Renko EA Review & Rating

Renko Expert Advisors is a set of two Metatrader expert advisors designed to (Renko Chart EA) build renko charts and (Renko Trader EA) trade on these renko brick charts. The Renko Charts EA is a MetaTrader expert advisor that allows the creation and use of the Renko bars charts in Metatrader. As an experienced trader you probably know that the MT4 doesn’t have Renko bars, its defaults being candlesticks, lines and bar charts. The Renko Trader EA is a Metatrader expert advisor that can trade Renko bricks. This EA has a trend detector and can be instructed to buy only in uptrend, or sell in downtrend.

Renko EAs main functions

• Create offline Renko charts with custom (M) names, such as M2, M3, M4 (but not the default M1, M5, M15, M30). 
• Continuously update these Renko charts so the trader can trade manually or attach an expert advisor that trades automatically.
• Trade with the (PSAR) trend, open/close trades based on Renko brick color.

The Renko Charts EA is a MetaTrader expert advisor that allows the creation and use of the renko bars charts in Metatrader. As an experienced trader you probably know that the MT4 doesn’t have renko bars, its defaults being candlesticks, lines and bar charts. The Renko Trader EA is a Metatrader expert advisor that can trade renko bricks. This EA has a trend detector and can be instructed to buy only in uptrend, or sell in downtrend. It comes with the possibility to use a fixed lotsize or a percentage of the free margin to open the trades, and all the other trade management features that traders use: break-even, stop-loss, take profit, trailing stop etc.

Before you load the Renko EA on the chart it is recommended that you switch to the M1 time-frame and uncheck the auto-scroll box. Then keep pressing the Page Up button on your keyboard so the chart will scroll back a few months to load the history data needed. You might also need to change the Metatrader’s settings to allow it to generate larger charts. By default, the Renko EA will build renko charts of 10 pips bar size, however the trader can change the renko bar length with any other value (in pips), or use the automatically calculated ATR bars.

Don’t close the chart where the renko expert advisor is attached because the EA generates the renko brick chart continuously depending on the price movement.

After the expert advisor loads on the M1 chart and creates the offline renko chart (default timeframe is M2), ‘how to use’ instructions will appear on the left corner of the M1 chart; MetaTrader (and the renko expert advisor) must allow automatic trading. Now click the menu File > Open Offline and choose the M2 chart of the trading instrument where the renko EA is attached.

Any other timeframe name can be chosen for the renko chart, but make sure that it is not one of the Metatrader’s default timeframes (ie not 1, 5, 15, 30, 60 etc).