Building your own trading bot using MetaTrader 4 and MQL4

Brian shows you how to program your own basic trading bot using MetaTrader 4 and MQL4.

[jamesowen]

The secret of successful trading is good risk management, discipline, and the ability to control your emotions. Anyone can guess right and win every once in a while, but without risk management it is virtually impossible to remain profitable over time.

[Rationalific]

Awesome! This will be so helpful! Of course, we're just scratching the surface, but you explained a TON in such a short amount of time. I'll come back to this when I try my hand at setting up a bot.

[killersquir]

I was building a program on a different platform, but found out that I couldn't do it with my brokers api. I can use mt4 though. This video eased my fears of using mql4. I'm fairly confident it's a good strategy, but now I have a base point to start. I can look up ali to implement. Thank you for sharing.

[marianakayama]

thanks, it was the best MT4 coding video I found on youtube. It was very clear to understand

[jayp]

This is an honest channel, great for beginners. It would be awesome to see you produce more advanced bot videos! Keep up the awesome work, dude.

[andres-ydev]

basic, simple and educative
thats what I call a good video
thanks for sharing

[nayanmipun]

Slanting moving average works, not based on the price by only entries and exists according to the slanting of the moving averages

[robelso]

For everyone getting an error with the double movingAverage in 8:00, delete the last parameter so its just this now:
double movingAverage = iMA(_Symbol, _Period, 20, 0, MODE_SMA, PRICE_MEDIAN);
EDIT: Sorry, I was using mql5

[ivanmogajane]

Best video by far in this field, Which line would you use to set the lot size when placing orders?

[Sumercrypto]

oh my god. this I can NOT believe that you share this video for Free << you are the best of the best

[pichhalperi]

Thank you ۔۔۔ i will keep this video in my play list to work as daily drill

[stephaniewilcox]

Well explained video sir just exactly how I was put through when investing with Mr Romero pieto.

[hollypaul]

i make huge profit on my investment since i started with Mrs Stacey Lawrence, her trading strategies are top notch.

[Insertor]

Why the software doesn't recognize the functions "OP_SELL" or "OP_BUY"? For you in the video it is recognized and show you the functions, for me it's just a text. I did exactly as you did. I use MetaTrader 4 and followed step by step without any mistakes.
Please help. I also would like to get some guides how to program everything that I wish for, as for now I do now know what to type in the code to make it happen. I learned how to code (Computer Science degree) but I have no idea how this software works or what functions are in there and what they do.
Please I would like to get any kind of helpful information.

Best Regards

[HoussemMiladi]

Thanks a lot for this video. On of the very rare in this cathegory in YouTube.
One problem I get with "Hello, world" is that the message is displayed with a sound alert on each tick (normal as it is coder under void OnTick).
But I see it was not the case for you as "Hello, world" was displayed only one time.
Why this difference ?
How to stop the execution as the only solution I found to stop the "Helloword" messages is to restart MetaTrader

[chili]

Keep in mind that I don't think ticks occur during off hours, I'm doing this on a saturday and I think that's why the hello world window didn't pop up for me, but who knows, maybe I just fudged something up.

[shawnbuel]

Brian
How can I code a EMA cross over? Such as a 5EMA crossing a 10EMA. I tried duplicating the movingaverage but it's not compiling. I'm just trying to make an EA so I can modify it and back test it for real trading.

[bluezones]

Thank you for your effort !!! It helps a lot for noobs like me

[gittakocsis]

Thank you for this video! Would you be able to write something that would buy when price crosses over and 5 m candle closes above the Lead 2 line in the Ichimoku and vice versa? How much would you charge for that, if you were to consider doing it?

[amirmoezi]

Thanks a million for your invaluable content.. it's just wonderful