A mutation is a significant change in the EA’s market fingerprint, flagged when the cosine or normalized L2 distance between the previous and current DNAMetrics exceeds the set thresholds—and usually means a regime shift (e.g., ATR, spikes, session dominance, or retracement behavior changed). Treat it as an early warning: inspect which metrics moved, tighten or pause execution (smaller size, wider ATR stops, higher signal threshold), and validate the new profile with a few recalculations ...
In the previous article "Developing a Replay System (Part 77): New Chart Trade (IV), I explained the subject as thoroughly as possible, while trying not to overcomplicate matters, even though this is often a rather complex topic. The question at hand is: how do you develop a communication protocol? This is essential if you want to transfer information between different applications or programs, whether they are running in the same environment or not. In our specific case, we want the Chart ...