Every trader reaches a point where manual execution becomes the bottleneck. You've done the research. You know your edge. But your hands — and your emotions — keep getting in the way.
That's where I was in 2024. I had a strategy that worked on paper and in demo. A simple dual SMA crossover with strict risk management. Nothing fancy. But every time I tried to trade it live, I'd hesitate at entries, move my stop loss, or skip setups because "this one feels different."
So I decided to automate it.
What followed was months of MQL5 development, 21 MetaQuotes validation errors (that's another story), and eventually — a published product on the MT5 Market that trades exactly the way I designed it to, every single time.
This post covers the why. Why automation. Why SMA. Why I chose to publish it publicly instead of keeping it private.
[Full article coming soon — this is a placeholder.]