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One of the most popular and simple trading strategies involves the use of a slow moving average and a fast moving average, using the crossover of the two as entry signal. Here you can download an expert advisor to run this strategy on MetaTrader 4 and see its strengths and weaknesses.
The type of MA used is simple moving average.
Backtesting results for EUR/USD on M30 timeframe is not very exciting. With the current setup and rules, the expert advisor is generally not profitable with any currency and any timeframe.
The strategy is very simple and is based on only two indicators. It works well in case of a clear trend. Under perfect conditions, a clear long trend can be very profitable.
The expert advisor is too simple and is negatively impacted by ranging market.
It wouldn't be a good idea to use this expert advisor on a real account. It isn't generally profitable and is too affected by ranging market.
This expert advisor is free to download and use.
If you want to save hours of research and coding and you want to see some professional code, have a look at this expert advisor. You can use it to build your own EA.
EA-2MACrossover_v1-0.mq4 is a simple expert advisor for MT4 that opens an order at the crossover of a fast moving average with a slow moving average.
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If you are interested in building your own expert advisor or knowing more about how to do it, check our MT4 Expert Advisor Template.
You can open a trading account with any of the MT4 Forex brokers to freely use the presented here expert advisor for MetaTrader 4.