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Does anyone know why I can't log into Metatrader 5 Mac software? The same trading credentials can be used to log in on the web platform, but not the Mac software

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way we buy and sell in the stock market. This discussion is about understanding how computers use AI to make quick trading decisions. We will look into how AI can spot patterns in the market, make predictions, and decide when it’s a good time to trade

I need a EA that can perform more than 500 transactions per week with a profit of 2% and DD of no more than 10%

Can a MT5 signal work on a MT4 trading account

Hello, I know that the broker can set the limit of the maximum lot size for each trade, but I had this question, is it possible to set my metatrader5 in such a way that I cannot enter more volume than a certain lot size? Also, I tried using mql5 to cancel the orders sent when using on click

Good afternoon, everyone, I know that there are machine learning and statistics enthusiasts on the forum. I propose to discuss in this topic (without holivars), share and enrich our own knowledge bank in this interesting field. For beginners and not only there is a good theoretical resource in

MetaQuotes has launched new MQL5.community information channels on Facebook, X.com (Twitter), and Telegram. These channels provide daily publications of relevant technical materials from the MQL5.com Articles and CodeBase sections. They are designed to promptly update developers on algorithmic

I have an EA that I bought on my MQL5 account. Can I give the EA to a friend to use it? He has of course a different MQL5 account. Will this work

Hey there! I'm working on an MQL5 trading algorithm but facing a challenge. I want to activate a trailing stop feature only after the stop-loss has been adjusted to breakeven. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work as intended. Can anyone share insights or suggest alternative approaches to

Good day, I have an Indicator that I use that I need a popup & sound alert added to the daily timeframe only; The indicator changes color on reversals and pullbacks and when there's a change of trend...so I need notification of a color change but on daily timeframe only

Hi Guys, I'm going crazy trying to access a csv file that I've written to the Common/Files folder using MT5 for mac installation. Previously, I was able to get to these folders by going to Library/Application Support/MetaTrader 5/Bottles/metatrader5/drive_c/Program Files/MetaTrader 5 But I

Hello, Anyone has experience on using AMD 3D V-Cache CPU 5800X3D for optimization? What is the gain over plain 5800X CPU

Hi all,  I am using this version....  and I have to activate the highlighted options/setting every time I start the platform.  Profiles, and login are working fine, but platform is unable to remember those view settings .  Is there a fix for this ? 

Hi everyone. I want to use a Trade Copier to copy trades from my main account to my 2 prop firm accounts. However the Prop firms both say they don't allow copy trading. Is there a way to copy trades in a way not to make it obvious to the Prop Firms? I look forward to the responses. Regards

This thread won't be about a question or problem, but rather about the anouncement of the presentation and documentation of an exciting trading concept. I plan to do a series of postings here in order to keep you guys updated. Anybody who has an opinion on the topic, please don't hesitate to comment...

Hi! I'm considering to build a portfolio of diversified forex pairs to be traded with an EA, my account currency being USD ( IC markets and Eightcap as brokers) E.g. I'm thinking of EURUSD, GBPUSD as main pairs and AUDCAD, NZDCHF for diversification purposes as an example. Though, wouldn't this

There are so many systems out here based on indicators and it takes so much time to go through all of them to see which one deserves merit,I simply did not feel like adding one more. However most are indicator based and lagging indicators make it difficult to really simplify trading decisions and

I just started this thread as a continuation of the talking made on this topic (we can read it). Or ...to make it shorter: it was some discussion about forecasting/predicting of the next candle or direction of the movement or market condition evaluation. And it was around standard indiocators in

Hello, i need create backtest with MA, MACD and Stochastic indicators on daily historical data BTC/USD. I created custom symbol based from EUR/USD and than I changed them to BTC/USD. AFter that I imported the daily historical data to the current symbol. But if I try to make simple backtest than I

Hi everyone, I need support because I'm noticing a problem with my custom indicator. The indicator provides me with a KPI that updates for each new bar. I based an expert on it who, based on the value of the previous bar compared to the current one, must do or not do operations. I had the doubt that

This is the thread about books related for stocks, forex, financial market and economics. Please make a post about books with possible cover image, short description and official link to buy (amazon for example). Posts without books' presentation, without official link to buy and with refferal links...

