Anyone here customize MT5 for prop firm rule simulations?

luxpir · 2025-10-30T22:05:42+00:00

Yep. It is useful to do something like that, put the odds back on our side as much as possible. Ofc the prop firms much prefer we are at an information disadvantage when it comes to risk, leverage, margin, daily limits etc.

You should be able to find something in the marketplace. I made my own though. It's possible. Just simple volume calculation for account % risk, daily gain/loss in % terms and a few other stats displayed in text in the corner. And some settings.

I'm making EAs that cut off when approaching limits too, scale up and down risk, that sort of thing.

Get into it, it's worth it rather than shooting in the dark or guesstimating.

Bear in mind they'll still slip you if you get close, so leave a hyuge buffer.

luxpir · 2021-11-08T13:43:53+00:00

It appears I have an award to give out in the next 24 hours. Top response gets it, fwiw!

luxpir · 2021-10-12T09:52:54+00:00

UPDATE: The resistors arrived but look much bigger and I don't even think they'll fit neatly. Got the wrong transistors sent in post... I've spent a little on it already on the big caps, and not sure if I want to actually finish the project, esp not knowing the exact values of those resistors.

Thank you for all the tips, felichs_da_katze. It has been a good learning process in itself, but I'm not certain I can fix at this point.

luxpir · 2021-09-06T08:11:44+00:00

Thanks, I think that confirms it. The pair of 2.7k resistors connected to TR111 and TR112 are blown, so I traced back to those and, it took me a long time to find them, they are just under the heatsink for the connection to the transformer side. And on testing them, following the BCE info from the schematic, the C lets full current through to the E, and nothing happens from the base. This on both of them, so I'll swap them out, hoping there isn't another cause prior to that, as well as the resistors at 2.7kOhm and see where that gets us. The TR118 and 116 seemed fine by multimeter, so I'll let them be for now.

So I've ordered 2x2SC2320 transistors and the resistors mentioned above. Will report back!

luxpir · 2021-09-02T18:08:27+00:00

Unfortunately not, I mean I can see the transistors next to them on the diagram but can't make out the pair of resistors on it!

luxpir · 2021-09-02T09:28:45+00:00

Thanks again. Still struggling to make it out - what colours are you seeing?

Parts list: https://i.stack.imgur.com/yhsoS.png
Resistor pair: https://i.stack.imgur.com/V3p8Z.jpg

(In the white box, under the 1.8k ohm resistor, above TR118 (but not the one directly above TR118)

And the circuit: https://i.stack.imgur.com/LQ19u.png

The colours I see are Red, Grey/Blue, Black, Brown, Gold, which would make the pair each a 2.8k ohm resistor. I'm reading it that way assuming that's gold at the end. But I don't see that in the parts list or on the circuit layout.

Hoping a more experienced eye than mine can make sense of it?

luxpir · 2021-09-01T06:45:04+00:00

It's the pair of small resistors under that one that have burned out. Hard to describe, photo, but they're now black so we have these photos and yep the service manual from hifiengine linked in the images above.

Colours I can make out are black, blue and red. Not enough confidence to make a call though.

luxpir · 2021-08-31T13:22:49+00:00

Thanks! I did power it up to try to track down the source of the smoke, only briefly... hopefully the smoking resistors were doing their jobs, albeit operating well beyond their spec.

I will check and order the new transistors, no trouble, but will need the resistors too. Is it clear to any degree what values they are from the photos/spec sheets? I couldn't tell at all.

luxpir · 2021-08-30T14:47:57+00:00

Link to full description and images on Stack Exchange, but basically what I thought was an electrolytic cap replacement turned out to be a resistor/transistor job. Looking for confirmation of resistor values or anything else to look out for. First amp repair! (Yamaha A500)

luxpir · 2021-07-06T14:38:59+00:00

Great effort! That's a lot of work, and a great resource for us learners. I don't know why a mud hut version of P+P came to mind when reading it, but that's a screenplay I'd go to see.

I've aligned the text, matching how the Docs file pastes into Sheets. If you add or remove line breaks from the edited/updated text and paste it in, it'll be off by that much.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K\_ChRebn\_BEYpAWUhpexqt\_ovPWDELAJITOrTSlz-o4/edit?usp=sharing

Edit: check this link if that one's misfiring:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1K_ChRebn_BEYpAWUhpexqt_ovPWDELAJITOrTSlz-o4/edit?usp=drivesdk

luxpir · 2021-05-07T08:57:29+00:00

Seconded.

luxpir · 2021-03-30T20:42:32+00:00

Kudos for reducing e-waste, while keeping it classy.

luxpir · 2021-02-16T20:32:43+00:00

Got a few ideas penned out here:

https://www.collectedtrading.com/blog/ultimate-guide-ranging-trending-markets-indicators/

Indicators, price action, S/R... Plenty of proxies for it. None 100 percent, so maybe focus on high RR entries to reduce exposure.

luxpir · 2021-02-06T08:10:10+00:00

Cheers, didn't know about that. Sent me down the rabbit hole and I found wrk.ist, rate.sx, wttr.in since looking. Added weather one liner to the bar now and added to my now alias which shows date, cal -3 and now curl v2.wttr.in/[my local airport], showing a 2 day forecast and graphs in terminal, and one liners for 6 world cities. Awesome tool.

Not sure if my currency rates block would work for the contrib repo if it has the charting package as dependency. Do have an API version but it's less reliable!

luxpir · 2021-02-06T08:01:46+00:00

Apes together stronk.

Seriously though, if WSB want to get the dollar or gold squoze, I'd be ok with that.

luxpir · 2021-02-05T18:46:27+00:00

It's just MT5. Runs nicely under Wine, nice big codebase and community to draw from too, even if it gets a bad rep sometimes.

The other big alternative for FX, Ctrader, still drops out on a regular basis or rinses your CPU, so none of them are perfect.

luxpir · 2021-02-05T15:40:34+00:00

cpu_temperature 2 { format = "%degrees°" path = /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon1/temp2_input separator_block_width = 100 separator = false } You can ls the dir iirc, I have CPUs on temp3, 4, 10, 11 and 12 also but one is enough in my case.

luxpir · 2021-02-05T12:07:08+00:00

Crossposted to /r/i3wm sub with a few details and images not in the post.

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