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Hi, I'm using EA which allows selecting trading symbols by entering their names in the input field of the parameter window. My broker on each symbol has a suffix of (£). When I'm trying to enter the name of the symbol in the input field, after saving it returns i.e EURUSD(? instead of EURUSD(£). It

After the platform seemed to be frozen, I deleted the app and reinstalled it. When it came back on , I no longer had the trade tab . I have positions opened that I cannot access , can’t close it. If I press on the positions, nothing either. I don’t know what the problem is. Please help. Laurent. 561

I am wondering if the broker can tell where the copy of mt4 is from and what ea's etc are loaded on the current platform. Thanks

Dear Team, I have rented VPS today and made the payment, unfortunately by mistake I clicked cancelled subscription, How I can retrieve the account?? and if its not possible, may I know if the hosting will continue till 25 October as per my subscription or is it disconnected

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

Is it possible to set zooming to central part? I mean when you have chart open, pressing zoom and your charts is zooming from left edge of window. For me it is stupid becuase im not looking on the side of my monitor, im looking at the center part. Then i have to find out where am i... wasting a lot

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Hi, I have an issue with my metaquotes Id on the MT4 phone app. About a month ago I started received notifications from another user who seems to be using the same Metaquotes ID as myself. I am being bombarded with notifications sometimes 30-40 per hour which is causing havoc as I use the phone to

Would like seniors and professional to look into the extreme slippage and pricing issue that occured and that i have check different charts pricing during same period and trading price has never met with such lows which caused my SL to hit. Below is the details of the trade EURJPY I have attached a

hi guys, i.m testing an EA and normally after the trades close some dotted red blue lines are visible (see below in backtest, visual) before it use to do this also on live chart trading,but now the trades closing on live charts and the red blue lines are not showing, just the opening triangle, as

Am I the only one whose EA or Indicator posted on Market got removed without any explaination? What are the reasons of removal? What are the requirement for posting product on Market

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AUD/USD April-June 2017 Forecast: ranging within narrow s/r levels for the ranging bearish reversal or the bullish trend to be resumed W1 price is located above Ichimoku cloud for the bullish ranging market condition within the following support/resistance levels: 0.7749 resistance level located...

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Good day dear forum members. After reading the forum a bit, I came across several threads on arbitrage and pair trading . Judging by the threads, some are interested and some are trying it. I used to dabble in this topic a long time ago, but my knowledge was not enough. Now I am a complete mess in

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

Hello I uses below function for calculate lot size in MQL5 for use simple OrderSend (symbol EURUSD_i and Alpari broker). double dblLotsRisk( double dbStopLoss, double dbRiskRatio ) { double dbLotsMinimum = SymbolInfoDouble ( _Symbol , SYMBOL_VOLUME_MIN ), dbLotsMaximum =

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

int Consecutive( int Count) { //--- int BB = 0 ; for ( int i = 1 ; i <= Count; i++) { if ( iClose ( _Symbol , PERIOD_H1 , i) - iOpen ( _Symbol , PERIOD_H1 , i) > 0 ) { BB++; } else { BB--; } } //--- return (BB); } Besides using

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

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...

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

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...

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

Bitcoin vs USD January-March 2017 Forecast: key resistance level at 850.15 to be broken for the bullish trend to be continuing Weekly (W1) price is located above Ichimoku cloud in the bullish area of the chart. The price is on ranging within the following support/resistance levels: 850.15...

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...

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

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...

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

I have written an EA (in MQL4) to test a strategy which involves placing a buy and sell pending order at the same price on a grid, with target profit, and once the orders are triggered, another pending order of buy and sell is placed at the next level in the direction of travel. I am not a

Hello I have the following code that calculates the open orders in a given Timeframe, but I don't know how to count also the pending orders. int TradeCount( ENUM_TIMEFRAMES TimeFrame) { int Cnt; ulong Ticket; long EntryType; datetime DT[ 1 ]; Cnt = 0 ; if ( CopyTime (

Hello, I´m not the best in coding but I have a good base. I tried to code an expert adviser and figured out an issue I can not solve by myself. I tried multiple things and modified for hours but it doesn´t seem to work. Maybe someone has the right hint for me. So I loop throug all the candles on a

