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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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MT5 setup
Installing Expert Advisors and keeping the execution environment healthy.
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Trading foundations5 min read
Core guide
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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Core guide
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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Core guide
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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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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Intermediate
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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Intermediate
Engineering discipline
Logging and observability for Expert Advisors
A bot that cannot explain its state is difficult to trust. Design logs that help you distinguish no signal from no execution.
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Advanced
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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Intermediate
Operations
Build a monitoring dashboard for an EA
A compact dashboard should answer whether the terminal is alive, what risk is open, and why the system is or is not trading.
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Beginner
Troubleshooting
Debugging an EA that does not trade
A step-by-step operational diagnosis for silent Expert Advisors, from connection and symbol checks to signal and protection state.
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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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Intermediate
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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