Help with transition from MT4

• 09/10/2016 at 12:50 PM #12919
  ElMagico

  Hi All,

  I’ve decided it’s time to migrate away from the MT4 platform after several years of frustration and I think PRT is the platform I’m going to switch to. As this will be quite an investment in terms of my time and money I have a few questions I hope someone can help me with:-

  With PRT is there an offline editor with the ability to store your source code locally so I can use a source control product such as SVN?

  Is it possible to include libraries so I can break my code up by functions?

  When back testing is it tick level data or does that depend on your broker?

  I’m working on a strategy that I only want to trading during ‘cash’ hours of a market, so when I’m making a current time query in my code will I get time at market or time with my broker? For example, my broker is probably going to be IG Index in the UK but I might want to be trading DAX or CAC so do I have to work out daylight saving time offsets in my code for back testing?

  Can systems send email alerts when entering/exiting a trade?

  Is debug output possible?

  Thanks in advance.

  EM.

  

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  09/12/2016 at 9:06 AM #12964
  Nicolas

  Hi ElMagico,

  With PRT, everything’s stored in the cloud (PRT server), you can of course code your system outside the platform with just a text editor, but you’ll not get the ease of the syntax corrector and the syntax highlighting of the embedded platform IDE.

  PRT programming language were made to be the more user friendly possible, even for non-coders. So, functions that can be call within libraries are not part of the language. You’ll need to copy/past your already coded functions in each program.

  Tick backtests will be available in the next major update, this is something largely discussed in many topics here 🙂

  When coding, time is your own timezone.

  IG can send mails for any event related to your account.

  

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  09/13/2016 at 7:29 PM #13035
  ElMagico

  Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions, I think the next step is to download and give it a try!

  Thanks again,

  EM.

  

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