Hi Moderators, why was this moved to the commerical section?

What are your thoughts on StrategyQuant?

Anyone?

What are your thoughts on StrategyQuant?

This is tremendously helpful, and the missing link for my troubleshooting. Thanks for this! Also, thanks for the insight on what bash is used for by the framework. It makes sense (I am very familiar with sendmail, I used to write broadcast emailers, ...

How best to combine leading/lagging indicators in my EA?

@emzett: I was able to get snowroller running, but with some errors ( will keep troubleshooting before i mention them here --it could be my fault ). One question i have : is it a hard requirement to have bash? I see one of the configuration settings ...

How best to combine leading/lagging indicators in my EA?

This is great. Thanks for writing out the steps so clearly and thoughtfully. And as always, your answer gave even more than I asked for. This set file will come in very handy. I'll try this all out tonight!

How best to combine leading/lagging indicators in my EA?

Quick one, albeit only somewhat related: Should the pre-compiled SnowRoller binary work with recent versions of MT4? I'm running MT4 v1280, and when I attempt to load the 'Expert Properties' panel for the EA, I get the following errors in the ...

How best to combine leading/lagging indicators in my EA?

Ah, I had a feeling that the compiler version may be it. Was also looking for pre-compiled binaries. Thanks!

How best to combine leading/lagging indicators in my EA?

Quick one, MZ: I actually want to give ALMA a try, but compilation is failing because of the "." in some macro definitions (of sizes.mqh). eg: // MT4 structs #define FXT_HEADER.size 728 #define FXT_HEADER.intSize 182 This makes sense to me, as I ...

How best to combine leading/lagging indicators in my EA?

This is fantastic. A lot more than I was hoping for in an answer! Thank you. I had considered something like a trend duration but quickly dropped that idea since i figured a lookback was easier (as you can imagine i am using the inbuilt indicators). ...

How best to combine leading/lagging indicators in my EA?

. . . Anyone?

How best to combine leading/lagging indicators in my EA?

Looks like i may have found the culprit. Sharing my fix here, in case anyone faces this in the future. The combination of these things worked Take terminal offline and set manual spread (apparently broker prices over the weekends mess things up) If ...

Why is the MT4 optimizer lying to me? (on multiple terminals)

Nice! This certainly looks promising. Thanks for sharing!

Metatrader5 and Python

Hey man.... some crazy thoughts i was having on the topic. Leverage the fact that MQL can talk to DLLs...code all your heavy lifting / strategies in Python compiled to DLL. Write a shell EA that does nothing more than make a socket call to a python ...

Metatrader5 and Python

Also worth sharing is this excerpt from one of Robert Carver's* blog posts: - Quantopian's zipline - BT - pythalesians - pyalgotrade There is a longer list here. _________________________________________________ Robert Carver is the author of ...

How do you write & backtest strategies with Python+TA-Lib?

This is, quite frankly, exactly what I needed: something quick and dirty that i could get started with right away. Thanks a LOT!

How do you write & backtest strategies with Python+TA-Lib?

Got it. Thanks!

How do you write & backtest strategies with Python+TA-Lib?

Two backtesting tools that i've learned about, that seem promising: Zipline Backtrader Does anyone use these?

How do you write & backtest strategies with Python+TA-Lib?