Recipes

Task-oriented walkthroughs. Each page is one problem and one copy-paste-able solution.

• EMA crossover strategy

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  The "hello world" of trend-following — fast EMA crosses slow EMA, with a bracket.

  Build it

• Add a stop-loss

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  Every flavor of stop: fixed-price, ATR-based, trailing. When to use which.

  Add a stop-loss

• Run a parameter sweep

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  Grid-search over EMA periods, plot the heatmap, pick the winner.

  Sweep parameters

• Debug a strategy that isn't firing

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  Six things that go wrong, in order of how often they happen, with fixes.

  Debug it

• Deploy live on Exness (MT5)

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  Docker stack, VNC login, profile config, first paper trade — end-to-end.

  Deploy live

Need something else?

These recipes cover the highest-frequency questions. For more depth:

• DSL grammar — every keyword and operator
• Architecture — what happens when a rule fires
• Backtest model — what the engine guarantees and doesn't
• Phases — every shipped feature has a worked-example cookbook

Missing a recipe you'd find useful? Open an issue — that's how the next batch gets prioritised.