By Mark | Published March 18th, 2010
Microsoft has released free for download the Office 2010 suite of beta applications. The Office 2010 Free Beta download consits of all the applications you would expect to find: Microsoft Word 2010. Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. Microsoft Access 2010. Microsoft Publisher 2010. Microsoft Excel 2010. Microsoft Outlook 2010. You can also download additional beta applications: Microsoft…
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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 22nd, 2010
Just recently my trusty old Pentium 4 trading computer died and I was faced with a dilemma what computer system am I going to buy. Really there are only two options Mac or PC. I have been using both windows and Mac computers for well over ten years and I have to say that I…
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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 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 October 28th, 2009
In my search for a reliable trading platform for my trading system developments I have been testing eSignal OnDemand software. My main reason for testing eSignal OnDemand is their extensive data coverage of global markets. I should note that eSignal OnDemand offers delayed or snapshot data only. This means that eSignal OnDemand is most suitable…
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By Mark | Published October 17th, 2009
I have had the pleasure (that’s right pleasure) of using Windows 7 Ultimate for sometime now. It has passed the test and I have now installed it on my production computer, with the release date scheduled for October 22nd, 2009 I thought I would share my thoughts on Windows 7. The Install Process As…
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By Mark | Published July 14th, 2009
Most retail investors trading plans don’t have contingencies in place for failures. With the low cost of hardware and wireless connectivity there is no reason retail traders cannot build a redundant trading system. One failure in the middle of a trading session can be very costly. Possible Failures Note: We will ignore server or broker…
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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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