Every piece of the operation, in one place. What I use, what it costs, why I picked it. Affiliate links where I have them, same recommendation either way.
Two boring choices that keep every MT5 terminal online without me babysitting them.
Dedicated VPS in Falkenstein. 24/7 uptime, EU data center, isolated from my home network.
Where every MT5 terminal runs. Hourly sync pushes data from here to the dashboard.
Hardened Windows Server image. RDP-only access, no GUI exposed beyond MT5 terminals.
MT5 requires Windows. Server 2022 because it's the boring choice.
MetaTrader 5 for the live side. QuantDataManager when broker tick history isn't good enough for the backtests.
The platform I run every EA on. Real account API I read from for the dashboard.
Tick data feeds for backtesting. Higher quality than the broker's default.
The build half (StrategyQuant X) and the judgment half (QuantAnalyzer). Together this is how every EA earns or loses a slot on a funded account.
EA generation and backtest engine. The build half of the suite.
Strategy and portfolio analysis. Where I decide if an EA earns a slot.
One broker for real-money trading today. More are under review.
Australian broker (ASIC regulated) where I trade my own real-money capital.
Tight spreads on majors and XAUUSD, segregated client funds, same-day withdrawals. The broker review is here.
Two more brokers are on the bench for real-money deposits. They go up here once the first month of real-money trading clears.
Six firms hold funded capital across the roster. Full rules and tricky-rules per firm at the link.
Two things I run instead of buy. The dashboard for accountability, the Playbook because nobody else wrote it.
Hourly snapshot of every funded account I run. Built for accountability, so I can't quietly change positions after a bad week.
Long-form operating manual for running EAs on funded accounts. Chapter 1 free, full edition $97.
Watches CPU, RAM, disk, network, and every MT5 terminal on a Windows VPS. When something spikes for more than a minute, it logs the processes that were running.
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Tom
What changed on the dashboard, which EA earned a place on a funded account, which one came off. A paragraph or two from the desk, never a sales pitch.
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