Master Metatrader 5: Master Every Feature of Your Trading Platform
MetaTrader 5 ships with a backtester, an optimiser, VPS hosting and detailed execution logs — and most traders never use them. This step-by-step manual by algorithmic trader Gilles Santacreu takes you from a well-organised workspace to properly tested strategies and fully automated, server-hosted trading, with the know-how to diagnose platform errors yourself. No programming required.
You already have a professional trading platform. This book shows you how to use it like one.
Most people install MetaTrader 5, add a few indicators, place orders from the chart and stop there. That is perhaps a tenth of what the software can do. The Strategy Tester, the optimiser, the Market Watch depth, trading profiles, the built-in VPS, the MQL5 Cloud network, the journal that explains why an order was rejected — all of it ships with the platform, free, and most traders never open it.
This manual is a complete, structured tour of MT5 written by a trader who has built and run automated systems on it for years. It moves from the interface to full automation in a deliberate order, so that each chapter rests on the one before it. Nothing in it requires programming knowledge to follow, and everything in it is shown on the real platform.
What you will be able to do
Set up a workspace that gets out of your way. Configure charts, templates and profiles for the way you actually trade, and use one-click and visual trading so that placing, moving and closing orders takes seconds rather than menus.
Test a strategy before you fund it. The Strategy Tester is the most under-used tool in retail trading. You will learn to run a backtest correctly — tick modelling, spread, commission, data quality — read the report, run an optimisation without fooling yourself, and decide on evidence whether a method deserves real money.
Keep your trading running without your computer. Hosting an Expert Advisor on a VPS from inside MT5, distributing an optimisation across MQL5 Cloud, and making sure a power cut, a Windows update or a lost connection at home never touches an open position.
Fix problems yourself. Every message in the Journal and the Experts log means something specific. Once you can read them, “invalid stops”, “trade context busy”, “not enough money” and the rest stop being mysteries and become five-minute fixes.
Who it is written for
Scalpers and day traders who want execution to be fast and reliable. Swing traders who want to test an idea properly before trading it. Anyone running or planning to run Expert Advisors who needs the infrastructure — testing, hosting, monitoring — to be solid. If MT5 is the tool you spend your trading day in, this is the manual it should have come with.
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 143 |
