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The First Step To Building Your Expert Advisor – Communication

Most traders don't care about programming or software development. Your focus is on trading. It's our job to take your idea and turn it into an Expert Advisor.

Don't feel like you have to write your strategy in computer speak or pseudo code if you're not comfortable doing so. Instead, pretend like you're emailing a trading buddy. You found a hot new strategy idea and want him to get it. Sit down and write a quick email to info@onestepremoved.com. We trade, too. That email will help us understand what you hope to accomplish.

If your strategy isn't clear, that's ok. We speak English and aren't shy about asking questions. It's one of the benefits of working with an American company that has a real phone number and responds within one business day.

You should also watch the YouTube! video posted below. It explains some of the more common issues encountered when communicating a strategy.

Explaining a robot's strategy can take time. If your strategy takes 3 hours to explain, you should expect the estimated cost to reflect the 3 hours spent understanding the rules. Your project manager may need to spend additional time reading your emails, looking up technical specifications or designing a coding programming schematic for the programmer.

What to Expect

Sometimes, the hardest part of building an EA is not the programming; it's the communicating and testing. Here's how a typical project (less than 10 hours) goes:

• The customer tries to explain the idea. 1-2 weeks.
• The actual programming work. A maximum of 5 business days.
• The customer tries to explain problems that he has never explained before. We fix them and send a new version. The cycle repeats. 2-4+ weeks