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HI Guys, I suggest that when a review or star rating is given we can then see what other products and ratings have been done by the reviewers. So if you get a good review you can see if the other reviews the person has given are real and what experience they have had. If you get a bad review again

I want to know how many people from Indonesia is joining this forum. If you're from Indonesia, please comment this topic..Thank you..

I collected three months of historical data in Excel and recorded 127 trades based on my strategy. However, the Strategy Tester only executed 105 trades. After reviewing the trade history visually on the chart, I identified a bug where certain positions fail to open. The EA log shows a “Market

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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

There is a significant delay in the execution of the "Stop if Equity is less than" feature in MetaTrader 5 when using the signals service (Version: 5.00, Build 4424, 27 June 2024). In multiple cases, the time taken to close trades is over 10 times longer than the ping to the trade server, with some

I am using a MacPro, and I just came across a problem with MetaTrader 5 when by mistake I undocked a window and it would not dock back. So I found a solution: Close the MT5 terminal and then you have to find the terminal.ini file inside the meta trader installation folder in applications. Open the

Hello everyone, I'm experiencing an issue when working with FUTURES in MetaTrader 5 (with a live or demo feed). Specifically, when performing even simple calculations on each tick (inside `OnCalculate`), I noticed that the **chart candles do not update in real-time** with the incoming price. To be

EA can only help automate trading and make profits to a certain extent, but it cannot guarantee 100% profits. I think the main reason for triggering the failure of EA is the influence of news. Do anyone have any channels to get first-hand news

I can`t download any ea here on the platform....no matter which one I choose nothing happens when I confirm the mql5 installation...am I missing something

Hey, Does anyone knows how to change the profit colors like its shows in app blue and red

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Hi I saw a very interesting Strategy from a Professional Trader...and I was looking for a way to receive alerts when this trade setup happens in any cryptocurrency or forex pair, etc.... "The price action compresses and the MACD goes relatively FLAT for a period of 3-15 minutes Second, we observe a

Hi, i am just a newbie in this forex worlds and if you are a newbie too i know what you feel about this forex's game. I'll share two system that you can use to start your trading: ---------------------- 1. KG Trapping System ---------------------- OK. This is how you can use it: a. Download file...

Hi guys, I just start a trading discussion about what the best method to identify trend. We know there are three type of trend: 1. Up Trend 2. Down Trend 3. Sideway. How we identify Trend? Thanks in Advanced

Hello, I am sharing my strategy, which I am using for manual trading, and I am planning to build an EA based on this strategy soon. This strategy works for all currency pairs and timeframes, but the recommended timeframes are M1, M5, M15, and M30. This strategy is currently giving me an 80% win

Hi Guys Realy Great Stuff you are presenting here. I wanted to share this indicator with you. The Indicator is to show the candel sticks reversal patterns. I know that there is 2 or 3 indicators are doing the same as this one. But what I added in this indicator is to recognize the full pattern not

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

Dear friends/Brothers/Sisters, I want to start this post regarding Price Action. I want people to help about what I know. Please Respond this post, Share the way you know and learn the way I know. I am not a master but a trader like others and also like to know how others doing. Reply and Keep in...

Hi everyone, I'm in the process of designing an EA for AUD/USD, NZD/USD, GBP/USD, and EUR/USD. My strategy enters trades on the 5-minute timeframe (M5), based on EMA50 crossing over EMA200, with confirmation from the 1-hour trend direction (H1 EMA50). I'm setting slippage to 1 pip. Before I go

The whole point is that you don't have to run separate EAs that trade specific strategies. A centralized solution has many advantages such a system is better risk management between strategies. We can block signals if we detect multiple similar signals. We can dynamically calculate the lot size

Hello, Article : https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/series/iclose iClose, iHigh, iLow, iOpen these values provide the current/Live/real-time candle information or previously closed candle information?. How can iClose value is possible for Current candle because ones the candle is closed, it became

Question: Would you be willing to trade any system or strategy you want on your $10000 account and turn every trade you take into a win trade (of $200 or $20) or a breakeven trade and have only a small theoretical chance of losing let's say $600 in worst case scenario? Some traders would probably...

Hello all I have tested many strategies and many other stuff but i did not found them more accurant then basic analysis of the market. i mean,the Price Patterns. 1. harmony indicators : here and here. 2. candelsticks reversal patterns is here. 3. Price Patterns : - Price Patterns

I'm curious about the effectiveness of a weekly adaptive optimization approach compared to sticking with a single, static rule for EA (Expert Advisor) strategies. Consider an EA that has already been built with one year of optimization. What if we update it every week with slight adjustments based

Hi all, I was not able to successfully exploit this divergence wit han EA, anybody has any idea on how to optimize this theoritical strategy

The buyers are the loser and helpless from MQL stuffs

Hi, I have data export from NT8 and need to import it in MT5 but the formats compatible with the two platforms are clearly different. Is there a process/tool to automate this

If BTC/USD has support at $68,000 and resistance at $70,000, what type of group or person would keep dumping at $70,000 when they make very little profit from a buy at $69,000

good day. I'm new here, and I can't find an answer. Please advise: I downloaded a couple of "free" EAs to MT5 and I need to backtest them via "test". But I have a problem that it is counting my profit as a few dollars. I have something set up wrong. I need to set it up for back-testing on stocks and

Hey guys, dumb questions from a noob I just created a demo account on ****** to try their MT5 and I'm trying to find the emini futures in there (S&P 500) but I simply can't. Their website says they support it, but I just can't find it. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong here

Hello all, I am new to the MT5 platform & my background is in trading E-Mini S&P500 futures. Of course, I am interested in algorithmic trading but I have not been able to find any source code for this particular instrument. I would appreciate any guidance or assistance in finding some expert

Hi @ all, i´m new with MT 5 and wanted to know if its possible to trade on sim/demo account other markets than forex? For instance, NQ, SP500, etc. For now i only see forex markets to choose from. Any ideas? Thanks

Hi. How much would it cost to make this DOM?

