Hi Rosh,
Thanks. I'm glad to learn about this.
Do you know if they have an electronic version with a search function?
Either way it looks like an excellent investment for a newbe like me.
With MQL5 looming large on the horizon now, the timing is a bit ironic; but better late than never. MQL4 will likely be around and in use for quite some time yet.
How goes the MQL5 Beta testing and development?
I hope you’re not prematurely getting grey hair or losing it over the trials and tribulations of such a formidable task.
Regards
Thanks for the invite Rosh, but right now I'm trying to fumble my way through MQL4.
But once I have v4 figured out, I have starting all over again with v5 to look forward too!
I'm glad to hear that is things are going well for you with it though.
It's good that there is someone competent involved in this, because it sure isn't me!
ALL PARABOLIC DOTS, irrespective of TIME FRAMES, CAN YOU PLEASE HELP OUT
WITH ADJUSTMENT OF THE SOFTWARE, SO AS TO BE ABLE SET TP & SL ACCORDINGLY
GAB
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This is available as hard copy and now an eBook as well now, which unlike the MQ book here, one can search the WHOLE book and not just the book page that one is on which makes this an even better MQL4 learning and resource tool.
Having used the book now for a while I can say that for beginners to MQL4 this is an excellent book. It is very well written in a clear, easy to understand manner. It progresses in a logical manner starting with the very basics for those that are not knowledgeable about any programming at all and then builds on this ever adding to ones knowledge to give one more and more MQL4 capabilities. While it does require some knowledge of the MQL4 trading terminal (and editor), one could learn this in conjunction with MQL4 programming quite readily as one progresses though this book. Their are also a number of functional source code examples that one can download and utilize as very good templates to build ones own programs with. By the end of this book, one will posses an excellent foundation of MQL4 with which one can then progress into ever more complex and powerful programs of one's own.
PLEASE I HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD TO GET THIS SOFTWARE WORKING ON/placing on
ALL PARABOLIC DOTS, irrespective of TIME FRAMES, CAN YOU PLEASE HELP OUT
WITH ADJUSTMENT OF THE SOFTWARE, SO AS TO BE ABLE SET TP & SL ACCORDINGLY
GAB
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By the time you finish this book, you should possess the knowledge necessary to create your own robust automated trading strategies in MQL, including common trading features such as trailing stops, money management and much more. You will also learn how to construct a simple indicator, using built-in indicator functions.
About the author: Andrew R. Young is a trading system programmer and entrepreneur, and the founder of Easy Expert Forex, an online MQL programming service. He currently resides in Nashville, TN.
You can order the book at amazon.com or at www.createspace.com. Table of Contents and complete source codes are available at expertadvisorbook.com.
- Chapter
1 is an introduction to MQL4 programming language. Here the
concepts
of an Expert Advisor, indicator and script are described. Among the
topics are the file
formats, their location, as well as MetaEditor and basic concepts of MQL
language (syntax, comments, identifiers, variables, constants,
functions) as well as the preprocessor directives, global variables and
MQL programs execution. An example of simple Expert
Advisor is provided.
- The Order details are considered
in Chapter 2. The Bid/Ask prices, the spread, the order
types and
the order placement process are described. The description of OrderSend
function, the details about the calculation of Take Profit and Stop Loss
prices are presented. The details about retrieving the information
about the order and order closing are considered. The trade functions
has been added into a simple Expert Advisor.
- Chapter
3 is about advanced order placement: the order modification,
verifying of stops and pending order prices, calculation of lot size
are considered. An improved version of an Expert Advisor is presented.
- Chapter
4 is about the use of the functions. It allows to simplify the
code and reuse these function in the other programs. The libraries use
is considered here. A simple Expert Advisor that uses these
functions is provided.
- Chapter 5 is about Order
Management. The order loops using the operations "for" and "while" are
considered. The algorithms for the order counting and stops trailing are
presented. These features has been added to the simple Expert Advisor.
- The
practical use of custom and built-in indicators is considered
in Chapter 6. The predefined constants of timeframes, the price
constants, the smoothing methods and the implementation of trade
conditions are presented. The algorithm for the of comparing
indicator values across bars problem is presented.
- Chapter
7
is about working with time and date. The variables of datetime, the
typecasting and date and time functions is described An algorithm, that
allows to use the date and time trade conditions is presented. The
problem of trading once per bar is considered.
- Chapter
8 is about the tips and tricks. Chart comments, client terminal
settings checking, use of the MessageBox function
of win32.mqh library are described in detail. Also you
will find there an example of e-mail sending, and errors checking in
trade operations. The margin and spread checking and two ways of
checking of the order profit is presented. The Martingale system is
considered. The recommendations about the debugging of the Expert
Advisors is presented. The typical compilation errors and their possible
reasons are described.
- The final Chapter 9 is
about the
Custom Indicators and Scripts and their details. The concepts of
buffers and the drawing properties of the indicators are described. An
example of simple indicator, that uses built-in functions for the
Bollinger Bands calculation is considered. Some important details about
the scripts are presented.
Complete source codes of book examples with comments are presented in Appendixes.