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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 [...]

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 [...]

This article is dedicated to peculiarities of transferring price constructions written in MQL4 to MQL5. To make the process of transferring indicator calculations from MQL4 to MQL5 easier, the mql4_2_mql5.mqh library of functions is suggested. Its usage is described on the basis of transferring of the MACD, Stochastic and RSI indicators. Introduction Hello dear readers! [...]

A number of indicators have appeared since the time of first Moving Average indicator creation. Many of them use the similar smoothing methods, but the performances of different moving averages algorithms have not been studied. In this article, we will consider possible ways of use the Moving Averages in MQL5 and compare their performance. Introduction [...]

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 [...]

A little bit of history As little as 5 years ago, the MetaTrader 4 terminal was officially presented to the traders, written completely from scratch and intending to replace the existing, and already popular, third generation terminal of MetaQuotes Software Corp. MetaTrader 4 quickly gained popularity among traders, and as a consequence, in the following [...]

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 [...]

This article is a quick guide to MQL4 language functions, it will help you to migrate your programs from MQL4 to MQL5. For each MQL4 function (except trading functions) the description and MQL5 implementation are presented, it allows you to reduce the conversion time significantly. For convenience, the MQL4 functions are divided into groups, similar [...]