FeedForwardConv emits POSITION-MAJOR output, matrix_o[out + window_out * i],
so one bar's window_out filter responses are contiguous and consecutive bars
sit window_out apart. Both pooling implementations (FeedForwardProof and
CPU_FeedForwardProof) slide FLAT over that buffer - pos = i * step, reducing
`window` CONSECUTIVE elements. On a position-major layout those neighbours
are different FILTERS of the same bar, never one filter across time.
At the shipped 3/2 the pool computed max(bar0_f0, bar0_f1, bar0_f2), then
max(bar0_f2, bar0_f3, bar0_f4), with every 8th window straddling a bar
boundary. So it collapsed unrelated feature detectors into whichever fired
hardest, passed gradient to that winner only, and halved the feature map
while doing it - all below every learnable layer, where nothing above can
recover it. The removed inputs' own labels ("3 Bars") show time-axis pooling
was the intent throughout.
Measured cost: CONV sat pinned at ~40% balanced accuracy for 510 eras with
Sell recall 0%, while plain MLPs on the same data reached 57-61%. HYBRID,
which also carried this stage, came second-worst of the batch-norm group.
Not fixable in the topology: pooling one filter across time needs a stride
of window_out BETWEEN samples within a window, which a consecutive-window
kernel cannot express at any window/step. That needs a stride-aware kernel
in Network.cl + WarriorCPU.cpp + WarriorDML.cpp and a DLL rebuild, and is
only worth doing if a conv front-end earns its place without downsampling
first - with 20 sliding positions there is little to gain by halving them.
ConvPoolWindow/ConvPoolStep and their enums are removed with it, along with
the |CP: fingerprint term added earlier today.
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InitialNeurons was an input whose only defensible value depends on two
things the user cannot see when picking from a dropdown: how wide the input
vector ended up after feature selection, and how much in-sample data the
study period actually yields. Left to a hand-picked constant it was badly
wrong - 500 units against a 420-wide input is 210,500 weights, 72% of a
292,583-weight model, against ~36,500 training bars of which only ~2,236
are directional. That is 6.6 weights per training bar, and it EXPANDS a set
of highly correlated inputs rather than compressing them.
The symptom was already in the logs and had been read as a depth problem:
the shallowest topology consistently beat the deepest (perceptron 52.7%
balanced, hybrid 41.3%). Over-parameterization predicts that ordering just
as well as covariate shift does, and only one of the two had been addressed.
ComputeFirstLayerWidth() budgets roughly one first-layer weight per
in-sample bar. Measured across the configurations in use:
M15 10y -> 256 units, 129,071 weights, 0.73 per bar
H1 10y -> 64 units, 28,727 weights, 0.65 per bar
H4 10y -> 16 units, 7,559 weights, 0.68 per bar
Two design points that matter:
- It estimates in-sample bars from the STUDY PERIOD and timeframe, not
from Bars(). What is downloaded grows over a terminal's lifetime, and a
topology that widened as history filled in would re-key its own weights
file and discard a trained model.
- The result is snapped down to a coarse power-of-two ladder, so the
estimate would have to be wrong by ~2x to change the answer.
Every field it reads is already part of the weights-filename fingerprint,
so the derived value needs no fingerprint entry of its own. The public
setter is removed - it could only have been called after construction, and
would either be ignored or silently re-key the model mid-run.
Where the data cannot support even the floor (D1 over 10 years is under
2,000 bars) it now says so and names the fixes, rather than quietly
training a model with more weights than examples.
The DB config fingerprint drops the term too, which re-keys existing
pattern databases once - correct, since a model an order of magnitude
smaller should not inherit the old one's win-rate history.
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The DFA (Direct Feedback Alignment) option was never a correct implementation:
it deterministically flipped the sign of half of all gradients based on
connection index parity, causing permanent gradient ascent for those weights
and guaranteed divergence. The backward pass was also incompatible with the
OpenCL/DirectML neuron model (layer.Total() == 1). This change removes all DFA
logic, including the enum value and `DfaFeedbackSignal` method, and replaces it
with plain gradient descent in all momentum update kernels. The `optimizer`
kernel argument is retained for binary compatibility but is no longer used.
