Posts belonging to Category 'MetaTrader'

Extracting historic data from MetaTrader

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 :-
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//| Historic [...]

The Plan for Forex

So here’s the plan for creating at least one successful trading strategy for forex :-
As you can see, I will be hosting the trading robots as Expert Advisors in MetaTrader. This makes a lot of sense because many brokers offer MetaTrader based integration so no further work is required to use these for demo and [...]

Running MetaTrader on Linux

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 news [...]