Indicator for Kagi Charting
The article proposes Kagi chart indicator with various charting options and additional functions. Also, indicator charting principle and its MQL5 implementation features are considered. The most...
Creating a Multi-Currency Multi-System Expert Advisor
The article introduces a structure for an Expert Advisor that trades multiple symbols and uses several trading systems simultaneously. If you already identified the optimal input parameters for all...
Video tutorial: MetaTrader Signals Service
In just 15 minutes, this video tutorial explains what MetaTrader Signals Service is, and demonstrates in great detail how to subscribe to trade signals and how to become a signal provider in our...
Raise Your Linear Trading Systems to the Power
Today's article shows intermediate MQL5 programmers how they can get more profit from their linear trading systems (Fixed Lot) by easily implementing the so-called technique of exponentiation. This is...
MQL5 Cookbook: Indicator Subwindow Controls - Scrollbar
Let's continue exploring various controls and this time turn our attention to scrollbar. Just like in the previous article entitled "MQL5 Cookbook: Indicator Subwindow Controls - Buttons", all...
MQL5 Cookbook: Indicator Subwindow Controls - Buttons
In this article, we will consider an example of developing a user interface with button controls. To convey the idea of interactivity to the user, buttons will change their colors when the cursor...
MQL5 Cookbook: Monitoring Multiple Time Frames in a Single Window
There are 21 time frames available in MetaTrader 5 for analysis. You can take advantage of special chart objects that you can place on the existing chart and set the symbol, time frame and some other...
MQL5 Cookbook: Sound Notifications for MetaTrader 5 Trade Events
In this article, we will consider such issues as including sound files in the file of the Expert Advisor, and thus adding sound notifications to trade events. The fact that the files will be included...
Technical Indicators and Digital Filters
In this article, technical indicators are treated as digital filters. Operation principles and basic characteristics of digital filters are explained. Also, some practical ways of receiving the filter...
Marvel Your MQL5 Customers with a Usable Cocktail of Technologies!
MQL5 provides programmers with a very complete set of functions and object-oriented API thanks to which they can do everything they want within the MetaTrader environment. However, Web Technology is...
MQL5 Cookbook: Saving Optimization Results of an Expert Advisor Based on Specified Criteria
We continue the series of articles on MQL5 programming. This time we will see how to get results of each optimization pass right during the Expert Advisor parameter optimization. The implementation...
MetaTrader AppStore Results for Q3 2013
Another quarter of the year has passed and we have decided to sum up its results for MetaTrader AppStore - the largest store of trading robots and technical indicators for MetaTrader platforms. More...
MQL5 Wizard: How to Teach an EA to Open Pending Orders at Any Price
The article describes a method of modifying the code of a trading signal module for the implementation of the functionality allowing you to set pending orders at any distance from the current price:...
MQL5 Cookbook: Reducing the Effect of Overfitting and Handling the Lack of Quotes
Whatever trading strategy you use, there will always be a question of what parameters to choose to ensure future profits. This article gives an example of an Expert Advisor with a possibility to...
How to Make Money from MetaTrader AppStore and Trading Signals Services If You Are Not a Seller or a Provider
It is possible to start making money on MQL5.com right now without having to be a seller of Market applications or a profitable signals provider. Select the products you like and post links to them on...
Creating Neural Network EAs Using MQL5 Wizard and Hlaiman EA Generator
The article describes a method of automated creation of neural network EAs using MQL5 Wizard and Hlaiman EA Generator. It shows you how you can easily start working with neural networks, without...
Extending MQL5 Standard Library and Reusing Code
MQL5 Standard Library makes your life as a developer easier. Nevertheless, it does not implement all the needs of all developers in the world, so if you feel that you need some more custom stuff you...
Trading Signal Generator Based on a Custom Indicator
How to create a trading signal generator based on a custom indicator? How to create a custom indicator? How to get access to custom indicator data? Why do we need the IS_PATTERN_USAGE(0) structure and...
Building an Automatic News Trader
This is the continuation of Another MQL5 OOP class article which showed you how to build a simple OO EA from scratch and gave you some tips on object-oriented programming. Today I am showing you the...
MQL5 Cookbook: Writing the History of Deals to a File and Creating Balance Charts for Each Symbol in Excel
When communicating in various forums, I often used examples of my test results displayed as screenshots of Microsoft Excel charts. I have many times been asked to explain how such charts can be...
