IronGate Academy

Learn trading through your own system.

A visual course for one student. Every concept is taught with pictures, every example uses the real code and real numbers of your IronGate bot — so by the end, nothing it does will be a mystery.

Part I · Foundations

01 The FoundationsPips, lots, leverage, SL/TP — and the sizing formula your bot runs on every trade → 02 Risk & RewardWhy losing 60% of your trades can still make money → 03 Reading a Recommendation CardAnatomy of every IronGate signal, line by line →

Part II · Reading the Market

04 Candles & TimeframesWhat the chart is telling you, from M15 to D1 → 05 Trends, Ranges & RegimesWhy context beats signals — and how the regime classifier sees it → 06 The Indicators IronGate UsesATR, ADX, RSI, and moving averages in plain pictures →

Part III · The Machine

07 The Nine StrategiesWhat each one hunts, and which market suits it → 08 Backtesting…and why it lies to you if you let it → 09 Walk-Forward & OptimisationHow IronGate avoids fooling itself →

Part IV · Proving It

10 MT5 & Expert AdvisorsThe terminal, EAs, and the Strategy Tester — visually → 11 Forward Testing on DemoThe proving ground between backtest and real money → 12 The Trade JournalLearning from every trade the system takes →

Deep Dives

S·A Sentinel — Anatomy of the Night WatchmanTwo gatekeepers, seven voters, one adviser — the code, instrument by instrument → S·B Sentinel — Forensics: why USDJPY?Dissecting real trades to find which lookout makes the specialist → S·C Sentinel — Stress TestsTransfer tests, plateau maps, committee audit, spread shocks, Monte Carlo pain forecast → S·D Sentinel — The Verdict CardThe deployment contract: baselines, pain contract, watch metrics, kill criteria → D·1 RSI — The Parameter DossierWhere the defaults came from, the mirage in the grid, the MT5 formula affair, and a USDJPY surprise → D·2 RevertX — The Parameter DossierThe starving gauntlet, the 14-trade throne, and the exit that betrayed the design → D·3 BreakoutGuard — The Parameter DossierThe gates that aren't, the eleven-trade throne, and the exit that accidentally works → D·4 Sentinel — The Parameter DossierEvery number on a tested plateau — the paperwork the others now aspire to →

Field Notes

F·1 Why Trailing Stops Aren't FreeThe break-even stop that felt obvious, lost money on Sentinel, and taught the rule: match the exit to the strategy → F·2 The Week Has a RhythmMonday's money vs Friday's fumes, the weekend gap your backtest can't see, and time as a risk filter not a signal → F·3 Reading Your First Forward-Test WeekWhy a week proves nothing, the wobble band that makes small samples lie, and how to watch the machine instead of the P/L →

Live Results

⚙ Strategy Proving GroundEvery strategy tested on real broker data — scoreboard, trades on charts, honest verdicts →