Creating a Simple Trading Expert Advisor
Before starting to program a trading Expert Advisor, it is necessary to define general principles of a future program. There are no strict program creating rules. However, once having created a program, a programmer usually continues to improve it. To be able to easily understand the program in future, it must be created in accordance with a well-thought and easy-to-understand scheme (it is especially important if a program will be further improved by another programmer). The most convenient program is the one that consists of functional blocks, each of which is responsible for its part of calculations. To create an algorithm of a trading Expert Advisor, let’s analyze what an operating program should do. One of the most important data in the formation of trade orders is the information about orders that already exist in a client terminal. Some of trading strategies allow only one unidirectional order. Generally, if a trading strategy allows, several orders can be open in a termi...