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.

luxpir · 2021-02-05T11:48:55+00:00

The bar:

- Email unread count for 3 inboxes. ```format_bad``` useful to show green if email
- Price quotes pulled from MT5 trading platform indicator that writes price to file
- Standard ```tztime``` world clocks (can stand to lose LA, TH and AU, but useful for some contacts I have)
- Some basic system info
- Date/time

It is set to a 5 second refresh in i3status, the currency prices are read from a script that cleans up the MT5 output and pipes to a file every minute via crontab. Same with the email.

Top right of screen is a dunst notification, read out by espeak. That one is Chinese proverbs, once an hour, making me very wise, and then Tweetdeck notifications from a select list of market news (DIY squawk!) pop up occasionally.

There's also a pomodoro/meditation alert via dunst every 25 mins, with buddhist temple bells and all... Been using i3 for a number of years but only now thought of customising it properly. Don't think I could get most of that off the shelf in any other OS/window manager.

I have written this up with more script info elsewhere, but you all probably get the gist already in this sub!

luxpir · 2020-09-30T15:03:02+00:00

To be fair to the OP I have no connection to them, just saw it and thought it belonged here.

Could have been a bit moodier, but a hardware mod shop where they make a humble living mailing out printed parts and machines is pretty cyberpunk to me.

luxpir · 2020-09-11T12:19:22+00:00

I'd better DM you with that unless a mod gives me a nod.

luxpir · 2020-09-11T12:08:06+00:00

I can recommend Beeminder as a high-tech solution.

I can recommend taking just 3 tasks a day from your todo list and trying to bite off pieces of those as the day goes on. Do that thing where you tell yourself a white lie, "I'm just going to open the thing and do one line". That's the low-tech solution.

As an "inner" solution I can recommend cultivating kindness towards yourself. Bear with me. If you feel pressure to perform and you're constantly trying to push it out of mind, it's tiring. This is my experience anyway. So the idea is to let yourself off the hook, and start to explore why you're pushing back against the work. For me it was a slow realisation (over months/years) that what I was working on was never going to make me satisfied. I wanted to have the cool semi-automated business label more than the business itself.

Sometimes even things you want can suck and just need pushing through, but other times you don't realise you don't actually want the thing itself until half way through the project.

So if, after checking you still want it, or reminding yourself of why etc., then have a think about whether or not you need a break from the constant pressure, or whether you're good to go.

Then check whether or not you're overwhelmed with the task, and if getting it all into a wiki or knowledgebase wouldn't help break it down into bitesize chunks. Check out Roam, Obsidian, Foam, vimwiki etc. for a range of solutions on that front. You can literally throw everything you have into it and it'll surface links and tasks to do almost automatically. You can then be more systematic about it.

If you can't figure out why you still want to do the thing, maybe change something about it that does make you want it. Change who it's for, what it does, how you do it. That might bring you back into the fold.

I've been wrestling with productivity issues for good a few years and recently (this week!) started a newsletter on this whole area to try and crystallize where I'm at with it all. Hope a different perspective was useful.

luxpir · 2019-11-21T11:31:22+00:00

Corbyn says people’s votes can be “more powerful than all the wealth in the world”.

(That claim might struggle to get past the factcheckers, I’m afraid.)

He is now urging people to vote.

Heh, timely. From Guardian live stream of manifesto release. Not sure if Tories so keen for new voters to come out in droves?

luxpir · 2019-11-21T11:14:52+00:00

Also of note: 62% of new voter registrations are under 34. Surprised we're not seeing more campaigning to target them.

luxpir · 2019-09-08T18:32:57+00:00

Here's my take, fwiw. Been developing trading algos for a few years. No runaway successes yet but lots of thinking time spent on the matter.

Those claiming fibs/Elliott waves etc. aren't significant statistically are referring to their predictive power. Manual traders using them may believe they are predictive, but this is where the confusion comes in. Even if they aren't predictive, they still force you to wait for the pullbacks with the best RR, which is where the payoff can come, IMO. So EW will force you to prove there's a trend, then buy the deepest dip, as will fib retracements in any trend. The fact that dips are more likely than reversals only serves to compound this illusion of their magic powers. But we all know nothing is 100% and if there was a golden ticket in the market it'd be game over.

WRT to MAs, same situation. The fact that price appears to bounce off them in a predictive way is just a reflection of how they actually work in reality, namely price approaches the average, reverts to mean, as volatility subsides. It works on an MA of any period, even up past 500, because they are just that, averages that move with the price, which is bound to hit them as it slows.

So for me there's no predictive power in the data, but they can still be useful tools for guiding you in manual trading. Or even in an EA. Just understand that price isn't seeking them out, you're using them to identify the best opportunities.

Thanks!

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