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Welcome to the BM Trading Blog

Strategies, MQL5 tutorials and honest takes on my automated trading. This is the first post.

By René Balke

René Balke — founder of BM Trading

Glad you found this. If you already know my YouTube channel, you know the angle: automated trading with clear rules, not gut feeling. This blog is the written companion to that.

What I write about here

Three topic threads I rotate through:

  • Strategies I actually trade — from Range Breakouts on XAUUSD to Martingale on indices. Real backtests, real drawdowns, and an honest answer to when they work and when they don’t.
  • MQL5 tutorials for people who want to code their own. From your first “Hello World” all the way to production-ready Expert Advisors.
  • Brokers, VPS, setup — the unglamorous details that actually decide whether your live trading works.

What you won’t find here

No “earn €5,000 a month while you sleep” promises. Trading is risky, anyone can lose money, and nobody can guarantee you anything — including me. If that’s what you want to hear, you’re on the wrong site.

What I offer you

My Expert Advisors are completely free. You download them here, test them as long as you want in the MT5 Strategy Tester, and then decide if you want to trade them live. To run them live, you activate a license with your MT5 account number at one of my partner brokers — that’s my business model, and it costs you nothing extra.

If the content here is useful and you eventually decide “okay, I want to try this with real money”, you’ll find the path through the broker overview and the license request form.

What’s coming next

In upcoming posts:

  • How the Range Breakout EA has performed on gold over the last two years (with the equity curve)
  • Why I love Martingale strategies but would never recommend them without strict risk management
  • A portfolio of strategies — how I run multiple EAs in parallel to increase my chances of surviving different market trends

If you don’t want to miss anything in the meantime, subscribe to my YouTube channel — each of these topics has a matching video over there. The blog complements YouTube but doesn’t replace it.

Until then: good luck trading. And remember — the Strategy Tester is your friend before you risk real money.

Risk note: nothing in this post is investment advice. Trading forex and CFDs carries significant risk. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.