AlphaLab-AI Resources
Everything you need around the EA itself.
Education articles, recommended brokers, prop firms, and VPS infrastructure — curated guidance for traders running automated systems. No hype, no upsell, no performance promises.
Education
Short, practical articles on risk, backtests, regimes and strategy hygiene. Written for traders who want to think clearly about automation, not be sold to.
Brokers
A curated shortlist of MT4/MT5 brokers we recommend for running our EAs. Spreads, commissions, server location, account types — at a glance.
Prop firms
Funded-account programmes whose rules our EAs are designed to respect. Daily-loss caps, drawdown rules, payout splits — without the marketing spin.
Infrastructure (VPS)
VPS providers with the latency, RAM and uptime profile we trust for 24/7 EA operation. Why $5/month is not the same as $35/month.
AlphaLab-AI Academy
Latest from the Academy
Infrastructure
GMT offset, DST, and the day your EA fires at the wrong time
Daylight Saving Time shifts cost most retail EAs around four weeks of broken behaviour every year. Here is the plumbing, the gotchas, and the helper code that fixes it.
Infrastructure
VPS for MT5: latency, providers, what actually matters
A practical guide to the VPS choice — how much CPU and RAM you really need, why a $5/month VPS is not a $35/month VPS, and the data-centre decision that affects every fill.
Infrastructure
Choosing a broker for automated trading
Execution model, spreads, commissions, slippage policy, hedging mode, regulator, server location. The broker decisions that quietly decide whether an EA is profitable.
Prop firms
News-event filters for prop firm accounts
A practical guide to the news rule — which events count, how to read the window, calendar feeds that actually work, and the EA plumbing that keeps you compliant.
Prop firms
Why most EAs fail prop firm rules — and how to avoid it
The ten ways an Expert Advisor breaches a prop account, in order of frequency. Plus the EA-side fixes that quietly turn most of them off.