We've been beta testing FXCM's new Strategy Trader automated trading platform for a couple of months now, and after quite a few trials and tribulations we've finally got our trusty first example robot to work successfully on it. FXCM refer to trading systems written for Strategy Trader as "Strategy Advisors", and they are implemented based around bars rather than ticks like MetaTrader 4. That means you really need to run this advisor on a tick chart to stay in the market 100% of the time, like the MT4 version does. We still haven't managed to get that working reliably, but it does seem to run fine on a one minute chart and up. If you'd like to take a look you can download the C# source code from our community forum.
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FXCM started public beta testing of their new Strategy Trader trading platform back in March. They are positioning their new platform as a superior alternative to MetaTrader 4 and the forthcoming MetaTrader 5. They describe it as:
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To celebrate the fact that forex broker Dukascopy have at last officially become a Swiss bank we have rewritten our first example robot to work on their JForex platform. Take a look at the JForex source code on our community forum.
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A user of one of our example robots informed us that a system called 1 Minute Daily seemed to be getting people on the forex forums excited, and asked us to look into it. Apparently, unlike so many other forex trading systems sold through ClickBank these days, this one doesn't come complete with a "robot". The way it was described to us it sounded an awful lot like a member of the group of range breakout systems often referred to as "London breakout systems".
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Having ported our example moving average crossover MT4 robot to MetaTrader 5 following the recent launch of the MT5 strategy tester we've now taken the next step. We've rewritten the expert advisor using the object oriented framework supplied by MetaQuotes as part of MetaTrader 5. You can take a look at our source code and see if this new way of producing robots appeals to you or not.
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Now that MetaTrader 5 is finally able to perform backtests we've rewritten another of our example MT4 expert advisors to run on MetaTrader 5. Since the members of our forum seem to be particularly keen on moving average crossover systems at the moment, we've ported our robot example 3 over to MQL5 and tested it out using the MT5 strategy tester. If you want to try this for yourself please feel free to download our MQL5 source code.
More on Moving Average Crossover Robot Available on MetaTrader 5
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MetaQuotes, the Russian company that produces the MetaTrader forex trading platform, has announced that it is reviving its automated trading championship in 2010. According to the post on the MQL5 website:
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The recent introduction by Alpari UK of "interbank spreads" on their MetaTrader 4 demo accounts has given us the perfect opportunity to demonstrate one of the potential problems you might encounter using the MetaTrader 4 strategy tester to evaluate a forex trading strategy you have developed for yourself, or even bought off a virtual shelf. Our regular readers will know that we have performed numerous live tests and backtests on the Forex MegaDroid "robot". Today is a Saturday, so I had a few minutes spare to run yet another backtest on the Droid. I started the simulation on March 30th 2009, the date the Forex MegaDroid team launched their creation amid great fanfare, and finished it yesterday evening. Here's what the Alpari UK MetaTrader 4 demo strategy tester showed me:
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The latest edition of the Economist magazine has just landed on my doormat. The cover story is a 14 page special report on "Stopping Climate Change". I'll read that with interest later, but the first thing I turned to was one of several articles which mentioned Dubai's debt crisis. This one was entitled "The Repercussions of Dubai", and covers international reaction to the Dubai World announcement that it wanted to stop repaying its debts until "May 30th 2010 at the earliest".
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MetaTrader 5 has been open for public beta testing for a few days now. After a few trials and tribulations we have now got our first example robot working on MetaTrader 5. If you'd like to know what changes we had to make you can take a look at our MQL5 source code. This is just a quick port retaining the old MQL4 procedural style. We're not using any of the fancy new object oriented features of MQL5 yet.
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