AI Forex Trading Bot: From 39 Million Ticks to a Robot. 8 Places Where Research Lies

Posted By on October 2, 2026

An AI forex trading bot, built step by step with real sizes: 39 million EUR/USD ticks, 40,955 signals, a dataset of 29 features, a walk-forward, a server and a MetaTrader 5 robot. And eight places where research quietly stops matching live trading.

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Chapters:
0: 00 Intro: 39M ticks in, one order out
0: 10 ML trading pipeline: ticks to parquet
1: 10 1-3. Look-ahead bias, numba, the dataset
2: 29 4. Features and data leakage
3: 53 5. The model’s numbers
4: 41 6. Testing in time: walk-forward
5: 29 7. Selection on the whole history
5: 46 8. From research to live: MT5 python
6: 39 Patience with live results, one rule
7: 37 What to test next

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