Innovations in payments and financial technologies have helped transform daily life for millions of people. People who are unbanked often rely on more expensive alternative financial products AFPs such as payday loans, money orders, and other expensive credit facilities that typically charge higher fees and interest rates, making it more likely that people have to dip into their savings to stay afloat. A few examples include:. Mobile wallets - The unbanked may not have traditional bank accounts but can have verified mobile wallet accounts for shopping and bill payments.

Their mobile wallet identity can be used to open a virtual bank account for secure and convenient online banking. Minimal to no-fee banking services - Fintech companies typically have much lower acquisition and operating costs than traditional financial institutions.

They are then able to pass on these savings in the form of no-fee or no-minimum-balance products to their customers. This enables immigrants and other populations that may be underbanked to move up the credit lifecycle to get additional forms of credit such as auto, home and education loans, etc. Entrepreneurs from every background, in every part of the world, should be empowered to start and scale global businesses. Most businesses still face daunting challenges with very basic matters.

These are still very manually intensive processes, and they are barriers to entrepreneurship in the form of paperwork, PDFs, faxes, and forms.

Stripe is working to solve these rather mundane and boring challenges, almost always with an application programming interface that simplifies complex processes into a few clicks. Stripe powers nearly half a million businesses in rural America. The internet economy is just beginning to make a real difference for businesses of all sizes in all kinds of places. We are excited about this future. The way we make decisions on credit should be fair and inclusive and done in a way that takes into account a greater picture of a person.

Lenders can better serve their borrowers with more data and better math. Zest AI has successfully built a compliant, consistent, and equitable AI-automated underwriting technology that lenders can utilize to help make their credit decisions.

While artificial intelligence AI systems have been a tool historically used by sophisticated investors to maximize their returns, newer and more advanced AI systems will be the key innovation to democratize access to financial systems in the future. D espite privacy, ethics, and bias issues that remain to be resolved with AI systems, the good news is that as large r datasets become progressively easier to interconnect, AI and related natural language processing NLP technology innovations are increasingly able to equalize access.

T he even better news is that this democratization is taking multiple forms. AI can be used to provide risk assessments necessary to bank those under-served or denied access.

AI systems can also retrieve troves of data not used in traditional credit reports, including personal cash flow, payment applications usage, on-time utility payments, and other data buried within large datasets, to create fair and more accurate risk assessments essential to obtain credit and other financial services.

By expanding credit availability to historically underserved communities, AI enables them to gain credit and build wealth. Additionally, personalized portfolio management will become available to more people with the implementation and advancement of AI. Sophisticated financial advice and routine oversight, typically reserved for traditional investors, will allow individuals, including marginalized and low-income people, to maximize the value of their financial portfolios.

Moreover, when coupled with NLP technologies, even greater democratization can result as inexperienced investors can interact with AI systems in plain English, while providing an easier interface to financial markets than existing execution tools. Open finance technology enables millions of people to use the apps and services that they rely on to manage their financial lives — from overdraft protection, to money management, investing for retirement, or building credit.

More than 8 in 10 Americans are now using digital finance tools powered by open finance. This is because consumers see something they like or want — a new choice, more options, or lower costs. What is open finance? At its core, it is about putting consumers in control of their own data and allowing them to use it to get a better deal. When people can easily switch to another company and bring their financial history with them, that presents real competition to legacy services and forces everyone to improve, with positive results for consumers.

For example, we see the impact this is having on large players being forced to drop overdraft fees or to compete to deliver products consumers want. We see the benefits of open finance first hand at Plaid, as we support thousands of companies, from the biggest fintechs, to startups, to large and small banks.

All are building products that depend on one thing - consumers' ability to securely share their data to use different services. Open finance has supported more inclusive, competitive financial systems for consumers and small businesses in the U. and across the globe — and there is room to do much more. As an example, the National Consumer Law Consumer recently put out a new report that looked at consumers providing access to their bank account data so their rent payments could inform their mortgage underwriting and help build credit.

