Backtesting & automated trading
Practical guides to testing trading strategies properly — data quality, cost modelling, prop firm rules, and getting a system onto MetaTrader 5 without writing code.
- 11 min readStrategiesBacktesting
Opening Range Breakout Strategy: How It Works and How to Trade It Properly
How the opening range breakout works, the details that decide whether it pays, and how the Raw Edge ORB card builds, backtests and automates it on MT5.
- 8 min readBacktestingIndicators
Repainting Indicators: Why Your Strategy Tests Well and Trades Badly
What repainting is, why so many indicators quietly rewrite their own history, how to test any tool for it — and how Raw Edge is built so signals stay put.
- 9 min readSMC & ICTBacktesting
Backtesting Smart Money Concepts: Order Blocks, FVGs and Liquidity
How to turn order blocks, fair value gaps, liquidity sweeps, BOS and CHoCH into precise, testable rules — and find out whether your SMC idea actually works.
- 9 min readBacktestingMetaTrader 5
MT5 Backtesting Software: How to Test a Strategy Properly
A practical guide to backtesting software for MetaTrader 5 — data quality, spread and commission modelling, sample size, and out-of-sample testing.
- 8 min readNo-CodeMetaTrader 5
How to Backtest an EA Without Writing Any Code
You do not need MQL5 to test a trading idea. Here is how no-code backtesting works, what it handles well, and where writing code is still the better option.
- 9 min readProp FirmsRisk Management
How to Backtest a Prop Firm Challenge Before You Pay for One
Profitable strategies fail prop challenges all the time. Here is how to simulate FTMO, 5%ers and FundedNext rules against your strategy before paying a fee.
- 8 min readBacktestingRisk Management
7 Backtesting Mistakes That Blow Up Live Accounts
The specific errors that make a backtest look profitable and a live account lose money — look-ahead bias, curve fitting, cost modelling, and how to catch each.
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