Risk management7 min read
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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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Operations
VPS uptime, monitoring, logs, alerts, and operational discipline.
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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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Process
Build an algorithmic trading journal
A useful journal records more than wins and losses: it helps you separate strategy behaviour from operational mistakes.
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Evaluation accounts
Prop-firm EA rules checklist
Before running automation in an evaluation, translate the firm's current rules into checks your setup can actually enforce.
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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
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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Advanced
Portfolio design
How to combine multiple strategies
Build a portfolio from distinct return drivers, not a pile of bots that all respond to the same market move.
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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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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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Intermediate
Protection
Daily risk controls for Expert Advisors
Build account-level brakes that remain active when the strategy is wrong, the market is abnormal, or the operator is away.
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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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Intermediate
Deployment
From research to live deployment
A staged checklist for moving from a promising backtest to a monitored system without skipping the uncomfortable evidence.
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Intermediate
Process
How to review a strategy after launch
Build a post-launch review that separates statistical variation, execution drift, and genuine strategy failure.
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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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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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