Introduce an `optimizer` parameter to UpdateWeightsMomentum, UpdateWeightsConvMomentum, and UpdateWeightsAdam kernels. When set to a non-zero value, the gradient used for weight updates is multiplied by ±1 based on the parity of the weight index, implementing a basic feedback alignment signal for experimentation. When zero, the standard gradient is used unchanged. This allows A/B testing of alternative learning signals without modifying the rest of the training pipeline.
Eliminate the separate `AI_TOPOLOGY_PRESET` enum and input.
Fold the topology presets directly into `AI_CHOICE` as new combined values (MLP_3L, MLP_4L, CONV_2L, LSTM_2L, HYBRID_2L) plus `AI_NONE`.
Remove the `TopologyPreset` input variable and update default `AIType` assignments.
Update the market description to reflect the simplified single‑selector interface.
**Why:**
Users previously had to choose an AI architecture and a topology preset separately.
Now the UI shows one coherent selector that bundles architecture with its appropriate dense‑layer depth, reducing complexity and preventing mismatches.
- Append '(classic)' to RSI period 14, indicator period 14, risk-reward 1:2, and risk percent 1 preset comments
- Change Min_Vote_Close default from VOTE_CLOSE_80 to VOTE_CLOSE_DISABLED
Add MACD_FAST, MACD_SLOW, MACD_SIGNAL presets and Ichimoku Tenkan, Kijun, Senkou presets to InputEnums.mqh. All combinations are designed to satisfy the respective indicator's validation rules (fast < slow for MACD, Tenkan < Kijun < Senkou B for Ichimoku), eliminating init errors and allowing the auto-tuner to perturb settings independently.
Introduce VOTE_CLOSE_PRESETS enum with a Disabled option (value 101) that bypasses vote-driven position closing via arithmetic thresholding, removing the need for a separate boolean flag. This ensures positions exit only via stop-loss, take-profit, or trailing when disabled.
- Guard CNet::Save to refuse writing a 0-layer network (prevents overwriting ~18MB model with empty stub)
- In CNet::Load and LoadCheckpoint, treat 0-layer files as load failure (older stubs still on disk)
- Introduce LOGIT_PRIOR_STRENGTH_PRESETS enum (0–100%) to control logit adjustment tau
- Prepare member variables and AdjustedSignalFromSoftmax for prior-corrected posterior at inference
- Ensure raw argmax scoring for recall/convergence remains unchanged; correction only affects live signal
Add `MA_TYPE_PRESETS` enum covering advanced (ALMA, DEMA, ZLEMA, T3, Kalman) and standard (SMA, EMA, SMMA, LWMA) moving averages. Integrate `maType` and `bestMaType` into `CADIndicatorTuner` struct, update flatten/unflatten routines, and bump `AD_TUNE_PARAM_COUNT` to 33. This allows the auto-tuner to search over MA type alongside period, improving feature discovery.
- Added optional `weighScale` parameter (default -1.0) to `CNeuronBase::Init` and `CLayer::CreateElement`.
- Updated `CNeuronPool::Init` to use LeCun-uniform scaling (1/sqrt(window+1)) for its base initialization.
- Updated `CNet::CNet` to use He-scaled initialization (sqrt(2/neurons)) for dense layers.
- These changes enable more flexible and statistically sound weight initialization, matching the rationale used in OCL-based implementations, leading to better training stability and convergence.
Remove verbose book references from input parameter comments in
Network.mqh for clarity. Add #ifndef guard around ENUM_OPTIMIZATION
to allow inclusion from multiple headers without redefinition.
Document the MQL5 Market DLL restriction in NeuronDirectML.mqh and
introduce WARRIOR_MARKET_BUILD macro to conditionally compile out
DirectML DLL imports for Market-compliant builds.
Replace old ATR_MULTIPLIER, THRESHOLDS_PRESET enums with new
STOP_LOSS_MODE, TAKE_PROFIT_MODE, AI_EXIT_MODE enums that support
ATR-based, intelligent confidence-scaled, and swing-anchored modes.
Also fix LSTM signal identity string.
Remove overly verbose explanations in Network.mqh comments and InputEnums.mqh enum values. Shorten descriptions to improve readability without losing essential information.
