Transform with Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Spiking Neural Network. Evaluation is made over the seven operating modes with different symbols, timeframes, and test windows. We use two-thirds of the test window to optimize while the one-third does a forward walk run. This study tries to detail parameter interactions, input scaling, gating effects, and outlines practical checks that include rolling windows, frozen inputs, and others. The goal remains identifying settings worth further testing or paper trading.
One of the issues that bothered me the most was that the `C_ElementsTrade` class contains code for accessing positions. Don't take this as a mistake, because it really isn't one. However, this increases the risk of errors in some of the tasks we will need to handle later. All work on implementing the position indicator was carried out with a view to its use in the replay/simulation service. However, when running in this environment, we will have no access to actual positions. Consequently, any call to the MQL5 library intended to retrieve position data will have no effect in this environment.
The article describes a practical implementation of the HimNet framework based on MQL5, ready for integration into automated trading. We demonstrate how heterogeneity-adapted meta-parameters transform the model into a universal tool capable of handling fluctuating volatility.
In this article, we take a detailed look at the algorithms used to implement the key components of the HimNet framework. We demonstrate how, with a minimal number of trainable components, a high degree of consistency and controllability can be achieved throughout the entire system. The presented implementation is compact and transparent, which makes it easier to adapt to real-world market tasks.
A file-based news filter for MQL5 reads a pre-downloaded Forex Factory CSV from MQL5/Files, avoiding fragile web scraping and paid APIs. It provides a modular CNewsFilter with a quote-aware CSV parser, suffix-robust currency extraction, an inclusive time-window checker with clear block reasons, and chart zones for today's events. A demo EA and assertion tests help you integrate and verify offline filtering around scheduled releases.
The article presents a full MQL5 implementation of a multi-symbol trend system: dual EMA crossovers for entries, ADX to avoid ranges, ATR to normalize position size, and a heat monitor to cap total portfolio risk. We explain the architecture, calculation details, and entry/exit logic on daily bars. The result is a practical EA template for systematic, risk-aware portfolio trading.
The article examines two practical aspects of the Adwizard-based optimization pipeline: diagnostics and recovery after failures when generating the final Expert Advisor database, as well as preliminary selection of strategy parameter ranges before project creation. It is shown how analyzing the stages/jobs/tasks tables in SQLite and restarting stages based on their statuses help restore the process, while trial optimization narrows the search space, eliminates redundant parameters, and reduces the risk of getting stuck at local maxima.
We invite you to explore the HimNet framework, which combines the flexibility of spatio-temporal adaptation with high computational efficiency, enabling accurate and stable forecasts for financial time series. The article explains in detail how its key components interact with one another, transforming complex algorithms into a manageable architecture.
The series develops machine learning in 100% native MQL5 with no external dependencies. Part 1 delivers logistic regression from first principles: a CLogReg class with standardization, a stable sigmoid, SGD training, and model persistence, plus a script that builds ATR-normalized features, labels the next bar, and tests out-of-sample against a baseline. Readers get a compact include file and a clear template for leakage-free evaluation.
This article implements the Darvas Box method as a complete MQL5 Expert Advisor. We code box detection with a three-session hold, volume contraction during consolidation, and volume-confirmed breakouts, plus a staircase pyramid with a shared, rolling stop at the latest box floor. The EA uses a state machine to run box scanning and trade management in parallel, providing a ready-to-compile system with configurable inputs and clear on-chart diagnostics.
This article implements a typed message bus over Windows named pipes to replace MetaTrader's untyped GlobalVariables for inter‑EA communication. A broker EA manages the server and registry, serves multiple slave EAs, and responds with a live, per‑symbol‑attributed portfolio risk measure. It also explains the non-blocking accept pattern that preserves terminal responsiveness, and includes a dashboard and a test script.