Articles with examples of trading robots developed in MQL5

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An Expert Advisor is the 'pinnacle' of programming and the desired goal of every automated trading developer. Read the articles in this section to create your own trading robot. By following the described steps you will learn how to create, debug and test automated trading systems.

The articles not only teach MQL5 programming, but also show how to implement trading ideas and techniques. You will learn how to program a trailing stop, how to apply money management, how to get the indicator values, and much more.

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Neural Networks in Trading: The Adaptive Graph Diffusion Model (SAGDFN)

Neural Networks in Trading: The Adaptive Graph Diffusion Model (SAGDFN)

In this article, we explore the architecture of SAGDFN — a modern framework capable of transforming the approach to processing spatiotemporal data. It preserves key information even in complex graphs while reducing computational costs.
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LLM-Based Trading Agent with Embedded Top Trader Philosophy

LLM-Based Trading Agent with Embedded Top Trader Philosophy

The article provides a critical analysis of an LLM strategy in which forecasting the direction is separated from trading decisions, and demonstrates why this leads to a disconnect between metrics and PnL. We will describe procedures for dataset balancing, feature engineering, prompt and response preparation, fine-tuning configuration in Ollama, and reliable parsing. Backtesting and forward testing reveal systematic degradation. The practical conclusion is that the problem must be formulated as a direct optimization of trading outcomes.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Heterogeneity-Informed Meta-Parameter Learning (Conclusion)

Neural Networks in Trading: Heterogeneity-Informed Meta-Parameter Learning (Conclusion)

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.
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How to Obtain Synchronized Arrays for Use in Portfolio Trading Algorithms

How to Obtain Synchronized Arrays for Use in Portfolio Trading Algorithms

The article describes a practical approach to synchronizing bars between instruments in a portfolio in MQL5. Classes are provided for loading, storing, and aligning OHLCV data, with options to use an empty bar or carry over values from the previous bar, select a synchronization symbol, and process new bars asynchronously. Examples of use in multi-chart and basket indicators are shown. Readers receive a ready-to-use API for reliable portfolio calculations.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Heterogeneity-Informed Meta-Parameter Learning (Key Components)

Neural Networks in Trading: Heterogeneity-Informed Meta-Parameter Learning (Key Components)

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.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Heterogeneity-Informed Meta-Parameter Learning (HimNet)

Neural Networks in Trading: Heterogeneity-Informed Meta-Parameter Learning (HimNet)

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.
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Automating Classic Market Methods in MQL5 (Part 7): The Nicolas Darvas Box System

Automating Classic Market Methods in MQL5 (Part 7): The Nicolas Darvas Box System

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.
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Neural Networks in Trading: The Temporal Query Model (Conclusion)

Neural Networks in Trading: The Temporal Query Model (Conclusion)

We are pleased to present the final stage of the TQNet framework’s development and testing, where theory meets real-world trading practice. We will move from historical training to a stress test using recent market data, evaluating the model's robustness and accuracy. The final results are not just dry statistics, but also a clear demonstration of the practical value of the proposed approach.
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The MQL5 Standard Library Explorer (Part 16): Building a Regime-Adaptive Expert Advisor

The MQL5 Standard Library Explorer (Part 16): Building a Regime-Adaptive Expert Advisor

We convert the Part 15 decision‑forest classifier into a regime‑adaptive Expert Advisor that decouples statistical inference from trading authority. The EA trains on completed bars, scores each new completed bar, and confirms stable bullish, neutral, or bearish regimes before acting. It then applies spread, ownership, risk, and execution checks to authorize opening, holding, closing, or blocking a position.
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Neural Networks in Trading: The Temporal Query Model (TQNet)

Neural Networks in Trading: The Temporal Query Model (TQNet)

The TQNet framework opens up new possibilities for modeling and forecasting financial time series by combining modularity, flexibility, and high performance. The article explores the possibility of implementing complex mechanisms for handling global correlations, including advanced parameter initialization methods.
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Building Your Personal Expert Advisor (Part 6): Risk Management V — Portfolio and Correlated Risk

Building Your Personal Expert Advisor (Part 6): Risk Management V — Portfolio and Correlated Risk

This part implements PortfolioRisk.mqh, a shared library that shifts risk management to the account level. It scans positions and pending orders, computes margin and floating results, counts symbols, and decomposes pairs into currencies to detect concentration, then validates each new trade against portfolio limits. The Series EA example illustrates configuring scope (account-wide or magic-filtered), registering magics, and integrating the pre-trade gate.
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How to Create and Adapt an RL Agent with an LLM and Quantum Encoding for Algorithmic Trading in MQL5

