TF Session Breakout Research EA

What this MT5 EA does

1. Builds a complete M5 opening range and looks for a closed-bar cross beyond its high or low plus a buffer.
2. Supports London, New York or UTC session clocks and an explicit broker winter UTC offset and DST rule.
3. Uses the opposite range edge as a stop, risk-sized volume and a configurable reward/risk target.
4. Checks spread, existing positions and same-day entry history; reads the matching guard pause signal.

Inputs and default settings

These are the defaults in the supplied source. Review them for your account, exact broker symbol and intended test. They are not optimised trading recommendations.

Limitations and failure conditions

• EnableDemoOrders is false by default. No edge, backtest or forward performance has been established.
• DST rules implement the current EU rule and the US rule used since 2007; broker historical clock changes must be checked manually.
• The broker UTC offset is an input, never guessed. An incorrect setting changes the strategy.
• Commission is an estimate; news, market gaps, financing and variable execution costs are not modelled as strategy filters.
• Use one instance per symbol and magic number. Complete M5 history is required for the range; no overnight ranges are supported.

Install in MetaTrader 5

1. Extract the ZIP and read its README before attaching any file.
2. In MT5, choose File → Open Data Folder. Copy the MQ5, EX5 and TFCommon.mqh files together into MQL5/Experts/TradeForex.
3. Refresh Navigator and attach the EA to a chart in an isolated demo or tester. Review its inputs and data requirements.
4. Use one instance per chart. Reattach after changing accounts; retain the documented state files and settings when testing restarts.

No broker password, web API key or DLL permission is required by this package.

Acceptance checks before relying on it

The following checklist is pending. It is not a report of passed runtime tests.

• Visually verify opening ranges and session cut-offs across March and October/November clock changes.
• Check a buy breakout, sell breakout, missing history, spread rejection and the one-entry-per-session rule in the tester.
• Use realistic costs and an untouched out-of-sample period; retain full tester settings and reports.
• Verify no orders with default settings, on a real account, after an account change or while paused by the guard.

Download contents and integrity

The ZIP contains MQL5 source, the compiled EX5, TFCommon.mqh, README.md, MIT licence, TEST-STATUS.json and SHA256SUMS.txt.

ZIP size: 30,241 bytes. SHA-256: 97d5d29e5b5366eff3b4a2bd96ad024462fddc0729df4ca55ca6ba5786a88116.

Download EA source and EX5

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