Hundreds of thousands of traders worldwide have already judged the MetaTrader 4 Client Terminal on its merits. The use of its embedded programming language, MQL4, lifts traders to a new level of trading – to automated trading. Now, a trader can implement his or her ideas as an application program – write a custom indicator, a script to perform single operations, or create an Expert Advisor – an automated trading system (trading robot).
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Here is a script which converts MQL4 code to MQL5 code was developed by Keiji and Circlesquares on the MQL4 forum.
First, download the following files and place them in your Metatrader 4 / experts / include folder
- mt4accountinfo.mqh
- mt4string.mqh
- mt4datetime.mqh
- mt4objects_1.mqh
- mt4timeseries_2.mqh
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Finally we’ve got an opportunity to try the new trade terminal – MetaTrader 5. No doubt, it is noteworthy and has many new features as compared to its predecessor. The important advantages of this platform among others are:
- Essentially modified language allowing now to use the object-oriented programming, still allowing to use the rich advantages of structural programming.
- The code execution speed, which now is much faster than in MetaTrader 4.
- Essential increase of possibilities for displaying the necessary information.
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To enter full-screen mode simply press on F11 on your keyboard.
Once in the full-screen mode, the below hotkeys can be used to open command windows:
- Ctrl+M – Market Watch
- Ctrl+N – Navigator
- Ctrl+T – Terminal
- Ctrl+D – Data window
To return to the normal mode at anytime, just press F11 again.
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In MetaTrader 5 the history of quotes is stored only in M1 format (from 1993, before – D1 format) and all the charts are built based on it. When the terminal is first installed, the history is empty. The history is stored in \MetaTrader 5\Bases\Default\History\”currency”\ folder and has the .hcc (uncompressed) format. The history is transferred from the MetaQuotes’s server in a space-efficient archive format of data storing so for example the 10 years 1-minute history of quotes for GBPUSD takes around 10-13 megabytes, uncompressed around 100-150 megabytes.
In order to download all history for a selected currency and show it on the chart, first open the options menu, then charts and select “unlimited bars in chart” option.
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