How to actually automate forex trading

“Automate forex trading” covers a few genuinely different things. Here's the honest landscape, and where an EA built from your own rules fits into it.

Run your own Expert Advisor

Whose logic: Yours

You define the rules; an EA executes them in MetaTrader 5, unattended. This is what StratoBot builds.

Copy trading

Whose logic: Someone else's

Your account mirrors another trader's live positions in real time. You're automating execution, not your own strategy.

Signal services

Whose logic: Someone else's

You get trade alerts from a provider and execute them yourself, or via a separate signal-copier tool. Still someone else's decisions, and still manual unless paired with more tooling.

StratoBot's lane

If you already have your own trading rules and want them running as a real EA — not someone else's signals — describe them in plain language and StratoBot builds the .mq5 file.

What automating your own strategy requires

Give us your trading strategy

Describe it in plain language and see exactly what your bot will do. Free, no account needed.

Build My EA

Your first EA is free.