--- title: 'Use This AI to Create Free Trading Robots' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=3j0u3Mz1w24' video_id: '3j0u3Mz1w24' date: 2026-07-28 duration_sec: 969 --- # Use This AI to Create Free Trading Robots > Source: [Use This AI to Create Free Trading Robots](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3j0u3Mz1w24) ## Summary This video is a step-by-step guide to creating a trading robot without programming, using the free tool Strategy Quant. It covers downloading the tool, configuring data for gold, setting up strategy parameters, running genetic algorithms, and exporting the robot to MetaTrader. ### Key Points - **Tool Download** [00:16] — Download Strategy Quant from the official website (ZIP folder, not installer). Obtain a free 14-day license by email. - **Data Download** [02:20] — In Data Manager, add a symbol (e.g., XAUUSD), select M1 timeframe, choose broker, and download historical data (last 10 years). - **Asset Configuration** [03:34] — Adjust spread and swap settings to historical averages to avoid biasing backtest results. - **Builder Setup** [05:22] — In Builder, choose simple strategy, long only, 1-3 entry rules, exit types based on ATR. Enable genetic optimization. - **Data Range & Filters** [07:35] — Set in-sample data from 2018 to mid-2025, leave last year for out-of-sample test. Filters: min 300 trades, return/drawdown >=4, win rate >=40%. - **Strategy Generation** [10:50] — Click Start to generate strategies using genetic algorithm. Monitor evolution in Genetic Evolution Info panel. - **Testing & Export** [12:41] — Select a strategy, test on out-of-sample data, then export as Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 4 or 5. ### Conclusion Strategy Quant enables non-programmers to create and backtest trading robots with robust filters. The video demonstrates a complete workflow from data download to robot export. ## Transcript is a practical, step-by-step guide on how to create your first trading robot without any programming knowledge, completely free of charge, and then connect that robot directly to any trading account you want, without any prior knowledge this video because I'm sure you'll watch it again, and the content we create about trading and AI trading and stay up to date . The first step you need to take is to download this tool. It's called Strategy Quand, and although it doesn't have 've become accustomed to seeing in recent months, it has a longer history and uses algorithms and intelligence that will help create profitable strategies and any strategist, and you'll see how it's being created at the end of this video so you can replicate it too. You can download it here, go to downloads. Important: Do not download the installer because it often doesn't work properly. Download directly the ZIP folder. This is a file that is compressed in ZIP format, and if you have Windows, it will automatically decompress it without you having to do anything. And if you have a Mac too, okay? Download you have a Mac too, okay? Download the X64 file below, this one here, click on it and it will download automatically. And then you can request a free license here. Go right back to the homepage where we were before and here it says "free trial", click on it and enter your email and name and you will receive a completely free 14-day license. You have 13 days left. This is my Windows computer, where I downloaded it. This in particular is a VPS, which is a computer in the cloud. I use a Mac, folder, unzip it, and you'll get SQ4. You will probably download the newest version a few weeks or a month . But I'm still on the 143. The point is, 99% of it is the same. Double-click it and you'll see all these files, and you have to double-click on strategy onex.x because that's where the program will open . When you open it, enter the license. You need to paste the code you received by email from the 14-day license and from there it will continue loading. We already have it open. We'll leave now. The first thing we're going to do is download the data of the asset we want to create the robot for. I go to data manager and here I select probably don't. Therefore, you go to docas copy, add a new symbol to download that data and select cha USD. There it is. You put M1 data, don't put titic and the broker, if you are going to use that brokers, you select it. If not, then Ponwins, for example, simply to get the settings, commissions that broker has, okay? where you click confirm and save it. I'll close it because I already have it here. Look here. And now select it again here because we have only downloaded the profile of that asset. Go to Ducas copy and now click download, download the data and here you put the date you want. Put on The last 10 years will go well for you because we're going to work with historical data to create new strategies. You click on Start download and it will take a few minutes. I already have it downloaded. What you see next is very important, characteristics of that asset in that broker a little bit, even though it comes configured for you. Look, I'm going to double-click on it and here I see that we have... I 've selected Darwinex, well, it has these pips, these prices, although now the spread is higher, if we're going to work with the data from the last 10 years, right now there's a spread of 50 pips on gold, but we're going to select it at half, at 28, as it comes, because we're going to work with 97% of the data using these spreads, okay? Then, if you want, as an extra you can add one more test just for the last six months, the last year with higher spreads. Okay, but