I Built a Trading Robot in One Weekend (and It Survived) — Publishing My First MQL5 Product

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My product page, live on the MQL5 Market, September 2026. The video version of this story, now live on my YouTube channel. It was just after midnight on Monday when I saw my trading robot pass its final test. Not a backtest on my own computer, where I control everything — the real test. The MQL5 Market validation server, running my code on symbols I had never tried, on a balance I had never imagined. The log stopped scrolling. The word PASSED appeared four times. And I just sat there in the dark thinking: I built a trading robot, and it works. This is the story of the VitalEdge Gold EA — the trading robot I published on the MQL5 Market this week, how it nearly died four times in one night, and why publishing it felt different from everything else I have done in this journey. Why a Trading Robot? I need to be honest about something first, because this diary only works if I tell the truth. I did not write every line of that robot's code by hand. I wrote it with AI assistan...
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