Hello everyone, I am running a python code to trade on mt5 IC markets and Fusion Markets. I want to know what should I do, where to run the code to have the least latency, currently running the code in equinix NY, where they both have a server but still its slow. It shows 0.5ms in the bottom right

Renko Ashi Trading System 2 Please read the pdf manual for this system. Good luck everyone. PS: Reuploaded the fixed ma in applied price indicator. Special thanks to FXchaser PS: Reuploaded the fixed macd alert indicator. Special thanks to Puzzlebird PS: Reuploaded a Special Settings Template for...

hi I would like to know if there is a good strategy when forecasting highs and lows (ohlc), any links that can help

Hello, I want to copy the signal but whiles I find it on the MQL5 website, it is not on my list of signals of the MT4 Terminal. There are copiers of that signal so it should be available somehow. Does anybody know how to copy that signal ? May be one of the subscribers ? Regards, Stephan

I have a question. As it possible to make backtesting strategy for the past I am wondering if its possible viceversa. So that you put trades in and take out the strategy? Thanks for ansvers

Trading and training video (from youtube for example) about forex and financial market in general.  thread for April 2013 - look at this thread,  thread for May 2013 - look at here,for June 2013 is here.July thread 2013 is hereAugust thread 2013 is this oneSeptember thread 2013 is hereOctober thread...

SMC (The Smart Money Concept) is different way of market analyzing. I have a SMC strategy which is similar to the bellow example. All I want to know is can I code this thing into an EA or something else to trade automatically? I'm curious to know what is that technology / coding method. Honestly

Whenever I backtest, I look for the result with the higher (Profit / max drawdown) ratio. But in the optimization results tab there is no such a criterion, so after every backtest, I export the result as a spreadsheet and do the calculations there. I'm backtesting on a free EA, so I don't have

Hello all, I have a few questions for anyone with knowledge and/or experience trading futures. Any input would be greatly appreciated. From experience scalping in live market conditions, how does slippage and spread compare to trading CFD in markets such as FX? Is there a notable difference, and

how to know which of the trade/stock has the highest volume/most gain

Dax Index January-March 2017 Forecast: flat within bullish with key resistance at 11,649 W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price broke 11,485 level to above on close weekly bar with 11,649 as a nearest bullish target to re-enter. Thus, the weekly price is...

The indices market is extremely slow these days and I'm not seeing many trading opportunities... The VIX is at 12.25 right now, what do you do when VIX is this low? Do you switch to other markets or do you just take a break? Also curious about Forex traders, are you seeing a similar problem

CAC 40 January-March 2017 Forecast: bullish with key resistance at 4924.69 W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price broke 4860.85 resistance level to above on close weekly bar with 4924.69 as a nearest bullish target to re-enter. Thus, the weekly price is...

Trading has a few simple rules - do the opposite of Goldman's Thomas Stolper; don't fight the Fed; and buy low, sell high. However, as this series of charts from Nanex shows, it is the latter rule that is the easiest to comprehend and yet - thanks to massive and obvious HFT manipulation - is an...

I would like to build futures trading mql robot (mostly focus on oil but other commodities interesting also). Unfortunately it's problem to gain hist. futures data, what's necessary for backtesting. So, I wish to ask: perhaps somebody knows where to receive ticks expired futures

Hi, I have recently started learning MQL5 language and all the tutorials are only focused on Forex market. I have been trading Futures contracts(manually) with <Deleted>. So, my question is If i keep learning Mql5 language, will I be able to develop EA for Futures market(with <Deleted>)? Thank you

Forum on trading, automated trading systems and testing trading strategies Press review Sergey Golubev, 2016.12.24 17:18 Nikkei Q1 2017 Fundamental Forecast: Bullish (based on the article) Fundamental Analysis  "The Bank of Japan has been buying stocks for over two years now. And in September, the...

On which MT5 platform can I find the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones index? It's not the type of CFD, it's the real S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones indices on the exchange

I want to demo Options board on MT5 but cant find ANY one who offers it? Where can i try the MT5 options board? Who is currently demo/ real trading with MT5 options platform? its ridiculous i cant find ANY information on how to actually do it/ who offers it. Its almost as if it doesnt exist/ noone

DJIA January-March 2017 Forecast: long-term bullish; resistance level at 19,987 is the key W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart: the price is on testing 19,987 resistance lkevel to above for the primary bullish market condition to be continuing. The price is

S&P 500 January-March 2017 Forecast: long-term bullish ranging within the narrow s/r levels for direction W1 price is located far above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price is on ranging within the following narrow support/resistance levels for the bullish trend to be resumed...

