Trading Automation: Bots & Trading Agents
Turn your strategy into a bot with no code, test it properly, deploy to MT5 or TradingView, then design a trading agent that asks before it trades.
Intermediate to advanced · 6 weeks · online or in class in Abeokuta
Prices and enrol: from ₦60,000 / $45What you will learn
- Write strategy rules a computer can follow
- Build your own bot and indicators with no coding
- Read a backtest report honestly
- Install your bot on MT5 and your indicator on TradingView
- Design a trading agent with clear rules, risk limits and an approval step
- Know why no bot or agent can guarantee profit
Who it is for: Traders with a strategy who want to automate it, and anyone tired of paying for bots that promise profit. Bring a laptop.
Course outline
From idea to rules
- Why most bought bots fail
- Clear entry, exit and risk rules
- Describing a strategy so it can be built
Practice: Write your strategy in plain words.
Building indicators
- Moving averages, RSI, MACD and more
- Signal arrows and alerts
- Exporting to TradingView Pine Script and MT5
Practice: Build an indicator and add it to TradingView.
Building the bot
- Entries, confirmations, filters and sessions
- Stops, targets and risk limits
- MT5 Expert Advisors and Pine Script strategies
Practice: Build your bot in the Bot Builder.
Testing properly
- Backtests and what the report card means
- Over-fitting and out-of-sample checks
- Demo forward testing for 2 to 4 weeks
Practice: Backtest on two markets and compare.
Going live safely
- Installing an EA on MT5 step by step
- Running on a VPS
- Daily loss limits and when to switch a bot off
Practice: Run your bot on a demo account.
Trading agents: from bot to agent, with you in charge
- Bot or agent: what changes when a system can read news and explain its idea
- The agent loop: check news, trend and risk, write a memo, then wait for your approval
- Writing the rules for an agent: what it may do alone, what needs your approval and when it must stop
- Studying a live agent: reading the NFP agent log on the Trading Desk, step by step
- Testing an agent on paper first and keeping a decision log
Practice: Write the rules, risk limits and approval checklist for your own trading agent and test them on a paper account on the Trading Desk.
Tools you will use (free)
This course teaches skills. It does not promise income or profit, and trading carries a high risk of loss. MarkIQ SI provides education, not financial advice.