By Mark | Published August 13th, 2010
Forex From Scratch is an eBook designed to teach prospective currency traders the fundamentals. It is written in an easy to understand language and can be printed and read at your leisure. Essentially the eBook came about due to the volume of email I was getting asking for basic Forex information. I hope to revise…
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By Mark | Published April 12th, 2010
In our last article we examined the basics of writing pseudo code and briefly looked at strategy design. If you have not read Designing a simple strategy and Pseudo Code you will need read that before continuing. In this article we will be translating the original Turtle Trader rules into pseudo code. This will ensure…
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By Mark | Published April 9th, 2010
Timothy Sykes is nearly impossible to slap a conventional label on. He has managed to achieve what some people take a lifetime to achieve in just 28 years. He has been trader, hedge fund manager, reality TV star, publisher, author and now an educator. Sykes most notable achievement was his great trading gains made from…
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By Mark | Published February 24th, 2010
Today we will be looking at designing a simple strategy and we will also start to write some pseudo code in MetaEditor. This is of course a multi part tutorial series and if you have not read the previous articles I suggest you do so before moving on to this article. In the previous article…
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By Mark | Published February 18th, 2010
This is article number two in our tutorial series Building an Automated Currency Trading System from Scratch. If you have not read the introduction to this tutorial series I recommend you read building an ATS before reading this article. MetaTrader 4 The current version that is most widely used and supported is MetaTrader 4 however…
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By Mark | Published February 16th, 2010
In the next few weeks we are going to explore the basics of designing an automated currency trading system. We are going to use MetaTrader as the basis for the trading system. The actual strategy we design will be for illustrative purposes only and NOT tradable. That being said the tips and techniques you learn…
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By Mark | Published November 30th, 2009
I am sure most of my readers will be familiar with Game Theory as the most likely studied it at college. If however you are one of the lucky/unlucky ones not to be introduced to the wonderful world of game theory then read on. What the Hell is Game Theory? The wikitionary describes Game Theory…
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By Mark | Published November 2nd, 2009
As traders of any market it is important to know what is going on in the world. By this statement I don’t mean you have to sit glued to CNBC or some other brain-dead news service. Every day there are announcements and releases of economic data that have the potential to move markets. Today I…
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By Mark | Published April 6th, 2009
I received an email today from a reader wanting to know if there was an expert advisor available that would export data to a csv file. although I have not myself seen an EA that does this it is a trivial matter to code such an EA shown below: int handlFile; handlFile = FileOpen(“symbol.csv”, FILE_CSV…
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By Mark | Published August 11th, 2008
I am 3 days into my trial of TraderXL pro and it has impressed me so much that I have decided to take the plunge and buy it. I only wish I had purchased it earlier due to the decline of the Australian dollar as you can see below: As you can see this is…
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