I would like to know, if I code an EA in a normal metatrader4 platform, can I reuse the .ex4 in other trading platform for example InstaTrader?
The reason is that, when I have created a new EA in InstaTrader, the EA code generated from InstaTrader is different from the one generated from metatrader4. And I couldn't find any documentation regarding to InstaTrader's EA.
Not sure anyone has encountered this before?
No. MQL is the language specifically for meta-editor which is a member of meta-trader platform. Other trading languages may have their own scripting languages.
In principle Metatrader4 uses a Metalang.exe that compiles the MQL4-source-code files into an "internally"-executable format EX4
As defined, EX4 is binary-executable on all Metatrader4 terminals.
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InstaTrader(TM) and many other *-Trader(TM)-s are so called White-Label modifications of the same MetaQuotes, Inc., software product, the [Metatrader 4 Terminal], that are just individually "skinned" in a name of the respective Broker, who has bought from the MetaQuotes, Inc. the license for a suite of [Metatrader 4 Server + Metatrader 4 Risk Management + Metatrader 4 Dealer Desk + ... ], inclusive, but not limited to, the right to re-label the client Terminal program.
Thus under most of the situations your EX4 code shall run on any other re-labeled Terminal
Restrictions on binary-compatibility apply, as Metatrader4 terminals gets released in so called Builds, ( Build 432 -> Build 468 -> Build 509 -> ... -> Build 600 -> Build 624 ) and some of these have also modified the binary-code format.
Thus the EX4 code shall be hosted on a "similar" generation of the Terminal Build
The ultimate show-stopper is the MetaQuotes, Inc., licensing policy, which makes a server-side locking to take place [Metatrader 4 Server] has a setting to reject connection requests from client Terminals in case their Build # is lesser than a treshold set on Server side.
There the SLM story ends. Forever.