Class-balance correction is now performed entirely via data-level oversampling (duplicating minority-class bars) instead of using a per-occurrence loss-weight multiplier combined with oversampling. The loss-weight mechanism proved ineffective due to Adam's near-invariance to constant gradient rescaling (Kingma & Ba 2015). The CLASS_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_PRESET enum is retained for a possible future supplemental loss weight, but m_maxClassSampleWeight currently has no effect. The MAX_OVERSAMPLE_REPLICAS constant is now the sole bound on correction strength.
Updated comments in InputEnums.mqh and ExpertSignalAIBase.mqh to reflect this change.
Audit turned up a real gap for a prop-firm-portfolio-manager use
case: nothing in this codebase watched for account-level daily-loss
or max-drawdown breaches - the single most common way a prop-firm
evaluation actually gets failed.
New Signals/SignalRiskGuard.mqh (CSignalRiskGuard), wired into the
exact same filter-composition chain as SignalNewsFilter/
SignalSessionFilter (CreateSignalWithRetry/AddFilterToSignal, no new
architecture). Vetoes new entries only (never closes existing
positions - a materially bigger behavior change, left to the
trader/EA's own SL/TP handling) once either MaxDailyLossPct or
MaxDrawdownPct (new RISK_LIMIT_PCT_PRESET inputs, both default
disabled) is breached. Peak equity and the current broker day's
starting balance persist to a small local per-symbol-per-magic state
file - peak equity in particular must survive a restart to mean
anything, otherwise a restart would silently reset drawdown tracking.
New RISK_LIMIT_PCT_PRESET enum (2/3/4/5/8/10/15/20%) rather than
reusing PERCENTAGE_PRESETS, which steps by 10 starting at 10 - too
coarse for prop-firm-style limits (commonly single-digit daily loss,
~8-10% max drawdown). Compiled clean (MetaEditor, 0 errors/0
warnings).
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Replace hardcoded lr and momentum with new input variables for Adam and
SGD+momentum. Add OpenCL kernel LSTM_UpdateWeightsMomentum alongside the
existing Adam kernel. Update comments and revert beta1 to book default 0.9.
- Lowered Adam momentum parameter b1 from 0.9 to 0.8, shortening the effective memory window (~5 steps) to reduce multi-era bias streaks observed in training runs.
- Added FOCAL_GAMMA_PRESET enum and corresponding member variable m_focalGamma to apply focal loss modulation (Lin et al. 2017) on top of class-balance weighting, targeting the same streak issue by downweighting already-confident examples.
- Updated comments to document the rationale and experimental nature of both changes.
Replace the hardcoded `MAX_CLASS_SAMPLE_WEIGHT` (3.0) with a tunable member variable `m_maxClassSampleWeight`, controlled by the new `CLASS_SAMPLE_WEIGHT_PRESET` input enum. This allows adjusting the ceiling on rare-class sample weights to prevent the previously observed anti-correlated Buy/Sell recall whipsaw (where a high multiplier caused one era's gradients to overwrite another class's separability). Default is CSW_15 (1.5x), which is gentler than the old 3.0x; lower values down to 1.0x disable rebalancing to train on raw label distribution, while higher values (up to 3.0x) converge faster but risk instability. This tuning can now be done without recompiling.
- Removed TEST_HOLDOUT_PRESET enum and its associated member variables (m_testHoldoutPct, dTestForecast, m_testSamples) from ExpertSignalAIBase to simplify code and eliminate unused test slice logic.
- Added m_lastNonNeutralSignal member to track the last non-neutral signal during live inference, preventing LongCondition()/ShortCondition() from opening a second consecutive same-direction trade (which would be a false fire based on training patterns where valid reversals always alternate direction).
- This live-only mechanism does not affect historical training or backpropagation.
- Ensure `tick_volume` array is set as series in ADShorteningOfThrust.mq5 to prevent future-data leak in volume calculations.
- Ensure `open` array is set as series in ADWyckoffFailedStructure.mq5 to prevent future-data leak in structure detection.
- Add missing PReLU gradient scaling (multiply by 0.01 for negative outputs) in CPU_CalcHiddenGradient and DirectML shader to match expected derivative behavior across all backends.
