Automated Futures Trading - MQL5 Robots and Expert Advisors
MQL5 Code Base is the official programming community for automated trading systems commonly known as EAs or EA Futures Robots. EA Futures Robots is a popular topic. However, the challenge is how to find a good quality forex trading Expert Advisor. This is where MQL5 Futures Expert-Advisor Market comes in: hosted by Meta-Quotes Software Corp. , The developers of MetaTrader Platform - to get a good quality EA one Should join this codebase.
A library of Robots & Automated Trade Strategies
Futures Expert Advisor Forum - Expert Advisors (Futures Robots): www.mql5.com/en/market
For a new beginner trader wanting to know what is automated trading, place to start at is at official MQL5 code base that is hosted by Meta Quotes Software Corp. The maker of MetaTrader 4 futures Trading Software.
Get Free Futures EAs as Well as Paid Ones
About Automated Futures Bots
You can navigate to code base site & get MT4 Automated Forex EA Programming Guide and learn how to automate forex trading and write an EA. But because most people may not want to learn a programming language or take on the task of building automated trading systems & might want to use their time for trading currencies & making profits, for those who don't want to learn programming they can directly access the futures robots listed on this market: where coders using EA Futures Robots which are profitable sell their automated systems, others can then buy from them or order for one to be coded for them from this codebase.
This code base is also a good place for experienced currency traders, it allows those who can demonstrate that they have a profitable futures trading bots to get additional earnings by selling their Expert-Advisor Futures Robots, these are also made available directly From the MT4 software, where potential buyers of Expert-Advisor Futures Robots can access them. Screen-shot below shows how a trader can access these MetaTrader 4 automated trading Expert-Advisors on their platform.
Access Automated Trading Softwares From the MT4 Automated Platform
Expert-Advisor Library - for Traders Wanting to Automate Trading
From the above image trader can access the Codebase Market directly from their platform. A trader can then automatically install the Expert-Advisor on to their MT4 software & start trading with it. The Market contains free forex EA Bots as well the paid ones. A trader can also try out any of the above forex trading Expert-Advisors by downloading their demo version after signing up in this Community.
As a trader wanting to get professional automated trading Expert Advisor robots & strategies this is the place to begin.
How to Get a FX Trading Bot
Once you have downloaded MT4 Software and installed it on your computer. You will then have to open MT4 Toolbox: The Tool Box can be accessed by pressing CTRL+T keyboard shortcut keys. After launching the toolbox choose " Market " tab as illustrated and shown on the screen shot below.
A list of available Expert-Advisor Futures Robots will appear as it is illustrated below. You can also choose a forex trading robot from the different categories as shown and illustrated below.
Library of futures Trading EA Futures Bots
You can then choose the one that is suited for your style method. Each & Every item on this list has extensive description of how it operates and you can use this information to select one that is suited for your methods based on this description.
There are different applications which one-can use, among the ones you can purchase are:
- Expert Advisors
- Custom Indicators
- Panels
- Libraries
- Analyzers
- Utilities
You can choose any of these based on categories as illustrated and shown on image above. If you need to learn what is an automated trading EA, custom indicators, libraries, panels, utilities and analyzers on forex trading platform are you will need to visit the Codebase Community.
Once you've visited & decided which type of application you require, next step is to register & become part of this coding community. After signing up you'll then get an account & you can interact with other forum members & have access to multiple Expert Advisor Futures Robots. To register - go to Registration Page on their web site.
After signing up in community you will then need to obtain credits. Credits is the currency which is used in order to obtain the automated trading systems available. To get credits you'll first need to deposit some money in to your MQL5 account.
You will then use this account & the password which you get to set up the futures automation on your MetaTrader 4 platform as displayed below. These settings will be set on your MT4 platform that is installed on your PC Desktop computer, and not on MQL5 web-site - but you'll first get them from MQL5 site then set them on your MT4.
Setting Up An Account to Use for Automated Trade on MT4
Log in to MQL5 Account from MT4 Platform
To obtain to the above window panel, Navigate to " Tools", Next to " File, View " at tops left corner of MT4 software. Click on Tools >>> Click on Options, the above window panel will pop-up.
Select " Community " as displayed above, & then type your Login details: Your Login & Password.
Once this is complete you'll now have complete access to the Market, & you can set up any of the futures robots on your platform and start automated trading.
How to Test an Automated Forex Trading Expert-Advisor Strategy Before Buying
Before buying an automated trading robot, there is also an option which is provided for to testout & find automated trading strategies that work for you before buying - by downloading demo edition of the bot that you want and testing it out before buying it. This way you can try out the automated trading system you want by testing its strategy using strategies tester panel.
Review and Information of Automated Trading Systems Details
From above examples, screen-shot shows you how to setup an Expert Advisor from the MetaTrader 4 toolbox by buying it using your credit points or by first downloading the demo robot download version to test out the strategy.
All these automated trade strategies are available from MQL5 & they can also be accessed from the MetaTrader 4 Software. Once a trader gets an Automated Trading System they can then setup & launch this application on 3 different Computers.
Posting Of Automated Expert-Advisors by EA Developers and Forex Trading Analysts
As a developer of Expert Advisors which are profitable, you can get to post your Expert-Advisor by registering as a seller . You can get access to big number of potential customers by posting your robot which can become a mass selling product.
Once you complete the registration process your Expert Advisors will be hosted on the MQL5 Community and you will make money every time your EA is purchased. As a developer you get to set the price for your Expert-Advisor, the more profitable it is the more dollars you can set it for.
Once you setup your sign-up, traders can then buy and download your automated bots directly from their MT4 Platform. Each purchase must get an activation code from the MQL5 Community, activation code is only limited to a few computers, Three computers. Therefore no one can buy & then start reselling your Automated System because it would need an activation from MQL5 CodeBase Community
To protect developers, each purchase is associated to account of a trader on MQL5 web-site and a specific PC Desktop computer, purchase is not associated to the broker platform neither is it associated to the futures account with the broker. It is only associated to the account which the trader has on this Community.
Those wanting to buy can also try demo versions of the Bot, but this edition can only be run on ' Strategy-Tester', and demo edition cannot be run on real trading environment. This ensures that a buyer can test out an Expert Advisor's profitability before buying it, at same it will also ensure that the demo edition of your Expert Advisor cannot be used to transact in the real market, not until the time when it has been purchased & activated.
How to Select Automated FX Bots
All Expert-Advisor Futures Bots are listed on MT4 automated software have snap-shots & a brief review that one-can click and read about each.
list of Expert Advisor Futures Robots in MetaTrader 4 That Can Be Used for Automated Futures Trading
Upon clicking on any of these trading systems, one can read the review its information which will include even the history of the transactions made that look like this:
One can then choose an automated trading program from list of those provided depending on one that is most profitable & suitable for them based on their trading strategy.
These automated forex trading systems can also be used to trade other financial instruments such as automated futures trading systems to trade futures or automated gold trading systems to trade Gold & automated CFDs trading systems to trade CFDs.