Articles by: David Williams

FX PowerGrid Plug-in for Expert Advisor Builder

FX PowerGrid Plug-in for Expert Advisor Builder: Easily Build a Fully-Customized Trading Grid Expert Advisor

 

The FX PowerGrid Plug-in allows you to quickly and easily build a fully customizable Trading Grid Expert Advisor.

Trading Grids work great in ranging markets, but the MQL code required to build a custom grid is complex. Until now.

A Trading Grid should be part of every trader’s arsenal of tools.  With the FX PowerGrid you can add this powerful tool to your collection. And you can customize it.

As you may know, my Expert Advisor Builder (Visual Traders Studio) is a free-range, drag and drop EA builder. VTS generates MQL code from the drawings that you create. With the FX PowerGrid Plug-in you can add a trading grid just by dragging and dropping a single grid function.

FX PowerGrid Plug-in

What Exactly is a Trading Grid?

Imagine the current market price of your favorite currency pair is 1.4000.  A Trading grid allows you to create levels above and below the price of 1.4000 to open BUY or SELL orders at predefined price increments.  For example, if the price moves up 20, 40, and 60 points, you open a trade at each level.  You can do the same if the price moves down. (Most grid traders will SELL into a rising market and BUY into a falling market: The idea is to catch the inevitable retrace in a ranging market).

Here is picture of a price chart that is running an FX PowerGrid Expert Advisor.  This EA has 3 levels up and 3 levels down in the trading grid.

FX Power Grid Price MetaTrader Chart


There are just 2 functions you need to created your grid (actually, only one to build it):
fnGrid creates the entire trading grid.
fnRemoveLines is an function that programatically removes all of the lines from a price chart. (So you don’t have to remove them manually.)

Need more Up Levels than Down Levels? Want to use indicators values instead of offsets? Want to open a different Lot size for each Level?  No problem.  The User Interface used to configure the fnGrid function allows you to do all this and more with simple clicks of the mouse (no programming!).

White Box Code
The MQL code I’ve written to allow you to create a trading grid is complicated.  It makes great use of a type of memory storage called an “array”.  Arrays are useful for storing lists of values – and a trading grid has many lists.  Anyway, this is all clear-text, white-box.  You are welcome to read and/or edit the MQL code at your leisure..
Want more details?    Click here to see to the full documentation

Like All of my products, the FX PowerGrid Plug-in comes with Two Promises

Free Lifetime Updates: I’m always on the look-out for grid trading methods. When I add new options to the FX PowerGrid Plug-in, you’ll receive them free of charge. Life Time Guarantee
iExpertAdvisor 30-day Money back I personally create all of my own software products and I stand behind them. I offer a 30-day, no-questions-asked money back guarantee on every product.


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Candlestick Pattern Plug-in for MT4 Expert Advisor Builder

Candlestick Pattern Plug-in for Expert Advisor Builder: Programatically Identify Over 50 Powerful Candlestick Patterns

Candlestick patterns provide powerful price-driven, non-lagging, information about the current market.

Most patterns are pretty easy to spot with a trained eye, but Why not use your computer to find them for you?

The VTS Candlestick Library Plug-in can identify over 50 of the most powerful and useful candlestick patterns.

As you may know, my Expert Advisor Builder (Visual Traders Studio) is a free-range, drag and drop EA builder. VTS generates MQL code from the drawings that you create.

Using the Candlestick Plug-in, you can drag and drop any of the 54 candlestick patterns onto the drawing pad and include them in the logic of your EA.

Candlestick Library

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Use Your Expert Advisor to Identify Candlestick Patterns

Suppose you want your EA to check for a Three White Soldiers pattern before you open a buy trade.You simply drag, drop and connect a Three White Soldiers element and then use it in your open-trade logic.Don’t want to open a trade? No problem. You can just as easily sound an alert, or send an email when the pattern is recognized. This is done with a few mouse clicks in VTS.

The VTS Candlestick Library Offers Benefits You Won’t Find Anywhere Else

Made For Forex
These patterns have been created especially for the Forex market. Because Forex is a 24×6 market, gaps between candles are rare.  (A market gaps when the close price of the previous candle is not the same as the open price of the current candle).

Originally, candlestick patterns were created using daily timeframes for markets with a definitive close and open time – and there were frequent gaps between the open and close price. The patterns in this library use significant changes in price movement instead of gaps for most patterns that rely on close/open gaps.

White-Box Code: 100% Visibility of the Logic
The inner-workings of each pattern is fully visible.

Actually, the logic of each candle is a drawing that you can view, copy or edit. It’s the same kind of drawing that you create for your own systems.

I purposely created each candlestick pattern as a simple drawing so that you can view and learn from it.  You can view all of the logic.  You can even copy and modify any of the patterns.

Any Timeframe, Any Symbol
You can identify a pattern for any Symbol and Timeframe regardless of the chart that your EA is running on.

This means you can create an EA that runs and opens trades on a EURUSD 30-minute chart, but “looks” at candle patterns on a GBPUSD 5-minute chart.

When you drag, drop and connect a candlestick pattern onto your drawing, you set the symbol and timeframe to any values supported by your MetaTrader broker.

Customizable Parameters
Some Candlestick patterns use the phrases small and large in their description.

For example, the pattern Engulfing Bullish Line is described as “a small black candle that is contained within a large white candle”.

Small and large are relative terms, so I use the MT Platform function iATR (average true ratio) indicator to define small and large.

The ATR has worked good for me, but you can easily use your own definitions of small and large. When you drag, drop and connect a candlestick pattern onto your drawing, you define the small and large values usingany of the indicators, price values, or other information available from the MetaTrader platform.

This is a list of the 54 candle patterns in the Candlestick Library

Bearish 3 method formation 
Bearish harami
Bearish harami cross
Big black candle
Big white candle
Black body
Bullish 3 method formation
Bullish Harami
Bullish Harami Cross
Dark cloud cover
Doji
Doji star
Dragon fly doji
Engulfing bearish line
Engulfing bullish line
Evening doji star
Evening star
Falling window
Gravestone doji 
Hammer Bear 
Hammer Bear Flat 
Hammer Bull 
Hammer Bull Flat 
Hanging Man Bear 
Hanging Man Bear Flat 
Hanging Man Bull 
Hanging Man Bull Flat 
Inverted black hammer 
Inverted hammer 
Long legged doji 
Long lower shadow 
Long upper shadow 
Marubozu Bear 
Marubozu Bull 
Morning doji star 
Morning star
On neckline 
Piercing line 
Rising window 
Shaven bottom Bear 
Shaven bottom Bull 
Shaven head Bear 
Shaven head Bull 
Shooting star Bear 
Shooting star Bear Flat 
Shooting star Bull 
Shooting star Bull Flat 
Spinning top Bear 
Spinning top Bull 
Three Black Crows 
Three white soldiers 
Tweezer bottoms 
Tweezer tops 
WWhite body candle

Want more details?   Click here to see to the full documentation

Like All of my products, the Candlestick Library Plug-in comes with Two Promises

 

Free Lifetime Updates:  I’m always on the look-out for new candlestick patterns. When I add new patterns to the library, you’ll receive them free of charge. Life Time Guarantee
iExpertAdvisor 30-day Money back I personally create all of my own software products and I stand behind them. I offer a 30-day, no-questions-asked money back guarantee on every product.


Only $79.00 USD

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