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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>The prop-firm rules that fail evaluations, and how to enforce each one inside an MT4/MT5 Expert Advisor: daily loss, drawdown, news, sizing and restarts.</description>
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    <title>How much does it cost to build a trading bot?</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>What custom EAs, Python trading bots and Pine Script cost in 2026, what drives the price, and how to get an accurate quote without paying for the wrong thing.</description>
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    <title>Why your TradingView and MT5 backtests don’t match</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>Converted a Pine Script strategy to MQL5 and the results changed? The six causes, from data feeds to fill rules, and how to reconcile the two properly.</description>
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    <title>How to backtest an EA with real tick data in MT5</title>
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    <description>Set up the MT5 Strategy Tester for an honest EA backtest: real ticks, your broker’s costs, execution delays, forward testing and reading the report sceptically.</description>
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    <description>Your EA made money in the Strategy Tester and loses live? The nine usual causes, how to tell which one you have, and how to fix each of them.</description>
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    <title>Static vs trailing drawdown in prop firms, explained</title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <description>How static, trailing and end-of-day drawdown work at prop firms, with worked numbers, and how to size trades and design an EA so you never touch the floor.</description>
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