Brand new and fully updated for the latest versions of MetaTrader 4, Expert Advisor Programming for MetaTrader 4 is a practical guide to programming expert advisors in the MQL4 language. Leverage the latest features imported from the MQL5 language, including object-oriented programming,
enumerations, structures and more.

This book will teach you the following concepts:

• The basics of the MQL4 language, including variables and data types, operations, conditional and loop operators, functions, classes and objects, event handlers and more.
• Place, modify and close market and pending orders.
• Add a stop loss and/or take profit price to an individual order, or to multiple orders.
• Close orders individually or by order type.
• Get a total of all currently opened orders.
• Work with OHLC bar data, and locate basic candlestick patterns.
• Find the highest high and lowest low of recent bars.
• Work with MetaTrader’s built-in indicators, as well as custom indicators.
• Add a trailing stop or break even stop feature to an expert advisor.
• Use money management and lot size verification techniques.
• Add a flexible trading timer to an expert advisor.
• Construct several types of trading systems, including trend, counter-trend and breakout systems.
• Add alerts, emails, sounds and other notifications.
• Add and manipulate chart objects.
• Read and write to CSV files.
• Construct basic indicators, scripts and libraries.
• Learn how to effectively debug your programs, and use the Strategy Tester to test your strategies.

Whether you’re a new trader with limited programming experience, or an experienced programmer who has worked in other languages, Expert Advisor Programming for MetaTrader 4 is the easiest way to get
up and running in MQL4.