Where did you learn more about EA coding/programming

[Thebeezneez]

Lots of traders on here taking their trading up a notch by coding an EA.

If that’s you, where did you learn the coding side of stuff? Any really good resources to get started there for an absolute beginner?

Thinking of MT4 since that seems to be mentioned most often.

TY!

[ponponwei]

I saw this one: https://book.mql4.com/

But already fell asleep looking at it as the page loaded

[darthdimsky]

Found a painstakingly detailed thread from 2013 that might help. I’ve bookmarked it for future reading.

[TUTORIAL] Complete Backtesting and Analysis Setup (100% Free)

In this thread, I will be teaching readers one of my methods for performing accurate backtests of automated trading systems as well as post-test analysis. This method is great for someone who does not have much start up capital as it is [B]completely free[/B], yet still very powerful and comprehensive. My aim is to help readers set up a complete system development infrastructure. By the end of the tutorial, one will be able to very easily develop and test trading systems with a high efficiency. …

Only issue is that the screenshots aren’t present (BP, as a forum, probably migrated from one system to another) and some of the links might not work, but the effort put by the OP is really amazing. There should be other nuggets scattered here and there in this forum.

While reading up on writing a basic script on MQL5 (MetaTrader 5 code) I understood that it was similar in nature to C++, if that helps.