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  • Using Expert Advisors For Automated Trade Management

    A partial take profit exits from a trade.

    Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been going over how manual traders can use expert advisors to simplify and improve...

     
  • Things that go wrong programming

    Programming is like air travel. Small problems compound into big ones.

    I started this business to focus on designing better trading systems. Programming obviously plays a large role in the process. What...

     
  • Using Expert Advisors for a Discretionary Trade

    The EURUSD price of 1.3085 doesn't stick out to Edward.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been going over how manual and discretionary traders can use expert advisors as...

     
  • Selling EAs in the MQL5 Market

    A screenshot of the MQL5 market web site.

    MetaQuotes decided to follow the Apple iTunes model for the forex market through its MQL5 market. The company, which is the...

     
  • Using Expert Advisors For Trading Strategy Creation And Optimization

    Building your expert advisor takes thought and planning

    It is my belief expert advisors are underused by manual traders as tools to aide their trading. Over the next few weeks I’ll...

     
  • 5 Ways Manual Traders Can Use an Expert Advisor

    It makes sense for discretionary traders to add trading tools inside of MetaTrader - including expert advisors.

    When people hear terms like “expert advisor” or “trading robot” they normally think of an automated...

     
  • Scalper EA

    The screenshot from NinjaTrader shows trades entering and exiting around the lower envelope

    It looks like I accidentally stumbled into a scalping strategy. I posted the rules near the top of the page for those that...

     
  • Free MetaTrader VPS

    Click on the circle at the top right. After clicking it, click on "Payment Method" on the left, which is highlighted in the other red circle  

    Amazon web services (AWS) has been on our geek radar for a long time. It’s only recently that I found the time and...

     
  • MT4 Push Notifications

    An image of a test alert sent to my Android phone

    Many traders repeatedly ask for SMS alerts on their phones. That solution is now outdated with MetaQuotes release of build...

     
  • Order Retry Logic

    These are not words that you want to see when placing live trades

    The difference between a backtest and live trading is that nothing ever goes wrong on a backtest. If a strategy traded correctly...