How to Create and Adapt an RL Agent with an LLM and Quantum Encoding for Algorithmic Trading in MQL5

The article proposes a hybrid approach to algorithmic trading based on quantum encoding of market states, Double DQN with a prioritized experience replay buffer, and an LLM acting as a contextual EA. The SEAL methodology enables asynchronous continued training of the agent without halting trading. A lightweight Q-learning filter (USE/SKIP/REDUCE) controls signal execution at the meta-level. Practical details are provided on integrating the system with the MetaTrader 5 trading platform, along with a scheme for adapting it to market regime shifts.
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The MQL5 Standard Library Explorer (Part 15): Building a Market-Regime Classifier with dataanalysis.mqh

The MQL5 Standard Library Explorer (Part 15): Building a Market-Regime Classifier with dataanalysis.mqh

This part focuses on practical data analysis in MQL5 with dataanalysis.mqh. We prepare a labeled dataset from bars, apply normalization, explore redundancy with PCA, and train a decision forest to classify future bar regimes. The article shows how to obtain out-of-bag estimates and permutation importance, helping you validate the model and understand which inputs matter most.
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Building a Prop-Firm Compliance Monitor in MQL5 (Part 1): Account Rules and Persistent Settings

Building a Prop-Firm Compliance Monitor in MQL5 (Part 1): Account Rules and Persistent Settings

Establishes the persistence foundation for a prop-firm compliance EA in MetaTrader 5. It introduces rule inputs and status enums, separates live account state from stored settings, validates percentages and thresholds, and implements SQLite open/close, schema creation, and prepared save/load operations. Using the account login and server as a composite key, the EA restores existing settings and updates them when inputs change.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Decomposition Instead of Scaling (Conclusion)

Neural Networks in Trading: Decomposition Instead of Scaling (Conclusion)

We invite you to learn about an algorithm for decomposing a time series into meaningful layers and using them to build a parsimonious model. We systematically present the architecture, the practical implementation in MQL5/OpenCL, and real-world tests using historical market data.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Decomposition Instead of Scaling — Building Modules

Neural Networks in Trading: Decomposition Instead of Scaling — Building Modules

In this article, we continue our hands-on exploration of SSCNN — a next-generation architectural solution capable of processing fragmented time series. Instead of blind scaling — smart modularity, attention to detail, and targeted normalization. Step by step, we are creating computational blocks in the MQL5 environment and laying the foundation for reliable predictive analysis.
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Building Your Personal Expert Advisor (Part 4): Risk Management III—Risk Models and Order Execution

Building Your Personal Expert Advisor (Part 4): Risk Management III—Risk Models and Order Execution

The EA now defines risk by percentage, fixed cash, or fixed lot and can measure percentage against balance or equity. It supports market, limit, and stop orders, sizes from the planned entry, and enforces spread‑aware stop minima. Additional safeguards include downward volume rounding, explicit handling when the minimum lot exceeds target risk, and pending‑order distance/expiry checks, organized under a Plan–Validate–Execute structure.
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Automating Classic Market Methods in MQL5 (Part 6): Jesse Livermore's Pivotal Point System

Automating Classic Market Methods in MQL5 (Part 6): Jesse Livermore's Pivotal Point System

This article presents a complete MQL5 Expert Advisor that implements Jesse Livermore's market key as a deterministic state machine. It detects pivotal levels from consolidations using ATR and volume expansion, scales in across four tranches, and exits on abnormal behavior defined by range and volume. The EA validates inputs in OnInit, requires a hedging account, and compiles out of the box for testing Livermore's rules on daily data.
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MQL5 Bootstrap (IV): Trailing and Break-even Stop Helpers

MQL5 Bootstrap (IV): Trailing and Break-even Stop Helpers

This article presents reusable MQL5 utilities for managing trailing and break-even stops. It covers fixed-point, moving average, ATR, Parabolic SAR, money-based, and time-periodic trailing, plus break-even by points and by money, with activation thresholds, step logic, reverse-move protection, and broker-level validation. Code examples and Bootstrap classes show how to integrate these helpers into Expert Advisors to standardize position control and reduce duplicate code.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Generalizing Time Series Without Data-Specific Dependence (Conclusion)

Neural Networks in Trading: Generalizing Time Series Without Data-Specific Dependence (Conclusion)

