Copyright protect an expert advisor

[Paula Bianca Van Kerchove]

How to copyright / protect your expert advisor for MT5?

Which code should be added?

Or when you want to copyright to a certain ip address or Name of User?

[Lorentzos Roussos]

Paula Bianca Van Kerchove:

How to copyright / protect your expert advisor for MT5?

Which code should be added?

Or when you want to copyright to a certain ip address or Name of User?

first choice is to add it to the market here , mq takes care of the licensing.

If you want your own distro , there are other marketplaces with api although they are not niche to trading.

If you want to do it on your website you will need to add communication with your server and checking against a list of allowed clients.

If you want to do it manually , look at these functions , compile each copy for each account id and compile using the cloud protector always :

Account Information - MQL5 Reference - Reference on algorithmic/automated trading language for MetaTrader 5