MQL4 Reference MQL4 Documentation
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MetaQuotes Language 4 (MQL4) is a built-in language for programming trading strategies. This language is developed by MetaQuotes Software Corp. based on their long experience in the creation of online trading platforms. Using this language, you can create your own Expert Advisors that make trading management automated and are perfectly suitable for implementing your own trading strategies. Besides, using MQL4 you can create your own technical indicators (custom indicators), scripts and libraries.
MQL4 contains a large number of functions necessary for analyzing current and previously received quotes, and has built-in basic indicators and functions for managing trade orders and controlling them. The MetaEditor (text editor) that highlights different constructions of MQL4 language is used for writing the program code. It helps users to orientate themselves in the expert system text quite easily.
The brief guide contains functions, operations, reserved words, and other language constructions divided into categories, and allows finding the description of every used element of the language.
Programs written in MetaQuotes Language 4 have different features and purposes:
- Expert Advisor is a mechanical trading system linked up to a certain chart. An Expert Advisor starts to run when an event happens that can be handled by it: events of initialization and deinitialization, event of a new tick receipt, a timer event, depth of market changing event, chart event and custom events.
An Expert Advisor can both inform you about a possibility to trade and automatically trade on an account sending orders directly to a trade server. Expert Advisors are stored in terminal_directoryMQL4Experts.
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Custom indicators are stored in terminal_directory MQL4Indicators
Libraries are stored in terminal_directoryMQL4Libraries
Include files can be stored in the same directory as a source file — in this case the #include directive with double quotes is used. Another place to store include files is terminal_directoryMQL4Include, in this case the #include directive is used with angle brackets.
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