The article will show you how Mamba4Cast turns theory into a working trading algorithm and lays the groundwork for your own experiments. Do not miss this opportunity to gain a full range of knowledge and inspiration for developing your own strategy.
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Building Your Personal Expert Advisor (Part 5): Risk Management IV—Basket Risk and Strategy-Specific Sizing

Building Your Personal Expert Advisor (Part 5): Risk Management IV—Basket Risk and Strategy-Specific Sizing

Part 5 moves risk control from single trades to a basket-level framework. The EA aggregates its own positions, computes volume‑weighted entry, floating P/L including swap, and used margin, then enforces limits on combined loss, margin, position count, and time underwater, while logging maximum adverse excursion. A companion mean‑reversion EA demonstrates target‑based sizing and caps on implied risk that remains hidden when trades are evaluated in isolation.
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Automating Chart Patterns in MQL5 (Part 2): The Double Top and Double Bottom

Automating Chart Patterns in MQL5 (Part 2): The Double Top and Double Bottom

We build a robust MQL5 detector for double tops and double bottoms that first confirms the H4 trend, then validates six conditions (point equality, neckline placement, ordering, width, height, and ATR‑based tolerances). The neckline break is timed on the chart's timeframe, and a three-state machine ensures each pattern trades once. The measured‑move target translates structure into clear exits.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Decomposition Instead of Scaling (SSCNN)

Neural Networks in Trading: Decomposition Instead of Scaling (SSCNN)

In this article, we begin our exploration of the SSCNN framework — a modern architectural solution for time series analysis that combines accuracy, a structured design, and high computational efficiency. We will systematically examine its theoretical aspects, highlight the key differences from its predecessors, and begin the practical implementation of its basic components in the MQL5 environment.
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Walsh Functions in Modern Trading

Walsh Functions in Modern Trading

The article discusses the application of Walsh functions in trading. We will explore the basic principles of using these functions to analyze financial markets, forecast prices, and make trading decisions. We will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these functions, as well as the prospects for their application in trading and technical analysis.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Disentangling Structured Components (Conclusion)

Neural Networks in Trading: Disentangling Structured Components (Conclusion)

The article provides a detailed explanation of the SCNN architecture and one way to implement it using MQL5. We will show how time series decomposition can be combined with neural network methods and attention mechanisms.
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Building Your Personal Expert Advisor (Part 2): Risk Management and Dynamic Lot Sizing

Building Your Personal Expert Advisor (Part 2): Risk Management and Dynamic Lot Sizing

This part implements risk-based position sizing for the EA. Lot size is derived from account balance, a chosen risk percent, and ATR-based stop distance, then confined and rounded to the broker's volume rules and minimum stop levels. An optional drawdown-aware layer reduces risk during equity declines. Readers get a reproducible sizing function that keeps per-trade risk consistent and orders acceptable to the server.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Disentangling Structured Components (Encoder)

Neural Networks in Trading: Disentangling Structured Components (Encoder)

We invite you to explore the next stage in implementing the SCNN framework, which combines flexibility and interpretability, allowing structural components of a time series to be identified precisely. The article provides a detailed explanation of the mechanisms of adaptive normalization and attention, which ensure the model's resilience to changing market conditions.
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First Fractal Breakout — Intraday Strategy, Expert Advisor and Backtesting

First Fractal Breakout — Intraday Strategy, Expert Advisor and Backtesting

This article develops a market‑structure‑driven intraday breakout system based on Bill Williams fractals. We define session bounds, derive volatility‑scaled stops, use fixed risk and take‑profit multipliers, and limit trades to one per direction. An MQL5 Expert Advisor, visualization and statistics, tick-level backtests, an ORB comparison, and a cross-asset forward test provide a complete, replicable workflow.
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Price Action Analysis Toolkit Development (Part 81): Adding Persistent Historical Bookmarks to an MQL5 Navigator

Price Action Analysis Toolkit Development (Part 81): Adding Persistent Historical Bookmarks to an MQL5 Navigator

We introduce a persistent bookmark layer for the MetaTrader 5 History Navigator. Bookmarks capture a chart's symbol, timeframe, and historical position with a name and notes, write them to a CSV file, and reload them later without manual date entry. The implementation integrates bookmark management into the current navigation engine, enabling quick creation, selection, navigation, and deletion for efficient historical study.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Disentangling Structured Components (SCNN)

Neural Networks in Trading: Disentangling Structured Components (SCNN)

