MetaTrader Australia

At times traders may need to perform a time synchronization task when expert advisor is working. Prohibition or permission for orders opening in certain time spans during 24 hours, cancellation of suspended orders after certain time, prohibition against work of the expert advisor on holidays, trade permission only at news-time etc. may be required. Time [...]

Global currency trading volume declined 6 percent to just under $100 trillion last year, after setting records in 2007 and 2008, as hedge funds placed fewer trades than in previous years, Greenwich Associates said. Trading by fund managers fell 23 percent in 2009, leading the declines among the 1,497 corporate and institutional customers surveyed by [...]

NEW YORK; LONDON; SYDNEY – April 28, 2010 GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc., a global provider of online trading services specialising in foreign exchange (forex or FX) and contracts for difference (CFDs), today announced the launch of a new service in Australia under its FOREX.com brand. The new Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) regulated offering [...]

A pip is the smallest increment in any currency pair. In EUR/USD, a movement from 1.0066 to 1.0067 is one pip, so a pip is .0001. In USD/JPY, a movement from 120.45 to 120.46 is one pip, so a pip is .01. How much in dollars is this movement worth, for example, per 100,000 Euros [...]

MetaTrader 4 build 226 has been released. Updates include fixed displaying of pending orders for symbols with 3 decimal places. At 100 points before the execution price orders are highlighted red. The live update will be available through the LiveUpdate system.

One of the upgrades brought by MetaQuotes to the MetaEditor IDE is the introduction of a debugger. Across this article I’ll use the article ‘error’ as a reference to the conceptual code errors such as wrongly written conditions or wrongly written calculus expressions… Warning: don’t mistake them with the errors signaled by the compiler. For [...]

You are able to manually set scale charts in MetaTrader by pressing F8 -> click the Common tab -> then select Scale fix.

Go Markets News: As part of our continued plans to augment and further develop all systems, Go Markets is pleased to announce more enhancements to its Forex price feed. Working in conjunction with our various feed providers we have been able to arrange for improvements which should mean even more favourable pricing, especially during times [...]

If you are wanting to use an Expert Advisor but don’t want to leave your computer running or if you have an unreliable internet connection, then a VPS solution is for you. Advantages of a VPS – Virtual Private Server – Potential for Lower Latency and Faster Execution – For clients living further from the [...]

All Forex quotes have two parts, the BID and the ASK. The Bid is the price at which you (as the trader) will open a sell. The Ask is the price at which you will open a buy. The difference between the bid and the ask price is known as the spread.