This is part of the promise of open finance. At Plaid, we believe a consumer should have a right to their own data, and agency over that data, no matter where it sits. This will be essential to securing benefits of open finance for consumers for many years to come.

As AWS preps for its annual re:Invent conference, Adam Selipsky talks product strategy, support for hybrid environments, and the value of the cloud in uncertain economic times. Donna Goodison dgoodison is Protocol's senior reporter focusing on enterprise infrastructure technology, from the 'Big 3' cloud computing providers to data centers. She previously covered the public cloud at CRN after 15 years as a business reporter for the Boston Herald.

AWS is gearing up for re:Invent, its annual cloud computing conference where announcements this year are expected to focus on its end-to-end data strategy and delivering new industry-specific services. Both prongs of that are important. But cost-cutting is a reality for many customers given the worldwide economic turmoil, and AWS has seen an increase in customers looking to control their cloud spending.

By the way, they should be doing that all the time. The motivation's just a little bit higher in the current economic situation. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. Besides the sheer growth of AWS, what do you think has changed the most while you were at Tableau? Were you surprised by anything? The number of customers who are now deeply deployed on AWS, deployed in the cloud, in a way that's fundamental to their business and fundamental to their success surprised me.

There was a time years ago where there were not that many enterprise CEOs who were well-versed in the cloud. It's not just about deploying technology. The conversation that I most end up having with CEOs is about organizational transformation. It is about how they can put data at the center of their decision-making in a way that most organizations have never actually done in their history. And it's about using the cloud to innovate more quickly and to drive speed into their organizations.

Those are cultural characteristics, not technology characteristics, and those have organizational implications about how they organize and what teams they need to have. It turns out that while the technology is sophisticated, deploying the technology is arguably the lesser challenge compared with how do you mold and shape the organization to best take advantage of all the benefits that the cloud is providing.

How has your experience at Tableau affected AWS and how you think about putting your stamp on AWS? I, personally, have just spent almost five years deeply immersed in the world of data and analytics and business intelligence, and hopefully I learned something during that time about those topics.

I'm able to bring back a real insider's view, if you will, about where that world is heading — data, analytics, databases, machine learning, and how all those things come together, and how you really need to view what's happening with data as an end-to-end story.

It's not about having a point solution for a database or an analytic service, it's really about understanding the flow of data from when it comes into your organization all the way through the other end, where people are collaborating and sharing and making decisions based on that data. AWS has tremendous resources devoted in all these areas. Can you talk about the intersection of data and machine learning and how you see that playing out in the next couple of years?

What we're seeing is three areas really coming together: You've got databases, analytics capabilities, and machine learning, and it's sort of like a Venn diagram with a partial overlap of those three circles. There are areas of each which are arguably still independent from each other, but there's a very large and a very powerful intersection of the three — to the point where we've actually organized inside of AWS around that and have a single leader for all of those areas to really help bring those together.

There's so much data in the world, and the amount of it continues to explode. We were saying that five years ago, and it's even more true today.

The rate of growth is only accelerating. It's a huge opportunity and a huge problem. A lot of people are drowning in their data and don't know how to use it to make decisions. Other organizations have figured out how to use these very powerful technologies to really gain insights rapidly from their data. What we're really trying to do is to look at that end-to-end journey of data and to build really compelling, powerful capabilities and services at each stop in that data journey and then…knit all that together with strong concepts like governance.

By putting good governance in place about who has access to what data and where you want to be careful within those guardrails that you set up, you can then set people free to be creative and to explore all the data that's available to them.

AWS has more than services now. Have you hit the peak for that or can you sustain that growth? We're not done building yet, and I don't know when we ever will be. We continue to both release new services because customers need them and they ask us for them and, at the same time, we've put tremendous effort into adding new capabilities inside of the existing services that we've already built. We don't just build a service and move on.

