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Every strategy here is a plain file for qkt, an open-source trading engine. These guides take you from the file you download to a strategy trading your own MetaTrader 5 account, running around the clock on a server, with a dashboard to watch it.
Video: From download to a running strategy
A recorded walkthrough of this guide is coming soon.
How the pieces fit
strategy file (.qkt) → qkt engine → mt5-gateway → MetaTrader 5 → your broker
↳ qkt-insights (what it did, live)
qkt
Open source · Apache-2.0The trading engine every strategy is written for and tested on: a small strategy language, deterministic tick backtests, paper trading and live trading through MetaTrader 5.
mt5-gateway
Open source · MITRuns the real MetaTrader 5 terminal headless in Docker and exposes it as an HTTP API, so qkt can trade any MT5 broker account without a Windows desktop.
qkt-insights
Open source · Apache-2.0A self-hosted dashboard that records what your qkt strategies do live: signals, orders, fills, equity and drawdown, with alerts.
The guides, in order
- Run a strategy with qkt: install the engine, re-run the backtest yourself, paper-trade it.
- Trade it on MetaTrader 5: connect a broker account, on demo first.
- Watch it with qkt-insights: every signal, order and fill on a dashboard, with alerts.
- Run it 24/7 on a VPS: a small server near your broker that never sleeps.
Read the risk disclosure before trading real money. qkt Labs sells independent research and software; it does not promise profits or give advice.