Forex Expert Advisors
Here you can download demo version and full version of MT4 expert advisors which can be used with the MT4 Forex trading platform to enhance your currency trading results combining it with the auto trading or expert advising. Only best strategies embedded into expert advisors are presented here. You can test and change them freely before using on your Forex account. Our own testing results are also included for your information. All expert advisors were selected to bring at least 57% yearly profit with maximum drawdown not higher than half of the yearly profit.
What is a forex EA?
Contrary to what you might expect, a forex EA (expert advisor) is not a who advises you on how to trade. In fact a forex expert advisor is a sophisticated trading program gizmo. The forex Professional EA is a piece of program written specifically for the MetaTrader Platform. An Professional Expert Advisor can advise traders which trades to make or can be programmed to automatically execute the trades on a live account. Fx EA are written in a proprietary programming language called MQL4 or Metaquotes language, version four.
MetaTrader 4 is a trading platform that is free & convenient for trading on the Foreign exchange market. The MT4 is also of the most popular trading platforms available. The MetaTrader Indicators, MetaTrader Foreign exchange Specialist Advisors, MetaTrader scripts are built-in & based on technical analysis.
When trading foreign exchange, emotions play a giant role. Take the example of a trader executing a trade in the hopes to make a profit off it but in fact ends up losing the trade. The consequent trades placed are majorly controlled by the emotional decisions made, which are built on the result of the earlier trade. The advantage of trading with a foreign exchange Professional Advisor removes these emotions so that trading can be executed on a purely logical basis. Meta trader foreign exchange professional advisor performs the functions related to funds management, cutting losses, beginning of new trade, closure of beneficial positions.
Emotions & psychology play a critical role in foreign exchange trading so often, that a trader might hold on to a position in an hard work to grab that last pip of profit even when logic states to exit the trade. Conversely, a trader might exit his position prematurely out of fear, losing out on potential profits. The Forex EA has a plan & sticks to it without any regard to outside influences, & does this round the clock in the coursework of market hours. Having said that, a Forex EA is like a tool/software, but you cannot rely on. Meaning that you cannot switch to a Forex EA & expect to make profits from your positions on a regular basis..
There are plenty of different types of forex professional expert advisors built to accomplish a specific purposes. Example, type of forex EA are built to help you accomplish profitable trades in the EUR/USD money pair. Each type of forex expert advisors is built upon a specific set of rules, sits on your trading platform and executes your trades. Some Expert Advisor’s are currency and/or timeframe specific while others are not.There are some foreign exchange Professional Advisors that predict trends while other EA's execute trades based on the trends. Some foreign exchange Professional Advisors are low risk (1-3%) while others recommend 2-4%, but most are adjustable. Some EA's close out trades only when a net profit is achieved, holding tight through a drawdown, whereas others will utilize a cease loss. The list goes on.
The use of Metatrader forex specialist EA excludes the human factor helps traders to check their Foreign exchange trading strategy based on historical data.Testing foreign exchange trade strategies helps traders to establish back-tests of Foreign exchange specialists besides optimizing the Foreign exchange Professional Advisors parameters by the built-in optimizer.The use of foreign exchange professional advisors gives traders the chance to check their own strategy on historical data; this means traders perform their own back-tests. Before making use of an professional advisor in your live accounts, always check the EA's on a demo-account also known as a forward-test. The use of professional advisors will permit traders to see potential obstacles to your Foreign exchange trading strategy.
How to install Expert Advisors on Metatrader?
1. Metatrader EA should has ex4 or mq4 file extension. mq4-sourse code, ex4-compiled code. First of all it is necessary to copy this file to the folder experts of working directory Under a working directory we understand a root directory, in which we installed MetaTrader 4 terminal.
2. The second step is to restart MetaTrader . After the restart the expert advisor should be added to the list of experts in the window Navigator . It necessary to stress that the colored icon corresponds to mq4 file. If you have an ex4 file only, an icon in the window Navigator will be grey. The same grey color may mean that the errors in a source code appeared.
3. In order to check EA errors, you may press F4, the editor of language MQL4 , and then it is necessary to load the source code of expert into the editor. Press F5 in order to compile the expert advisor. In case of success, the sentence '0 errors' will appear in conclusion window. Warnings are p Minot errors and their presence does not hinder the successful compiling.
4. Now MetaTrader identifies our metatrader EA and the source code of forex expert does not contain errors. Next logical step will be to specify working pair and timeframe for the expert advisor. The easiest way to do it is to apply the technology Drag-and-Drop . For this purpose it is necessary to select metatrader expert advisor, press the left mouse button and drag it on the required chart, then release the button. There is another way. After the selection of metatrader EA, press the right mouse button for context menu, then choose from the menu Attach to and chart .
5. If you made the steps mentioned above correctly, you should see the window of expert advisor settings, where you should let the EA trade.
Do not forget about the button Expert Advisors , which is located on one of standard tool bars of the terminal. The button must be pressed.
6. In the case of correct execution of all above-described actions, the name of forex EA and smiling face must appear in the right overhead corner of the chart. It means that an expert advisor is installed and ready to work. An metatrader EA is almost ready to work. Now we can look over or change operating parameters. Properties of expert are accessible by pressing F7 , or from context menu of active chart.
7. The changed parameters can be saved by pressing the button Save . The button Load serves for the load of the values, which were stored before. A file with the expert advisor parameters has extension set and this file is kept in the directory experts\presets of your terminal. The button Reset restores the values of parameters on those which are prescribed in an EA itself.
8. All important information about EA work or appeared errors is accessible from the log of metatrader expert advisors. This information is duplicated in a log file which is located in the directory experts\logs . The file name coincides with a current date.
That’s it! Now you can enjoy your EA — Good luck with them!