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.
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This article presents ways to make MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor optimization more selective. Instead of enumerating every available timeframe, the author proposes exposing a curated set of timeframes as an input parameter, so early searches compare broad…
Sergey Pankratyev describes the design of his Automated Trading Championship robot, which trades twelve currency pairs through a single complex EA. It uses technical analysis and market reaction data, with parameters adjusted from trade entry and exit…
This article turns the DiNapoli approach to Fibonacci retracements into an automated strategy. It uses retracement levels to define possible entries and expansion levels to set profit objectives, while moving averages filter trades by trend and Stochastic…
The article presents nuclear norm maximization as an intrinsic reward for reinforcement learning agents exploring environments with sparse external rewards. It forms a matrix from encoded representations of a visited state and its nearest neighboring states,…
This article adapts Rademacher, Walsh, and Hartley functions to price analysis. It explains how to build coefficients over a finite price window and combine them into indicators. Rademacher-based indicators represent prices through shifted linear trends…
The article investigates whether planetary positions, lunar phases, solar activity, and planetary aspects can help forecast EUR/USD movements. It describes collecting daily astronomical data, aligning it with market history, and applying correlation analysis…
This tutorial shows how to turn closed-trade profit and loss values in a CSV file into a cumulative balance curve displayed in a MetaTrader 5 indicator window. It explains that the curve represents realized account changes, distinguishes balance from equity,…
The article describes an adaptive trading system that combines Order Blocks, Fair Value Gaps, and Break of Structure with sentiment readings derived across higher, medium, and lower timeframes. It assigns Order Block reactions to neutral or ranging…
The article explains catch22, a compact set of time-series features selected from a much larger library for classification performance and low redundancy. Its features describe distribution shape, autocorrelation, nonlinear dependence, symbolic patterns,…
The article explains how triple-barrier labels can overlap in time, making financial machine learning observations dependent rather than independent. When many samples encode information from the same market interval, a model can effectively learn repeated…
This article argues that financial machine learning performance depends heavily on how the prediction target is defined. Unlike a fixed medical label, a trading target may represent returns, price appreciation, volatility, drawdown, or relative asset…
The article presents an inference-learning workflow for patterns built from moving averages and the stochastic oscillator. It frames inference as estimating latent structure from observed data, then describes a Wasserstein variational autoencoder that…
The article explains monoids and groups through a trading-oriented MQL5 framework. A monoid consists of a set, an identity element, and a closed binary operation; a group adds the requirement that every element has an inverse whose operation with it yields…
This article introduces probability distributions as models for random variables and outlines distinctions such as discrete versus continuous distributions, symmetry, location, and modality. It describes common ways to represent a distribution, including its…
The article adapts a trend-scanning label method into a feature interface for machine-learning models. For each bar, it fits price against time across candidate window lengths and retains the window with the largest absolute slope t-statistic, along with…
The article develops an automated USDJPY strategy on daily bars using bullish and bearish engulfing candles as reversal signals. It defines the patterns by comparing the current candle’s open and close with the prior day’s prices, then uses the average true…
The article describes martingale approaches that add to losing positions, either by increasing trade size or scaling into a position at improving prices. The aim is for a later favorable move or pullback to recover earlier losses. It suggests that strict…
The article explains how to prepare MetaTrader 4’s visual strategy tester for manual trading experiments. It describes installing the vHandsTrade expert advisor and its supporting files, compiling the advisor, and enabling chart shift so its controls have…
This introductory tutorial presents a practical process for debugging MQL5 programs, using a chart price-marker script with compile errors as its working example. It explains how to read error reports by description, file, line, and column, then distinguish…
This tutorial turns a custom UT Bot Alerts indicator into an MQL5 Expert Advisor. It emphasizes reading indicator buffers reliably and synchronizing decisions with new bars. The EA evaluates the signal from the most recently closed candle, avoiding unstable…
The article explains Atomic Orbital Search (AOS), a population-based metaheuristic that maps candidate solutions to electrons distributed among imaginary orbital layers. Candidate fitness is treated as energy, with lower energy indicating a better solution.…
The article proposes using mutual information (MI) to choose which of several candidate trading targets a black-box regression model should learn. The examples compare future changes in price, moving averages, Stochastic, and RSI. MI is presented as…
This article describes a MetaTrader panel for estimating how signal-provider trades would scale on a subscriber’s account. Users can set balance, account currency, leverage, and deposit load; the calculator then displays available signals ordered by copy…
This article uses MQL5’s Standard Library to turn a standard deviation channel into an Expert Advisor. The channel combines a linear-regression centerline with bands offset by a chosen multiple of the residual standard deviation. The author describes…