otherwise we're going to mess up the statistics of the years that didn't actually have that spread. And the same goes for swaps. Right now there are swaps of $58 per open lot. Well, put -25 here because those are the long swaps, long positions. I'm not going to work short positions, so what I put here matters to me, but it will hurt us a lot if we put a very high swap of $9 because they weren't there in 2022 and we're going to simulate operations in 2020, 2021, 2022 and we put in swaps of $60, it does n't make sense because they weren't there at that time . We're going to keep it at 25 so that it's somewhat normalized save and now we'll start configuring this tool to create your first robot. What I'm going to explain to you now is going to be very simple, but what I'm going to do is give you the file that you have to upload here. Note that you can upload or save here. I'm going to give you this little file that you're going to load here so you don't have to replicate all the steps I've configured in this tool to be able to search for gold strategies, okay? So that you, as I have promised you, will generate them in less than 15 minutes. What you see here are strategies on the Nasdaq that I am creating now. I'm going to clean all this up, okay? Because we're going to create for gold, but remember that all you have to do is, I'll tell you where to download that little here and automatically all the configuration will be set up exactly as shown Let's start by briefly reviewing all these tabs, which is how alone in the builder section. There are many more functionalities than this right now, which I wo n't explain in this video, but rather how to create the strategy. Then measure their robustness. I'm going to explain this in a miniseries that I'm launching very soon, and you can sign up for free using the link in the description—and the link you can find in the first comment. You can find it there, and when the video is over, just click on it, access to this miniseries that I'm sure you'll love, okay? This tool is also about this. Okay, what to build. Here we're going to create a simple strategy and I'm going to select only a long direction. because I'm going to do it for you. Okay, let's leave it at that. Everything else is as is. Entry conditions. This is very important. I want to generate how many my strategy to have. 10. There aren't many. 10. Don't go. [music] Hey, let the moving average go up, let the RSI go down, let the other one do this. These are all rules. We're going to make it so simple, with one to three rules. Good. And types of exit, three, three types of exit, both stop loss and take profit, trailing, stop, whatever he wants. Okay, I'll let it save and mandatory, the stop is obligatory, okay? And based on volatility. else doesn't work. The best approach is to base a simple stop-loss on ATR, which measures volatility using these parameters. And I don't make take profit mandatory because there can also be a trailing stop, which can work very well in certain assets, especially gold. And I'm going to tell him that if he wants to use the TP, it should also be based on ATR, okay? So much to store there. These are more basic configurations. Let's go a little bit into Genetic Option. It uses genetic algorithms to find the first profitable strategies and then okay? And this is a bit of the configuration of the genetic algorithm that I'm that you'll have in the configuration file. The data. We're going to select gold here. We have the gold here. We're going to create a gold here. We're going to create a one-hour timeframe and I'm going to enable it from one-hour timeframe and I'm going to enable it from 2026. Well, I'm going to enable it from year 18 until 2025. Okay, let's leave a year, this last year and a half, let's put it until mid-2025, end of [cough][clears throat] June, and we're going to leave almost a year of testing to see what would have happened, right? Simulate that it is currently June 30, 2025, to then see if it would have actually been profitable in the last year. Okay, it shows zero commissions and maybe I made a mistake before configuring the asset. You have to add the gold, it's based on a percentage, it's 0.05. This is the gold commission, I repeat, this will come configured with the file that I'm going to give you. The spread is already done for us and fast. We're going to do this quickly, in fast mode, okay? We'll leave all of this as is. Trading options. We will operate between 1:30 in the morning and 11:30 at night, which is more or many spreads. In fact, we could set this to 330 so that there aren't so many in the morning and that it only closes the ones we have left at the end of the day with stop-loss strategies, with limit orders, not market orders, okay? And we blocks, we have almost everything selected here order types for market trades, not just working at the market, but also working stop orders, buy orders, okay? And ways to exit, well we can exit through a break even, through a take profit, the stop loss, note that it is mandatory, through a training stop and that it had an activation of that trell. In these ways we can break free from the strategies. Note that they are strategies, I repeat, of one to three entry rules. We're going to open a stop order, a price crosses that level, it will enter and exit in one of these ways. In the end, it's very simple. You believe in simple aesthetics years. Money management. I always like to work. Look, I simulate a capital of 100,000 and in each operation at risk $1,000, 1%. But that 1% is not reinvested, it is always fixed. I reinvest when I deem it