How Do I Activate a Commodity Expert-Advisor on MetaTrader 5 Platform?
How to Activate an Expert Advisor in MT4 & MT5 Commodity Trading Platform
Steps on How to Activate Commodities Expert-Advisor in MetaTrader 4 & MT5 Commodity Softwares.
- Select the Tools Menu
- Select The Expert Advisors Tab
- Click the Check Box "Enable Expert Advisors"
- Click the Check Box "Allow Live Trading"
Procedure on how to activate an MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 EA
Options Settings on Tools Menu on MT4 and MT5 Commodity Trading Software
The options setting button is used for a variety of many different tasks on the MT4 and MT5 commodity trading platforms. Option settings button is listed within tools menu in MT4 and MT5 as shown below. The Short-cut key for this - "Ctrl+O".
MetaTrader 4 and MT5 Options Settings - Expert Advisors Automated Commodity Trading Setup
Expert Advisors Automated Commodity Trading Setup
These settings on the MT4 and MT5 are shown below: the list of various buttons are displayed as tabs as displayed on the image below. As a trader to edit anything on this window just click on any of these button keys and then change the settings.
Commodities Expert-Advisors Tab
The Commodity Software Expert-Advisors panel is illustrated and shown below:
MetaTrader 4 & MT5 Commodity Platform - Options Settings for Commodity EAs Automated Trading
following options are used for Commodity EAs Automated Trading:
Enable EAs - Allow for Expert Advisor to be placed on the chart for the purposes of automated trading execution
Disable experts when accounts have been changed - login to a different account deactivates Expert Advisors
Disable Experts when profile has been change - When you change profiles the Expert-Advisors setting for allowing trading in the new profile is deactivated until you allow & manually place an Expert-Advisor on this newly opened commodities trading chart.
Allow Live Trading - Give Permission to the EA to open trades on the live commodity market.
(Ask Manual Confirmation - no needs for this if you're using Expert-Advisors, leave this as it is displayed without checking it.)
Allow DLL imports - Dynamic Link Libraries, which are external, unless this is required this should be left unchecked. (External means that these libraries are referenced from a source external & outside your PC computer, so you should try to be careful with this one)
Confirm DLL functions calls - Exercise manual permission for each & every function call, either allow it or disallow it depending on your trade parameters.
Allow External Experts imports - This is used to allow your EA to reference some data from another EA that is in another place, away from your computer PC, (External means these Expert Advisor Commodity Trading Robots are referenced from an external source outside your PC computer, so be careful with this option).
MQL5 Commodities Expert-Advisor Forum
The MQL5 forum is a community where traders can find other traders and Exchange EAs and Signals with each other.
Traders have to register to this MQL5 Commodity Expert-Advisors community and can then access services from their MT4 or MT5 commodities trading platform directly. To get details information on how to access & sign up in this community, login to your MT4 or MT5 software & navigate to window shown below and follow the instructions.
MQL5 Commodity Expert-Advisor Community - MT4 Automated Robots and MT5 Automated Robots\
