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mt5-quant/scripts/backtest_pipeline.sh
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Devid HW 3f763827f4 feat: MT5-Quant MCP server for backtesting and optimization
MCP server exposing MetaTrader 5 strategy development tools to AI
assistants (Claude, Cursor, etc.) on macOS (CrossOver) and Linux (Wine).

Tools:
- run_backtest: full pipeline — compile EA, clean cache, backtest,
  parse HTML/XML report, analyze deals → metrics.json + analysis.json
- run_optimization: background genetic optimization with nohup/disown,
  UTF-16LE .set file handling, OptMode reset
- compile_ea: MQL5 compilation via MetaEditor with auto-detected
  include/ directory sync
- get_backtest_status / get_optimization_status: job polling
- verify_environment: Wine/MT5 path validation

Analytics:
- extract.py: MT5 HTML and SpreadsheetML XML report parser
- analyze.py: deal-level analysis (drawdown events, grid depth,
  loss sequences, monthly P&L) → analysis.json
- optimize_parser.py: optimization result parser with convergence analysis

Platform support:
- macOS CrossOver (GUI mode, no Xvfb needed)
- Linux Wine + Xvfb (headless, CI/CD compatible)
- Auto-detection of Wine executable and MT5 terminal paths
2026-04-18 11:41:41 +07:00

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# backtest_pipeline.sh — 5-stage MT5 backtest pipeline
# Stages: COMPILE → CLEAN → BACKTEST → EXTRACT → ANALYZE
#
# Usage:
# ./scripts/backtest_pipeline.sh [options]
#
# Options:
# --expert NAME EA name (without path or .mq5 extension)
# --symbol SYMBOL Trading symbol (default: from config)
# --from YYYY.MM.DD Start date
# --to YYYY.MM.DD End date
# --preset PRESET last_month | last_3months | ytd | last_year
# --timeframe TF M1 M5 M15 M30 H1 H4 D1 (default: M5)
# --deposit AMOUNT Initial deposit (default: from config)
# --model 0|1|2 Tick model (default: 0=every tick)
# --set FILE Path to .set parameter file
# --leverage N Leverage (default: 500)
# --skip-compile Skip compilation stage
# --skip-clean Skip cache clean stage
# --skip-analyze Skip analysis stage (extract only)
# --deep Run deep analysis (hourly + volume profile)
# --strategy NAME Analysis strategy profile: grid (default) | scalper | trend | hedge | generic
# --timeout N Backtest timeout in seconds (default: 900)
set -euo pipefail
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
# Resolve real physical path (follows symlinks) so analytics/ is found even when
# scripts/ is a symlink (e.g. ~/.config/mt5-quant/scripts -> /path/to/mt5-quant/scripts)
REAL_SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd -P "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
ROOT_DIR="$(cd "${REAL_SCRIPT_DIR}/.." && pwd)"
source "${SCRIPT_DIR}/platform_detect.sh"
# ── Defaults from config ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
DEFAULT_SYMBOL=$(_cfg "backtest_symbol" "XAUUSD")
DEFAULT_DEPOSIT=$(_cfg "backtest_deposit" "10000")
DEFAULT_CURRENCY=$(_cfg "backtest_currency" "USD")
DEFAULT_LEVERAGE=$(_cfg "backtest_leverage" "500")
DEFAULT_MODEL=$(_cfg "backtest_model" "0")
DEFAULT_TF=$(_cfg "backtest_timeframe" "M5")
DEFAULT_TIMEOUT=$(_cfg "backtest_timeout" "900")
REPORTS_DIR="$(_cfg "reports_dir" "${ROOT_DIR}/reports")"
