Project Synopsis

The Financial Trading Automation Solutions project is the creation of automated financial trading strategies. The client trades currencies on the Foreign Exchange Market (FOREX) through the trading platform MetaTrader 5. He uses automated trading robots, known as Expert Advisors (EAs), to perform trades based on his trading strategies that he has developed though manual trading and observations. Historically, the client has outsourced the creation of his EAs to overseas developers due to an unavailability of MQL5 (the programming language required to automate financial trading on the MetaTrader 5 platform) developers in New Zealand. Outsourcing has resulted in problems. Different time zones and language barriers have resulted in the misunderstanding of requirements, increased development times, higher costs, and lower quality EAs providing our project team with an opportunity.

Financial Trading Automation Solutions serves two purposes. The first is automating two of the client's financial trading strategies by creating two EAs to a professional standard. The second and uniquely important purpose is offering a local development experience for the client to circumvent the problems encountered through outsourcing overseas.