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Check out the new article: From Novice to Expert: Animated News Headline Using MQL5 (IX) — Multiple Symbol Management on a single chart for News Trading.
News trading often requires managing multiple positions and symbols within a very short time due to heightened volatility. In today’s discussion, we address the challenges of multi-symbol trading by integrating this feature into our News Headline EA. Join us as we explore how algorithmic trading with MQL5 makes multi-symbol trading more efficient and powerful.
During periods of high volatility—such as economic news releases—traders often gamble on breakouts because the market’s immediate reaction is unpredictable. When there is a major news release, price typically spikes sharply, followed by corrections and possible trend continuations. In these conditions, traders may want to trade several symbols simultaneously, but this is difficult to achieve with the default MetaTrader 5 setup. By design, a single chart only supports one Expert Advisor, meaning traders must open multiple charts and attach a separate EA to each symbol.
In today’s discussion, we present a solution to this limitation, a multi-symbol trading feature integrated into the News Headline EA. With this enhancement, traders can manage multiple pairs from a single chart using intuitive trading buttons. We will explore how the power of MQL5—leveraging both the Standard Library and custom trading classes—enables the creation of a sophisticated EA capable of handling multiple symbols seamlessly on one chart.
The image above illustrates the limitation of MetaTrader 5’s setup, where only one EA can run on a single chart. To trade multiple symbols effectively, we need a sophisticated EA capable of managing both the current chart pair and other pairs simultaneously—even while operating from just one chart.
Author: Clemence Benjamin