Inside of each of our services — you can pick any example — we're just adding new capabilities all the time. One of our focuses now is to make sure that we're really helping customers to connect and integrate between our different services.

So those kinds of capabilities — both building new services, deepening our feature set within existing services, and integrating across our services — are all really important areas that we'll continue to invest in. Do customers still want those fundamental building blocks and to piece them together themselves, or do they just want AWS to take care of all that? There's no one-size-fits-all solution to what customers want. It is interesting, and I will say somewhat surprising to me, how much basic capabilities, such as price performance of compute, are still absolutely vital to our customers.

But it's absolutely vital. Part of that is because of the size of datasets and because of the machine learning capabilities which are now being created. They require vast amounts of compute, but nobody will be able to do that compute unless we keep dramatically improving the price performance. We also absolutely have more and more customers who want to interact with AWS at a higher level of abstraction…more at the application layer or broader solutions, and we're putting a lot of energy, a lot of resources, into a number of higher-level solutions.

One of the biggest of those … is Amazon Connect, which is our contact center solution. In minutes or hours or days, you can be up and running with a contact center in the cloud. At the beginning of the pandemic, Barclays … sent all their agents home. In something like 10 days, they got 6, agents up and running on Amazon Connect so they could continue servicing their end customers with customer service. We've built a lot of sophisticated capabilities that are machine learning-based inside of Connect.

We can do call transcription, so that supervisors can help with training agents and services that extract meaning and themes out of those calls. We don't talk about the primitive capabilities that power that, we just talk about the capabilities to transcribe calls and to extract meaning from the calls.

It's really important that we provide solutions for customers at all levels of the stack. Given the economic challenges that customers are facing, how is AWS ensuring that enterprises are getting better returns on their cloud investments? Now's the time to lean into the cloud more than ever, precisely because of the uncertainty.

We saw it during the pandemic in early , and we're seeing it again now, which is, the benefits of the cloud only magnify in times of uncertainty. For example, the one thing which many companies do in challenging economic times is to cut capital expense. For most companies, the cloud represents operating expense, not capital expense. You're not buying servers, you're basically paying per unit of time or unit of storage. That provides tremendous flexibility for many companies who just don't have the CapEx in their budgets to still be able to get important, innovation-driving projects done.

Another huge benefit of the cloud is the flexibility that it provides — the elasticity, the ability to dramatically raise or dramatically shrink the amount of resources that are consumed. You can only imagine if a company was in their own data centers, how hard that would have been to grow that quickly.

The ability to dramatically grow or dramatically shrink your IT spend essentially is a unique feature of the cloud. These kinds of challenging times are exactly when you want to prepare yourself to be the innovators … to reinvigorate and reinvest and drive growth forward again. We've seen so many customers who have prepared themselves, are using AWS, and then when a challenge hits, are actually able to accelerate because they've got competitors who are not as prepared, or there's a new opportunity that they spot.

We see a lot of customers actually leaning into their cloud journeys during these uncertain economic times. Do you still push multi-year contracts, and when there's times like this, do customers have the ability to renegotiate?

Many are rapidly accelerating their journey to the cloud. Some customers are doing some belt-tightening. What we see a lot of is folks just being really focused on optimizing their resources, making sure that they're shutting down resources which they're not consuming. You do see some discretionary projects which are being not canceled, but pushed out. Every customer is free to make that choice.

But of course, many of our larger customers want to make longer-term commitments, want to have a deeper relationship with us, want the economics that come with that commitment. We're signing more long-term commitments than ever these days. We provide incredible value for our customers, which is what they care about.

That kind of analysis would not be feasible, you wouldn't even be able to do that for most companies, on their own premises. For our EA, we will release the handles created for our Indicators during the initialization in this section.

This function process the NewTick event , which is generated when a new quote is received for a symbol. Note, that Expert Advisor cannot perform trade operations if the use of Expert Advisors in the client terminal is not allowed Button "Auto Trading". Most of our codes that will implement our trading strategy, developed earlier, will be written within this section.

