MetaTrader Australia

Templates can also be created for charts opened from the Strategy Tester and for charts opened independently.
To create a default template for charts opened from the Strategy Tester, you will need to save a template as “tester.tpl”.

For offline charts, the default template must be “offline.tpl”.

If the “offline.tpl” template is not found when an offline chart [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is the first in a 5-part series on MetaQuotes upcoming release of the MetaTrader 5 trading platform.  The new MT5 platform is not an upgrade of MT4 but rather an entirely new client terminal, written from scratch.  As I wrote in a previous Forex Magnates post, MT5 will feature:

5 order types and 4 execution [...]

MetaQuotes has published the first official screenshots and feature information about the MetaTrader 5 Client Terminal.
Metatrader 5

Two years ago we started the development of MetaTrader 5 platform. Now this work is approaching completion and by autumn we are planning to release the new platform. Beta testing of the new client terminal and MQL5 development environment starts [...]