A quick refresher for the previous article in the News Trading Made Easy series. In part 1, we went through the concept of DST(Daylight Savings Time) and the various versions for different countries that essentially change their time zones by an hour ahead and behind during a financial year. This will change trading schedules for the related brokers using DST. The reasons for creating a database and the benefits were addressed. A database was created to store the news events from the MQL5 Economic Calendar ...
Smart Money Concepts (SMC) and Order Blocks are critical areas on the chart where institutional traders typically execute large buying or selling orders. These zones often mark the origins of significant price movements, making them vital for traders seeking to align their strategies with institutional market activity. Understanding how these key levels influence price action can provide retail traders with more profound insight into the underlying market dynamics, allowing them to anticipate ...
Tyler, The Creator’s Chromakopia has debuted atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, the publication confirmed on Sunday, marking the rapper’s third consecutive Number One record. Tyler broke away from industry norms for Chromakopia’s rollout, electing to drop the project on a Monday morning rather than at the typical midnight Friday standard. ...
This article continues the series on how the MQL5 wizard is ideal for rapid testing and prototyping ideas for traders. For a lot of people developing expert advisers and trade systems, the need to keep learning and be abreast with trends in not just machine learning but trade & risk management in general is important. We therefore consider within these series how the MQL5 IDE is useful in this regard by not only saving time but also minimizing coding errors. more...
In the previous article, we went through the processes of implementing trades based on the news event's impact. We were successful in this mission, but a key disadvantage to the article's last code was its back-testing speed which is relatively slow. This is mainly due to frequently accessing the database in memory while back-testing the strategy, to resolve this issue we will reduce the number of times the database is accessed during the back-testing procedure. We will get all the information ...