Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
3,012 documents
This article explains a MetaEditor workflow for developing an MQL5 project that depends on code stored in a separate Algo Forge repository. It distinguishes the default mql5 repository from additional repositories, which appear as folders under Shared…
This article describes a tool for testing Arthur Merrill’s five-point price patterns, grouped into M and W formations. It proposes searching for the patterns in price series based on open, close, high, or low values, as well as in selected oscillators. For…
This article introduces HTTP headers for developers building a request library in MetaTrader 5. It explains how headers carry metadata alongside a request or response, including authorization details, content types, accepted formats, and client identity. The…
This article explains how to restrict a MetaTrader 5 market replay control indicator to the replay symbol and a single intended chart. It first checks the chart symbol during indicator initialization, removes the indicator when the symbol is wrong, and…
This article traces MQL and MetaTrader through early platform releases to the modern development environment. Its central theme is the steady expansion of what traders can do inside the platform: automate strategies, test them on historical data, create…
The article explains covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES), an evolutionary optimizer that samples candidate solutions from a distribution whose mean, step size, and covariance adapt over successive generations. Successful candidates…
This article develops a continuous short-horizon trend score for NQ one-minute bars. The score combines the ordering of fast, medium, and slow exponential moving averages, the close’s ATR-normalized distance from those averages, consistency of their recent…
The article presents a framework for describing and implementing strategies that actively manage pending orders. It separates market analysis, assessment of current positions and orders, and position management. Example approaches include scaling into a…
The article explains a framework for mapping MQL5 model classes to SQLite tables. It describes a layered design: field metadata records column properties, a base model manages fields and binds values, a database wrapper encapsulates SQLite calls, and an ORM…
The article presents practical uses of Kohonen self-organizing maps in algorithmic trading. For selecting expert-advisor settings, it recommends looking for broad plateaus of acceptable objective values rather than isolated backtest maxima, treating plateau…
The article applies self-organizing Kohonen maps to two tasks: identifying robust expert-advisor settings from optimization results and forecasting time series. For parameter selection, it argues that traders should seek broad regions, or plateaus, of…
The article describes an alert-focused MetaTrader expert advisor for detecting unusually sharp upward or downward price moves. It combines a rolling price-change threshold with an ATR expansion check and a moving-average direction filter; optional…
This article describes an Expert Advisor that multiplies the volume of deals copied by MetaTrader’s Signals service. It explains how the copier detects completed deals through trade-transaction events, then opens a corresponding position or increases an…
The article explains how N-BEATS forecasts time series and uses constrained model blocks to represent components such as trend and seasonality. Each block maps an input sequence through a lower-dimensional representation and produces both a forecast and a…
This guide presents a checklist for evaluating a trading robot with a platform’s strategy tester before buying or using it live. It recommends testing random execution delays, different broker conditions, other symbols and time frames, unfavorable historical…
The article introduces formulaic alphas as algebraic representations of trading signals. It argues that expressing signals as formulas can make large collections of machine-generated ideas easier to inspect, combine, and audit. This is presented as a…
The article explains an automated grid approach for MOEX futures that places buy and sell limit orders at intervals across a chosen price range. As price moves through levels, the Expert Advisor updates pending orders and pairs executed buys and sells. The…
The article presents an architecture for passing market data from an MQL5 Expert Advisor to a language model through a Python server. The EA acts as a data collector and receives a structured response, while the server calculates technical indicators,…
The article turns a tCISD reversal concept into a rules-based MQL5 trading process. It anchors quarterly cycles to New York time, accounting for daylight saving, then compares quarter highs and lows in a traded instrument and a correlated symbol. A…
The article describes ETARE, a proposed trading system that combines an LSTM model, reinforcement learning, and an evolutionary population of strategies. Strategies carry neural network weights, which can be recombined or mutated; periodic selection removes…
This tutorial combines several MACD display variants in one MQL5 indicator: MACD and signal lines, an OsMA histogram, two-color rising and falling bars, and Elder-style impulse coloring. It explains obtaining MACD buffers, deriving the histogram by…
The article explains the Aroon indicator as a pair of lines that measure how recently highs and lows occurred within a lookback period. It interprets the relative position of Aroon Up and Aroon Down as directional information and presents two rule sets: a…
This article explains a MetaTrader 5 workflow for consolidating several indicators and related asset charts into one organized chart display. It begins with the practical problem of screen clutter and disconnected windows, then introduces templates as…
The article explains the Ecological Cycle Optimizer (ECO), a population-based metaheuristic that models candidate solutions as ecosystem roles. The population is divided into producers, herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores: the best candidates act as…