# Optional: force headless terminal to a specific broker account (needed when live
# trading terminal uses a different broker than the backtest symbol requires).
DEFAULT_LOGIN=$(_cfg "backtest_login" "")
DEFAULT_SERVER=$(_cfg "backtest_server" "")
# ── Parse arguments ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
EXPERT=""
SYMBOL="$DEFAULT_SYMBOL"
FROM_DATE=""
TO_DATE=""
PRESET=""
TIMEFRAME="$DEFAULT_TF"
DEPOSIT="$DEFAULT_DEPOSIT"
CURRENCY="$DEFAULT_CURRENCY"
MODEL="$DEFAULT_MODEL"
SET_FILE=""
LEVERAGE="$DEFAULT_LEVERAGE"
SKIP_COMPILE=false
SKIP_CLEAN=false
SKIP_ANALYZE=false
DEEP_ANALYZE=false
STRATEGY="grid"
TIMEOUT="$DEFAULT_TIMEOUT"
PROJECT_DIR="$(_cfg "project_dir" "")"
GUI_MODE=false
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
case "$1" in
--expert) EXPERT="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--project-dir) PROJECT_DIR="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--gui) GUI_MODE=true; shift ;;
--symbol) SYMBOL="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--from) FROM_DATE="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--to) TO_DATE="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--preset) PRESET="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--timeframe) TIMEFRAME="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--deposit) DEPOSIT="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--model) MODEL="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--set) SET_FILE="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--leverage) LEVERAGE="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--timeout) TIMEOUT="$2"; shift 2 ;;
--skip-compile) SKIP_COMPILE=true; shift ;;
--skip-clean) SKIP_CLEAN=true; shift ;;
--skip-analyze) SKIP_ANALYZE=true; shift ;;
--deep) DEEP_ANALYZE=true; shift ;;
--strategy) STRATEGY="$2"; shift 2 ;;
*) echo "Unknown option: $1" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
done
[[ -z "$EXPERT" ]] && { echo "ERROR: --expert is required" >&2; exit 1; }
# ── Preset date resolution ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if [[ -n "$PRESET" ]]; then
TODAY=$(date +%Y.%m.%d)
case "$PRESET" in
last_month)
FROM_DATE=$(date -d "1 month ago" +%Y.%m.01 2>/dev/null || \
date -v-1m +%Y.%m.01)
TO_DATE="$TODAY"
;;
last_3months)
FROM_DATE=$(date -d "3 months ago" +%Y.%m.01 2>/dev/null || \
date -v-3m +%Y.%m.01)
TO_DATE="$TODAY"
;;
ytd)
FROM_DATE=$(date +%Y.01.01)
TO_DATE="$TODAY"
;;
last_year)
PREV_YEAR=$(( $(date +%Y) - 1 ))
FROM_DATE="${PREV_YEAR}.01.01"
TO_DATE="${PREV_YEAR}.12.31"
;;
*) echo "ERROR: Unknown preset: $PRESET" >&2; exit 1 ;;
esac
fi
[[ -z "$FROM_DATE" || -z "$TO_DATE" ]] && {
echo "ERROR: Provide --from/--to dates or --preset" >&2; exit 1
}
# ── Report directory ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
TIMESTAMP=$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
REPORT_ID="${TIMESTAMP}_${EXPERT}_${SYMBOL}_${TIMEFRAME}"
REPORT_DIR="${REPORTS_DIR}/${REPORT_ID}"
mkdir -p "$REPORT_DIR"
PIPELINE_START=$(date +%s)
PROGRESS_LOG="${REPORT_DIR}/progress.log"
_progress() { echo "$1 $(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) elapsed=$(( $(date +%s) - PIPELINE_START ))" >> "$PROGRESS_LOG"; }
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo " MT5-Quant Backtest Pipeline"
echo " Expert: $EXPERT"
echo " Symbol: $SYMBOL Timeframe: $TIMEFRAME Model: $MODEL"
echo " Period: $FROM_DATE$TO_DATE"
echo " Deposit: $CURRENCY $DEPOSIT Leverage: 1:$LEVERAGE"
[[ -n "$SET_FILE" ]] && echo " Set file: $SET_FILE"
echo " Report: $REPORT_DIR"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
