Stanislav Korotky / Blog
MetaTrader 5 provides an option to save optimization results into XML-file. Later it can be loaded in an external program which supports XML, such as Excel or other spreadsheet application. Unfortunately, there can be situations when such programs are unavailable due to their specificity...
CCXTMT library processes requests and responses for specific cryptocurrency exchange API using a special JSON-file with processing rules...
Today we have an opportunity to easily use many web-services including (but not limited to) APIs of numerous cryptocurrency exchanges. Technically, they rely on widely adopted standards and work with semantically similar objects (such as currencies, tickers, orders, trades, quotes, etc...
CCXT stands for CryptoCurrency eXchange Trading Library. CCXT is one of the most popular libraries for working with crypto-exchanges, supporting a large number of the services. And now it's translated to MetaTrader. The original library is available on GitHub (https://github.com/ccxt...
This is a quick reference of functions available in the OrderBook History Library...
I'm sure all of you use the crosshair tool on MetaTrader's charts. It's very useful to measure distance in bars or points between 2 spots. Yet I was always wondering, why it does not provide an option to show profit value, margin level, drawdown or gain percentage in addition to points...
In equivolume (equal volume) charts horizontal axis comprises not specific timestamps, but an ordered sequence of bars, each of which contains the same volume. Neither MetaTrader 4 nor MetaTrader 5 provides equivolume charts out of the box...
MetaQuotes have at last decided to add MQL4-ish time series functions into MQL5 after years of users groaning. Indeed, MetaTrader 5 would normally have much better compatibility with MetaTrader 4 and provide these functions from very beginning...
Did you ever think that MetaTrader's standard tick graph is a bit defective? It displays only a limited number of ticks (up to 2000, I think), it's small and unscrollable, and it's in many other ways different to normal charts...
In my previous blog post I described several approaches for adapting EAs to trade on renko charts (based on custom symbols introduced in MetaTrader 5). All of them use custom symbols created by RenkoCharts product (free demo is available...