Use Google Drive to licence your metatrader experts. Updates

Опубликовано: 02 Сентябрь 2026
на канале: Orchard Forex
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I have had some comments that this is not working in MT5. Unfortunately that is true and I don't know when it stopped working but I do know why. I now have a fifth video in this one part series at    • Problems storing licence files on Google D...  

This would have been part of a single video but the tutorial on using Google to store licence files was getting too long. This part makes some small but important changes to improve security and privacy.

If you haven't already, you MUST see the earlier 2 videos in the linked playlist first. You can skip the first in the series if you really want to but the code in this video just builds on code in videos 2 and 3.

Now for the links.

Playlist for this series:    • Restrict use of your Metatrader Experts  

Part 1, where you may have been commissioned to write an expert, want to give the customer a version to try but don't want them to just take the demo version and not pay:    • Protect your EA, Indicator from Copying  

Part 2, where you might be selling or renting out your expert you can give a licence file to the customer to make the expert work, and just update the file as each month's payment comes around. This is the basis for the current video:    • Use Metatrader Licence Files  

Part 3: Storing and retrieving the licence files from Google Drive.    • Use Google Drive to licence your metatrade...  

Part 4: You are here

Download from Github: https://github.com/OrchardForexTutori...

And there will always be someone who comments that this is no protection against decompiling. Really, I'm not interested. Maybe yes, maybe no, but I haven't seen a successfully decompiled program since build 600.

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