Quick post, Metaquotes has rolled out their latest MT4 build 500. Significant thing to note is that it appears to be a mandatory update the moment your selected broker decides to roll it out to clients, i.e. completely bypassing the liveupdate.exe in the root folder. The most glaring intro to this is a pop-up window you’ll … Continue reading
Some background on short circuit evaluation (skip this if you already know what it is): Examine this if statement with a logical OR operator: If there is short circuit evaluation(“SCE”), as long as the leftmost condition fulfills, the entire if OR statement fulfills and passes control to the next line. If there is no SCE, … Continue reading
MT4 build 482, a jump from 451, has been released on 2013-03-09. http://forum.mql4.com/54431 A key feature is item 2: Terminal: Increased the number of allowed parallel trading operations for MQL4 programs – up to 8 parallel trade requests are allowed now. This ensures uninterrupted simultaneous trading of several scripts or Expert Advisors – it means … Continue reading
Keeping things trading related, many a times you will come across in a forum, or a publication, or been advocated to by another person, a technical system where a whole bunch of charts are shown how a setup is ideal for predicting the following profitable price movement. A highly compelling story of its success is painted by … Continue reading
Here’s some simple plots of the EURGBP spread during the course of a day. Initially tried to use Excel but R handles it much faster and leaner. You can evidently see the spikes during news releases and a general increase as the liquidity drops during the Asian hours. 2012-10-07, 2012-10-14, 2012-10-21 are Sundays. Green line … Continue reading
