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This article will teach you how to receive trade signals that are necessary for a trade system to work. The examples of forming 20 trade signals are given here as separate custom functions that can be used while developing Expert Advisors. For your convenience, all the functions used in the article are combined in a [...]

This article summarizes and systematizes the principles of creating algorithms and elements of trading systems. The article considers designing of expert algorithm. As an example the CExpertAdvisor class is considered, which can be used for quick and easy development of trading systems. Introduction The life cycle of any trading system is reduced to opening and [...]

Creating and Publishing of Trade Reports and SMS Notification Traders don’t always have ability and desire to seat at the trading terminal for hours. Especially, if trading system is more or less formalized and can automatically identify some of the market states. This article describes how to generate a report of trade results (using Expert [...]

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 [...]

Calls to user and technical indicators takes up very little space in the program code of automated trading systems. Often it’s simply a few code lines. But it often happens that it is these few lines of code which use up the largest portion of time, which needs to be spent on testing the Expert [...]

With the launch of the “Jobs” service, the MQL5.community became an ideal place for placing orders and providing programming services. Thousands of traders and developers visit this resource on a daily basis, and can easily help each other. For a trader, the “Jobs” service is the opportunity to easily obtain his own Expert Advisor. For [...]

Step-By-Step Guide to writing an Expert Advisor in MQL5 for Beginners Introduction This article is aimed at beginners who wish to learn how to write simple Expert Advisors in the new MQL5 language. We will begin first by defining what we want our EA (Expert advisor) to do, and then move on to how we [...]

Recently the beta version of MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester was released. This program is the integral part of the MetaTrader 5 Client Terminal being designed for the purposes of testing and optimization of MQL5 Expert Advisors. With the testing you can assess the qualities of your Expert Advisor on history data before launching it in [...]