Guides

Step-by-step guides to building, testing and converting MetaTrader Expert Advisors, written by the QuantForge team.

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How-to guides

How to build an opening range breakout EA for MT5 without coding: Build an opening range breakout Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5 or 4 from blocks: define the range, trade the break once a day, size risk, and backtest it on your own M1 data.
How to build a VWAP pullback EA for MetaTrader: Automate a session-VWAP pullback strategy in MT4 or MT5: trend filter, pullback to VWAP, volume confirmation and risk sizing, built from blocks and backtested on your own data.
How to convert an MT4 Expert Advisor to MT5: Move an MQL4 Expert Advisor to MetaTrader 5: what changes between MQL4 and MQL5, how to convert the source for free, what to check, and how to compare the results.
How to backtest an EA on your own broker's M1 data: Export M1 history from MetaTrader 4 or 5, import it, and backtest an Expert Advisor with realistic spread, commission and slippage. Then repeat the run in MetaTrader to compare.
How to add a daily drawdown limit to any EA: Add a daily loss limit, risk-based lot sizing and a lot cap to a MetaTrader EA so it respects prop-firm challenge rules. Built from blocks, tested on your own data.
How to avoid over-fitting when you optimise an EA: Why the best optimisation result is usually the worst one to trade, and how forward tests, parameter neighbourhoods and Monte Carlo analysis help you pick robust EA settings.

No-code EA builders for MT4 and MT5, compared: How the main ways to build MetaTrader Expert Advisors without code differ: visual block builders, rule builders and strategy generators. What each is good at, and where QuantForge fits.

The free plan includes three projects, backtests on H1 to D1 over a year, MQL4/MQL5 export and the converter.