How Do You Activate a XAUUSD EA on MT4 for XAUUSD Trading?
How to Activate an EA on MT4 and MT5 XAUUSD Platform
Steps on How to Activate XAUUSD EA on MT4 and MT5 XAUUSD Platforms.
- 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 & MT5 Expert Advisor
Options Setting on Tools Menu on MetaTrader 4 & MT5 XAUUSD Platform
The options setting button key is used for a variety of many different tasks on the MetaTrader 4 and MT5 xauusd trading platforms. The Option setting button is listed within tools menu in the MetaTrader 4 & MT5 as displayed below. Short-cut keys for this - 'Ctrl+O'.
MetaTrader 4 & MT5 Options Settings - Expert Advisors Automated XAUUSD Setup
MetaTrader 4 & MT5 Options Settings
These settings on the MetaTrader 4 & 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 & then change settings.
XAUUSD Expert Advisors Tab
The XAUUSD Platform Expert-Advisors window panel is displayed below:
MetaTrader 4 and MT5 XAUUSD Platform - Options Settings for Gold Expert Advisors Automated Trading
following options are used for Gold Expert-Advisors Automated Trading:
Enable Expert Advisors - Allow for EA to be placed on chart for automated trading execution purposes
Disable experts when trading accounts have been changed - log in 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 new profile is deactivated until you allow and manually place an Expert Advisor on this new opened gold chart.
Allow Live Trading - Give Permission to the EA to open trades on the live gold market.
(Ask Manual Confirmation - no needs for this if you are using EAs, leave this one as it is shown without checking it.)
Allow DLL imports - Dynamic Link Libraries, which are external, unless this is required this should be left unticked. (External means that these libraries are referenced from a source external and 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 Expert Advisor to reference some data from another EA that is in another place, away from your computer PC, (External means these EA XAUUSD Robots are referenced from an external source that is outside of your Desktop Computer, so you need to be careful with this option).
MQL5 XAUUSD Expert Advisor Community
The MQL5 forum is a forum where traders can find other traders & Exchange Expert Advisors & XAUUSD Signals with each other.
Traders have to register to this MQL5 Gold Expert Advisors community and can then access services from their MT4 or MT5 platform directly. To get details on how to access and register in this community, login to your MetaTrader 4 or MT5 software and navigate to window panel shown below and follow the instructions.
MQL5 Gold Expert Advisor Community - MetaTrader 4 Robots & MT5 Robots\
