Make yourself an "GRAIL" Section Freelance - any whim for your money!
What is required:
- an indicator of levels of wave formations
- to complement an advisor for scalping in the stock markets,
- to collect statistics on currency pairs,
- to write an advisor for testing of graphical objects,
- to improve the indicator for the analysis of Japanese candles ...
These and thousands of other various tasks are given by traders to programmers in the "Freelance" section of the MQL5.community portal. (One can get to it either directly on the Internet address, or through a variety of services built into the terminal MT4 and MT5).
"Freelance" is a section worthy of separate consideration, since (as, indeed, other sections of the portal as well) it is a very useful resource for those who seek to automate their trading on Forex.
We will not go into the debate, what is better: to trade manually or automatically. We will just mention that the algotrading frees the trader from having to sit at the computer all days long, and also relieves the process of trading of such a harmful factor as human emotions. Whatever passions in the market, the adviser (or robot, whatever you like) will strictly follow the algorithm incorporated in it, 24 hours a day, 5 days a week.
Moreover, the algorithm inherent in an advisor can be tested in a few minutes. If the algorithm has not left the confines of the brain, one can wait for the test results forever.
Generally, in our case, the algorithm - is the keyword, which determines whether the algotrading will bring profits or losses.
Of course, you can not spare yourself of unnecessary problems and take advantage of (free or for money) a ready advisor, which is very easy - just press the tab "Market" at the bottom of the terminal MT4 and MT5, and you will encounter "many kilometers of shelves" filled with a wide range of products . But, when the brain is swelling from creative ideas, it is much more interesting to put them into practice by creating your own unique advisor - the "Holy Grail", which will bring to you (and only you!) fame, wealth and prosperity.
There is only one problem: you are a trader, not a programmer and you do not know the language MQL5, which is used for all programsfor MT4 / MT5. Here help from the section "freelance" comes around.
Of course, there are lot of ads on the Internet by programmers who are ready for a reasonable price (and sometimes not very reasonable, meant for "dummies") to perform a job for you. But the advantage and fundamental difference of the "Freelance", is the fact that it is a labor exchange for programmers who are ready to fight for the right to execute your order.
It's like an auction: You place (absolutely for free!) an application with a description of what you want to get (see examples at the beginning) and denote the price you are willing to pay for this work. For example: "Needed a break-adviser on fractals for futures trading. The budget - no more than $30. " You can also specify the desired date for executing the work, for example, 3 days.
Then everything happens like when fishing - you throw a baited hook and watch whom of programmers you will get. Analysis of the statistics shows that the average of bites is from 15 to 25. At the same time, programmers may simply agree to your terms, or put forward their own. Moreover, they can be either better or worse than the primary terms - for example, not $ 30, but 20 or 50 and the deadline - not 3 days, but a week ... As evidenced by all the same statistics, the fastest of all jobs was executed ... in 1 minute!
Of course, such fast food is rather an exception, but the portal allows you to select a programmer not in blind, but having learnt his detailed "creative biography" - what work he has already done previously, at what price, in what time and what responses he received from customers.
And if we really do statistics, it should be said that most of the applications is performed, depending on the complexity, at the price from $15 to $100 in up to 5 days.
In conclusion, let me share another personal observation.
There is a common opinion that programmers are not engaged in forex trading, and they only embody the specific programs that traders tell them. My experience fully agrees with this. For an experiment, I placed an application in the "Freelance", according to which an Expert Advisor for opening "locks" was required. In two days I received about 30 offers from experts who were ready to undertake the work on my algorithm. After recognizing that there is no algorithm and I was prepared to pay for its development separately, the number of offers sharply reduced to ... zero.
The conclusion is the same: any trader, before ordering the work in "freelance" should clearly phrase not only what he wants to get in the long run, but also how it should be achieved. And the more competently and in detail all possible actions and situations will be considered in the algorithm, the more likely you are going to end up with exactly the adviser you wanted to receive.
And finally a few figures that are more likely to be of interest to programmers who know the language MQL5. A programmer who actively works in the "freelance"has performed an average of 500 to 1,000 orders at an average cost of about $ 50 each, earning thus from $ 25,000 to $ 50,000.
Should I go on? Or is everything clear?
