MQL5 - Programming language

MQL5 is a programming language created in 2005.

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MQL4 (MetaQuotes Language 4) and MQL5 (MetaQuotes Language 5) are integrated programming languages designed for developing trading robots, technical market indicators, scripts and function libraries within the MetaTrader software. The primary objective of MQL4 and MQL5 is automation of trading and facilitation of operational analysis. MQL4 and MQL5 comprises an extensive codebase source code library used for developing trading robots.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 1,273 MQL5 repos on GitHub
Early development of MQL5 happened in MetaQuotes Software
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 34 users using MQL5 in 38 repos on GitHub
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for MQL5
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for MQL5
Read more about MQL5 on the web: 1.

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//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//|                                                script-sample.mq5 |
//|                                   Copyright 2016, Andrey Osorgin |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
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//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
#property version   "1.00"
#property script_show_inputs

#include <Trade\Trade.mqh>

input int StopLoss=100; // Stop Loss
input int TakeProfit=100; // Take Profit
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
//| Script program start function                                    |
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void OnStart()
  {
   CTrade trade;
//---
   long stoplevel=SymbolInfoInteger(Symbol(),SYMBOL_TRADE_STOPS_LEVEL);
   Print("Minimum stop level is: ",stoplevel);
   double ask=SymbolInfoDouble(Symbol(),SYMBOL_ASK);
   double bid=SymbolInfoDouble(Symbol(),SYMBOL_BID);
   double sl = NormalizeDouble(bid - StopLoss*Point(),Digits());
   double tp = NormalizeDouble(ask + TakeProfit*Point(),Digits());
//---
   bool result=trade.Buy(0.01,Symbol(),ask,sl,tp,"test");
//---
   Print("Success? ",result);
  }
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X