We have released the most comprehensive guide to MQL5 programming, authored by experienced algorithmic trader Stanislav Korotky with MetaQuotes' support. The book is intended for programmers of all levels. Beginners will learn the fundamentals as the book introduces key development tools and basic programming concepts. With this material, you can create, compile, and run your first application in the MetaTrader 5 trading platform. Users with experience in other programming languages can immediately ...
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...
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the focusing on only the ‘principal components’ among the many dimensions of a data set, such that one is reducing the dimensions of that data set by ignoring the ‘non-principal’ parts. PCA though, with eigen values & vectors, take on a slightly deeper approach. Typically, data sets that are handled under PCA are in a matrix format and the principal components, that are sought from a matrix would be a single vector column (or row) that is ...
In the previous article, we started developing a multi-currency EA that works simultaneously with various trading strategies. At the first stage there were only two different strategies. They represented the implementation of the same trading idea, worked on the same trading instrument (symbol) and chart period (timeframe). They differed from each other only in the numerical values of the parameters. We are now only interested in testing the suitability of this approach, and ...
This paper intends to analyze the impact of dividend announcement on the stock market returns that investors earn. more...