We invite you to explore the innovative SCNN framework, which takes time series analysis to a new level by clearly separating data into long-term, seasonal, short-term, and residual components. This approach significantly improves forecasting accuracy by allowing the model to adapt to complex and changing market dynamics.
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Neural Networks in Trading: An End-to-End Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Model (Conclusion)

Neural Networks in Trading: An End-to-End Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Model (Conclusion)

We are pleased to present the final part of our series on GinAR — a neural network framework for time series forecasting. In this article, we analyze the results of testing the model on new data and assess its robustness under real-market conditions.
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Neural Networks in Trading: An End-to-End Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Model (Key Components)

Neural Networks in Trading: An End-to-End Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Model (Key Components)

We invite you to explore a new implementation of the key components of the GinAR framework — an adaptive algorithm for working with graph-structured time series. This article provides a step-by-step breakdown of the architecture and the algorithms for the forward pass and error backpropagation.
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Building a Visual Position Planning Tool for MetaTrader 5

Building a Visual Position Planning Tool for MetaTrader 5

This article develops a visual position planning tool in MQL5 for evaluating trade setups before execution. The tool utilizes interactive Entry, Stop-Loss, and Take-Profit lines to calculate the stop distance, risk amount, estimated position size, potential reward, and risk-to-reward ratio directly on the chart. It supports market, limit, and stop order scenarios while keeping the focus strictly on planning and analysis rather than trade execution.
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Building a Position Lifecycle Manager in MQL5 (Part 1): The Foundation of Reusable Position Management

Building a Position Lifecycle Manager in MQL5 (Part 1): The Foundation of Reusable Position Management

A state-driven Position Lifecycle Manager brings structure to post-entry trade handling in MetaTrader 5. It discovers open positions, tracks them via managed objects, applies ATR-based protection, executes break-even transitions, and removes completed trades, with a clear NEW → PROTECTED → BREAKEVEN → CLOSED flow. The article shows integration with the standard MACD EA to enable reuse across strategies.
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Neural Networks in Trading: An End-to-End Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Model (GinAR)

Neural Networks in Trading: An End-to-End Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Model (GinAR)

We invite you to explore an innovative approach to forecasting time series with missing data using the GinAR framework. The article demonstrates the implementation of key components using OpenCL, which ensures high performance. In our next publication, we will take a detailed look at how to integrate these solutions into MQL5. This will help understand how to apply the method in practice in trading.
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Controller Objects for Everything: Draggable Slider Control

Controller Objects for Everything: Draggable Slider Control

The article details a complete MQL5 implementation of a draggable slider for controlling ranges on the chart. It introduces the CDragHandle class, private state, public APIs for dimensions, colors, range, and value, plus Refresh* and UpdateHandlePosition logic and event processing. A working example changes CHART_SCALE, demonstrating how to connect the control to platform properties.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting (Conclusion)

Neural Networks in Trading: Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting (Conclusion)

We invite you to learn about the K²VAE framework and how the proposed approaches can be integrated into a trading system. You will learn how the hybrid Koopman–Kalman–VAE approach helps build adaptive and interpretable models. The article concludes with practical results from using the implemented solutions.
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Larry Williams Market Secrets (Part 16): Detecting and Trading the Oops Gap Reversal Pattern

Larry Williams Market Secrets (Part 16): Detecting and Trading the Oops Gap Reversal Pattern

Learn how to build an MQL5 Expert Advisor that detects and trades Larry Williams’ Oops Gap Reversal pattern using objective gap rules and later-bar confirmation. The EA tracks setup expiration, prepares stop-loss and take-profit levels, supports manual or risk-based position sizing, executes market orders, and is evaluated through historical testing.
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Neural Networks in Trading: Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting (Encoder)

Neural Networks in Trading: Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting (Encoder)

We invite you to explore a new approach that combines classical methods and modern neural networks for time series analysis. The article provides a detailed explanation of the architecture and operating principles of the K²VAE model.
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Self Optimizing Expert Advisors in MQL5 (Part 18): Time Lagged Independent Components Analysis

Self Optimizing Expert Advisors in MQL5 (Part 18): Time Lagged Independent Components Analysis

We evaluate blind source separation for market noise control using FastICA applied to SMA-filtered, time-lagged OHLC features. The study compares classical and surrogate targets, measures accuracy across lags, tunes KNN models, and inspects residual structure with clustering. Models are exported to ONNX and integrated into an MQL5 Expert Advisor for testing. The result is a reproducible pipeline from data extraction to deployment.