I have recently started using MT5 and am a US resident but I am having difficulty finding a broker that supports MT5. Is there a way around this? I have heard some people using Tradingview and pine connector but looking for the best way to setup MT5 with a US broker. If anyone can help it would be

Where can I learn neural network in mql5? Or which book can I use to learn neural network in mql5 or mql4

Hi Better has really good EA and is winning the championship Participants - Automated Trading Championship 2007 Profile Better - Automated Trading Championship 2007 What is NN ? Where are the NN threads in this forum? Can anyone here make this EA El cid

Yet another quirk of MT5, with exactly the same conditions the visual tester does the job right while the non-visual tester opens a position when it shouldn't. I'm having a very deep look into this and there's no "randomness" in the code. - I tried all modeling methods (everytick, 1 min ohlc, etc..)

Hi. I am new to MQL5 so I apologise if I don't describe my issue well or use the correct terms. I am trying to get Indicator values using iCustom and CopyBuffer, but I am just getting zero values. I am working on an Expert Advisor that uses three Indicators: TEMA (9), Vwap bands (9), and CCI (9)

Hi all. I just got my first EA up and running and I am finding that the indicator values lag about 5 minutes behind the values displayed on the chart. I see a bit of chatter about this. Is this a common thing? I saw one post that suggested coding a custom indicator. I managed to find the code for

Hi, I'm new to Forex, and I'm adapting my Day-trade EA to Swing trade on Forex (Exness Broker). What I know is that Forex closes during weekend, right? I don't really understand if I can't operate during weekends. If so, That would result on false results and reports while I'm doing backtests. As

CopyTickRange not working for demo account but same timerange of ticks can be requested through symbols,view

Hi! Please see subject. I occasionally see scores in the 90s, and curious to know if 100 is the max, or it it's possible to break beyond 100. Thanks. 😊

All the testing parameter was same. except the modeling. I'm fully confused with these upside-down results. Can someone please tell me why is that? Results of Modeling - "Every Tick" Results of Modeling - Every Tick based on real ticks

Would anyone know how to incorporate into a breakeven price calculation the swaps of the given positions? I am working on the function below, which calculate the BE price of positions of a given pair in a given direction, but I have not figure out a simple way to add the losses from swaps into that

Hello! OrderCalcMargin() cannot be used on indicators . How can I go around this? Thanks

hi, i'm new here creating a new topic, but i search a lot of things. In special this problem if can we help me void RangeBreakout::TotalProfit() { floatingPNL = 0 ; int total_positions = PositionsTotal (); for ( int i = total_positions - 1 ; i >= 0 ; i--) { ulong ticket =

Hi, I'm still using MT4 instead MT5.  I have try many times to perform backtest and optimisation test. Once optimization test have done it will show tick graph and result finding on profit, drawdown, risk and etc. How to use/implement the result into real setting EA? 

Hello everyone, I am working on an price EMA crossover expert advisor on metatrader 5 which should have the following conditions : 1. if price closes above ema ,an alert is triggered as well a buy stop pending order 2. if price closes below ema ,an alert is triggered as well a sell stop pending

Can you tell me if this is a realistic tester figure? And is this a good or bad result for a year with a deposit of $3,000

Some indicators with alert/signals with author's comments: - EMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter two Exponential Moving Average periods and it'll tell you when they crossed. - SMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter two Simple Moving Average periods and it'll tell you when they crossed. - SMMA-Crossover_Signal: Enter...