I want to use Multiple indicators each responsible for either CheckClose or CheckOpen() of standard library of ExpertSignal.mqh in the source of ExpertSignal.mqh there is parameter called m_direction in the Direction() function which works with a mask and another called m_ignore now that I want to

Please help me what could cause subjected error while running the strategy tester

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

Hi there! I´m coding an EA which uses pending orders - i know that some people find that EAs shouldn´t use pending orders but it makes sense for my logic - and i want to modify its price depending on the last high/low. Im having trouble with the trade.orderModify parameters count. I´m using it the

Hi everyone, I hope you are fine. I am having a hard time with the following error. I get an error cancelling an already placed pending order due to invalid stops.... 2016.05.12 06:00:00 failed cancel order #226 sell stop 1.20 EURUSD at 1.14209 sl: 1.14462 tp: 1.13653 [Invalid stops] Why am I...

I've searched all the MQL5 market looking for an Expert which can do (Multiple Close By) with the ordinary closing actions like (close all, close pending orders, close only buy, close only sell, etc.) I didn't find a one that can do this important feature (Multiple Close By) I know that not all

Does anyone know why timeout whrn performing a webrequest is ignored? Looking the documentation ti says, timeout in miliseconds. Any value I use, 1000 (1 sec), 2000 or 100000, any value, it is always taken 10 to 12 seconds. Thanks for any input

Hi All, I am having this error when calling OrderSend function . I hope someone can help me. This is error log : 2021.11 . 11 04 : 10 : 45.254 TEST (EURUSD,M5) Alert : Open market order: Error 10013 - Invalid request 2021.11 . 11 04 : 10 : 45.254 TEST (EURUSD,M5) MqlTradeRequest - action: 1

I set myself a task: to demonstrate the capabilities of custom graphics via CCanvas class in a short code. Here's what came out of it. This script works in both MQL5 and MQL4. But it is much faster on MT5. Each frame is unique and does not repeat, i.e. the script is not cyclic. #include

Hi everyone, I have an odd question about something I have noticed in the strategy tester. I am using a bitcoin as my deposit currency (since I am trading BTCUSD and want to ensure my fees are calculated in btc). Next to the deposit section, there is a dropdown box with a value selection between 0

Hi all, I've read lots of conflicting information about this question so i'd like a clear and simple answer if possible. Are commissions and swaps taken into account during the MT5 strategy tester and optimization process? I see a column for commissions in my final backtest report, however it is

I am using MetaTrader 5 for python and regardless of the specified range, symbol and timeframe, copy_rates_range() almost always returns 0 or 1 bars. In the docs they say it's normal for the first call and that the requested data will be ready for subsequent calls but it just never is

I would like to use the classes derived from CIndicator (CiMA, CiStochastic etc) but have had no success. The code below always shows DBL_MAX #include <Indicators/trend.mqh>CiMA extMA;int OnInit()&nbsp;&nbsp;{ extMA.Create(Symbol(),Period(),10,0,MODE_SMA,PRICE_CLOSE);...

Good Morning Please I would like to know what code to type for putting a MA on Stochastic indicator . I want a MA that will be in the second indicator windows with the stochastic indicator. And when the MA will crossover and close below the sell zone or the buy zone of the stochastic indicator it

This was introduced in a recent update, didn't used to work like this. When I'm debugging, I'm focused on the problem at hand. Filling the screen with variables that are irrelevant to the problem just amounts to noise. I delete all the ones I don't want, but the very next F10 puts them all right

I'm just genuinely interested in your opinion. What is it which makes an indicator a freebie, and what is it which makes an indicator have a cost attached to it

I'm talking about oscillator based indicators, and by normalization I mean that the plot is in a stable range and the 0.00 level remains directly in the center of the window. My knowledge is limited on this, but I figured out that if you have a plot ranging from a negative value to a positive value

The follow indicator was modified to works in MTF But it makes the graphic slow and freeze Any body have a ideia how to avoid it ? #property copyright "Copyright © 2015" //---- indicator version number #property version "1.00" //---- drawing the indicator in the main window #property

I've seen one for mt4 which I use and it's really nice and simple and even free. Just surprised I can't find the same for mt5. Anyone know of one