# ── Resolve platform ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
resolve_platform
# ── Stage 1: COMPILE ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if [[ "$SKIP_COMPILE" == false ]]; then
_progress "COMPILE"
echo ""
echo "[1/5] COMPILE"
# Find source file — check project.dir first, then fall back to pipeline root
EA_SOURCE=""
search_paths=(
"${ROOT_DIR}/src/experts/${EXPERT}.mq5"
"${ROOT_DIR}/src/${EXPERT}.mq5"
"${ROOT_DIR}/${EXPERT}.mq5"
)
if [[ -n "$PROJECT_DIR" ]]; then
search_paths=(
"${PROJECT_DIR}/src/experts/${EXPERT}.mq5"
"${PROJECT_DIR}/src/${EXPERT}.mq5"
"${PROJECT_DIR}/${EXPERT}.mq5"
"${search_paths[@]}"
)
fi
for search_path in "${search_paths[@]}"; do
[[ -f "$search_path" ]] && { EA_SOURCE="$search_path"; break; }
done
[[ -z "$EA_SOURCE" ]] && {
echo " ERROR: Cannot find ${EXPERT}.mq5" >&2
exit 1
}
"${SCRIPT_DIR}/mqlcompile.sh" "$EA_SOURCE"
else
echo "[1/5] COMPILE skipped"
fi
# ── Stage 2: CLEAN ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if [[ "$SKIP_CLEAN" == false ]]; then
_progress "CLEAN"
echo ""
echo "[2/5] CLEAN"
# Clear tester cache
if [[ -d "$MT5_CACHE_DIR" ]]; then
find "$MT5_CACHE_DIR" -name "*.tst" -delete 2>/dev/null || true
echo " Cleared tester cache: $MT5_CACHE_DIR"
fi
# Remove cached .set file for this expert
CACHED_SET="${MT5_TESTER_DIR}/${EXPERT}.set"
if [[ -f "$CACHED_SET" ]]; then
rm -f "$CACHED_SET"
echo " Removed cached .set: $CACHED_SET"
fi
# Reset terminal.ini OptMode — after any test/optimization MT5 sets OptMode=-1
# which causes the next headless run to exit immediately (exit 49, no report)
TERMINAL_INI="${MT5_DIR}/config/terminal.ini"
if [[ -f "$TERMINAL_INI" ]]; then
python3 -c "
import sys, re
path = sys.argv[1]
try:
with open(path, 'rb') as f:
raw = f.read()
# Detect encoding: UTF-16 with BOM, or plain text
if raw[:2] in (b'\xff\xfe', b'\xfe\xff'):
text = raw.decode('utf-16')
encoding = 'utf-16'
else:
text = raw.decode('utf-8', errors='replace')
encoding = 'utf-8'
text = re.sub(r'(?m)^OptMode=-1\s*$', 'OptMode=0', text)
text = re.sub(r'(?m)^LastOptimization=1\s*\n?', '', text)
with open(path, 'wb') as f:
f.write(text.encode(encoding))
print(' Reset OptMode=-1 -> OptMode=0 in terminal.ini')
except Exception as e:
print(f' Warning: could not reset OptMode in terminal.ini: {e}')
" "$TERMINAL_INI" 2>/dev/null || true
echo " Reset terminal.ini OptMode"
fi
else
echo "[2/5] CLEAN skipped"
fi
# ── Prepare .set file ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if [[ -n "$SET_FILE" ]]; then
# Resolve relative paths against PROJECT_DIR (fallback: script ROOT_DIR, then CWD)
if [[ ! -f "$SET_FILE" ]]; then
for base in "$PROJECT_DIR" "$ROOT_DIR" "$(pwd)"; do
[[ -n "$base" && -f "${base}/${SET_FILE}" ]] && { SET_FILE="${base}/${SET_FILE}"; break; }
done
fi
if [[ ! -f "$SET_FILE" ]]; then
echo "ERROR: Set file not found: $SET_FILE" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Copy to tester profiles dir (MT5 reads from here)
mkdir -p "$MT5_TESTER_DIR"
cp "$SET_FILE" "${MT5_TESTER_DIR}/${EXPERT}.set"
SET_FILENAME="$(basename "$SET_FILE")"
fi
# ── Stage 3: BACKTEST ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
_progress "BACKTEST"
echo ""
echo "[3/5] BACKTEST"
# Guard: detect if terminal64.exe is already running (live trading mode).
# MT5 uses a single-instance lock per Wine prefix — a second headless instance
# exits in ~3s with no report. Kill the existing instance before proceeding.
if pgrep -f "wine64-preloader.*terminal64\.exe" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo " WARNING: MetaTrader 5 is already running — killing it to allow backtest."
echo " (Restart MT5 manually after the backtest if needed.)"