- Replace the hand-rolled fractal/deviation-%/ATR-trend-context ZigZag
approximation with the actual MQL5 ZigZag indicator (rebranded as
CustomIndicators/ADZigZag.mq5, logic untouched) as the training label
source; bump the settle/confirmation window from 20 to 100 bars so a
proper leg can form before being trusted, and drop the now-dead
ZigZagDeviationPct/MinTrendATRMultiple/TrendContextBars inputs.
- Rebrand the stock Volumes indicator the same way (ADVolume.mq5).
- Fix HYBRID mode (AIType=HYBRID) oversubscribing the CPU fallback tier:
every concurrent CNet instance was independently sizing its worker
pool off the same global TargetCPULoad input. g_netPeerCount/
PeerNetworkCount() now split it across however many CNet instances
(live+shadow x active signals) are actually sharing the CPU.
- Fix NEURONS_REDUCTION_FACTOR's confusing retention-vs-reduction
semantics so RF_70 means an actual 70% reduction; default to 4 hidden
layers / RF_70.
- Migrate remaining free-form training/indicator inputs to enums for UI
consistency; default news filter lookback to 1h, disable every-tick.
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- Tighten MAX_WEIGHT from 1.0e6 to 100.0 to prevent unbounded weight growth.
- Add MIN_ACTIVATION_DERIVATIVE (1e-4) to avoid zero gradients for saturated units.
- Introduce WEIGHT_DECAY (0.01) to decouple decay from Adam updates.
- Add MAX_WEIGHT_DELTA (0.1) to clamp per-step Adam updates and prevent overshoot.
- Apply sign-agreement gate on weight updates in Adam kernel to only apply steps aligned with current gradient direction.
- Fix tanh/sigmoid derivative calculations to use the new floor instead of hard-coded edge-case values.
Warrior_EA.mq5: clear Comment() and destroy the control panel before
Expert.Deinit()'s object-purge cascade runs out from under it; stop
re-registering the same signal filters on every DB retry (was causing a
double-delete of the same pointer on shutdown).
DirectML/WarriorCPU.cpp: bound the worker-thread join in ThreadPool::Stop()
instead of blocking forever - CPU_Shutdown() held g_mutex across an unbounded
join, so a watchdog-killed calling thread could leave it locked forever,
poisoning every future call into the DLL (matches reports of the EA getting
stuck on "initializing" after being removed and re-added to a chart).
Also includes prior era-0 label-cache prebuild and pullback/reversal
label-quality work in AI/Network.mqh, Expert/ExpertSignalAIBase.mqh, and
Variables/Inputs.mqh.
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Replace the absolute thread count input (CpuDllThreads) with a percentage-based CPU_LOAD_PRESET enum (TargetCPULoad). This allows users to specify a percentage of detected cores to use when the CPU DLL fallback is active, improving flexibility and preventing issues when multiple instances share the same CPU DLL pool. Also adds CPU_GetHardwareConcurrency() for accurate core detection.
Add #resource directives for WarriorDML.dll and WarriorCPU.dll, and ExtractComputeDlls() to extract them on first run, enabling MQL Cloud Protector builds to ship DLLs without manual copy. Extend CNet::Save and Load with trainingComplete and indicatorParams arrays to persist AutoTune indicator param values.
- Define MAX_WEIGHT constant (1.0e6) for weight limits in clusters
- Remove redundant barrier from FeedForward kernel (prevents sync issues)
- Port FeedForwardProof and CalcInputGradientProof kernels for max-pooling (no weights, sliding max)
- Port FeedForwardConv kernel for convolution layers (shared weights, multiple output channels)
- Remove unused code and refactor signal condition logic (CSignalPAI)
- Updated README.md with project overview, key features, directory structure, getting started guide, and modernization roadmap.
- Added AI_NETWORK.md detailing the neural network and AI/ML infrastructure, including architecture, components, usage patterns, and next steps.
- Introduced DATABASE.md for the Database module, outlining key components, design highlights, usage patterns, and future enhancements.
- Created README.md files for Enumerations, Expert, Money, Signals, Structures, System, Trailing, Variables directories, detailing their purpose, key components, and integration notes.
- Documented the Signals subsystem, emphasizing modularity, extensibility, and AI/ML readiness.
- Added comprehensive descriptions for individual signal modules in Signals/ directory.
- Established clear integration notes and recommendations for future improvements across all modules.