I have a simple indicator that I use a lot in coding and testing, called BarID. Its intent is: for any bar you point to on a chart, to give you both its AsSeries = true and AsSeries = false index values, along with the best I could do to show its date and time, given all that's available are type

Something I have been working some time ago. Multi pair MACD Multi pair CoeffOfLine

On top of it all, the statements were working fine when I was asking just for close price. As soon as I added time, it started throwing up. 1005 double daNowPrce[]; 1006 datetime dtaNowPrce[]; 1007 ResetLastError (); 1008 1009 double dNowPrce = 0 ; 1010 1011 int

I have a signal indicator that should make an arrow on the LL or HH for any timeframe, but it repaints frantically like a rabid racoon on crack cocaine. One idea to stop something repainting is to take the initial signal it found and force it to remain with some boolean logic, another idea would be

Hello, Can anyone kindly add push notification alert when price cross below or over on previous day closed on bar closed? Appreciate your kind gesture. Thank you. D

My knowledge of the mql5 programming language is minimal. But I wrote a simple custom indicator, the task of which is to display arrows near candles that meet certain conditions. First, all points with index i are found that satisfy the condition high[i]>high[i-1] && high[i]>high[i+1] (or low)

sisi: Hi,Mr. Guru could you please help me to constantly refresh an ea after each tick movement. I have tried everything, But I just can't make it refresh constantly. What lines of code must I insert to keep an ea and indicator refresh after every tick? Tnx I hope you could attach your EA so...

Hi there, I come to present an indicator to you which I created and who could be useful to some people here. If you are interested, I would be happy to share it. You can see it attached below. Let me know what you think about it and i will be back with the code and instructions. For the moment, the...

Hello everyone, I m looking a good proven indicator for buy/ sell GOLD AUXUSD on 15 minutes and 1 hour time frame for Metatrader 4 (platform Vantage/ Puprime) One for manual trading and one for automatic trading. So 2 different ones. Do you have experience with one ofh these

Here I have written some codes to show that ArraySetAsSeries function does not have any effect in Arrays!! any boddy can help me? why this function has no effect in my metatrader??? #property indicator_chart_window #property indicator_buffers 1 #property indicator_plots 1 //---- plot Label1

Hi guys, I don´t know what else to do now, so I ask for a bit of help. I´ve been struggling for several days now. I´m rewriting a MQL4 indicator that I created into MQL5. I just want the MA slope, and I normalize it with the ATR, so then I can aggregate this indicator values with the same indicator

But i can't change to ema mode because I can't get the prev_value

I am trying to customize ichimoku cloud in MT5 to better fit the volatility of cryptocurrencies. Default Ichimoku cloud in MT5 allows changing the Tenkan (conversion line), Kijun (base line) and Senkou span B (Leading line 2). I cannot set time displacement, somehow it is linked to the Kijun (base...

It would be awesome, before using IndicatorCreate, to get a total/count of the indicator's input parameters. Where can I get this in MQL5

Dealing with time (2) functions : Calculate DST for USA, EUR, AUD and RUB and the offset time of the broker from the 70's until 2030 and the automatically even in the Strategy Tester of MQ. Author: Carl Schreiber

New article Implementing indicator calculations into an Expert Advisor code has been published: The reasons for moving an indicator code to an Expert Advisor may vary. How to assess the pros and cons of this approach? The article describes implementing an indicator code into an EA. Several...

Geometric Moving Average : MQL5 version of geometric moving average. Author: Sardion Maranatha

New article How to Post a Product in the Market is published: Publish your interesting applications in the Market, and they will be immediately available to all traders who use MetaTrader 5 worldwide. The Market is a great opportunity to earn, with an immediate transfer to the account and convenient...

AUTO PIVOTS for MT5 : This is a classic pivots indicator redone for MT5 Author: Humphrey Kebaya Mwamba

Check out the new article: Neural networks made easy (Part 57): Stochastic Marginal Actor-Critic (SMAC) . Here I will consider the fairly new Stochastic Marginal Actor-Critic (SMAC) algorithm, which allows building latent variable policies within the framework of entropy maximization. When building

Custom Bollinger Bands : Standard Bollinger Bands indicator with averaging features added Author: Lucas Moura Vidal Da Silva

Check out the new article: Neural networks made easy (Part 68): Offline Preference-guided Policy Optimization . Since the first articles devoted to reinforcement learning, we have in one way or another touched upon 2 problems: exploring the environment and determining the reward function. Recent

Check out the new article: Developing a Replay System (Part 36): Making Adjustments (II) . One of the things that can make our lives as programmers difficult is assumptions. In this article, I will show you how dangerous it is to make assumptions: both in MQL5 programming, where you assume that the