For an indicator that was not how it was described I have politely asked the seller ... no response

I have made an indicator that will show me valid highs and lows following a certain logic. But when after a while (maybe some hours) when i have it on the chart it will start to do weird things, draw lines that shouldn't be drawn, or delete certain line without any logic behind it. I have used the

RSI indicator We are continuing discussion about the indicators. We have the following thread: Parabolic SAR indicator Momentum indicator Stochastic Oscillator Divergence Indicator Now we are talking about RSI. "Technical Analysis from A to Z": Overview The Relative Strength Index ("RSI") is a

Hello, By reading through this website i am trying to make a (hopefully) very simple indicator. This is for learning purposes as I am a total beginner. My first step is that I want to store the closing price in a variable at a specific time. Later on I want to compare this closing price to a closing

I've got two indicators I'm experimenting with, having not plotted a histogram before. The first one works but was just fooling around to make sure I got the color side of things right. The second one is set up just like the first one in the relevant areas, but doesn't work. Code for the one that

This one is for those that use metatrader 5 Metatrader 5, unfortunately, did some things that hardly are logical. One of the things done by it is that builtin averages (and all the other builtin indicators) are not functions any more. That is as big a nonsense as it can get. Instead of making...

I have noticed that this level indicator on chart causes bad price lagging when US market opens and trading activity steps in. How to reduce the number of lines so that lines are drawn only in the active screen? At the moment lot of lines will be drawn. #property indicator_chart_window #property

Hi every body, I have wrote an custom Indicator (A) like zigzag, and it works fine, however the problem is when I call it in to another custom Indicator(B) it refers "2.781888206090574e-308" for empty values. As an example, A(10)= empty values, means the value of Indicator "A" in candle "10" is

PZ Progressive Trading Scripts: This set of scripts has been designed to scale-in your trades as price action runs in your favor. This will maximize profits due to proper pyramiding, decrease the impact of unprofitable trading decisions and in general, make your life easier. Author: Point Zero

Check out the new article: Statistical Arbitrage with predictions . We will walk around statistical arbitrage, we will search with python for correlation and cointegration symbols, we will make an indicator for Pearson's coefficient and we will make an EA for trading statistical arbitrage with

Check out the new article: A feature selection algorithm using energy based learning in pure MQL5 . In this article we present the implementation of a feature selection algorithm described in an academic paper titled,"FREL: A stable feature selection algorithm", called Feature weighting as

New article Better Programmer (Part 07): Notes on becoming a successful freelance developer has been published: Do you wish to become a successful Freelance developer on MQL5? If the answer is yes, this article is right for you. Do not apply for a job that you are not sure how you are going to do

New article Triangular arbitrage has been published: The article deals with the popular trading method - triangular arbitrage. Here we analyze the topic in as much detail as possible, consider the positive and negative aspects of the strategy and develop the ready-made Expert Advisor code. The...

Pivot_Points_Lines_v1.3 MT4 : Draws Pivot Points Formulas Author: NickBixy

New article Transferring an Indicator Code into an Expert Advisor Code. Indicator Structure has been published: This article dwells on the ways of transferring an indicator code into an Expert Advisor Code and on writing Expert Advisors with no calling to custom indicators, and with the whole...

iForexSessions : Highlights the Forex Market Sessions (Sydney, Tokyo, London, New York). Author: amrali

New article Learn how to design a trading system by Ichimoku has been published: Here is a new article in our series about how to design a trading system b the most popular indicators, we will talk about the Ichimoku indicator in detail and how to design a trading system by this indicator. In this

Check out the new article: Building A Candlestick Trend Constraint Model(Part 2): Merging Native Indicators . This article focuses on taking advantage of in-built meta trader 5 indicators to screen out off-trend signals. Advancing from the previous article we will explore how to do it using MQL5

Breakout Strategy with Prop Firm Helper Functions : This is an update of the "Simple Yet Effective Breakout Strategy". In this code, I have added some helper functions for prop firm challenges. Author: Anh Quan Duong

pivots calculation based on pine script v4 : This is the exact conversion of pivotshigh and pivotslow functions from pine script v4 as an mql5 indicator. Author: Yashar Seyyedin

