Guides for traders automating a strategy
Practical, specific articles on Expert Advisors, prop-firm rules, conversions and testing, from the developer’s side of the screen.
Many funded accounts are lost to a rule, not to the strategy. Here is how to enforce each rule inside the EA itself, with code, so one bad day cannot end the account.
Read the guide →Typical price ranges for custom EAs, Python bots and TradingView scripts, what actually drives the cost, and how to brief a developer so the quote is accurate.
Read the guide →You converted a Pine Script strategy to MT5 and the backtest looks different. Usually nothing is broken. Here are the six reasons the platforms disagree, and how to check which ones apply to you.
Read the guide →Most backtests flatter the strategy because a few settings are left at their defaults. Here is how to set up the MT5 Strategy Tester so the result is one you can plan with.
Read the guide →When an EA’s live results drift away from its backtest, the cause is almost always one of nine things. Here is how to find yours by comparing the two trade by trade.
Read the guide →Two accounts with the same 10% maximum loss can behave very differently. Here is how static and trailing drawdown move, with worked numbers, and what each means for position sizing and EA design.
Read the guide →Tell me the strategy. I’ll tell you what it takes.
Fifteen minutes, no pitch. Mutual NDA before you describe anything you care about. You get an honest view of feasibility, timeline and price, even if the answer is “don’t build this”.