5 Min Read In the last post on creating an algotrader/trading bot with Python, I showed you how to specify your trading strategy for opening a trade. Now, let’s think about how we can close trades. There are many ways you can close trades – You could specify that after a certain amount of time, you should close …
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6 Min Read Analyzing the Market Data In my previous post, I showed you how to set up the trading interval and also how to pull the latest data for that interval. In this post, I will continue the process creating an algotrader/trading bot with Python. I will show you how analyze the data and open a trade …
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5 Min Read Creating an algotrader/trading bot with Python & the MT5 platform should generally have 3 main pieces of functionality, – opening a trade, closing a trade and receiving and analyzing new data. This post will take you through the last step. Because of the complexity, it will be split into multiple parts. Let’s get started with …
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5 Min Read In an earlier post, I showed you how to open a trade using the MT5 API. Now let’s talk about how to close a trade with the MT5 platform using python. In this tutorial, you be will using 2 methods from the MT5 API: positions_get and order_send. Getting the current open positions Let’s start by …
4 Min Read When I decided to build my own automated trading platform, one of the first key pieces of functionality was to open a trade programmatically. Now that you have seen how to open a connection to the MT5 platform and pull data (if you haven’t seen this blog post I highly suggest reading it before continuing) …
4 Min Read The data from my trader comes from MetaTrader5 (MT5 platform). The MT5 platform allows you to collect data from any broker that you may already be trading with on the platform. You may wonder why I decided to use MT5 over the more popular MT4. This is because there is no python API integration with …
2 Min Read After figuring out the tools needed for development, the next thing you should start to consider is the design. This involves defining requirements for what you are trying to achieve. Without doing this step, it maybe difficult to know what to develop and where to start. This is not to say that these requirements are …
3 Min Read My trading platform consists of 2 distinct modules. The first module is the automated trader itself which is responsible for opening a position, managing a position, closing a position etc. The second part is the web application. This is responsible for the visualization of strategies, back testing, error reporting and configuration such as adding new …
2 Min Read Hello and welcome to my blog. My name is Conor and I am a software engineer born on the Emerald Isle of Ireland. However, these days I live in Canada. I am 25 years old and have been a software engineer for around 5 years. A little of 2 years ago I discovered a new …
