How Do I Activate a Commodity Expert Advisor in MT4 Platform for Commodities?

How to Activate an Expert Advisor in MetaTrader 4 and MT5 Commodity Trading Platform

Steps on How to Activate Commodities Expert Advisor on MT4 & MetaTrader 5 Commodities Softwares.

1. Select the Tools Menu
2. Select The Expert-Advisors Tab
3. Click the Check Box 'Enable Expert Advisors'
4. Click the Check Box 'Allow Live Trading'

Procedure on how to activate an MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 Expert-Advisor

Options Settings on Tools Menu in MT4 and MT5 Commodities Trading Software

The options setting button is used for a variety of many different tasks on the MT4 and MT5 commodities platforms. Options setting button key is listed within the tools menu in MT4 and MetaTrader 5 as displayed below. The Shortcut key for this - 'Ctrl+O'.

MT4 & MetaTrader 5 Options Settings - Expert Advisors Automated Commodity Trading Setup

MT4 & MetaTrader 5 Options Settings

These settings on the MT4 & MetaTrader 5 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 Trading Expert Advisors Tab

The Commodity Trading Platform Expert-Advisors window is shown and illustrated below:

MetaTrader 4 & MetaTrader 5 Commodities Software - Options Settings for Commodities Trading Expert-Advisors Automated Trading

following options are used for Commodities Expert-Advisors Automated Trading:

Enable Expert-Advisors - Allow for commodities trading Expert-Advisor to be placed on commodities trading chart for automated commodities trading execution purposes

Disable experts when accounts have been changed - sign in to a different account deactivates Commodities 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 and manually place an EA on this newly opened commodities chart.

Allow Live Trading - Give Permission to the EA to open trades on the live commodities market.

(Ask Manual Confirmation - no needs for this if you are using Commodities Trading Expert-Advisors, leave this one as it is displayed without checking it.)

Allow DLL imports - Dynamic Link Libraries, which are external, unless required this should be left unticked/unchecked. (External which means that these libraries are referenced from sources external and outside your Desktop PC computer, therefore be careful with this one)

Confirm DLL functions calls - Exercise manual permission for each and 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 PC computer, (External means these Expert Advisor Commodity Robots are referenced from an external source outside your computer, so you need to be careful with this option).

MQL5 Commodities Trading Expert Advisor Forum

The MQL5 community is a community where traders can find other traders & Exchange Expert Advisors & Commodity Trading Signals with each other.

Traders have to register to this MQL5 Commodities Expert Advisors community and can then access services from their MT4 or MT5 commodities platform directly. To get details information on how to access & sign up in this community, sign in to your MT4 or MT5 software & go to window shown below & follow the instructions.

MQL5 Commodities Expert Advisor Community - MT4 Robots & MetaTrader 5 Bots