Forex Expert Advisor - What Is It?

By Author: Michael Rodersheimer
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If you are using automated expert advisor to help you take your first steps in forex trading then the answer will be 'Yes' to all of these questions. This Forex expert advisor, or Forex robot, allows constant profit to be made, adding money to the initial deposit. And this isn't 20% profit but at least 50% per year or month. And how many banks will be able to offer you that level of return for your deposit?To get to grips with how a computer program can give you these results, you should first understand the principles of the program and its operation.What is a Forex Expert Advisor?Ask any experienced trader and he will say that you can only make a stable profit and increase your capital with a proven and profitable Forex trading strategy which has been operating for more than one year. But practically all trading strategies can be automated and left to work on their own with no further maintenance required. Forex expert advisor are automated trading strategies. Built in the Meta Trader 4 platform, experienced programmers ...
... use the MQL language to create the robots.Expert advisors for the Meta Trader 4 trading platform are classified by different parameters and the level of automation is one of these parameters. Completely automated expert advisors, or self-reliant robots, do not require any intervention and are the most common ones. They have the ability to conduct a lot of operations including the opening, maintaining and closing of trades as well as market analysis, calculation of available capital for opening trades, lots and more. The automated forex expert advisors perform these operations constantly and the presence of the trader to monitor it and the market is unnecessary. It normally takes about one year of good results for a trading strategy to then be used to develop expert advisors.Semi-automatic expert advisors are the next type of Forex robots. They are semi-automatic as they will only trade once permission to open a trade has been granted. It is then the trader's decision as to whether or not the trade is opened. Semi-automatic expert advisors for the Meta Trader 4 platform are also capable of calculating lots, stop-losses and take-profits and will significantly simplify the work of a trader. An automated expert advisor can be converted into a semi-automatic robot using MT4 software.Although it is common to refer to scripts as forex robots they are not expert advisors. Opening market positions and market analysis is not something they will do independently. But they do form a large part of the process of trading. Scripts help to calculate lots and other trade parameters by placing several orders at the same time without needing to do it manually. Performing specific functions once they have been launched is the special feature of a script.The different types of forex expert advisorsAccording to the strategy and trading principles, here are some of the following types of expert advisors:- Trend expert advisors. Their algorithms are adapted to trend trading and aim to take huge profits when a trend reaches its critical point. Until the trend changes direction, the trades are left open for several days.- Martingale expert advisors. A new position with an increased lot size is opened after an unprofitable trade to cover losses- Multi currency expert advisors. They can work with several currency pairs simultaneously within one trading terminal- Scalpers. These are specially amended to perform a number of trades to make a quick gain.Currently there are several automated Forex expert advisors which can be downloaded by a trader for free. Traders can also buy expert advisors or order custom robots from programmers who know the MQL language. A common view is that the free Meta Trader expert advisors will be ineffective and only the ones you pay for will work. In truth, all expert advisors work well; you just need to adjust them correctly, using a process that is called optimization of expert advisors, to make a profit. Remember that nearly every expert advisor has to ability to be optimized (adjusted) so that it will be profitable!