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 please advise whether MT5 allows trading ETFs/stocks or only Forex

Scalping is popular trading style. Traders love to scalp. Nevertheless, some brokers prohibit scalping or advertise " Scalping is allowed!" ( I have seen many banners on the forums). So what is the idea? Traders are making money with the scalping. Brokers don't like that. Where is the logic?! I came...

Antonio Morillas from Spain (sallirom) was first who doubled his starting balance from the beginning of the Championship and thus attracted our attention. His trading strategy is extremely risky. We decided to talk to Antonio about risk and luck as these are part and parcel of Automated Trading...

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On the second day of the Championship the Expert Advisor created by Matúš German (gery18) increased its capital by 2.5 times and took the lead being ahead of all competitors. Matúš himself doubts his Expert Advisor will win, he thinks that luck and high risk were the reasons of such unexpected rise...

From the first seconds of Monday, October 3, 2011 the quotes of the MetaQuotes-Demo trading server started their flow, almost four hundred trading terminals of the competition participants came to life and the first deals were made during the first seconds of the Championship. According to our...

The Automated Trading Championship 2011 is notable in that all the previous winners of the competition participate in it. At the very beginning of the 2011 contest, when it is yet early to make any predictions, we talked to them about their win, about the new competition and the Expert Advisors that...

Today is October 3, 2011 and Automated Trading Championship 2011 has started. Completed are all the preparatory steps: all Expert Advisors of Championship participants have been finally checked and approved. This year 395 trading robots will fight for the 80 000 US dollars prize. Top three places...

What does the asterisk * means? ---> CTrailingNone * trailing=new CTrailingNone; Was trying to find some resources related to this, if anyone knows any, please tell me...many thanks

hi, i have problem with my order, timeout message signal always out each time i sell/buy. what does it means? and what happen? cause my connection is ok and spread normal. what should i do with my brokerage? thank you..

I have been in Forex for over 2 years now and discovered I am regressing rather than progressing! The last few weeks have been especially hard on me...I keep losing trades and it is just beating me down further and further. This has happened once before, about a year ago, and then I got so fed up...

Hi, I've been pouring over documentation and trying different order submission methods for a week or two now and haven't been able to figure out what I'm doing wrong. When I submit a trade I receive error 10016 - Invalid Stops . I've simplified my code to elminiate potential errors with no change

Interbank FX

Hi everyone: I have been needless to say, one hardcore MQL4 fan for all these years. And I want to be an equally good one at MQL5! I hope for some advice, directions esp. from those who have been through such learning "transition". I have a little stint and experience programming in OOP, using...

Hello Everyone Maybe a novice question, however since I wasn't able to find specific answer, thought of posting this to the forum.... I'm looking for an alert indicator to alert me when two moving average of MACD cross each other e.g. 8-period moving average of my MACD crosses up/down 21-period

hi, everytime i get upgrades from metaquotes, i get 2 metatester: metatester.exe & metatester64.exe, the other files seems to be 32 bits. As my system runs a 32 bits system, why do i get metatester64 ?

Today, MetaQuotes Software Corp. has launched a new service MQL5 Cloud Network. This is a cloud computing network, which connects computers of many users around the world and distributes resources among them. This network will be useful for those who need additional power for their tasks, and for...

A friend of mine in the pit had been having a rough time lately when he asked me a typical question among us traders - How do I come back from a loss? Since he had been having a "rough patch" and not just one bad trade, I gave him the following advice that is to be used over a period of time. First...

Ok, I have read the C for dummies book, I have read the book provided on the MQL4 website. I understand the syntax of how the coding works. Now where is the guide to put all the information together? i can read lines of code and understand what is happening (e.g. i understand a sell order command or...

I would like to analyze history Tick data (minimal change of price) over a period of time ,how can I get them? Now, I can only get 1M minimum period.

i'm very new to thi forum plz support me

This journal is for the purpose of helping me stay on track with my forex trading. I have a story just like most traders and I want to share it here. I've been trading for over 5 years now with very minimal success. I've been able to buy a few nice dinners and nights on the town with my forex...

Breakout for European Session,Trend Follower For Both European and US Session,Counter Trend For Both European and US Session,Martingale For every position which goes against the profit All on one pair EUR/USD Its including some Commercial EA's,Some Free Ones and some my Own Max Open orders is up to...

The trend is your freind, all of us have heard that. It's right, but I say: The first retracement is your good friend, sure! I have worked with a very simple system which is called "World simpliest system" by someone nicknamed Teb63... LOL... I don't know who he is but the system is great indeed...

Hi there,   Currently we have the option of optimization testing from 1999 to 2011 with forward testing say 2008.  Is it possible that we can have reverse backtesting optimization. For example, we can optimize testing from 2008 to 2011 and the reverse backtesting will compute the results from 1999...

i need to know if some one see this indicator around . it gain 30% monthly profit . just follow its lines and i Explain how it works in charts i know this way from some one in net and he give me the method without indicator

i keep it short & simple money talks! my system in live view mode for sale limited needed 4 years to finish it ! if you want join you can send me msg - i have 7-9 places free on the vps chasepips@ymail.com FREE -post your results

i am a newbie....can you tell me about document (Ebook, books....etc) how is me have begin and. maybe is video or who are you can help me...........

The article "Preferences of the ATC 2010 Participants" reveals the statistical data that had been obtained after the testing reports of all the Expert Advisors submitted for the Automated Trading Championship 2010 were analyzed. The following basic parameters were considered: the symbol and the...