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Neural Network Machine Learning in Fundamental Analysis with MQL5, Python & ONNX

Build and deploy an institutional grade Neural Network that predicts macroeconomic event volatility and trades high-impact news releases natively in MetaTrader 5 .

No reviews yet • 1 student enrolled • 28 lectures (7h 18m)
📅 Last updated Nov 2026
🌐 English [Auto] • Includes MQL5 Source Code (.MQ5/.EX5)

✨ What you'll learn in this course

  • Macroeconomic Data Pipeline & Surprise Modeling: Mine and structure historical economic calendar releases (NFP, CPI, Interest Rates) and calculate statistical surprise standard scores (Z-scores) to quantify event magnitude.
  • Neural Network Architecture Design: Build and train specialized neural network classification and regression models in Python to predict post-release directional momentum and expected pip volatility.
  • Zero-Latency Native MQL5 Inference Engine: Export trained neural network weights and code a forward-propagation matrix math engine in pure, native MQL5—eliminating Python socket lag, external DLLs, and API latency.
  • Institutional News Execution & Spread Protection: Implement automated spread-spike filters, slippage buffers, and virtual break-even triggers to safeguard capital during volatile macro liquidity transitions.

  • Multi-Tier Dynamic Exits: Automate multi-stage partial take-profits, ATR-based trailing stops, and time-based exits designed specifically for event-driven market regimes.

  • Event-Driven Backtesting & Walk-Forward Optimization: Conduct tick-accurate backtests on historical high-impact news events with variable spreads to validate performance and eliminate curve-fitting.

Course content

8 sections • 28 lectures • 7h 18m total length
Rules Break, Machines Learn
11:00
Speaking the Language of Machine Learning
11:00
How Numbers Become Geometry
11:00
The Artificial Neuron
11:00
The Non-Linear Secret
12:00
Multi-Layer Networks
12:00
The Loss Function and Focal Loss
11:00
Architecture of Backpropagation
12:00
How to Know if Your Model is Actually Good
11:00
Importance of Clean Data
20:00
The Economic Calendar
17:00
Analysing the Data Collection Script Code
24:00
Analysing the Data Cleaning Scripts
26:00
Data Normalization Process
20:00
The Welch t-Statistic
15:00
The 4 Hurdles
16:00
Analyzing the Data Cleaning Code
19:00
Identifying Learning Parameters
19:00
The Triple Barrier Method
19:00
Analysing the Target Labelling Code
15:00
The Body of NewsResNet
15:00
Neural Network Training
15:00
Walk-Forward Model Training Code Walkthrough
15:00
The Trading EA Architecture
15:00
Unsealing the Vault: Strategy Tester & Execution Audit
15:00
MQL5 Trading EA Code Implementation
15:00
Testing the EA on Unseen Data
21:00
Course Conclusion & Future Roadmap
15:00

Description

High-impact macroeconomic releases—Non-Farm Payrolls, US Consumer Price Index (CPI), FOMC rate decisions, and central bank declarations—produce the most violent and lucrative price expansion in global financial markets. Yet, for 95% of retail traders, trading the news is financial suicide. Manual traders are crippled by emotional hesitation, execution latency, devastating spread spikes, and uncalculated slippage.

Institutional quantitative desks do not gamble on binary news outcomes. Instead, they deploy data-driven machine learning models that statistically evaluate historical release surprises against real-time order flow to capitalize on price inefficiencies.

In News Neural Network: Algorithmic Event-Driven Trading with MQL5, you will bridge the gap between quantitative deep learning and live MetaTrader 5 execution. You will build an institutional-grade, event-driven trading machine from the ground up—from data mining macroeconomic calendars to coding a native neural network forward pass directly inside MT5 with zero external dependencies.

TRADING ARCHITECTURE & METHODOLOGIES COVERED

  1. The Macroeconomic Data Pipeline You cannot train an intelligent model on raw price action alone when trading macro events. We examine how to clean, align, and structure economic calendar data alongside raw tick-level price action. You will learn how to compute the Standardized Economic Surprise Metric (measuring the mathematical deviation between Consensus, Previous, and Actual figures) and transform it into high-signal neural features.

  2. Neural Network Design & Training in Python Step-by-step, we design a dedicated neural network architecture tailored for event-driven trading. You will explore: • Feature scaling, normalization, and handling extreme market outliers. • Hidden layer sizing, activation functions (ReLU, LeakyReLU, GELU), and dropout regularization to prevent overfitting on sparse event datasets. • Dual-head neural outputs: Directional probability classification paired with expected volatility range regression. • Walk-forward validation and out-of-sample stress testing across multiple market regimes.

  3. Native MQL5 Forward Inference Engine (Zero Latency) The fatal flaw of most retail machine learning bots is relying on Python REST APIs, websockets, or third-party DLL bridges that inject 50–200ms of latency right when market liquidity is thin. In this course, we extract the trained weight matrices and bias vectors into structured MQL5 arrays. Your Expert Advisor executes the entire neural forward pass in under 0.05 milliseconds natively inside the MetaTrader 5 terminal.

  4. Institutional Execution, Spread Filters & Slippage Defense A machine learning signal is only as profitable as its execution mechanism. You will code battle-tested risk controls designed specifically for news releases: • Dynamic Spread Guard: Locks order dispatch until post-release liquidity tightens to institutional limits. • Slippage & Deviation Guardrails: Rejects executions if market depth drops below acceptable fill tolerances. • Multi-Target Split Order Management: Simultaneously captures aggressive momentum scalps while maintaining runners with a volatility-based trailing stop. • Time-Based Kill Switch: Automatically flattens exposure if directional follow-through does not materialize within a pre-defined holding window.

WHAT IS INCLUDED WITH THIS COURSE

  • Complete MQL5 Expert Advisor Source Code (.mq5): Fully open-source, modular, object-oriented, and ready to deploy or customize on MetaTrader 5.  
  • Python Machine Learning Codebases & Notebooks: Ready-to-run Jupyter notebooks covering data ingestion, feature engineering, and neural network training. 
  • Curated Macroeconomic Event Dataset: Historical calendar releases synchronized with 1-minute and tick data for comprehensive backtesting. 
  • Proprietary News Execution Templates: Optimized pre-sets and configuration files for major currency pairs (EUR/USD, GBP/USD, USD/JPY) and Gold (XAU/USD). 
  • Lifetime Access & Code Updates: Continual updates as MetaTrader 5 builds and machine learning libraries evolve.

Who this course is for

This course is ideal for:

  • MQL5 Developers & Algorithmic Traders: Coders who want to advance beyond traditional lagging technical indicators and integrate modern machine learning models into native Expert Advisors.
  • Discretionary News Traders: Traders who understand the power of high-impact macroeconomic events (NFP, CPI, FOMC) but want to replace emotional gambling and manual execution delays with quantitative precision.
  • Quantitative Finance Students & Python Practitioners: Data scientists and Python programmers who want to learn how to deploy trained machine learning models into real-world, latency-sensitive trading execution on MetaTrader 5.
  • Prop Firm & Independent Traders: Capital managers looking for a non-correlated, event-driven trading strategy with strict risk containment, zero martingale, and zero dangerous grid mechanics.
Prerequisites:
  • A computer with MetaTrader 5 installed. • Basic understanding of Forex / CFD trading concepts (lot sizing, pips, stop loss, take profit). • Basic familiarity with coding (MQL5 or Python syntax is helpful, but every single line of code is taught and explained step-by-step from zero).

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