Order Process
For best project outcomes, keep it simple and enhance in cycles.
1 — Are we right for you?
We're a boutique shop with a specific client base and specific workflow. We may not be right for you.
We code MT4 Indicators and Experts for real traders who already trade in real-time and would like to build systems to automate their real-time trading day so that they can spend time at the beach instead.
You are
You're a trader with a clear real-time daily trading procedure. You'd like to automate. You'd like robust long-term support to power your system's evolution as your strategy evolves. You'd like your automation to have real-time critical trading stability. You'd like to be able to request version enhancements and receive robust support for it into the far future with cleanly tracked system specifications.
We are
We're the software engineers who materialize your automation. Let your robot monkeys (MT4 Indicators / Expert Advisors) sit at the chart for you. Your time is better spent on higher analysis or spent by the pool.
Agile-like increments
We only work in agile-like increments. 2-3 days each Gig cycle, fast version deliveries, leaner quotes and very clean functional upgrades – as in, simplified rapid software development lifecycles, with each Gig representing a functional or modular upgrade. Beyond a certain Gig size, we will always split the project. This threshold may increase with our time together.
MQL4Solutions is not right for you if you aren't willing to split a project into smaller modular pieces and Gig cycles. The max quote/time for a single Gig project cycle that we'll do depends on several factors; we'll let you know.
MQL4Solutions is legally a software service, not a financial consulting service.
Therefore, we're not licenced to provide financial strategy advice. That's your job as the trader, and our job is to free up your time by automating your clear steps via robust, accurate and stable robotic trading engines in MT4.
If the bulk of your needs are in financial strategy help, and 'just programming' is easy and you can program trading robots really easily yourself, then you don't need this service!
If you do need automation with us, and parts of your trading steps are vague or subjective because it relies on visual opinions rather than objective calculations, you'll need to get this cleared up (e.g. find an Indicator).
If we've been working together for a while already, we may provide suggestions on how you might achieve a certain idea in an objective way in algo-trading, to help you move forward with robotizing your workflow. The final choices will always be yours.
2 — Your trading steps
You're ready if
Your real-time trading workflow is objective and specific, such that if 100 people follow your steps in real-time, all 100 people would execute identically due to how specific and clear your rules are. This goes for Indicator signals or line-graph plotting as well.
You're not ready if
Your trading steps are actually general guidelines or theories, like:
When the price has resistance, do this...
When the price is trending up, do this...
3 — Send us your trading steps
Be specific. Keep it simple. We'll quote price and delivery time, establish clear Specifications and send a Gig Offer.
4 — We develop and deliver
Once you accept the Gig Offer, we move the final Specifications into Development and will deliver as Specified before the countdown ends.
Take a break and wait for your delivery — patience helps us bring you reliable and tested software.
5 — Enhance and extend
Extend: After v.1.0 is delivered, come back anytime to order an extension or change. We repeat the Order Process cycle above, assessing Specifications and quoting for the enhancement to v.2.0.
Success Rule: Keep It Simple & Extend
MQL4Solutions focuses on long term relationships with clients. We grow systems modularly with frequent 'Agile' deliveries and shorter, clearly specified Gig cycles.
This means frequent deliveries, a well-specified modular system, and the ability to use the system early and re-assess strategic direction before adding bells and whistles.
Our most successful clients develop a gigantic hybrid system over time, containing thousands of possible strategy trajectory combinations and management switches using our highly extensible and modular development methods.
MQL4Solutions supports long-term relationships for system growth, not one-off grabs, so we will not take orders that include too many all-in buzz-word features just dumped at us without commitment to explaining all parts of the strategy. If you are ordering, you must have a deeply detailed understanding of your strategy, enough to answer some very detailed questions that we will ask you about your steps.
If you've reached this point, reach out to us for a quote. Also, don't miss our FAQ!