Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 312

Hi everyone, I have written my first EA, and when I used it on a different indicator I had the MQ4 file for, it worked perfectly.  However, I did not like that indicator very much, so I implemented one I found that is more accurate and sends fewer signals. The problem I am having is that I cannot...

Hello, I've migrated an EA to VPS. I'd like to migrate another EA to VPS, but I am not sure, if I should migrate just new EA, or both. So the question is: If I migrate the environment, is the previous migration overwritten? I could not find how this part works. Thank you in advance. Martin

Is it possible to share data between MT4 terminals on the same VPS? Is there a location that both terminals could access? For example, I have Terminal 1 using Broker A, and Terminal 2 using Broker B. Broker B has a market that is not available with Broker A. So I want to send the price data for this...

Hi all, I've recently modified my EA to increase it's trade size.  In back testing it does so correctly, but in real money it is still trading at it's previous volume. I've compiled and saved the new file as a different name but it still isn't functioning correctly on real money... (But it does on...

hi, guys. new to forex, new to mt5. got a noob question, if someone can help it will be very helpful. we place an (buy) order.. it moves, say 50 pips in our direction, and we want to lock the profit at 30 pips. i.e. we want to sell when it falls to 30 pips, and if it goes higher we want to hold it.....

Hi, guys.. i am going to code a simple indicator for mt5, that only calculate the value of current open price to close price of the previous candle, and only put Up or Down as a Result in the chart.. Which code do i have to write ? or could you point at the library / documentation of how can i do it...

Hi, Static, global, which should I use? ---- I want that variable keeps its value if I change timeframe or if auto re-connection. This is for an INDICATOR. Could anybody please help?

Sorry i'm not good english for example i have 20 or 30 open charts and one expert Active in them Sometimes expert become disabled. i want code for find  inactive expert on charts. in other words find a chart that is without an expert .with help Alert and show symbol Of course with mql4 Thank you...

Hey guys, so basically I have taken the source code provided from an Article titled create bots for telegram and basically edited the code for the telegram_signal_EA to basically send trade based off my strategy. So I compiled to check for errors and everything works fine even when I apply the EA to

Hi, I converted the Battleplan indicator (found in the network) from MT4 to MT5 successfully, but I still have a problem. The diffulty I enconter is to do the indicator in MT5 to paint the battleplan for future time date. In MT4 the indicator paint the battleplan even for future data, in MT5 if I...

Ever since I started seeing "30% History Quality" in my strategy Results tab (MT5), I've been searching for the reason/remedy. Now 11 days has past and I've still been unable to find a solution. I've set "Max bars in chart" to "Unlimited", I've "refreshed" the chart for like a million times, I've...

I tried to test my strategy for the past month, but I realized the "History Quality" was very poor (30%). I counted the candlesticks for the time frame in question and for the past month ONE BY ONE to see if anything was missing. No candlestick was missing! So, the question is what does "History...

Hi, Three Moving Averages EA not working in my MT5. Please advise, how to enable it to work. Thanks

I need to prepare a production environment to run EAs.  I would like these characteristics: Virtual machine on an cloud environment (google cloud or aws),  MT5 start and run some pre-configurated EA on windows startup,  Run several MT5 (with different accounts) on the same virtual machine. There...

Hello, - I have this script which opens pending orders along with money management/position sizing. - My question is... Looking at this snippet of code extern double DollarVol=1; am I correct in thinking this is the dollar value per pip for the symbol loaded on my chart ? If so is there a way for...

Hi All, I'm trying to run the same EA on two different instruments, I've initialised them both on different graphs, they both have the smiley face icon at the top right corner...but only one of the instruments is actually executing trades. Any idea's? Thanks

This EA is generating the error of the image below when placing a buy or sell order, probably because the EA is trying to place a take profit order and stop loss order in the digits that are not accepted, because of the image I see that it does not position TP and SL in the last digits with end 0 or...

Hi, I was chatting with a developer and he has told me that MT4 has problems using multiple time frames in an EA. I use the following to identify forward trend and then look for lower time frame entry points: int index = 0; StDev=iStdDev(NULL,PERIOD_D1,10,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_MEDIAN,index+1);

Hi, I want to test various different parameters on my systems on different two time periods and output results. Is there possibility to feed mt5 tester with custom parameter list and output results? I think I need about ~20 000 tests, so changing manually parameter values by one is not a choise

hello. is there a way to calculate RSI and Bollinger Bands from price (BID + ASK)/2 instead of BID price? thanks

Hi, I need to develop a license generator in vb.net that allows me to create license keys that I will subsequently decode using the CryptEncode MQL function. Anyone can help me ? I used this VB.NET function to generate the license Public Function EncryptString(ByVal inputString As String) As...

Have you been able to successfully code an EA based on Stochastic info? I have implemented a few with different data such as Stochastic signal slope, overbought oversold, signal crosses. Care to share some of your ideas

Hello, Can someone only disable / remove the stop-loss feature on this script. I need the stop-loss disabled on this script as its interfering with another EA that manages my stop-loss

Hello, I just figured out I must have a problem with my system. I'm using 2 EAs from the market for semi-auto trading, ProfitLossTrail and SmartTrailing (source code is here : https://www.mql5.com/ru/code/8674 ) which let me put breakeven and trailing stop values... But I found that no matter the...

there someone know or have the EA star renko V1?? that EA look good.

I need an EA just for closing positions when two moving averages crossover, and I want to be able to adjust the following specific parameters: MA period - MA type - and the time frame EA applies to. Help me please, and if you know where I can find such a thing give me the link. Thanks in advance

Hello dear friends, please i need help on how to access moving average for 15 mins timeframe while am on H4 Chart, i want to know if i will need ibarshift for it , thanks

Hi Traders, Please, can anyone add an Alert notification to expert advisor?

Hey guys,  I am trying to implement Heiken Ashi candles in my EA and I can't seem to make the iCustom function work properly... From what I understood, I should use these lines from the indicator code in order to select the mode I am looking forward to use in my EA...    SetIndexBuffer(0...

Hello, i'm newbie please help. I want to get pivot from candlestick value at 20:00 everyday at Timeframe H4. I already try this code but it seems not worked well. if(Hour() == 00||Hour() == 01||Hour() == 02||Hour() == 03)    {    RefreshRates();     cHigh = iHigh(NULL, PERIOD_H4, 1);     cLow =...