Archive for November, 2009
Always have a stop, and ideally a limit
When trading financial derivatives such as forex, CFDs should you always use a stop? Short answer: Yes! Long answer: Yes you should always have a stop in place – even if you think you really don’t need one. Note that I’m only referring to financial derivatives such as forex and CFDs where you trade on margin. If you are trading or [...]
Implementing an assert in MetaTrader MQL4
MQL4 is a very useful programming language for creating expert advisors to automatically trade FOREX. However the language does have many omissions which you will soon notice if you are used to programming a more complete language such as Java or C++. One of the big omissions is that there is no built in way to do an ‘assert’ when running [...]