# Graceful SIGTERM first, then SIGKILL after 5s
pkill -TERM -f "wine64-preloader.*terminal64\.exe" 2>/dev/null || true
for _i in 1 2 3 4 5; do
sleep 1
pgrep -f "wine64-preloader.*terminal64\.exe" > /dev/null 2>&1 || break
done
# Force-kill if still alive
if pgrep -f "wine64-preloader.*terminal64\.exe" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
pkill -KILL -f "wine64-preloader.*terminal64\.exe" 2>/dev/null || true
sleep 1
fi
echo " MT5 stopped."
fi
# Build backtest.ini
REPORT_FILENAME="${REPORT_ID}.htm"
# Relative path — MT5 resolves against its working dir (C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 5\reports\)
WINE_REPORT_PATH="reports\\${REPORT_FILENAME}"
INI_HOST_PATH="${MT5_DIR}/backtest_config.ini"
mkdir -p "${MT5_DIR}/reports"
# Prepend [Common] section if login/server are configured — forces the headless
# terminal to connect to the correct broker account (avoids "symbol not exist"
# when live terminal uses a different broker than the backtest symbol requires).
INI_CONTENT=""
if [[ -n "$DEFAULT_LOGIN" && -n "$DEFAULT_SERVER" ]]; then
INI_CONTENT="[Common]
Login=${DEFAULT_LOGIN}
Server=${DEFAULT_SERVER}
"
fi
INI_CONTENT+="[Tester]
Expert=${EXPERT}.ex5
Symbol=${SYMBOL}
Period=${TIMEFRAME}
Optimization=0
Model=${MODEL}
FromDate=${FROM_DATE}
ToDate=${TO_DATE}
ForwardMode=0
Deposit=${DEPOSIT}
Currency=${CURRENCY}
ProfitInPips=1
Leverage=${LEVERAGE}
ExecutionMode=10
OptimizationCriterion=0
Visual=$([[ "$GUI_MODE" == true ]] && echo 1 || echo 0)
Report=${WINE_REPORT_PATH}
ReplaceReport=1
ShutdownTerminal=1
"
[[ -n "$SET_FILE" ]] && INI_CONTENT+="ExpertParameters=${EXPERT}.set
"
# MT5 requires UTF-16LE with BOM — plain UTF-8 is silently ignored
printf "%s" "$INI_CONTENT" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16LE > "${INI_HOST_PATH}.tmp"
# Prepend BOM (FF FE)
printf '\xff\xfe' | cat - "${INI_HOST_PATH}.tmp" > "${INI_HOST_PATH}"
rm -f "${INI_HOST_PATH}.tmp"
# Set Wine prefix — CRITICAL: without WINEPREFIX, Wine uses ~/.wine (wrong prefix)
# which causes MT5 to exit immediately (no registry, no tick data, no report)
WINE_PREFIX_DIR=$(dirname "$(dirname "$(dirname "$MT5_DIR")")")
export WINEPREFIX="$WINE_PREFIX_DIR"
export WINEDEBUG="-all"
# Write launcher batch (start /wait works correctly once WINEPREFIX is set)
BAT_PATH="${WINE_PREFIX_DIR}/drive_c/_mt5mcp_run.bat"
cat > "$BAT_PATH" << 'BATEOF'
@echo off
cd /d "C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 5"
start /wait terminal64.exe /config:"C:\Program Files\MetaTrader 5\backtest_config.ini"
BATEOF
echo " Launching MT5 (timeout: ${TIMEOUT}s) ..."
