Artificial Intelligence Traders

2.2. Where you are now: the big picture

You are in front of the terminal client, trying to make sense from the chaos the market is made of. Your dealing center or your broker is there also, you connect to them to put your orders on market and they give ticks or quotes, materialized in the bars, candlesticks or simply a moving line on a chart (quotes = the cost of one currency expressed in terms of another currency) The left part of the picture is where you will spend your mql programming time and is representing the application you just worked with: the editor.