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In order to develop an expert to participate in Automated Trading Championship 2010, let’s use a template of ready expert advisor. Even novice MQL5 programmer will be capable of this task, because for your strategies the basic classes, functions, templates are already developed. It’s enough to write a minimal amount of code to implement your [...]

978 Participants Registered MetaQuotes Software Corp., Interbank FX, MIG Bank, FXCM, the TRADERS’ magazine and Dow Jones hold the fourth annual Automated Trading Championship 2010. The best three developers of automated trading strategies will be revealed within three months. Assessment criterion will be the absolute profit. Winners will share the Automated Trading Championship 2010 Prize [...]

The problem of calculation of the total position volume of the specified symbol and magic number is considered in this article. The proposed method requests only the minimum necessary part of the history of deals, finds the closest time when the total position was equal to zero, and performs the calculations with the recent deals. [...]

The basic rule of trader – let profit to grow, cut off losses! This article considers one of the basic techniques, allowing to follow this rule – moving the protective stop level (Stop loss level) after increasing position profit, i.e. – Trailing Stop level. You’ll find the step by step procedure to create a class [...]

In MQL5 you can write an indicator both from a scratch and on the basis of another already existing indicator, in-built in the client terminal or a custom one. And here you also have two ways – to improve an indicator by adding new calculations and graphical styles to it , or to use an [...]

MQL5 for Newbies: Guide to Using Technical Indicators in Expert Advisors Introduction An Expert Advisor or indicator that doesn’t use standard technical indicators in its code is rare. They are popular both for the beginners and advanced developers of trading strategies. It isn’t difficult to understand the details of indicator creation; the aim of this [...]

To back test an expert advisor (EA) follow the steps below. Open the Strategy Tester window by pressing Ctrl+R Select the expert advisor you wish to back test Select the symbol you wish to back test Select a testing model (every tick model recommended) Set a testing period Press Start

Let’s look at how to optimize an expert advisor. In the example below we will look to optimize the size of stop loss and take profit. Expert Optimization Steps 1. Open the Strategy Tester window by pressing Ctrl+R. 2. In the Strategy Tester window, select Expert Properties 3. Select the  Optimized parameters ( in our example stop-loss and stop-profit) 4. Enter the [...]

The MQL programming opens new opportunities for the automated trading, many people all over the world already have appreciated it. When we are writing an Expert Advisor for trading, we must be sure that it will work correctly. Many newbies often have some questions when the results of some mathematical calculations differ from those expected. [...]

Modern technologies allow us not only to trade in financial markets using personal computers, but we can fully automate a trading system now. Using a computer program you can relieve yourself from the routine of analyzing financial markets and performing trades. Our client terminal has all functions that allow you to develop, test and use [...]

Off-exchange retail foreign currency (or forex) trading uses currency from a variety of countries to create a one of the most popular trading markets. We believe that traders-beginners, keen by passion, rush to trade without having a Forex trading strategy. MetaTrader Expert Advisors or a MetaTrader EA is a mechanical trading system which automates the [...]

We believe the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) forex trading platform is one of the best and most comprehensive trading and charting platforms available today. Many forex brokers use the MetaTrader 4 platform for their trading platform. There are many MT4 expert advisors (EAs) and trading indicators that easily plug into the MetaTrader charts and that makes [...]