BACKTEST_START=$(date +%s)
set +e
timeout "${TIMEOUT}" ${MT5_ARCH} "${MT5_WINE}" cmd.exe /c 'C:\_mt5mcp_run.bat' 2>/dev/null
WINE_EXIT=$?
set -e
rm -f "$BAT_PATH"
BACKTEST_ELAPSED=$(( $(date +%s) - BACKTEST_START ))
echo " MT5 completed in ${BACKTEST_ELAPSED}s (exit: ${WINE_EXIT})"
# Give MT5 a moment to flush the report to disk
sleep 2
# ── Locate report file ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
MT5_REPORT=""
# Primary: expected relative path from ini
for ext in ".htm" ".htm.xml" ".html"; do
candidate="${MT5_DIR}/reports/${REPORT_ID}${ext}"
if [[ -f "$candidate" ]]; then
MT5_REPORT="$candidate"
break
fi
done
# Fallback: any HTM in MT5_DIR newer than the ini file
if [[ -z "$MT5_REPORT" ]]; then
MT5_REPORT=$(find "${MT5_DIR}" -maxdepth 3 -name "*.htm" -newer "${INI_HOST_PATH}" 2>/dev/null | head -1)
fi
if [[ -z "$MT5_REPORT" ]]; then
echo " ERROR: MT5 produced no report." >&2
echo " Check: symbol name, date range, EA name, and that MT5 ran to completion." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo " Report: $MT5_REPORT"
# ── Stage 4: EXTRACT ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
_progress "EXTRACT"
echo ""
echo "[4/5] EXTRACT"
python3 "${ROOT_DIR}/analytics/extract.py" \
"$MT5_REPORT" \
--output-dir "$REPORT_DIR" \
&& echo " → metrics.json, deals.csv, deals.json"
# ── Stage 5: ANALYZE ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if [[ "$SKIP_ANALYZE" == false ]]; then
_progress "ANALYZE"
echo ""
echo "[5/5] ANALYZE"
ANALYZE_FLAGS="$STRATEGY"
[[ "$DEEP_ANALYZE" == true ]] && ANALYZE_FLAGS="$ANALYZE_FLAGS --deep"
python3 "${ROOT_DIR}/analytics/analyze.py" \
$ANALYZE_FLAGS \
"${REPORT_DIR}/deals.csv" \
--output-dir "$REPORT_DIR" \
&& echo " → analysis.json [$STRATEGY]"
else
echo "[5/5] ANALYZE skipped"
fi
# ── Save pipeline metadata ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
_progress "DONE"
PIPELINE_ELAPSED=$(( $(date +%s) - PIPELINE_START ))
python3 - << PYEOF
import json, os
meta = {
"expert": "${EXPERT}",
"symbol": "${SYMBOL}",
"timeframe": "${TIMEFRAME}",
"from_date": "${FROM_DATE}",
"to_date": "${TO_DATE}",
"deposit": ${DEPOSIT},
"currency": "${CURRENCY}",
"model": ${MODEL},
"leverage": ${LEVERAGE},
"set_file": "${SET_FILE}",
"report_dir": "${REPORT_DIR}",
"duration_seconds": ${PIPELINE_ELAPSED},
"files": {
"metrics": "${REPORT_DIR}/metrics.json",
"analysis": "${REPORT_DIR}/analysis.json",
"deals_csv": "${REPORT_DIR}/deals.csv",
"deals_json": "${REPORT_DIR}/deals.json"
}
}
with open("${REPORT_DIR}/pipeline_metadata.json", "w") as f:
json.dump(meta, f, indent=2)
PYEOF
# ── Summary ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
echo ""
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo " Pipeline complete in ${PIPELINE_ELAPSED}s"
echo " Report: $REPORT_DIR"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
# Print key metrics inline
if [[ -f "${REPORT_DIR}/metrics.json" ]]; then
python3 - << PYEOF
import json
with open("${REPORT_DIR}/metrics.json") as f:
m = json.load(f)
print(f" Profit: \${m.get('net_profit',0):,.2f} PF: {m.get('profit_factor',0):.2f} DD: {m.get('max_dd_pct',0):.2f}% Sharpe: {m.get('sharpe_ratio',0):.2f} Trades: {m.get('total_trades',0)}")
PYEOF
fi