Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 296

Hi Everyone, I am building an EA, to deal with multiple timeframes simultanously (M1, M5, M15 and H1). So I want to display the multiple timeframes on auxiliar subcharts (this displaying will not affect the EA behavior, but will help me to know if everything is correct). I am using the OBJ_CHART...

Hi, I have a problem with strategy tester. I run my EA and the data of trades don't show in history of strategy tester. The value of trade show as 0 (zero). Someone already see this? Someone can help me? Thanks in advance.

        printf("Symbol()=%s",Symbol());        SymbolSelect("EURGBP",true);        printf("Symbol()=%s",Symbol());        Hi I'm new to MQL5 programming..... Why I can't change Symbol to another Symbol? Allways is "EURUSD"....?! Best regards Siljo

Hi everyone, I got used to call macd indicator in MT4 in a very simple way and now I've got to switch in MT5 and things look deeply differents So experts, I kindly request your help : in MT4 calling macd and signal was quite easy for current or past period just by setting the right buffer and the

Hi everybody, I try to make a indicator parameters optimization. The algorithm is: 1. Take a indicator handle with main parameter = StartValue; 2. Take a data and calculate QualityRating (my own algorithm); 3. Release handle ; 4. Repeat points 1, 2, and 3 for each value between StartValue+1 to

I am trying to select the input for an Enum using the results of a Function (Symbol). It is not working. I can MANUALLY type the input (Example: EURUSD)and get the correct result. However, if I use the Function (in this case Symbol) it does not work. I've tried every method to convert Symbol()to...

I'm writing a script to learn more about mql5, this is a simple buy/sell stop order script, but it isn't workin. I used PRINT function to test the if condition, the PRINT works, so trade.BuyStop is running, but nothing happens when I use the script. Am I using the trade.BuyStop and trade.SellStop...

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| MACD crossing the Signal line//| WORKING ON Trailing Stop Loss //+------------------------------------------------------------------+#include <Trade\Trade.mqh> // Get code from other places//--- Input Variables (Accessible...

Hi, I currently have a system that opens a trade almost every 5 minutes. I'm currently trying to wrap my head around creating a trailing stop loss that does something like this: "when price moves to 5 pips in profit stoploss is moved to entry when price moves to 8 pips in profit stoploss moves to 4...

How might I accurately get the total Position Value for my entire account? I need the total Position Value for all open trades in the account for an EA I am working on (Expressed in the account's home currency). Could someone kindly point me in the right direction or provide example code? I am quite...

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Hello everyone recently i have started to write my own EA. Wrote a lot of them and finally found some solutions that on the tester looks awsom. (yearly yield of 1 to 20 with an average leverage of 100) but the question is that, how should i choose the setting? as i have noticed, usually the best...

Hi Trying to use copybuffer for some indicators, but it is returning error 4807 when running. I tried it for stochastics and Adaptive Moving Average, with the same error. Could only make it work for the Simple Move Average. Thank you input int                  Kperiod=5;                 input...

Example I have 100 variables + parameters start 1, pass 1, end 10 By default the mt5 will combine variables and parameters I think the result here is (100 * 10) * (100 * 10) = 1 million combinations However I do not want to combine the variables just want it to test the parameters of each variable

I have tested a number of EAs on the Marketplace which show strong backtesting ability but fail in forward testing, these were run on tick charts. Of course the sellers present their backtesting results which look spectacular. Can anyone explain what is going on here? Is this a case of deception by...

/+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| test.mq5 |//| Copyright 2013, MetaQuotes Software Corp. |//| http://www.mql5.com...

Hi all I am using ZigZag cator in MQL 5 EA. I have experience that some time CoppyBuffer is giving values and suddenly starts giving 0.00 and again started giving some value and keep on doing this.. Can some body explains why it is happening. and how to handle it. thanks

Here is the result of how i flipped my $150 account to $1500 using my manually traded strategy using fixed 0.01 lot only after one week: This strategy can trade whatever pair you want to trade, I trade all pairs in the marketwatch 24hrs non-stop. So it grow fast and lots of trades. I have no mql...

Hi, I searching a solution how I can export indicator values from data window directly and in realtime to excel. Is there a tool or EA which can do this? The rtd tool from FXblue I have testet but it is for me to complicated to insert the correct formel syntax for my custom indicators in excel cells...

HI, Can someone explain me how exactly ExpertMAPSAR works. Thank you

Hello, does anyone know if there is a way to have an EA auto trade from an email alert? I have a particular TradingView email alert & dont want to miss trades while I sleep. Thanks.

The identifier, account.Balance. I need the identifier for Account Balance Max.

2018.06.05 19:42:23.176 2016.03.01 00:03:30   array out of range in 'Ratio expert advisor.mq5' (54,20) void OnTick()  {//---   double Varience;   double ChartArray[];   double TheOtherCurrencyPairArray[];   double RatioArray[];      ArraySetAsSeries(TheOtherCurrencyPairArray,true);...

Hey guys! I need to send a signature as HMAC SHA256 to an online service. I’ve created a class with the help of this and that (https://stackoverflow.com/a/21498946). It uses CryptEncode(CRYPT_HASH_SHA256,...) to create the hash. You can see it below! It is still very basic without error handling etc...

Yes, you can. Traders are moving towards automated trading because they can trade with forex robot easily and it is very profitable for them. Using a forex robot is quite profitable in trading nowadays. trading is simple with the use of forex robots. People are making easy money using them. The main...

Hi,  Newbie to MQL5 programming. Trying to learn by upgrading existing Expert in MT5. Looking at the ExpertMAPSAR I want to add two functions: 1. A set stop-loss when the trade is entered. As it is now there is a trailing parabolic stop-loss that only kicks in after the trade is in positive...

Hi, I been experiencing a terrible situation. I recently run tester with my EA. I noticed when I try to change some parameter in my source code, and when I run the tester, it shows the same results although I has made some major change to the parameters. I confirmed this problem when I purpose...

Я пробовал:    int wHandle=GetParent(WindowHandle(Symbol(), Period()));       SetForegroundWindow(wHandle); и    int wHandle = WindowHandle(SMB, Period());   SetForegroundWindow(wHandle); но ни то ни другое не работает. Есть у вас ПРОВЕРЕННЫЙ вариант?

I am trying to use if(IsStopped()){ sStat=" *STOPPED*"; Print("EA Stopped"); EAComment(); return; } //- STOPPED if live trading is stopped .. I am trying to use if(!IsConnected()){ sStat=" *NO-TICKS*"; Print("Terminal not connected."); EAComment(); return; } //- NO TICKS if the EA is not connected...

Hi all, I am using Stochastic indicator in MQL5 EA. I want to use moving average along with please refer following screen shot. Following is the moving average settings. With the above setting I want to determine when moving average get in/out of over bought and over sold region of stochastic...