Yes, I use many of the ideas from my article. I regularly write in my Russian-language blog, where I talk in more detail about current affairs and some developments.Are you still holding to original approach described in the article from the first post? Is it based on some technical indicators like MAs? Is the trading edge clearly defined?
Results.
Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and suggested improvements. Special thanks to MetaQuotes.
- Open source and freely redistributable source code.
- The easiest to learn and use trading library (from public) for MetaTrader 5. Does not require its own documentation.
- Allowed some authors to write articles on the practical application of machine learning and other trading techniques without difficulty.
- Simplified the transition from backtesting robots to combat versions.
- Highest reliability of any hedge account solution.
- High performance for live trading accounts and backtests.
- Made it easier to work with the trading history and control the quality of execution of trade orders: slippage, rejections.
- Cross-platform (MetaTrader family).
- Fully translated into English by MetaQuotes.
- She attracted a large number of programmers to the corresponding section of the MQL-Community (one of the world's largest trader-community).
- Provided tens of thousands of Market sales and Freelance work.
- Huge contribution to the popularization of MetaTrader 5 and services related to the trading platform.
- Allowed to create reproducible reports on errors in the trading part of the platform, prompting them to fix them.
- It greatly influenced the acceleration of the trading part of the platform (client and server parts).
- Identified errors / flaws and weaknesses in third-party brokerage software and platform settings on the part of admins.
- Library-based products have made millions of transactions with a total turnover of about USD trillion .
- Contributed to the mass segment of algorithmic trading.
- Has advanced scalping and multicurrency trading methods by simply switching to the MetaTrader 5 trading strategy tester.
- Influenced the development of the retail-Forex industry and related industries.
- Demonstrated the possibility of writing the most convenient (mass) unified trading API based on various third-party trading APIs.