MetaTrader

Forex From Scratch FREE eBook

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…

Building an Automated FOREX System: Writing the Pseudo Code

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…

Designing a Simple Strategy and Introduction to Pseudo Code

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…

Building an Automated FOREX System: Expert Advisors & Indicators

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…

Building an automated currency trading system from scratch

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…

Exporting Data From MetaTrader

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…

A Basic Introduction to MetaTrader (Part Three)

By Mark | Published September 4th, 2007

This is Part Three and final part of MetaTrader basics if you have not already done so I recommend you read Part One first and then Part Two. Placing an order in MetaTrader is very simple. You simply need to double click (in the market watch window) on the symbol of the security you wish…

A Basic Introduction to MetaTrader (Part Two)

By Mark | Published September 3rd, 2007

This is Part Two of MetaTrader basics if you have not already done so I recommend you read Part One first. The first thing that we will look at in MetaTrader is charting. I have found that MetaTrader is one of the best free program for this purpose and it has a fairly large user…

A Basic Introduction to MetaTrader (Part One)

By Mark | Published September 2nd, 2007

In the next few posts I will go through the basics of the MetaTrader software platform. MetaTrader is a widely used platform in the retail FOREX market. The first thing you will need to do is download the latest copy of MetaTrader Go to MetaQuotes and download the client terminal. After download is complete install…