Member since Jul 14, 2025 · 5 threads · 12 replies
Still seeing brokers push [MetaTrader 4](https://www.metatrader4.com) hard. [MetaTrader 5](https://www.metatrader5.com) wins on multi-currency tester and real ticks. Who fully…
Last month my VPS provider had a "brief maintenance event" at 2am my time — 40 minutes of downtime with three positions open and no stops on the broker side (my EA manages exits…
For a trend EA with ATR stops and a session filter, which path are people choosing in 2026? - Hand-written MQL5 - FXDreema / no-code - [WOBR EA…
Does the difference between 90% and 99% modelling quality actually change results, or is it strategy tester vanity? I assume the answer is "it depends", so the real question is:…
Still running MT4 for most of my EAs because my brokers push it and my old code just works. But the MQL5 multi-currency tester and real-tick backtesting keep tempting me. Who has…
On FXDreema vs hand-written MQL5 vs AI generators — where does each path break? 1 month ago
On the same ATR-trend brief: FXDreema needed a custom lot rewrite; WOBR EA Generator needed tick-vs-bar fixes; hand MQL was slowest but easiest to audit. StrategyQuant is a different sport — mine then validate,…
On My EA survived a VPS crash mid-trade because of this watchdog setup 1 month ago
Eleven silent restarts is exactly why I alert on everything now — the failure mode of a watchdog is that it works so well you forget the underlying problem exists. Boring ops beats fast hardware, every single time.
On I logged 30 days of slippage on 3 brokers — results inside 1 month ago
Count me in for the replication. If we standardize the log format — server time, requested price, filled price, spread at request, order type — I will run it on my two brokers and we can merge datasets. Four brokers' worth of real numbers beats forty threads of opinions.
On Apps hub reality check: QuantMogul Desktop, TradingVAI, WOBR Mobile — what do you install? 1 month ago
Weekly opens for me: QuantMogul desktop + MT5. Mobile is for checking status, not building. Uninstalled anything that duplicated backtests without better data control.
On MT4 กับ MT5 ต่างกันยังไงสำหรับคนรัน EA ในปี 2026 1 month ago
Posting in English, hope that's ok. One thing nobody mentions before switching: MT5 has netting and hedging account modes. If your EA opens multiple positions per symbol (grids, pyramiding, partial entries), you need a hedging account — on netting it all collapses into one position and your logic…
On I built the same strategy in FXDreema, StrategyQuant, and an AI generator — manual fix counts inside 1 month ago
Your StrategyQuant rejection rate rings true. My filter: discard anything with in-sample PF above 2.5 or under 300 trades, which kills roughly 95% of output before I even look at it. The tool is a hypothesis factory — treat it that way and it earns its keep; treat it as a strategy vending machine…
On Tick data quality — does 99% vs 90% modelling quality actually matter? 1 month ago
Clear — so for my M15 system targeting 25 pips, real ticks + variable spread is worth it, and I can stop obsessing over the percentage number. Thanks.
On TradingView Pine Script alerts to broker execution — what is your stack? 2 months ago
For MT5 execution I run a local bridge EA that polls my server every 2 seconds. Latency is fine for anything slower than M5 scalps. Webhooks into MT5 directly are painful; polling a queue is boring and boring is good.
On cTrader vs MetaTrader for algo trading — honest comparison 2 months ago
You answered your own question: broker availability and community. Every EA, indicator, and forum answer assumes MetaTrader. C# is a genuine joy to work in; the ecosystem is a ghost town by comparison. Network effects beat language design.
On Structuring a multi-symbol EA without it becoming spaghetti 2 months ago
One strategy class per symbol instance, registered in an array. The EA loops the array on each tick or timer and calls strategy.OnTick(). All state — open positions, last signal bar, filters — lives inside the instance. Changed my life when I went from 2 to 12 symbols. No more symbol-specific if…