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Archive for September, 2009

Extracting historic data from MetaTrader

Icon Written by andrew on September 16, 2009 – 9:18 pm

If you’ve looked at my plan for forex, you’ll know that my first step is to create an EA that dumps the historic data out of MetaTrader into a CSV file so that I can load this into my Scheme programs creating the genetic programs. Here’s the code for DataDumper.mq4 that does just that :- [...]



Running MetaTrader on Linux

Icon Written by andrew on September 10, 2009 – 11:39 am

Many of the Forex brokers e.g. FXCM and Alpari UK are now offering direct trading through MetaTrader which offers great opportunities to program ‘Expert Advisors’ to automate your trading. This means that you can be day trading full time whilst you’re at work and asleep. Unfortunately MetaTrader is a purely Windows application but the great [...]