Check out the new article: How to build and optimize a volatility-based trading system (Chaikin Volatility - CHV) . In this article, we will provide another volatility-based indicator named Chaikin Volatility. We will understand how to build a custom indicator after identifying how it can be used

Check out the new article: Population optimization algorithms: Micro Artificial immune system (Micro-AIS) . The article considers an optimization method based on the principles of the body's immune system - Micro Artificial Immune System (Micro-AIS) - a modification of AIS. Micro-AIS uses a simpler

Check out the new article: Developing a Replay System (Part 35): Making Adjustments (I) . Before we can move forward, we need to fix a few things. These are not actually the necessary fixes but rather improvements to the way the class is managed and used. The reason is that failures occurred due to

Check out the new article: Build Self Optmising Expert Advisors in MQL5 . Build Expert Advisors that look forward and adjust themselves to any market. Self-optimizing automated systems are essential in today's dynamic financial markets. Developing a trading bot that can adjust to current market

Check out the new article: Building A Candlestick Trend Constraint Model (Part 1): For EAs And Technical Indicators . This article is aimed at beginners and pro-MQL5 developers. It provides a piece of code to define and constrain signal-generating indicators to trends in higher timeframes. In this

Check out the new article: Creating a market making algorithm in MQL5 . How do market makers work? Let's consider this issue and create a primitive market-making algorithm. Many people think that a market maker does not bear any risks at all. However, this is not the case. The main risk of a market

I have written a code that I use to take profit in XAUUSD for 1 minute time frame. the problem with this EA is that it can make a profit when it follow the trend line, but when reversal came I keep taking losses, thus diminishing my profit. is there any way to fix my code ? As you can read from the

hi here I have a custom indicator , But when I use it in my expert 's backtest, I only receve maximum one signal ! and in the back test I only have maximum 1 trade (depending on start time of backtest ) !! here I have deleted the SendOrder to minimize code size , i only receive one print

Hi, I need help to create an EA base on the following terms EA will open trade base on chart M1, M5, M15, M30, H1, H4 and D1. EA will not open a new CYCLE of trade if the previous CYCLE is not close. Example:- M1-Sell, M5-Sell, M15-Sell, M30-Buy, H1-Sell, H4-Buy and D1-Sell EA will open sell...

Hello, Does anyone know where I can find an indicator that takes in price values, which when reached or surpassed will cause the indicator to send a sound alert

Hi, some good indis found in the internet (4shared) in this topic! First, a smoothed non-repaint version of macd indicator coded by igorad and mladen. Cheer´s

Is there any way to automate the process of strategy testing. l want to run multiple tests for various assets with different parameters of each and save the reports. Is there any native or third party api to write code and execute the tests automatically or can l write a script to do the whole...

Hi, I'm trying to build my own EA using EMA. When the program starts it will buy/sell according to the relative position of slow and fast EMA. Then the program should close the trade at the next EMA crossover. My first obstacle was to find a way to calculate EMA at the closing of candlestick, so I

Is there a way to access the initial deposit in my EA?

Hello ; I want the value of S1Buffer in time frames lower than 15 minutes to be equal to its value in time frame 15 minutes, but currently the value of S1Buffer in lower time frames is not equal to its value in time frame 15 minutes At the same time, the rest of the buffers, which include

I keep getting an authorization failed message when I attempt to login to my account in MetaTrader 4. Please help

Hello, I try since Friday to creat an EA that can open orders of 5 mintues expiration cause I will link it later to a Binary options plateform. I almost used all solution on this forum creat a datetime variable in order to use for closing the order: Exemple 1:  datetime et = Time[0]+(5*60); int...

Hello, i'm trying to build an EA. When I run it works as coded, the problem verify once the condition for Long or Short position are met. Let me explain deeper, when the price met all the conditions to open a Long/Short position the EA open the position, when the price hit the StopLoss or TakeProfit

Dears, Here I encounter a problem when I want to call the color out of my custom indicator. For example, I have a trendline in changing color. Green means uptrend and Red meand downtrend. When the color changes from red to green, place buy and vice versa. The question is how to call the color or...

Hello, Normally, Stop Loss execute in broker server and it send a data of Stop Loss value to broker. This has a disadvantage of too many operation and also Stop Hunting from most of the Forex brokers. To avoid this, i heard there is a concept called Virtual Stop loss which act same as normal but it