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Risk management for algo traders
A trading system is only useful when its position size and drawdown rules are clear enough to survive a bad run.
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Spreads, slippage, fills, sessions, and real-world trade mechanics.
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MT5 setup6 min read
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Practical guide
MT5 EA setup checklist
A clean installation prevents many problems that look like strategy problems but are actually symbol, connection, or configuration issues.
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Foundations
What an Expert Advisor actually does
An MT5 Expert Advisor is software that turns a defined trading process into repeatable decisions and orders.
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Real-world trading
Spread, slippage, and execution costs
Small trading costs compound. Here is how to measure the difference between a clean backtest and a real MT5 fill.
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Operations
VPS and MT5 uptime checklist
Automation needs an operating environment. Use this checklist to catch connection, restart, and monitoring failures before they affect a position.
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Market conditions
News events and automated trading
Economic releases can change spread, liquidity, and execution. Learn how to decide whether a strategy should trade through them.
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Beginner
Foundations
How markets and orders actually work
Understand bids, asks, market orders, pending orders, and why an algorithm's decision is only the start of a trade.
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Foundations
Candles, timeframes, and trading sessions
Learn what a bar really represents and why session boundaries, timezones, and incomplete candles matter to an EA.
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Beginner
Strategy design
Design the entry, exit, and position lifecycle
A complete strategy is more than an entry condition. Map every transition from signal to position close before coding.
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Intermediate
Risk management
Position-sizing methods for algorithmic systems
Compare fixed lots, fixed cash risk, volatility sizing, and account-based sizing before selecting a rule your broker can support.
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Data engineering
Missing data, outliers, and bad timestamps
A practical process for finding the data defects that silently change signals, session filters, and backtest outcomes.
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Engineering discipline
Unit testing trading logic before live deployment
Small automated tests can catch sizing, stop, time, and state errors before they reach an account.
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Architecture
State machines for trading bots
Explicit states make order handling, restart recovery, and protection logic easier to reason about than scattered flags.
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Beginner
Execution
Order types and when to use them
Choose order types based on the strategy's priority: participation, price control, breakout activation, or risk protection.
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Advanced
Market microstructure
Liquidity and market impact
A strategy can be profitable on paper but untradeable at its intended size. Learn how liquidity changes the result.
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Intermediate
Execution research
Spread dynamics and session selection
Use observed spread and activity to decide when a strategy should trade, rather than relying on a fixed clock alone.
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Intermediate
Operations
Latency and why it matters
Latency matters differently for a scalper, a session system, and a slower swing EA. Measure the path before paying for speed.
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Trade management
Stops, targets, trailing exits, and time exits
Exit logic controls the trade distribution, account exposure, and operational behaviour. Design it as carefully as the entry.
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Beginner
MT5 setup
Broker symbol specifications that change your EA
Tick value, point size, volume steps, trading sessions, and stop levels can differ across brokers even when the symbol name looks familiar.
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Operations
Timezones, daylight saving, and trading automation
Make session filters, daily loss resets, and research timestamps consistent across brokers, data feeds, and local displays.
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