Another MQL5 OOP Class
This article shows you how to build an Object-Oriented Expert Advisor from scratch, from conceiving a theoretical trading idea to programming a MQL5 EA that makes that idea real in the empirical world...
MQL5 Cookbook: Developing a Multi-Currency Expert Advisor with Unlimited Number of Parameters
In this article, we will create a pattern that uses a single set of parameters for optimization of a trading system, while allowing for unlimited number of parameters. The list of symbols will be...
Social Trading with the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 Trading Platforms
What is social trading? It is a mutually beneficial cooperation of traders and investors whereby successful traders allow monitoring of their trading and potential investors take the opportunity to...
MQL5 Market Results for Q2 2013
Successfully operating for 1.5 years, MQL5 Market has become the largest traders' store of trading strategies and technical indicators. It offers around 800 trading applications provided by 350...
How to Install and Use OpenCL for Calculations
It has been over a year since MQL5 started providing native support for OpenCL. However not many users have seen the true value of using parallel computing in their Expert Advisors, indicators or...
MQL5 Cookbook: Multi-Currency Expert Advisor - Simple, Neat and Quick Approach
This article will describe an implementation of a simple approach suitable for a multi-currency Expert Advisor. This means that you will be able to set up the Expert Advisor for testing/trading under...
MQL5 Cookbook: Developing a Framework for a Trading System Based on the Triple Screen Strategy
In this article, we will develop a framework for a trading system based on the Triple Screen strategy in MQL5. The Expert Advisor will not be developed from scratch. Instead, we will simply modify the...
MQL5 Cookbook: Using Indicators to Set Trading Conditions in Expert Advisors
In this article, we will continue to modify the Expert Advisor we have been working on throughout the preceding articles of the MQL5 Cookbook series. This time, the Expert Advisor will be enhanced...
Indicator for Point and Figure Charting
There are lots of chart types that provide information on the current market situation. Many of them, such as Point and Figure chart, are the legacy of the remote past. The article describes an...
The ZigZag Indicator: Fresh Approach and New Solutions
The article examines the possibility of creating an advanced ZigZag indicator. The idea of identifying nodes is based on the use of the Envelopes indicator. We assume that we can find a certain...
MQL5 Cookbook: The History of Deals And Function Library for Getting Position Properties
It is time to briefly summarize the information provided in the previous articles on position properties. In this article, we will create a few additional functions to get the properties that can only...
MQL5 Programming Basics: Time
The article focuses on standard MQL5 functions for working with time, as well as programming techniques and practically useful functions for working with time that are required when creating Expert...
Debugging MQL5 Programs
This article is intended primarily for the programmers who have already learned the language but have not fully mastered the program development yet. It reveals some debugging techniques and presents...
MQL5 Cookbook: How to Avoid Errors When Setting/Modifying Trade Levels
In continuation of our work on the Expert Advisor from the previous article of the series called "MQL5 Cookbook: Analyzing Position Properties in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester", we will enhance it...
MQL5 Programming Basics: Strings
The article covers everything you can do with strings in MQL5. It should be of interest primarily to novice MQL5 programmers, while experienced developers will have a good opportunity to summarize and...
MQL5 Cloud Network: Are You Still Calculating?
It will soon be a year and a half since the MQL5 Cloud Network has been launched. This leading edge event ushered in a new era of algorithmic trading - now with a couple of clicks, traders can have...
MQL5 Market Results for Q1 2013
Since its founding, the store of trading robots and technical indicators MQL5 Market has already attracted more than 250 developers who have published 580 products. The first quarter of 2013 has...
MQL5 Cookbook: Analyzing Position Properties in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester
We will present a modified version of the Expert Advisor from the previous article "MQL5 Cookbook: Position Properties on the Custom Info Panel". Some of the issues we will address include getting...
Jeremy Scott - Successful MQL5 Market Seller
Jeremy Scott who is better known under Johnnypasado nickname at MQL5.community became famous offering products in our MQL5 Market service. Jeremy has already made several thousands of dollars in the...
MQL5 Cookbook: Position Properties on the Custom Info Panel
This time we will create a simple Expert Advisor that will get position properties on the current symbol and display them on the custom info panel during manual trading. The info panel will be created...