Project specifications
- Market
- XAUUSD / EURUSD
- TF
- M15
- Platform
- MT5
- Client type
- Professional trader
- Delivery window
- 6 weeks
- Stack
- MQL5, CSV, a Python analysis script
- Strategy
- Structured trade export
- Modules
- Daily CSV + custom fields
- Testing
- Reconciled against terminal reports
Who this was for
Elham Nouri
- Role
- Data-driven trader
- City
- Tehran
- Project reference
- TBT-1405-17
The client's idea
Elham Nouri works XAUUSD / EURUSD on M15; the opening brief was: I want my trades exported with full detail into a clean file — not screenshots of the terminal.
Initial challenge
Trade analysis was manual: every trade copied out of the terminal, and a typo in the data would invalidate the results.
Solution
An export module writing each trade to a daily CSV with the fields that matter — session, stop distance, signal module — reconciled against the terminal report.
Why this design
The columns were agreed with the client up front, because the analysis questions follow from them. It matches how XAUUSD / EURUSD is actually traded and can be tested against the data already available.
Safeguards and risk control
New code lives in pure functions without hidden global state, and order-execution errors are caught and logged.
Our next-step proposal
The next step is automated tests over the calculation functions and documentation of the internal API.
Portfolio
Measured results
These are the figures the test produced — not a promise about future performance.
- 12 Configurable inputs
- 60 ms Order round-trip time
- 1,480 Trades reviewed
- 7 scenarios Scenario test coverage
Portfolio
How the delivery ran
Every project moves through these five phases, with the window for each agreed in the specification.
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Discovery and problem framing
CompletedReading the existing code or the client's requirement and fixing the scope of the change on XAUUSD / EURUSD.
Day 1–3
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Written specification
CompletedWriting the function contract, file layout and naming rules before any code.
Day 4–10
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Implementation
CompletedImplementing in MQL with separated layers and no logic duplicated across files.
Day 11–25
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Testing and validation
CompletedCompiling without warnings, unit-testing the functions and running historical XAUUSD / EURUSD data.
Day 26–33
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Handover and support
CompletedHandover of an organised, commented source that is ready for the next change.
Day 34–37