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RSI Overbought / Oversold Expert for MT5
If you haven't seen it, I have a recent series where I slowly built up an expert using a breakout strategy. The breakout doesn't use any indicators so I'm following up with videos that use indicators in the EA.
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RSI Overbought / Oversold Expert for MT4
If you haven't seen it, I have a recent series where I slowly built up an expert using a breakout strategy. The breakout doesn't use any indicators so I'm following up with videos that use indicators in the EA.
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Before you use the Metatrader Optimiser
People seem to love the optimiser. It gives them a warm feeling to think that the computer will find the best combination of settings for their EA. I'm going to show you something that might change your mind on that.
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Build a Set and Forget Breakout Bot part 8
Yes, finally calling an end to this series. Going back to basics for a beginners coding guide, I'm writing a complete breakout expert based on a published strategy including tips and optimisation.
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Build a Set and Forget Breakout Bot part 7
Wrapping up the series with code for the optional move to break even on first close. Going back to basics for a beginners coding guide, I'm writing a complete breakout expert based on a published strategy including tips and optimisation.
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Build a Set and Forget Breakout Bot part 6
Not much code in this part, just some explanation and a little optimisation. Going back to basics for a beginners coding guide, I'm writing a complete breakout expert based on a published strategy including tips and optimisation.
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Build a Set and Forget Breakout Bot part 5
Cleaning up some loose ends and making the code compatible with MT4. Part 5 in this series where I'm going back to basics for a beginners coding guide, I'm writing a complete breakout expert based on a published strategy including tips and optimisation.
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Build a Set and Forget Breakout Bot part 4
This time I make it as far as placing trades, just. Part 4 in this series where I'm going back to basics for a beginners coding guide, I'm writing a complete breakout expert based on a published strategy including tips and optimisation.
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Build a Set and Forget Breakout Bot part 3
Handling start and end times. Part 3 in this series where I'm going back to basics for a beginners coding guide, I'm writing a complete breakout expert based on a published strategy including tips and optimisation.
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Build a Set and Forget Breakout Bot part 2
Part 2 in this series where I'm going back to basics for a beginners coding guide, I'm writing a complete breakout expert based on a published strategy including tips and optimisation.
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Basic Metatrader Debugging
Are you struggling with code errors in MetaTrader? Debugging your code can be a frustrating and time-consuming process, but it doesn't have to be! In this video, I'll show you a basic start for debugging code in MetaTrader.
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Aroon Indicator MT4 and MT5
The Aroon indicator seeks to identify the strength of trend, both up and down, by the ratio of distance from the current candle to the most recent highest high or lowest low within a defined range of number of candles.
Bollinger Bounce Code for MT4
This video shows the code for the Bollinger Bounce strategy. The actual tests were run using MT5 but this is the same code for MT4.
Bollinger Bounce Strategy
This strategy is described by Learn To Trade. There is a link to their explanation of the strategy further in the description.
YMS Scalper Test
This test was requested on Discord by one of our subscribers to run tests on the YMS Scalper. The test didn't exactly go as planned but eventually we did complete a test of the YMS scalper and learned a little on the way.
De Carlo strategy test – EMA, MavilimW & Inverse Fisher Transform, 5M
[YTLoad url=0fz8Z6Wo1IY] This strategy test is based on a review by Trader’s Landing and using the TradingView platform over 100 trades. The review here uses automated testing on the Metatrader platform using 7 different trading instruments and covering a 12 month period for each. These results should not be considered as conclusive nor any kind …

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Retracement Breakout Strategy – MT4 and MT5
This is a further extension to an earlier video about a time range breakout and shows how to adapt the original breakout to wait for a retracement and second breakout as confirmation.
Range Breakout Expert for MQL4 and MQL5
This is the fifth part in a series on writing your own experts and this time I have done away with technical indicators in favour of a simple time based range breakout strategy.
Know when the market is open in MT4 and MT5
Next in a series on writing a complete expert advisor for MT4 and MT5 this will address a common problem of detecting if the market is currently open or closed before trying to place a trade.
MQL OnChartEvent Explained
An explanation of how to use OnChartEvent with examples, including some events that normally do not fire and custom events.
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Set your own MQL trade numbers
There are times when you may want to track a trade through various events. The obvious example is finding the remaining trade after a partial close but you may also need to track a pending order through to the position after execution.
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Equity Limit Basket Trading
From requests over a long time this expert will track your account equity and close all trades and orders when a specified target profit or loss limit is reached.
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Stop Loss Grid Part 2
A follow up to the earlier Stop Loss Grid post that fixes a code issue and reduces over trading.
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Trailing Entry Expert
This is a simple expert advisor from one of our requests. There are no indicator inputs, trades are entered based on trailing the entry price from the current price.
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Stop Loss Grid Expert
first saw this grid technique in a video titled How to trade the Forex Grid system. A detailed introduction on how hedging trades create gains published by Expert4x. It is an interesting approach that avoids unlimited drawdown at the expense of an occasional loss.
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More Fractals – RSI and MACD
A sequel to the earlier article showing a Fractal - EMA based expert. This shows how to convert that code to vary the expert
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Fractal EMA Robot
Combine 2 exponential moving averages as a trend filter and fractals to set breakout levels
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Scale Into a Winning Position
When you have a position showing a profit you may want to add more trades to the position. The question is how to check that all of your existing trades have reached a minimum profit level before opening a new trade.
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