Overview: Mark is a Project Manager in Investment Banking (LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-randall-a6abb41/)
He also trades on his own account. He had trading strategies which he wanted to automate and further ideas which he wanted to research systematically.
He had tried various courses and online resources before, but none truly helped him to understand how to program or use the MT4 Trading Platform's functionality (and underlying language, MQL4) to achieve his goals
Objective: Make Mark self-sufficient in programming automated trading strategies and related programs / software
Results: Mark gained knowledge and confidence of how to program in MQL4 and use MT4:
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Programs to analyse data for patterns, even across charts and timeframes (Indicators) and trade and monitor positions automatically (Experts)
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Understanding of the backtesting and optimisation process
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Understanding of how to procure and use good quality data
Steps: Taught Mark the general basics of any software language, in MQL4
Demonstrated the different types of program and functionalities which can help him with his trading
Worked on creating a general template strategy he can adapt and a library of functions to support it. Now he can develop ideas without needing to reveal his Intellectual Property to anyone (including me)