Trading Futures

[blidderwound]

Hello all, 

I am new to the MT5 platform & my background is in trading E-Mini S&P500 futures. Of course, I am interested in algorithmic trading but I have not been able to find any source code for this particular instrument. I would appreciate any guidance or assistance in finding some expert advisors, quotes or scripts to be able to apply the code. Thank you! 

[Carl Schreiber]

Hi and welcome here :)

But recommendations and discussions about broker, EAs (tradingbots ...) aren't allowed here as this is a technical forum. Everybody has to do his/her own search.

Beside that the quotes of the symbols or traded instruments are provided by the broker, so you have to search for a broker that provides what you want to trade.

    There is almost nothing that has not already been programmed for MT4/5!
    => Search in the articles: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles
    => Search in the codebase: https://www.mql5.com/en/code
    => Search in general: https://www.mql5.com/en/search or via Google with: ‘site:mql5.com ..’ (sorry for spelling mistakes)
    https://www.mql5.com/en/search#!keyword=cookbook
    useful links: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/176023

[Ryan L Johnson]

blidderwound:

Hello all, 

I am new to the MT5 platform & my background is in trading E-Mini S&P500 futures. Of course, I am interested in algorithmic trading but I have not been able to find any source code for this particular instrument. I would appreciate any guidance or assistance in finding some expert advisors, quotes or scripts to be able to apply the code. Thank you! 

There is a real futures (not CFD) broker posted by a Moderator in this forum:  MetaTrader 5 trading platform is now available for AMP Futures clients wanting to trade futures - Free Trading Platform - Trading stocks, futures, options and other exchange instruments - MQL5 programming forum

[blidderwound]

Carl Schreiber #:

Hi and welcome here :)

But recommendations and discussions about broker, EAs (tradingbots ...) aren't allowed here as this is a technical forum. Everybody has to do his/her own search.

Beside that the quotes of the symbols or traded instruments are provided by the broker, so you have to search for a broker that provides what you want to trade.

    There is almost nothing that has not already been programmed for MT4/5!
    => Search in the articles: https://www.mql5.com/en/articles
    => Search in the codebase: https://www.mql5.com/en/code
    => Search in general: https://www.mql5.com/en/search or via Google with: ‘site:mql5.com ..’ (sorry for spelling mistakes)
    https://www.mql5.com/en/search#!keyword=cookbook
    useful links: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/176023

Oh ok ! Thank you . I appreciate your response as I am still new to the community & learning the platform ! 

[blidderwound]

Ryan L Johnson #:

There is a real futures (not CFD) broker posted by a Moderator in this forum:  MetaTrader 5 trading platform is now available for AMP Futures clients wanting to trade futures - Free Trading Platform - Trading stocks, futures, options and other exchange instruments - MQL5 programming forum

OK awesome. I am familiar with this broker. Thank you for your response! 

[MayraSilva]

The E-Mini S&P500 futures contract (ES) is traded on the CME, and MT5 brokers don’t directly provide access to CME futures like ES unless they are offering synthetic CFD versions. However, many brokers on MT5 offer S&P500 Index CFDs (often called "US500" or "SPX500") which can serve as proxies for strategy development.

[Ryan L Johnson]

MayraSilva #:

The E-Mini S&P500 futures contract (ES) is traded on the CME, and MT5 brokers don’t directly provide access to CME futures like ES unless they are offering synthetic CFD versions. However, many brokers on MT5 offer S&P500 Index CFDs (often called "US500" or "SPX500") which can serve as proxies for strategy development.

That depends on what you mean by "directly." Where a broker-dealer maintains its own MT5 servers and backend gateway to the CME, that is direct enough for me. See my Post #2 in this thread.