Strategy to EA - teach me
Will they be able to teach in programming cause the whole purpose is I don't wanna share the strategy with anyone I want to keep it private that's why I wanna learn some of the essentials to coding
You can ask them.
Just write down what you want.
Will they be able to teach in programming cause the whole purpose is I don't wanna share the strategy with anyone I want to keep it private that's why I wanna learn some of the essentials to coding
It would be very helpful if you specify what's your experience in programming as well (not necessarily in mql, I see "completely rookie" - is programming Greek for you?). Existing or missing background can affect learning curve and teaching price significantly.
If you don't know any coding, then you will not be able to learn enough to code your own EA properly, in just a few days or weeks, not even months! It takes years to reach a professional level of coding.
You will have to trust someone at some-point and have them code it for you, but those that offer you cheap prices for development are not not the most proficient coders, and those that are good coders are not cheap.
So you are facing a difficult choice - either you invest time (long term) in your coding education, or you invest money and have it coded by a good professional coder (but you will have to do your research and filter out all the bad coders from the list).
EDIT: By the way, paying someone to tutor you properly, is also not cheap!
It would be very helpful if you specify what's your experience in programming as well (not necessarily in mql, I see "completely rookie" - is programming Greek for you?). Existing or missing background can affect learning curve and teaching price significantly.
I would say rookie but I'm not retarded either lol
If you don't know any coding, then you will not be able to learn enough to code your own EA properly, in just a few days or weeks, not even months! It takes years to reach a professional level of coding.
You will have to trust someone at some-point and have them code it for you, but those that offer you cheap prices for development are not not the most proficient coders, and those that are good coders are not cheap.
So you are facing a difficult choice - either you invest time (long term) in your coding education, or you invest money and have it coded by a good professional coder (but you will have to do your research and filter out all the bad coders from the list).
EDIT: By the way, paying someone to tutor you properly, is also not cheap!
yeah that's the dilemma but again I spent 3 years on building a tracking record I don't mind to throw in 2 more years just to learn mql4 language I mean I'm not expecting to become a professional coder overnight. It would be great if there was someone who could direct me in the right direction and help a bit as well etc. someone with experience in coding EA and know his forex
Well, if you have the time and also some money, invest in a tutor! Alternatively, look to some books to get your started (be it in MQL4 or MQL5):
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Sergey Golubev, 2017.09.16 05:40
Expert Advisor Programming for MetaTrader 4
This book will teach you the following concepts:
- The basic of the MLQ4 language, including variables and data types, operations, conditional and loop operators, functions, classes and objects, event handlers and more.
- Place, modify and close market and pending orders.
- Add a stop loss and/or take profit price to an individual order, or to multiple orders.
- Close orders individually or by order type.
- Get a total of all currently opened orders.
- Work with OHLC bar data and locate basic candlestick patterns.
- Find the highest high and lowest low of recent bars.
- Work with MetaTrader’s built-in indicators, as well as custom indicators.
- Add a trailing stop or break even stop feature to an expert advisor.
- Use money management and lot size verification techniques.
- Add a flexible trading timer to an expert advisor.
- Construct several types of trading systems, including trend, counter-trend and breakout systems.
- Add alert, emails, sounds and other notifications.
- Add and manipulate chart objects.
- Read and write to CSV files.
- Construct basic indicators, scripts and libraries.
- Learn how to effective debug your programs, and use the Strategy Tester to test your strategies.
All of the source code in this book is available for download, including an expert advisor framework that allows you to build robust and fully-featured expert advisors with minimal effort.
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Sergey Golubev, 2017.09.16 05:48
Expert Advisor Programming for MetaTrader 5
This book will teach you the following concepts:
- Learn the basics of MQL5, including variables and data types, operators, functions, event handlers, and object-oriented programming.
- Place, modify and close market and pending orders.
- Calculate, verify and 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 new bar open, and add flexible trade timers to your strategies.
- 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.
- And much more!
Whether you’re an experienced programmer moving from MQL4, or a novice just starting with MQL5, this book will give you the foundation to quickly program fully-featured and robust trading systems.
Don't forget to look on Youtube...
Also, it's an art.
A one on one copy or literal translation of your strategy into code will not work like you have in mind.
You have to introduce other elements up to the point where the code does not resemble the strategy anymore, but the EA does what you want it to do, or what it needs to do.
There is a service called fxdreema which i use , the only way for me to make expert advisors since im not a coder.
I was a former forex-tsd member and when that site got bought i knew that i had to do something to improve my knowledge and understanding by myself to keep evolving in this business, because without mladen and mr tools's help i would get stuck.
So instead of giving up i found that site and i have made expert advisors ever since.
If you want to try it out i can help you , or if you want me to do the work for you , just write :)
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I tried to keep the subject short
I have been trading profitable for 3 years with account management for clients for the past 18 months. I am now interested in turning my scalping strategy into an EA and I already know what I want but I'm a completely rookie when it comes to coding. So I'm lookin' for someone who is an expert and has the time on his hand to help and teach me just a few things that I need to get started I have been through mql4 book but I want something more directly towards my goals. I prefer someone who also is a full-time trader as well but not a must.
Best Regards
Kiavash D.