Now that we have looked at the various sections of the code for our EA, let us begin adding flesh to the skeleton. As you can see, we have added more parameters. Before we continue discussing the new parameters, let us discuss something you can see now. With comments, we are able to know what our variables stand for, or what we are doing at that point in time in our code. It also gives a better understanding of our code. There are two basic ways of writing comments:.

This is a multi-line comment. The compiler ignores all comments when compiling your code. Using single-line comments for the input parameters is a good way of making our EA users understand what those parameters stands for. On the EA Input properties, our users will not see the parameter itself, but instead they will see the comments as shown below:.

Figure 7. Expert Advisor input parameters. We have decided to add additional parameters for our EA. A double is used to store floating point constants, which contain an integer part, a decimal point, and a fraction part. The Lot to trade Lot represents the volume of the financial instrument we want to trade. Then we declared other parameters that we will be using:. The adxHandle is to be used for storing the ADX indicator handle, while the maHandle will store the handle for the Moving Average indicator.

The maVal[] is a dynamic array that will hold the values of the Moving Average indicator for each bar on the chart. By the way, what are dynamic arrays? A dynamic array is an array declared without a dimension. In other words, no value is specified in the pair of square brackets.

A static array, on the other hand has its dimensions defined at the point of declaration. STP and TKP are going to be used to store the Stop Loss and the Take Profit values in our EA. Here we obtain the handles of our indicator using the respective indicator functions. The ADX indicator handle is obtained by using the iADX function. The Moving Average indicator handle is obtained by using the iMA function. It has the following arguments:. Please read the MQL5 manual to get more details about these indicator functions.

It will give you a better understanding of how to use each indicator. We use the alert function to display the error using the GetlastError function. We decides to store the Stop Loss and the Take Profit values in the variables STP and TKP we declared earlier. Why are we doing this? So here we want to make sure that our EA works very well with all brokers. Digits or Digits r eturns the number of decimal digits determining the accuracy of price of the current chart symbol.

For a 5-digit or 3-digit price chart, we multiply both the Stop Loss and the Take Profit by Since this function is called whenever the EA is disabled or removed from a chart, we will release all the indicators handles that were created during the initialization process here. We created two handles, one for ADX indicator and another handle for the Moving Average indicator. We will use the IndicatorRelease function to accomplish this.

It takes only one argument the indicator handle. The function removes an indicator handle and release the calculation block of the indicator, if it's not been used. The first thing we have to do here is to check if we have enough bars on the present chart. We can get the total bars in history of any chart using the Bars function. These two return the current symbol for the current chart on which our EA is attached and the period or timeframe of the present chart can be obtained using Period or Period.

This two will return the timeframe of the current chart on which the EA is attached. If the total available bars are less than 60, we want our EA to relax until we have enough bars available on the chart. The Alert function displays a message on a separate window. In this case, we have only one string value. The return exits the initialization of our EA. The Expert Advisor will perform trade operations at the beginning of a new bar, so it's necessary to solve the problem with the new bar identification.

We declared it as static because we want the value to be retained in memory until the next call of the OnTick function. We also declared a bool data type variable IsNewBar and sets its value to false. This is because we want its value to be TRUE only when we have a new bar. We use the CopyTime function to get the time of the current bar.

The IsNewBar variable indicates that we have a new bar. If it's FALSE, we finish the execution of OnTick function. it checks for the debug mode execution, it will print the message about the bar times when debug mode, we will consider it further.

The next thing we want to do here is to check if we have enough bars to work with. Why repeat it? We just want to be sure that our EA works correctly. It should be noted that while the OnInit function is called only once when the EA is attached to a chart, the OnTick function is called every time there is a new tick price quote. You observe that we have done it again differently here. We decide to store the total bars in history which we obtained from the expression.

in a new variable, Mybars , declared within the OnTick function. While the variables, declared at the Input Parameters section of our code, are available to all functions, within our code that may need them, variables declared within a single function is limited and available to that function alone. It can not be used outside of that function. Next, we declared a few variables of MQL5 structure types which will be used in this section of our EA.

