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Not ready for a €199 activation key yet? Grab the guide we wish we had when we started wiring an AI agent to MT5 — model choice, guardrails, and the tools to get a research loop running today.
The whole trading loop, run by the same agent
Most tools hand you a signal and walk away. Cortiq runs the entire cycle — and every session, backtest and research run compounds in one per-instrument knowledge base.
Spin up a single-instrument workspace. The agent pulls D1→M15 candles from MT5 and runs a structured edge-discovery pass — train-only hypotheses, out-of-sample validation, a written report you can read.
Turn findings into explicit rules: setup, entry, risk, management and invalidation. Attach preparation packages, sentiment reports and an instrument profile so every session starts from real context.
Replay the playbook over historical M1 with real AI decision cycles — strictly no-lookahead, with as-of prep and sentiment. Measure expectancy before a cent of capital is at risk.
Promote the same loop to execution. The agent wakes on candle close, price or time, reads the market, then opens, modifies and manages trades on your MT5 — inside hard external guardrails.
Every session and backtest distills what it saw into the instrument's knowledge ledger — where observations become trusted learnings only once enough evidence confirms them. Live reads rank below backtested ones, and the ★ mastery rating rises only when a strategy reaches production. The market compounds instead of resetting.
See the whole loop, start to finish
A narrated tour of the one-market loop — research the edge, write the playbook, backtest it on real history, then go live — with every AI call and every guardrail on screen.
Everything the agent needs — and everything you need to trust it
Prep, data, indicators, risk and the full trade record live as inspectable artifacts. The AI proposes; your rules decide what trades. Nothing happens that you can't read back later.
Open any trade and see exactly why it happened
Cortiq stitches the full record from MT5: the entry, stop and target, the agent's reasoning at the moment of the call, every modification, and the chart at exit. The journal is the source of truth — not a summary you have to take on faith.
Everything you know about a market, in one place
Every playbook, session, backtest and research run for one symbol, aggregated into a single command center — headed by an honest ★ mastery rating that counts only the strategies you've promoted to production. Underneath runs a knowledge pipeline: observations mature into learnings only once enough evidence confirms them, learnings become hypotheses, hypotheses become validated edges, and edges become playbooks. Live reads are always weighted below backtested ones — so a market's edges and traps compound with honest provenance instead of resetting each session.
The agent walks in prepared
Preparation packages (higher-timeframe regime, key levels, structure, directional skew, session map), sentiment reports and an instrument profile are auto-generated before the session and refreshed on a schedule.
You decide what it sees
Pick the timeframes (M1→D1), indicators (MACD, RSI, Bollinger, MA, ATR, Stochastic, CCI…) and news the agent reads each cycle. Bundle them into reusable packages the agent receives on every wake.
Read straight from MT5
Indicator values are read live from your MetaTrader 5 terminal each cycle — the same numbers your charts show, handed to the agent as structured data instead of a screenshot.
Limits live outside the model
Global and per-account validators enforce daily and weekly drawdown, profit targets, max trades, per-symbol caps and loss-streak stops. A breach triggers an emergency stop that cancels pending orders across every account and pauses sessions — then auto-resumes when limits clear.
Know exactly where the day stands
The dashboard reads how far the day is from its profit target and how much buffer is left before the daily stop — across all accounts, or for a single account you select — the same limits the guardrails enforce, updating as trades close.
Every trade reconstructed
Entry, stop, target, the agent’s reasoning, the action timeline and the chart at exit — stitched together from MT5. Tag and annotate, generate session summaries, and tie into Open Market Journal.
See every decision, cycle by cycle
Each wake is logged as a cycle: what the agent saw, what it decided and what it did. Open any cycle to read the reasoning, the parsed decision and the execution result — the timeline is the audit trail, not a summary you take on faith.
Study one market deeply
Prepare reusable data files, then run Behaviour, Edge or watch-and-learn Exploration passes over the history. Grounded results come back as a plain-language answer — verdict, confidence and chart examples — ready to hand off into a playbook, profile or prep notes.
Watch history, learn out loud
A no-positions replay steps the agent through historical candles of one instrument and writes what it notices — observations and durable learnings — straight into the knowledge ledger. The instance-finder runs in a network-denied sandbox: it can read the data but never touch your account.
Real decisions, no lookahead
Replay a playbook over historical M1 with real AI decision cycles, strictly no-lookahead, with as-of preparation, sentiment and profile context and the same risk simulation. Pause and resume; trades, cycles and metrics persist.
Human in the loop
The agent’s proposed memory, trigger and trade changes surface as approval cards in a Copilot dock. Mutating actions stay gated until you approve, inside the session windows you set.
Paper-trade the exact loop
Run the identical loop with no real orders. When a virtual trade earns it, promote it to a real MT5 order — same logic, same guardrails, one click.
Plug in any model. We never sit between you and your AI.
You choose the provider — your keys, your cost, your data. The agent auto-routes to whichever transport you've configured, and you can switch providers without losing the session. With a local model your ongoing AI cost can be €0.
One key, hundreds of models. Route to whatever is best for the job and change your mind whenever you like.
Ollama, LM Studio or llama.cpp over an OpenAI-compatible endpoint — fully private on your own GPU (a Qwen 3 model fits a 12GB card). Nothing leaves your machine.
