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News Trading Made Easy (Part 5): Performing Trades (II) pour MetaTrader 5

This article will expand on the trade management class to include buy-stop and sell-stop orders to trade news events and implement an expiration constraint on these orders to prevent any overnight trading. A slippage function will be embedded into the expert to try and prevent or minimize possible

News Trading Made Easy (Part 4): Performance Enhancement pour MetaTrader 5

This article will dive into methods to improve the expert's runtime in the strategy tester, the code will be written to divide news event times into hourly categories. These news event times will be accessed within their specified hour. This ensures that the EA can efficiently manage event-driven

News Trading Made Easy (Part 3): Performing Trades pour MetaTrader 5

In this article, our news trading expert will begin opening trades based on the economic calendar stored in our database. In addition, we will improve the expert's graphics to display more relevant information about upcoming economic calendar events

News Trading Made Easy (Part 2): Risk Management pour MetaTrader 5

In this article, inheritance will be introduced into our previous and new code. A new database design will be implemented to provide efficiency. Additionally, a risk management class will be created to tackle volume calculations

News Trading Made Easy (Part 1): Creating a Database pour MetaTrader 5

News trading can be complicated and overwhelming, in this article we will go through steps to obtain news data. Additionally we will learn about the MQL5 Economic Calendar and what it has to offer