The dream of every trader is to find the “holy grail”, that strategy that will be an absolute winner, that strategy that you run on the trading software and it just makes money. If it was that easy everyone would … Read more
In the previous article we learned how to get the price information using the arrays Close[] , Open[] , High[] and Low[] , we also noticed that these arrays have the limitation of only being able to retrieve the price for the current instrument … Read more
When you start building indicators, expert advisors and scripts and your goal is to perform some technical analysis you need to be able to read the data coming from, especially the current and past prices. You need to learn how … Read more
When you create an Expert Advisor in many cases, probably the majority, you want it to trade for you. We will see in this article how to submit an order using the MQL4 language and the function OrderSend() . OrderSend() is the … Read more
Arrays are extensively used when working with charts and indicators so even if you already know what they are it is worth spending a few minutes reviewing them. Arrays are one of the basics and it is a requirement for … Read more
If you landed on this website I am quite sure that you have some basic knowledge of trading, currencies, orders, indicators and CHARTS! If you don’t we will quickly see here the types of charts that are available in MetaTrader and … Read more
If you are serious about learning and coding with MQL4 language you have to know what is an external variable, what is its purpose and how to make the most out of it. External Variables are really powerful tools and … Read more
There is no point of creating an Expert Advisor (EA) if you don’t know how to run it on a chart. As you already know an Expert Advisor is a robot, a program that executes automated tasks when it is … Read more
Add an indicator to a chart is very easy and we will not spend much time on it, we will just see an example of how to add and remove an indicator from a chartin MetaTrader 4. Indicators are very … Read more
Before you start writing any program you must first understand what happens when your program is attached to a chart. This is why we need to have a look at the flow and some native functions called by MetaTrader. … Read more
