Why We Do Not Build Martingale EAs (and What We Build Instead)
Why We Do Not Build Martingale EAs (and What We Build Instead)We turn down martingale EA development requests, and it costs us work. Traders arrive with a grid or recovery system they want built, sometimes with a backtest attached that looks better than anything else they own, and we say no. It seems precious, so […]
Scalping EA Development: Most Strategies Are Dead Before You Code
Scalping EA Development: Most Strategies Are Dead Before You CodeEvery scalping EA article ends in the same shopping list. Get a raw spread account. Rent a VPS. Sit close to the broker. All true, and all beside the point, because it treats execution quality as something you bolt on to a finished strategy.It is not. […]
How to Convert an Indicator to an Expert Advisor (Properly)
How to Convert an Indicator to an Expert Advisor (Properly)Search how to turn an indicator into an EA, and you will find the same answer everywhere: use iCustom, read the buffer, fire a trade when the arrow appears. It is technically correct, and it misses the entire point. Wiring an EA to read your indicator is […]
Convert Pine Script to MQL5: What Survives and What Breaks
Convert Pine Script to MQL5: What Survives and What BreaksThere is a moment in every TradingView-to-MetaTrader conversion where the trader asks the same question: it’s eighteen lines, why is this not a twenty-minute job?Fair question. The answer is that Pine and MQL5 disagree about almost everything beneath the syntax, and the disagreements are invisible until […]
How to Automate a Trading Strategy That Actually Works by Hand
How to Automate a Trading Strategy That Actually Works by HandYou have a strategy. You have traded it for months, maybe years. You know the setup when it appears, you know when to stay out, and the account has grown. So you reach the obvious conclusion: hand the whole thing to an EA, let it […]
Can You Actually Automate Smart Money Concepts? An Honest Look at SMC and ICT EAs
Can You Actually Automate Smart Money Concepts? An Honest Look at SMC and ICT EAsTraders ask us to build SMC and ICT robots more than almost anything else. They have spent months marking order blocks and fair value gaps by hand; the setups work, and the obvious next step is to hand the whole thing […]
How to Build a Reliable XAUUSD EA (and Why Most Gold Robots Fail)
How to Build a Reliable XAUUSD EA (and Why Most Gold Robots Fail)Gold is the most popular instrument to automate and the one that breaks the most Expert Advisors. If you have been thinking about building a custom gold EA, or you have already run a few and watched them fall apart in live trading, […]