appropriate in my actual accounts. We do n't skip this, we don't do robustness tests. And these are the filters. What would be profitable strategies for us have more than 300 trades in all that time we have enabled, strategies that have a downside return of four times what was gained for what was risked. In other words, if I earn a maximum of $100,000 during this entire time with this factor of four, I am telling you that divided by four, that $ 100,000 is $25,000. The maximum amount my balance has ever received is $000, no more than that. In other words, what I have gained exceeds four times the maximum unrealized loss I have had during that time. And finally the win rate, which is 40% of the trades, I want them to be winning, I don't want to suffer, I want at least 40%. Okay, so here we click on progress. You will have previously loaded this file, and by simply loading the file and clicking start, you would already be starting to generate strategies. So, I'm pressing start now and this will take a few seconds Evolution Info here. You can select this from the panels. Select Genetic Evolution Info because you'll see here, notice that they're already loading 14, 15, 12. Look, the first ones are already coming in . The first ones are coming . Uh, I haven't mentioned it yet, but earlier I told it in settings, in ranking, I said, "I want you to give me 500." The first 500 that meet these filters are the ones I'm going to continue working on. Look, we already have 16 down here. I've expanded this using the little button down here, a little the little button down here, a little arrow. We already have 18. And little by little we match drawdown return. I've set a minimum of four, but note that some have nine or eight. You can increase this filter if you want to take a little longer at home and do it quickly, but if you set it to six instead of four, it will take a little longer because not all of them are above six, but it has its reward: you'll get more profitable strategies. Therefore, the time it takes you to generate will always work in your favor, as long as you see that there is movement. I just stopped it at 213, I can stay at home longer, you can even leave it on all night pressing those filters a little bit so I can finish showing you the whole process. Okay, here I have the 213 down here, okay? If I double-click on the first one, then here I can see the statistics by month, all the numbers, a list of trades made, the equity chart of all this, trade analysis, etc., etc. Okay, before we turn it into a robot and have it suggest is, do you remember that we left a year for later? Well, you select this strategy, the first one, whichever one you want, you go to tools, you go to edit and then to strategy. When you do this, it takes you to this wizard menu and tells you, "The trading signals are based on the 14-period regression line rising and the is falling. When these two things are happening simultaneously, a buy order is opened with a long entry at the previous day's high. Look, it's the high of the day, and here it uses a stop loss, a trailing stop, and a break-even point , nothing else. It doesn't use a take-profit. Okay, now you go to settings, as we said before, to set the data to the following months. It goes up to June or July. When you watch this video from this year, example, have downloaded it up to February, even though we're in July, but I should have Anyway, so you can see the test, I'll run the runback test and see if the last year has actually been profitable or not . Here we wait a little while for it to finished here. I'll select this part here, in our balance, and on top of that, the maximum drop is decreasing. Therefore, we can confirm that this last year has been very good for this strategy, and you can repeat this with any of the strategies you like from that we need to do is export that strategy for MetaTrader 4 or CCO, or whichever platform you use for trading, okay? It 's not compatible with all of them, but it is compatible with MetaTrader, which is one of the largest platforms used in the trading world. You simply select the strategy, and we saw the tabs here earlier; well, you go to "source code," I'm going to remove this. And here in this dropdown menu, you select, for example, if you want to use MetaTrader 5, "Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5." If you want MetaTrader 4, " Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 4." I'm going to Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 4." I'm going to select MetaTrader 5. I'm going to save the galleries, in downloads, where You want. Look, this is the file that you'll later need to compile and attach to your Metatrader 5 trading chart in your trading account. As I promised at the beginning, you can now create your first profitable trading robot, which also has a certain robustness because you can check whether it has been profitable or not over the last year. You might find that some haven't been profitable; just remove them because you have many more. And you want, for any season you want, exactly how you want. It's a tool that uses slightly older artificial intelligence, but it's still much better than current methods at finding those uncommon market inefficiencies that current methods can't detect. So that's all. If you'd like to learn more about this tool and how I create profitable trading robots and how I achieve below you'll find an invitation to a mini-series that I'll be releasing very soon trading with Robar. So, I'll to the channel because we'll see you in the next videos. Big hug. the next videos. Big hug. Ciao. [music]