Whoops! — lol. I can't believe I overlooked taxes, johndoe. I'd rather not pay my own, let alone theirs! Not to mention what a nightmare it would be to ask for "gifts" from them every year for taxes. I suppose an investment club would be a ...

Trading for friends

Thanks tenantro — Excellent points. I had made it clear that they could lose everything, and that I would not recoup their losses, but I do have the sense that their vision is clouded by winning, and aren't really appreciating what a loss ...

Trading for friends

sweet! — I'm excited for you too DragonCat I'm no guru, but feel free to PM me if I can do any thing else to help! Seavo

where to learn the scripting language?

Lessons — Hi DragonCat, looks like I'll have to update my bookmarks lol. This is the original development course that I read through: url , after it became popular CodersGuru put up the metatrader.info site. Each lesson is available in pdfs ...

where to learn the scripting language?

CodersGuru — Hi DragonCat :-) I learned from CodersGuru over at www.metatrader.info and just from reading code you can find in the metatrader forum here. CodersGuru's course is free, but it does start out fairly simple if you alreday have some ...

where to learn the scripting language?

Thanks Clockwork — Thanks for the words of wisdom and the motivation :-) This question has been driving me nuts for a couple months now. It seems like sometimes there's etiher too much money left on the table or good trades go bad. I guess ...

Exits

No "point and click" way. — Hi FXwealth, There's not an option (to my knowledge) to interact with an EA using EAB. It's pretty simple code though. you'd just declare a variable in the top section where you see all the lines beginning ...

Expert Advisor Builder Help

Eur/Gbp — Hi Brentmack, Thanks for the reply and sorry for the delay. The pair is Eur/Gbp which has been one of my favorites recently. The system essentially looks for times when the pair is range bound and then places statistically high ...

How much has the market changed?

yes — Hi Fourth, check out url You're correct that it's a strategy to exploit differing interest rates, but it's usually not complex. The only complexities that I'm aware of is your money management to make sure you can survive hundreds (and ...

What does 'Unwinding Carry Trades' mean?

Couldn't agree more — I can't say enough good things about CodersGuru's tutorials. They're super informative and I love his sense of humor!

Where can I learn to program an EA advisor?

Almost what you're looking for... — Hi FxORCE, This isn't exactly what you asked for, but it's a similar concept. It will show the USD related majors in the main window as line charts. It's a little busy, but it works . If you make the ...

MTF ADX for all pairs

Java / Emulation — Hi Bluewave, Any web based broker (OandA for example) will work on Linux. Also, many people have found sucess using Wine with metatrader ( url ). You could check the appdb for Wine to see if there are any other apps that it ...

linux based sw

I couldn't agree more. Even at 99% the results from the backtset are usually wrong, and you just can't backtest things like requotes, widening spread, etc. I've been running an EA on demo for almost six months to ensure it works according to plan. ...

Where to learn MT4

A few suggestions — CodersGuru has a site that has a TON of info on programming in MQL. www.metatrader.info. I learned almost all the basics from there and continue to use it as a reference to some of the harder questions. Also, Metaquotes has ...

Where to learn MT4

History Center — Hi Nash, With the current versions of MT4 you should be able to download historical data for any pair/timframe you want going back to '99. You can also use alpari data, but your best bet is to use your brokers data feed. I'm ...

EA back test for 12 month or 24 month

Perfect! — Awesome I've been refreshing the page every hour or so to see your answer (especially to this question since it's driving me nutz! ). This was exactly what I was looking for. I'm sure I'll have more questions shortly once I ...

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