MQL5 has quite a number of built in Structures which makes things pretty easy for EA developers. Any variable declared to be of the MqlTick type can easily be used to obtain the current values of Ask, Bid, Last and Volume once you call the SymbolInfoTick function. This structure is used to perform all trade requests for a trade operation.

It contains, in its structure, all the fields necessary for performing a trade deal. Any variable declared to be of the MqlTradeRequest type can be used to send orders for our trade operations.

Here we declared mrequest as a MqlTradeRequest type. The result of any trade operation is returned as a special predefined structure of MqlTradeResult type. Any variable declared to be of MqlTradeResult type will be able to access the trade request results. Here we declared mresult as a MqlTradeResult type. The Price Open, Close, High, Low , the Time, the Volumes of each bar and the spread for a symbol is stored in this structure.

Any array declared to be of the MqlRates type can be used to store the price, volumes and spread history for a symbol.

Here we have declared an array mrate[] which will be used to store these information. Next we decide to set all the arrays we will be using to store Bars details as series.

This is to ensure that the values that will be copied to the arrays will be indexed like the timeseries, that is, 0, 1, 2, 3, to correspond with the bars index.

So we use the ArraySetAsSeries function. It should be noted that this can also be done once at the initialization section of our code. However, I have decided to show it at this point for the sake of our explanation. We now use the SymbolInfoTick function to obtain the latest price quote. Again, if there is error, we reported it. Next we copied the information about the latest three bars into our Mqlrates type array using the CopyRates function.

The CopyRates function is used to get history data of MqlRates structure of a specified Symbol-Period in specified quantity into a MqlRates type array.

For the start position, we will start from the current bar, Bar 0 and we will count only three Bars, Bars 0, 1, and 2. The result will be store in our array, mrate[]. The mrate[] array now contains all the price, time, volumes and spread information for bars 0 , 1 and 2.

Therefore to get the details of any bar, we will use the following:. Next we, copied all the indicator values into the dynamic arrays we have declared using the CopyBuffer function. The indicator handle is the handle we created in the OnInit section. Concerning buffer numbers, the ADX indicator has three 3 buffers:.

The Moving Average indicator has only one 1 buffer:. We copy from the present bar 0 to the past two bars. So amount of records to copy is 3 bars 0, 1 and 2. The buffer[] is the target dynamic arrays we had earlier declared — adxVal, plsDI, minDI and maVal. As you can see here again, we try to capture any error that may occur in the copying process. If there is error, no need to go further.

It is important to note that the CopyBuffer and the CopyRates function returns the total number of records copied on success while it returns -1 incase of an error. That is why we are checking for a value less than 0 zero in the error checking functions here.

At this point we want to check if we already have a Buy or Sell position opened, in order words, we want to make sure we have only ONE Sell or Buy trade opened at a time. We do not want to open a new Buy if we already have one, and we do not want to open a new Sell if we already have one opened. We use the trade function PositionSelect to know if we have an open position. This function returns TRUE if we have a position opened already and FALSE if we have none. If this expression returns TRUE, then we want to check if the position opened is a Buy or a Sell.

We use the PositionGetInteger function for this. In our case, we used it to determine which of the position we already have opened. We will be able to use these two variables later when we are checking for Sell or Buy conditions later in our code. Remember we declared a variable for that earlier. Let us analyze the expression above as it represents the strategy we designed earlier. We are declaring a bool type variable for each of our conditions that must be met before an order can be placed.