Drive the agent through your existing ChatGPT or Claude subscription via the official CLI / agent — no extra API bill on top of the plan you already pay for.
Paste a key straight from OpenAI, Anthropic or Gemini. Billed by your provider, at their rate, with no middleman.
Built like infrastructure, not a bot.
Cortiq wires the agent into MetaTrader 5 through a local bridge, then wraps every action in hard limits that live outside the model. The reasoning is the AI's; the rules are yours.
The agent talks to MetaTrader 5 over a bridge that runs on your own machine — no broker plugin, no cloud relay between you and your order.
Run multiple MT5 terminals and accounts simultaneously, each on its own port. Every session binds to one chosen account.
Market and pending orders (limit/stop), SL/TP modification, partial close, full close and cancel — with a pre-trade broker margin check before anything is sent.
By design, each session is locked to a single market. No basket scanning — the agent builds deep, measurable expertise on the instrument in front of it.
Global and per-account rules enforce daily and weekly drawdown, profit targets, max trades, per-symbol caps and loss-streak stops — checked outside the model on every cycle.
A breach cancels pending orders across every account and pauses sessions, then auto-resumes once the limits clear. Unrealized P/L is monitored continuously.
Position size is computed from equity × your risk% and overrides whatever lot the agent proposed. The model can suggest; it cannot oversize.
A human-in-the-loop Copilot dock gates mutating actions until you approve, with time-of-day session windows that keep the agent inside the hours you trade.
The AI proposes. Your rules dispose.
Focus is the oldest edge in trading
Single-market focus isn't a Cortiq invention. Some of the most respected traders alive built their careers on it — going deep on one thing instead of wide on everything.
The wizards specialize
Read through Jack Schwager's Market Wizards interviews with the world's best traders and the same lesson keeps surfacing: depth beats breadth. The edge comes from knowing one arena cold — its behaviour, its tells, its traps — not from watching everything at once. Concentrate, then compound.
Tom Hougaard trades one thing — the index open
The high-stakes day trader and author of Best Loser Wins has built his career on a tiny, fixed set of index markets — primarily the German DAX — traded live on YouTube nearly every day for years. Not a scanner, not a basket. One market, mastered.
What working traders keep saying on the podcasts
Short clips from trader interviews. Different guests, different markets — the same conclusion, reached independently: narrow down, then go deep. Every quote is transcribed from the video's own captions.
Tom Hougaard, the traders in Market Wizards, and everyone in the clips above are independent of Cortiq and do not endorse it. Quotes are transcribed from each video's public captions and lightly trimmed for length, with wording unchanged. They're shown here because concentrated, single-market focus is a long-proven approach — and Cortiq is built to make that focus practical. Nothing here is trading advice.
The journal writes itself, then teaches the next session
Cortiq reconstructs every trade with the agent's reasoning and a full timeline, then folds it back into the loop. It's the same engine behind Open Market Journal, our public trade journal.
Entry, stop, target, the agent’s reasoning and the full timeline are reconstructed the moment a trade closes — no separate write-up.
The why behind each decision is captured as readable text you can re-read, tag and annotate. Nothing about the trade is hidden.
Each session’s memory feeds back into research and tomorrow’s prep, so the agent compounds what it learns instead of starting cold.
The questions a skeptic asks first
You should be wary of handing an agent real money. So here is exactly where the control sits — and where it doesn't.
No. Every AI call is plain text you can read, edit and reject before it acts. The agent’s reasoning, the market read and each decision are logged in full — nothing executes that you can’t inspect, before, during and after the trade.
Good. The risk limits live outside the model and the model cannot override them — position size, drawdown and trade caps are enforced by validators, not the AI. Mutating actions wait for your approval, and you can paper-trade the exact loop first.
Usually because they scan everything and size blind. Cortiq stays on one market, enforces hard daily and weekly drawdown stops, and gives you an emergency cancel-all across every account. You set the rules; a breach pauses sessions on its own.
It is a guided Windows install and an activation key you paste on first launch. Connect your MT5 account, point it at an AI you already have — OpenRouter, a local model, or your existing ChatGPT or Claude — and run.
Depth over breadth. Locked to a single instrument, the agent builds measurable expertise — its prep, profile and journal all compound on the same market. Multi-symbol scanning is left out on purpose, not missing.
It will be, sometimes — it is a tool, not a promise. That is why your playbook carries explicit invalidation rules, the guardrails cut losers on their own, and you stay in the loop on every mutating action. Cortiq does not predict markets or offer signals.
Built for me. Now for you.
I’ve spent close to a decade as a software engineer, architecting systems at one of the world’s largest tech companies. Trading has been my other decade, a hobby I never stopped taking seriously.
Along the way, I built my own trading tools, just for me. Cortiq is one of them, the one that turned out beautiful, refined over years until it worked exactly the way I needed.
Now I want other serious traders to have it too. I think you’ll get real use out of it.
One key. One price. Yours to keep.
Cortiq is a one-time purchase — not a subscription, no auto-renewal. The only ongoing cost is your own AI usage, and with a local model that can be €0.
Cortiq is an execution and research environment, not a signals service and not financial advice. Trading is risky and you can lose money. Read the refund policy and risk disclosure before you buy.
Straight answers before you buy
What Cortiq is, what it needs, and what it deliberately does not do. No overpromises.
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