Codes

AllMinutes - Free-of-Holes Charts for MetaTrader 4

The Expert Advisor fills the missing bars on the chart with "dashes" (Dojis) — bars which have O=H=L=C

lot lib for MetaTrader 4

Lot sizing library. 29 money management options

sHistoryExport - handy script to export the historical data in the МetaТrader 4 format for MetaTrader 5

Export of all necessary instruments and time frames in one click with load and checking history

CheckHistory - Check and load history function for MetaTrader 5

Slightly modified history load function from MetaQuotes

String - Library of functions for working with strings for MetaTrader 5

Library of functions for working with strings: StringToArray, StringToPeriod and PeriodToString

TimeSeries - Function Library for Working with Time Series for MetaTrader 5

Function Library for Working with Time Series: iTime, iOpen, iHigh, iLow, iClose, iHighest, iLowest, iBarshift. Short invocation version is available for all functions (with the current chart's symbol and period)

IsConnected for MetaTrader 4

An EA that writes the time of disconnections from the server into a file

SymbolList fromSet for MetaTrader 4

The script extracts the list of symbols from the *.set file and saves it as the csv file

SymbolList for MetaTrader 4

The script swaps out all the symbols available in the Market Watch window into a csv file

Orders management for MetaTrader 4

The library contains the functions that ease the writing of EAs

Articles

How to Order an Expert Advisor and Obtain the Desired Result for MetaTrader 5

How to write correctly the Requirement Specifications? What should and should not be expected from a programmer when ordering an Expert Advisor or an indicator? How to keep a dialog, what moments to pay special attention to? This article gives the answers to these, as well as to many other

Equivolume Charting Revisited for MetaTrader 4

The article dwells on the method of constructing charts, at which each bar consists of the equal number of ticks

Testing Visualization: Account State Charts for MetaTrader 4

Enjoy the process of testing with charts, displaying the balance - now all the necessary information is always in view

An Expert Advisor Made to Order. Manual for a Trader for MetaTrader 4

Not all traders are programmers. And not all of the programmers are really good ones. So, what should be done, if you need to automate your system by do not have time and desire to study MQL4

Testing Visualization: Trade History for MetaTrader 4

The article describes the possibilities of convenient viewing the trade history when visualizing tests. Starting from build 196, MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal offers testing visualization function. It allows controlling the Expert Advisors' testing on a brand new level. Now, the trading programmer

Sound Alerts in Indicators for MetaTrader 4

How to create "voice" indicators for daily usage

Filtering by History for MetaTrader 4

The article describes the usage of virtual trading as an integral part of trade opening filter

Testing Visualization: Manual Trading for MetaTrader 4

Testing manual strategies on history. Check how your trading algorithm works turning a deaf ear to programming niceties

Testing Visualization: Functionality Enhancement for MetaTrader 4

The article describes software that can make strategy testing highly similar to the real trading

Genetic Algorithms vs. Simple Search in the MetaTrader 4 Optimizer for MetaTrader 4

The article compares the time and results of Expert Advisors' optimization using genetic algorithms and those obtained by simple search

Forum

Anyone who wanted to see charts without missing bars - here =)

Today an article Charts without "holes" was published, which describes in detail the algorithm for filling in missing bars. There was so much "shouting" (and just statements) on the forum in favour of such charts that I just couldn't help but look into the matter =) So, let's try it and make

Comments and suggestions

What strikes the eye: - problems with zooming in the forum - for some reason a horizontal scroll bar appears and the right edge is not visible. Opera 8.5 - when registering, some texts are not translated into Russian :) or rather, I noticed one phrase What I would like: - updating of already

Need help! Can't solve the problem, I'm hitting hardware limitations

There is a large amount of information (about 20 GB in a text file). The information consists of the same kind of sequences, about a million of them. It is necessary to go through all the sequences repeatedly and make some calculations. The first thing that comes to mind is to read all the contents

Has anyone tried index trading?

I wonder if no one has thought about trading "pure" USD or GBP? Why does everyone analyse their ratio and trade it specifically? Roughly speaking, why predict the ratio of the price of potatoes to the price of petrol? Wouldn't it be easier to look at each price separately? Of course, and the ratios