A bool type variable can only contain TRUE or FALSE. So, our Buy strategy has been broken down into four conditions. If any of the conditions is met or satisfied, then a value of TRUE is stored in our bool type variable, otherwise, a value of FALSE will be stored. Let us look at them one by one. Here we are looking at the MA-8 values on Bars 0, 1 and 2. If value of MA-8 on the current bar is greater than its value on the previous Bar 1 and also the MA-8 value on Bar 1 is greater than its value on Bar 2 , it means that MA-8 is increasing upwards.

This satisfies one of our conditions for a Buy setup. This expression is checking to see if Bar 1 Close price is higher than the value of MA-8 at the same period Bar 1 period. If the price is higher, then our second condition has also been satisfied, then we can check for other conditions. However, if the two conditions we have just considered were not met, then there will be no need to check other conditions. That is why we decide to include the next expressions within these two initial conditions expressions.

Now we want to check if the current value of ADX ADX value on Bar 0 is greater than the Minimum ADX value declared in the input parameters. If this expression is true, that is, the current value of ADX is greater than the Minimum required value; we also want to be sure that the plusDI value is greater than the minusDI value.

This is what we achieved in the next expression. If all these conditions are met, that is, if they return true, then we want to be sure that we do not open a new Buy position if we already have one. The OrderSend function takes two arguments, the MqlTradeRequest type variable and the MqlTradeResult type variable. As you can see, we used our MqlTradeRequest type variable and the MqlTradeResult type variable in placing our order using OrderSend. Having sent our order, we will now use the MqlTradeResult type variable to check the result of our order.

If our order is executed successfully, we want to be informed, and if not, we want to know too. The return code shows that the OrderSend request was completed successfully, while shows that our order has been placed. That is why we have checked for any of these two return codes.

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This article is aimed at beginners who wish to learn how to write simple Expert Advisors in the new MQL5 language. We will begin first by defining what we want our EA Expert advisor to do, and then move on to how we want the EA to do it.

The above is called a trading strategy. Before you can write an EA, you must first develop the strategy that you want to automate into the EA. So in this case, let us modify the above statement so that it reflects the strategy we want to develop into an EA. We will use an indicator called Moving Average with a period of 8 You can choose any period, but for the purpose of our strategy, we will use 8.

We have now developed our strategy; it is now time to start writing our code. Begin by launching the MetaQuotes Language Editor 5. In the MQL5 Wizard window, select Expert Advisor and click the "Next" as shown on Fig. Figure 2. Selecting program type. In the next window, type the Name you want to give to your EA in the Name box. You can then type your name in the Author box and also your website address or email address in the Link box if you have one.

Figure 3. General properties of the Expert Advisor. Since we want to be able to change some of the parameters for our EA in order to see which of the values can give us the best result, we shall add them by clicking the "Add" button. Figure 4. Setting EA input parameters. In our EA, we want to be able to experiment with our Stop Loss, Take Profit, ADX Period, and Moving Average Period settings, so we will define them at this point.

Double Click under the Name section and type the name of the parameter, then double click under the Type to Select the data type for the parameter, and double click under the Initial value section and type the initial value for the parameter.

Figure 5. Data types of EA input parameters. As you can see above, I selected integer int data type for all the parameters. Let us talk a little about data types. From the above description of the various data types, the unsigned integer types are not designed for storing negative values, any attempt to set a negative value can lead to unexpected consequences. For example, if you want to store negative values, you cannot store them inside the unsigned types i. uchar, uint, ushort, ulong. Back to our EA.

Looking at the data types, you will agree with me that we are suppose to use char or uchar data types since the data we intend to store in these parameters are less than or respectively.

For good memory management, this is the best thing to do. However for the sake of our discussion, we will still stick to the int type. Once you are done setting all the necessary parameters, click the Finished button and the MetaQuotes Editor will create the skeleton of the code for you as shown in the next figure. The top part Header of the code is where the property of the EA is defined. You can see that here are the values you filled in the MQL5 Wizard in figure 3. In this section of the code, you can define additional parameters like description brief text description of the EA , declare constants, include additional files or import functions.

define :. The define directive is used for a declaration of constants. It is written in the form. You can read more about the preprocessor directives in the MQL5 Manual. Let us now continue with our discussion. The second part of the header of our code is the input parameters section:. We specify all parameters, which will be used in our EA at this section.

