Two numbers can describe the same trading account, and they can differ by a factor of ten. Knowing which one you are looking at is the single most useful skill when reading a backtest. Balance drawdown only moves when a trade is closed...
Which currency is actually moving today? Most traders answer by flipping through a dozen charts. A currency strength meter answers it in one glance — and ours is free, with the formula in plain sight. Currency Strength Meter 8 Majors Ranking Panel (100% free, full version): https://www.mql5...
A clean recompile is where an MT4-to-MT5 migration starts, not where it ends. The functions rename, the errors clear, the Strategy Tester runs — and four architecture differences sit underneath, none of which throws an error...
Strategies Must Earn the Right to Trade A profitable backtest is persuasive. Sometimes, dangerously persuasive. You see a clean equity curve, a respectable Profit Factor, manageable drawdown and a sequence of trades that seems to confirm everything you hoped the strategy would do...
From Indicators to Strategy Discovery: Why I Changed the Way I Think About Trading Robots For years, my approach to algorithmic trading followed a very familiar path...
Brent crude oil continues to recover after its recent decline. On August 11, prices rose to $88.90 per barrel , with the benchmark gaining around 5% over the past two days . The main driver was the deteriorating outlook for a potential U.S.-Iran agreement over the Strait of Hormuz...
Ask a discretionary trader what their risk per trade is and you'll usually get a lot size, not an answer...
If you enjoy manual trading and want to steadily grow your trading account, or simply don't have the money to buy a trading bot but really want to jump on price charts and earn money, then the DIVERGENCE BOMBER system is designed for you...
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Nexus Market Analysis is an analysis-only utility for MetaTrader 4. It does not open, modify or close trades automatically. The optional Fundamental Engine provides additional market context for supported GOLD and OIL instruments...
The fastest way to ruin a good week is to let a scalper trade through NFP. Sentinel News Filter is our free utility that watches the MT5 economic calendar and keeps your trading out of the danger window — even for EAs whose code you can't touch...
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Plenty of good strategies have a decent entry and no exit management at all. Falcon Trailing Stop Manager is our free utility that adds break-even and a trailing stop to positions opened by ANY EA, signal, or by hand — without touching their code...
Most trading accounts don't die from one bad trade. They die from one bad day. A stop-loss protects a position; almost nothing protects the account...
Why Fair Value Gaps Get Weaker: Understanding Repeated Tests, Acceptance and Invalidation A Fair Value Gap can remain visible on a chart long after it was created. That does not mean its trading significance remains unchanged...
If you are migrating from MQL4 or debugging a position management bug you cannot reproduce in Strategy Tester, read this before changing anything else. What the Documentation Actually Says The MQL5 reference for CTrade::PositionClose() is technically accurate. Both overloads are listed...
For most of the past month I was writing the same thing in different words: gold was stuck, the range was airless, and there was nothing worth forcing. Last week that ended. The compression I'd been watching resolved, and it resolved hard...
Hello traders, Golden Ideal Pro closed the June-July-August 2026 period with a +103% return , turning a $10,000 starting balance into $27,474.17 using the PZ400 strategy. To get those results i selected Scaling Lotsize , 0.02 lots per 100$ of capital...
Can MetaTrader 5 Detect a Cent Account? A practical investigation, an appealing theory, and the measurement that killed it...
