Expert Advisor Programming for MetaTrader 4: A Practical Guide to Learning MQL4

Young, Andrew R.

ISBN 10: 098264597X / ISBN 13: 9780982645970

Verlag: Edgehill Publishing, 2015

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers I-9780982645970

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Expert Advisor Programming for MetaTrader 4: A Practical Guide to Learning MQL4
• Verlag: Edgehill Publishing
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 098264597X
• ISBN-13: 9780982645970
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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The original book for beginners to learn MQL4 programming has been updated for the latest MetaTrader 4 features. Expert Advisor Programming for MetaTrader 4 is a practical guide to programming expert advisors, indicators and scripts in the MQL4 language. Leverage the latest features imported from MQL5, including object-oriented programming, enumerations, structures and more. This book will teach you the following concepts:

• The basics of the MQL4 language, including variables and data types, operators, functions, event handlers, and object-oriented programming.
• Open, modify and close market and pending orders.
• Add stop loss and take profit prices to an open position.
• Add a flexible trailing stop and/or break even stop to your strategy.
• Manage your trade risk with money management.
• Use pending orders to scale in and out of positions.
• Use price, time and indicator data in your expert advisors.
• Control program execution by trading on the open of a new bar, and add a trade timer to your strategy.
• Walk through the creation of several basic trading strategies from start to finish.
• Inform the user with dialog boxes, email alerts, mobile notifications and sounds.
• Draw trend lines, arrows and text labels on the chart.
• Read and write data to CSV files.
• Learn the basics of creating indicators, scripts and libraries in MetaEditor.
• Debug, test and optimize your trading strategy.

Whether you're a trader with little to no programming experience, or an experienced programmer who has worked in other languages, Expert Advisor Programming for MetaTrader 4 will give you the essential knowledge to quickly and easily create fully-featured expert advisors for the MetaTrader 4 platform.