These include all variables that will be used by all the functions we will be writing in our EA. Variables declared at this level are called Global Variables because they are accessible by every function in our EA that may need them. The input parameters are parameters that can only be changed outside of our EA. We can also declare other variables which we will manipulate in the course of our EA but will not be available outside of our EA in this section.

Next is the EA initialization function. This is the first function that is called when the EA is launched or attached to a chart and it is called only once. This section is the best place to make some important checks in order to make sure our EA works very well. We can decide to know if the chart has enough bars for our EA to work, etc.

It is also the best place to get the handles we will be using for our indicators ADX and Moving Average indicators. The OnDeinit functio n is called when the EA is removed from the chart. For our EA, we will release the handles created for our Indicators during the initialization in this section. This function process the NewTick event , which is generated when a new quote is received for a symbol.

Note, that Expert Advisor cannot perform trade operations if the use of Expert Advisors in the client terminal is not allowed Button "Auto Trading". Most of our codes that will implement our trading strategy, developed earlier, will be written within this section.

Now that we have looked at the various sections of the code for our EA, let us begin adding flesh to the skeleton. As you can see, we have added more parameters. Before we continue discussing the new parameters, let us discuss something you can see now.

With comments, we are able to know what our variables stand for, or what we are doing at that point in time in our code. It also gives a better understanding of our code.

There are two basic ways of writing comments:. This is a multi-line comment. The compiler ignores all comments when compiling your code. Using single-line comments for the input parameters is a good way of making our EA users understand what those parameters stands for.

On the EA Input properties, our users will not see the parameter itself, but instead they will see the comments as shown below:. Figure 7. Expert Advisor input parameters. We have decided to add additional parameters for our EA. A double is used to store floating point constants, which contain an integer part, a decimal point, and a fraction part.

The Lot to trade Lot represents the volume of the financial instrument we want to trade. Then we declared other parameters that we will be using:. The adxHandle is to be used for storing the ADX indicator handle, while the maHandle will store the handle for the Moving Average indicator. The maVal[] is a dynamic array that will hold the values of the Moving Average indicator for each bar on the chart.

By the way, what are dynamic arrays? A dynamic array is an array declared without a dimension. In other words, no value is specified in the pair of square brackets. A static array, on the other hand has its dimensions defined at the point of declaration. STP and TKP are going to be used to store the Stop Loss and the Take Profit values in our EA.

Here we obtain the handles of our indicator using the respective indicator functions. The ADX indicator handle is obtained by using the iADX function. The Moving Average indicator handle is obtained by using the iMA function. It has the following arguments:. Please read the MQL5 manual to get more details about these indicator functions.

It will give you a better understanding of how to use each indicator. We use the alert function to display the error using the GetlastError function. We decides to store the Stop Loss and the Take Profit values in the variables STP and TKP we declared earlier. Why are we doing this? So here we want to make sure that our EA works very well with all brokers. Digits or Digits r eturns the number of decimal digits determining the accuracy of price of the current chart symbol.

For a 5-digit or 3-digit price chart, we multiply both the Stop Loss and the Take Profit by Since this function is called whenever the EA is disabled or removed from a chart, we will release all the indicators handles that were created during the initialization process here.

We created two handles, one for ADX indicator and another handle for the Moving Average indicator. We will use the IndicatorRelease function to accomplish this.

It takes only one argument the indicator handle. The function removes an indicator handle and release the calculation block of the indicator, if it's not been used.

The first thing we have to do here is to check if we have enough bars on the present chart. We can get the total bars in history of any chart using the Bars function. These two return the current symbol for the current chart on which our EA is attached and the period or timeframe of the present chart can be obtained using Period or Period.

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