Learn Metatrader 5 - Algorithmic Forex Trading

Compare mt5 and mt4 by examining how mt5 aggregates positions, order execution, and quote handling, highlighting differences. Note platform differences in timeframes, backtesting history access, and multi-symbol testing.

Explore the files and folders of MetaTrader 5, including user profiles, charts, templates, CMOS sets, indicators, and library locks, and learn to save or delete charts to reset profiles.

Explore event-driven programming in MetaTrader 5, learning which events trigger actions on timer, on tick, on new bar, and on trade, and how indicators respond.

Write your first mql5 script to open a trade in metatrader 5, exploring a simple program structure, onstart function, and basic comments and script properties.

Learn to write the first MQL5 script that opens a trade via on start, using trade request and trade result variables and clearing memory before sending to the broker.

Validate a trade request in MQL5 before sending to the broker by performing a memory based check and conditional execution, handling acceptance or denial with informative prints.

Write an MQL5 script to open a trade with order send, handle results using GetLastError, and configure buy or sell orders with proper stop loss and take profit.

Learn to write an MQL5 script that opens a trade, sets stop loss and take profit in points, converts units for broker requirements, compiles, and executes in the trading terminal.

Explore event processing in MQL5 by building your first EA, using on timer events every sixty seconds to trigger functions, compile the code, and print messages to observe execution.

Explore object oriented programming through a practical MetaTrader 5 example that defines a trade class inheriting a base object, with constructors, getters, setters, and methods to open and modify trades.

Explore object-oriented programming through a script to open a trade with OOP in MetaTrader 5, detailing constructors, destructors, base classes, methods, and pointers that manage multiple positions.

Explore the MQL5 standard library and the built-in reference inside MetaEditor, navigate library files, and examine objects, functions, and method explanations for effective algorithmic trading.

Understand another's code through a practical MetaTrader 5 example, exploring variables, constants, and symbol objects, and learn how refreshed prices guide opening new positions.

Explore how to read and interpret metatrader 5 code by examining variable types, functions, and object methods that compute spread, stop loss, and opening a trade with error handling.

Explore building a fully automated MetaTrader 5 expert advisor by using templates, custom functions, and signal-driven entries and entry variations, with configurable time frame, currencies, and weights.

Learn to build a fully automated ea and backtest it using in-sample and out-of-sample periods, adjusting signal weights and optimization criteria for balance.

Discover how to run and tune optimization in MetaTrader 5, choose optimization types and criteria, adjust parameters, and examine results from the optimization graph including genetic algorithms.

Discover the basic data types in MQL5, including integers (signed and unsigned), chars, booleans, strings, and floating point numbers, and learn how structures and classes organize data and behavior.