New article Improve Your Trading Charts With Interactive GUI's in MQL5 (Part I): Movable GUI has been published: Unleash the power of dynamic data representation in your trading strategies or utilities with our comprehensive guide on creating movable GUI in MQL5. Dive into the core concept of chart

Check out the new article: MQL5 Wizard Techniques you should know (Part 11): Number Walls . Number Walls are a variant of Linear Shift Back Registers that prescreen sequences for predictability by checking for convergence. We look at how these ideas could be of use in MQL5. For a few time-series, it

Check out the new article: Introduction to MQL5 (Part 2): Navigating Predefined Variables, Common Functions, and Control Flow Statements . Embark on an illuminating journey with Part Two of our MQL5 series. These articles are not just tutorials, they're doorways to an enchanted realm where

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

This is News Trader EA created by Igorad. Besides, we may use this EA to draw the lines with text on the chart when the news coming. Explanation of the settings and how to use this EA you may find in the next posts. ---------------------------------------------- Version 2. - Please find attached the

Hello, the shortcut for commenting (blocks of) code in MetaEditor is "Ctrl + ' " (both on PC and Mac) However, the PC-shortcut for uncommenting is "Ctrl + ; ", but that doesn't work on my Mac. Does anybody know the shortcut for uncommenting (blocks of) code on Mac? Many thanks!

I have about four MT4s opened on a dedicated PC with Win 10 OS (no any other programs opened/running on the PC). For some inexplicable reason, the MT4s keep closing after a while without my intervention (I also do not have any EA that is coded to close the MT4 running on the MT4s), and I have to

Hi There, I am using for the first time Zomro as VPS for forex trading pupose. I have installed well MT4 plateform and my trading account is live HOWEVER, i can not dowload my EA purchased in MQL market and the journal says the following " Cannot load'C\User\xxxx whereas I am able to use it in my

hi am using a code to draw a horizontal trend line from t1, p1 to t2,p1 (which will draw it horizontally and to the right) . some time i tried to draw the trend line for example : over 90 bars but because of the holidays the trend line will not cover 90 bars.. how to solve this

Just recently around February 25, 2024 I began getting the above message and now I no longer have access to my EAs; as they won't work without being logged into my MQL5 Community account (they won't load up on the chart) . I have no problem going to my Browser and being able to Login to my MQL5

When I select orders with OrderSelect(), the manual says, "Sorting of the resulting list of orders cannot be guaranteed." OK. But can I at least rely on their opening times or ticket numbers? Is it guaranteed that newer ones will always have larger OrderOpenTime() and OrderTicket() values

Good day or night to my fellow coders, I would the clear help of someone to check these codes I think i have a few errors in them and can't find them myself. So I would like the clear Assistance, I do thank you all for your time and pleas DM me, if you're willing to help me on them

While testing my EA on a demo account, I noticed that I got an order executed twice in the same second. Although I have a check before using OrderSend to make sure that I do not currently have an order open. What would you suggest I do to prevent this?    total=OrdersTotal();      if(total<1)...

Hi, since today my mt4 version doesn't work anymore with a EA i purchased from this site. Friday all was working normally, now I'm getting the message : 2023.03.19 22:34:38.360 CAP Strategy Builder EA XAUUSD,M1: array out of range in 'Calendar.mqh' (617,11) It doesn't matter, if I try it on my local

Hi I have built two basic indicators today for my own use but I cannot finish them due to 4/5 red lines that I have tried many scenarios with no avail what do I need to put in the following boxes Copyright Link Version Atrict indicator chart window It may seem obivious to some I know but nothing

I am hoping you can help fix my code. I am trying to code a MT4 indicator to indicate a powerful downward bar. No matter what I do, I still get :1 errors, 1 warnings OnCalculate function declared with wrong type or/and parameters line 42 column 6 OnCalculate function not found in custom indicator

Greetings, I am new to metatrader and I am wondering if its possible to place manual test orders in strategy tester? This feature have to exist but I can not find it =(

Good evening everyone, I'm looking for an indicator that shows me all open positions + Long/Short + Magic No. in MT4. Similar to the attached image (unfortunately the indicator shown doesn't work for me). Does anyone know something like that? Would be grateful for any help ;) Thank you very much