MT5 Expert Advisor research

I’ve been building and backtesting an Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5 on an IC Markets raw-spread account. The interesting part hasn’t been writing the strategy — it’s been auditing one that was already losing money.

I pulled the full trade history and went through it position by position rather than looking at the summary equity curve, which hides almost everything that matters. The pattern that came out was unambiguous, and it wasn’t the entries.

This is deliberately research, not a live account. I want the backtest and the tick-level analysis to agree before real money is anywhere near it.