Expert Advisor Instruction

Forex Auto Trade Service has been especially developed to allow our clients to trade by our forex signals providers alerts automatically and is intended for those forex traders who feel any inconvenience to use our signals in trading Forex because of their uncertain time and the need for being always next to their computers.

Thanks to the automated Forex trading service, you may be able to use our professional forex traders’ signals and have the trades executed on your behalf. The full instruction set about installing and using the EA may be downloaded here. Or you can just get the Expert Advisor installed and configured for you by our support team completely for free.

• A new variable “CurrencyPostfix” has been added in the Expert Advisor Properties Inputs list. It allows assigning a postfix letter for a currency symbol when it is necessary. This variable should be assigned in case if you have error messages while using the Expert Advisor like the following one: “GFSignals Auto Trading USDCHFm,M1: unknown symbol name USDCHF for OrderSend function”. In this case “m” letter must be assigned to the CurrencyPostfix variable in order it to be added to currency symbol when auto trade Forex with the Expert Advisor
• The slippage bug has been fixed. The variable nSlippage allows not opening the trade position when the price value received from the forex signals provider differs from the real forex market price value more than expected. In case of this spread exceeds this variable’s value the position will not be open. By default this parameter is 10

A new domen (http://www.ea.gfsignals.com/) was created especially for our members could test the ability of the automated forex trading process. Here you can see and test how the Expert Advisor is functioning. From this platform you can send Forex trading signal Alerts yourself and check up how they are executed by the Expert Advisor. And all of this is absolutely for free! You don’t have to buy the forex signals from our forex traders to test its functioning.

How to use the Expert Advisor for testing purposes:

1. Point “E-mail for expert advisor (MT4 platform)” in your profile for the Advisor could receive the signals.
   
   VERY IMPORTANT!!! It is better to assign an individual e-mail account for this purpose. Because the Expert Advisor removes totally all the messages from the e-mail box assigned for the signals
2. Enter http://www.ea.gfsignals.com/ with your login name and password you have registerd at GFSignals.com with and download the Expert Advisor with installation instruction attached using “Download” button at the top of the screen.
3. Install the Expert Advisor, following the instruction attached
4. In the top of the “Signals for test Expert Advisor” page you are to see the e-mail for expert advisor which was assigned in your profile. You will also find 3 tables on this page. To create a new signal make all sets required in the “Add/New – Signal/Order” table and press Send Signal button. The signal will be sent to your MetaTrader platform and the position will be opened automatically by the Expert Advisor.
   
   Note! Try it on a demo account!
5. If the Expert Advisor doesn’t execute the signals sent from the testing platform check up the messages in Experts Tab of Terminal window whether the Expert Advisor receives the e-mails. If it doesn’t check up whether they come to your e-mail box. If not check up your settings (see the installation instruction)

Global Forex Signals Service provides the Expert Advisor that allows fully automated trading Forex on MetaTrader 4 platform FOR FREE.

How to use the Expert Advisor for trading Forex automatically on the live account:

1. VERY IMPORTANT!!! At first you need to test the work of the EA with your MT4. Just follow the instruction described above and test the work of the EA on a demo account. If everything is OK, you can switch the EA off on your demo account and turn it on on your live one. Keep the settings just the same and everything will work all right. After testing the EA continue to follow this instruction.
2. Choose the trader you would like to start trading Forex with (subscribe to forex trader’s signals), get a subscription to his Forex signals and just relax, enjoying the signals executed on your account automatically.

Pre-Installation Requirements:

Before installation, you must check that you have the correct software:
• System Requirements: Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2). Expert Advisor may work on other versions of windows, but was checked on XP with SP2.
• Download and install MetaTrader here
  
  Note: MetaTrader must be Version 4.00 build 203 and up
  
  Note: if you use the Expert Advisor for the first time try it on a Demo Account
• You need a dedicated POP3 e-mail for Expert Advisor (to fetch the signal e-mail from)
  
  Note: Internet connections through proxy servers are not supported as well as working with Firewalls.

How it works:

E-mail:
• The Expert Advisor checks for mail every 60 seconds.
• It receives all the messages from the e-mail box in the order of their coming but uses just those ones which contain the signals.
• The Expert Advisor deletes all the messages from the e-mail box.
• If error occurs or impossible to connect to e-mail there will be a message in “Terminal” window (Experts Tab) from The Expert Advisor.

Note: If there are some old messages with the signals (for example from the last week) in your Inbox, The Expert Advisor will try to execute them. So, check your Inbox before starting in order to occurrence of the mentioned messages.

Signal Execution:
• The Expert Advisor executes the signals in the order of their coming.
• The following errors may occur when running The Expert Advisor: server failure, trade impossible, quotations error etc. The Expert Advisor makes up to 4 attempts to execute and in case of failure sends a message to “Terminal” window (Experts Tab)
• Every signal has its unique ID number. You can see it in the Comment column of the Terminal window. If you don’t see the Comment column, right-click in the Terminal window (Trade tab) and check the Comments line.
• You will have to verify the signals with the information at our site.

The full instruction set you may download here: link