History of MQL5.community development

This article presents a standalone Portfolio Analyzer dashboard implemented as an Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5. It reads account deal history, reconstructs closed positions, and attributes results by magic number or normalized comment to deliver clear per-strategy metrics. The interface provides a vector equity curve, date filters, and strategy selectors, plus a Pearson correlation matrix to reveal strategy redundancy. You can attach it to a separate chart without modifying existing trading EAs.

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.

Implementation of the N-BEATS architecture for Forex trading in MetaTrader 5 with quantile forecasting and adaptive risk management. The architecture is adapted through bilinear normalization and specialized loss functions for financial data. Backtesting on 2025 data shows inability to generate profits, confirming the gap between theoretical achievements and practical trading performance.

This article walks through creating an MT5 indicator that ingests option chains from native symbols or CSV, inverts prices to implied volatility via a hybrid Newton–Raphson/bisection method, and assembles a clean strike–expiry grid. It then renders a shaded, rotatable 3D surface with the platform's DirectX layer, enabling clear, in-terminal analysis of skew and term structure using live or file-based data.

We extend the stateful supply and demand framework for MetaTrader 5 with a quantitative admission model and a dedicated interaction engine. Candidate zones are scored by structural symmetry, volume participation, and ATR‑normalized displacement, then classified into objective tiers. Admitted zones follow a deterministic lifecycle that tracks first touch, validates bounces, or confirms breakouts, with full telemetry for analysis and reproducibility.

This article turns the verified TDA pipeline into a live MQL5 indicator. It reduces each price window to two persistence-entropy lines (H0 and H1), computes a normalized loop-strength metric with an adaptive percentile band, and places fade marks only when loop strength is high and price hits a window extreme. You can attach the indicator, read six buffers from an Expert Advisor, and tune key window, ranking, and performance parameters.

The article presents a production-oriented Order Block engine for MQL5 packaged as an include class, it validates zones via displacement and market structure break, maintains mitigation state only on closed bars, and avoids heavy copies by passing data by reference. A diagnostic indicator plots zones, and an EA gates logic to new bars for stable performance and reproducible tests.

This article extends single-candlestick analysis to ordered double-candlestick patterns using an MQL5 script. The script encodes candles into symbols, extracts every consecutive two-symbol sequence (treating Aa and aA as different), counts occurrences and percentages, and writes sorted frequency tables to a text file. Readers can quickly identify the most recurrent transitions by symbol, timeframe, and lookback for further statistical testing.

The article presents the revolutionary architecture of PatchTST, a tailored transformer for financial time series analysis that breaks market data into 16-bar patches for efficient processing. We will discuss the full implementation of a trading robot in MQL5 covering everything from mathematical fundamentals and data structures to a ready-made EA with risk management and continuous learning systems.

The ProSpread seasonality index indicator with a Moving Average is a technical analysis tool that identifies seasonal patterns in price movements, analyzes price behavior during specific trading hours and is able to work with either a single instrument or a spread between two assets. It also visualizes the statistical probability of directional movements.

We add SQLite persistence to the canvas tools, saving every drawing and the entire UI session per symbol, then restoring them on startup so the workspace resumes exactly where you left it. The article builds versioned object serialization, a load/save lifecycle with dirty writes, and a timeframe-visibility editor that drives render-time filtering. The toolkit also runs as an indicator, so it can sit alongside other indicators or an Expert Advisor.

In Part 2, we introduce a reusable CCovarianceMatrix class that computes and stores a covariance matrix from raw return series using MQL5's native Cov() method. We verify symmetry, print a labeled matrix grid, and call Eig() to obtain eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Readers see how symbols co-move and which factors drive variance, enabling clearer portfolio diagnostics and reuse in scripts or EAs.

This article develops a rule-based daily pivot point indicator in MQL5 that uses the previous trading day's high, low, and close values to generate pivot, support, and resistance levels. It details historical data retrieval, pivot computation, chart object management, configurable label rendering, and automatic level updates as new trading days begin. The completed indicator displays multiple historical pivot sessions on the main chart for technical analysis on daily and lower timeframes.

In previous articles, we mentioned that sometimes we need to set a value for the ZOrder property. But why? The reason is that many pieces of code that add objects to a chart simply do not use, or more precisely do not define, a value for this property. The point is that I am not here to say what every programmer should or should not do, or how they should or should not write their code. I am here to show you, dear reader, and everyone who truly wants to understand how these processes work internally, what actually happens behind the scenes.

Do you know what a sandbox is? Do you know how to work with it? If the answer to either of these questions is “no”, read this article to understand the basic operating principle of a sandbox. You will also understand why MetaTrader 5 uses a sandbox to protect the integrity of some of its internal data. The material presented here is purely instructional. Under no circumstances should you treat the application as a final product whose purpose is anything other than studying the concepts presented.

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.

This article finalizes the MMAR project with a CMMAR facade class and a demo Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5. The facade exposes a compact API—configure, Fit(), Forecast()—that wraps partition analysis, spectrum fitting and Monte Carlo simulation. You will learn how to load data, fit the model and obtain a volatility forecast, with diagnostics and status handling for robust use in EAs.