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How to Quickly Create an Expert Advisor for Automated Trading Championship 2010

MetaTrader Global — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:44:27 +0000

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 trading idea.

Introduction

In order to develop an expert to participate in Automated Trading Championship 2010, let’s use a template of ready expert advisor from The Prototype of Trade Robot article. 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 trading idea.

What we will need to prepare:

Selection of strategy
Writing an Expert Advisor
Testing
Optimization in Strategy Tester
Optimization of the strategy
Testing on different intervals

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Using Neural Networks In MetaTrader

admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:19:38 +0000

Many of you probably have considered the possibility of using neural networks in your EA. This subject was very hot specially after 2007 Automated Trading Championship and the spectacular winning by Better with his system based on neural networks. Many internet forums were flooded with topics related to neural networks and Forex trading. Unfortunately writing native MQL4 implementation of NN is not easy. It requires some programming skills and the result would not be very efficient specially if you’d like to test your final result in tester on large number of data.

In this article I’ll show you how you can use the freely available (under LGPL), renowned Fast Artificial Neural Network Library (FANN) in your MQL4 code while avoiding certain obstacles and limitations. Further I assume that reader is familiar with Artificial Neural Networks (ann) and terminology related to this subject so I’ll concentrate on practical aspects of using particular implementation of ann in MQL4 language.

To read the full article, please visit: http://articles.mql4.com/777

What Is Automated Trading

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:41:12 +0000

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 your trading system. The development environment named MQL4 is integrated into the terminal. MQL4 consists of MetaEditor, Strategy Tester and Compiler.

To view the full article, please visit: http://www.metatraderglobal.com/384/what-is-automated-trading/