AI TRADING BOT SPECIFICATION
Professional Personal Trading Robot - MetaTrader 5 / Tickmill

1. PROJECT SUMMARY
The client requires a custom AI-assisted Expert Advisor (EA) for MetaTrader 5, to be used with a Tickmill MT5 account. The EA must trade Forex and Crypto CFDs using a multi-timeframe strategy, with strict risk management and no Grid or Martingale logic.

2. CORE SETTINGS
- Account capital: USD 3,000
- Platform: MetaTrader 5 (MT5)
- Broker: Tickmill
- Markets: Forex + Crypto
- Instruments: EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, XAUUSD, BTCUSD, ETHUSD
- Timeframes: M5, M15, M30
- Account type: Live MT5 account with Tickmill
- Programming language: MQL5
- Notifications: No Telegram alerts required

3. MULTI-TIMEFRAME TRADING LOGIC
- M30 determines the overall market trend: bullish, bearish, or ranging.
- M15 identifies entry zones, support/resistance levels, and momentum.
- M5 confirms the signal and executes the trade with a tighter stop-loss.
- A trade may only be opened when all three timeframes agree.
- If the timeframes conflict, the EA must remain out of the market.

4. AI / MACHINE LEARNING REQUIREMENTS
- Include an AI/ML-assisted decision layer that classifies opportunities as Buy, Sell, or Wait.
- Inputs may include price action, volatility, trend strength, momentum, and session timing.
- Avoid look-ahead bias and overfitting.
- Log every trading decision and executed trade to a CSV file.

5. RISK MANAGEMENT
- Risk per trade: 0.5% = USD 15
- Maximum daily loss: 1.5% = USD 45
- Maximum weekly loss: 3% = USD 90
- Maximum account drawdown: 8% = USD 240
- Open positions: One per symbol; maximum three positions overall
- Stop-loss: Mandatory for every trade
- Minimum risk-to-reward ratio: 1:1.5
- Grid trading: Strictly prohibited
- Martingale: Strictly prohibited
- Lot-size increase after losses: Strictly prohibited

6. NEWS FILTER
- Stop opening new trades 15 minutes before major economic news.
- Resume only 15 minutes after the news release.
- Relevant events: FOMC, CPI, PPI, NFP, GDP, US unemployment data, ECB, and BoE.
- Existing positions remain protected by their stop-loss.
- No recovery trades or lot-size increases.

7. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Develop in MQL5 for direct use inside MetaTrader 5.
- Deliver complete .mq5 source code and compiled .ex5 file.
- Provide an on-chart dashboard: balance, current risk, open trades, profit/loss, and drawdown.
- Save all trades and AI decisions to CSV.
- Work on both demo and live MT5 accounts.
- Do not request or store the client's broker website login credentials.

8. TESTING REQUIREMENTS
- Backtest on at least two years of historical data.
- Forward-test on an MT5 demo account for 4-8 weeks.
- Report number of trades, win rate, maximum drawdown, profit/loss, and risk-limit compliance.
- Do not move to a live account before the client reviews and approves the results.

9. IMPORTANT NOTES
- No profit guarantee is possible.
- Leveraged trading involves a high risk of losing capital.
- The EA must operate only within the defined risk limits.
- The developer must not access the client's trading account or broker credentials.