SP500 and NASDAQ Indexes are not up to date and have been disabled for some time now. Is anyone else experiencing this

Newbie question I know..trying to place a leveraged buy order for stock RNG.N. Current ask price is at 32,950. Account balance is 103€ with the same free margin (no other open positions) and a 1:200 leverage. For 50 stocks this should be enough, right? Stop loss is not set. Still getting the "not

I know this is possible on demo accounts, but on real accounts? Anyone who operates with this strategy on a real account

Hello all, I'm a software engineer with a C++ background and have been using metatrader for a long time. I've been importing chart data into custom symbols successfully however, I lately have been needing to import historic prices; and in this area, MT5 is limited. The issue --seems to-- lie in the

Dear all, I am trying to import historical data (M1) to MT5 from my Tradestation account. I have export the data in csv format and below there are some rows as example: "Date","Time","Open","High","Low","Close","TotalVolume" 1/2/2008,03:01:00,3841.00,3842.25,3840.25,3841.75,184

MetaQuotes Software and oneZero Financial Systems announce a new connectivity gateway for integration with Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., available through the oneZero Hub product. The gateway provides the possibility to trade stocks, futures and other exchange traded instruments on the largest...

does the future contracts on mt5 automatically rollover? Like ES, YM, NQ

Hi I have been trading UNLEVERAGED ETFs on non metatrader broker of Indices (NASDAQ100,S&P500) and Metals(Gold, Silver) . I was always buying .Long The reason for this choice was because no Swap is being charged and I can hold a position for months without much stress. I will now seek MT5 brokers

Good evening everyone, I use which doexpert advisor not have capital protection...can you help me

I found out about how to implement the Ichimoku indicator in my EA, but it can only read the values that the Ichimoku takes according to the main chart. Instead, I want to find a way where I can compare the Ichimoku values to the Levels I set for it in the beginning, levels like 80, 20 that are

Hello everyone and Happy Easter to those who celebrate! Recently I ran into very interesting issue, MT5 strategy tester generated trades don't match at all on chart and in journal, let's say, in the backtest tab I see 11 trades, and the chart is showing 2793 trades. I expect a high number of trades

These are the results of my strategy, both use data based on real ticks of the same currency pair and the same strategy with the same inputs and conditions, the only difference is that the real tick data from one is from Pepperstone broker and the other is from Dukascopy. Would anyone know why they

Hi, I made an EA (this is my first Ea) and when testing it, even there is no date and time variables on it, the orders on Friday are not executed and the Diary send a message "market closed". The startegy is based on the direction of an MA and it has 3 variables for stop loss (stoplosspoints

Based on the documentation which lists a Login and a Password entries, I thought creating my custom config file that would allow me to run EAs programatically from a Windows command line should be a relatively straightforward task. I created the following very basic .ini file, almost identical to

I have a question about this mt5 python solution, do i understand this solution correctly, you need to install for every mt5 account into which you want to login also a seoerrate mt5 terninal on the same comouter? Or can you just login to any mt5 account with this python libary without need to

i am fairly new to coding. its been two days since i have been working on this. compiling it brings 2 errors, i have checked the trade mqh file for help. but made more errors on the way. here is the code. #include<Trade\Trade.mqh> // Create a Ctrade instance void OnTick () { // create an empty

Hi all, I came across a youtube video someone (Can not find the video i searched history on every browser and phone) was making code changes to position sizer from earnforex to have an indent on breakeven of specified value and also for the trailing stop to start once tp1 is achieved instead of

Hi, i have my personal money management Expert and send a sample of my expert to prop-firm provider. they told me that i'm not allowed to use this expert and have to use other experts that confirmed by them. in this regard you are kindly requested to let me know if i use my personal expert, how

Title says it all. I've been through a lot with EA coding and can do multi symbol stuff, custom performance metrics (Calmar Ratio, Avg Weekly R multiple, etc), news filtering. Yet I have never been able to create any profitable system on the 5 min timeframe. The way I build EAs might be affecting

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

good day. I need some advice: when I run some expert EA on a chart for "test" and the "Strategy tester" opens under the chart, after the back-test is done, I right-click on the fourth tab "Backtest" and select "Report" at the bottom and "Open XML ...". I save the file to disk and open it and there

What is MQL5 Wizard : The MetaTrader 5 Trading Platform includes the MQL5 Wizard , which allows to quickly generate code of an Expert Advisor (Expert Advisor builder). With MQL5 Wizard, knowledge of programming languages is no longer a prerequisite for creating trading robots . In the past, it

Hello I'm trying to build a multi currency ea that works in the mt5 strategy tester. i'm not a professional programmer but i tried i've read the articles on this website about that and tried but with no luck i couldn't understand the method because they use about 3-5 include files linking to each

In mql5, starting from an indicator, I wanted to make 2 instances of the same indicator, so that the 2 graphs could be presented in the chart. I started by duplicating the inputs, as well as the arrays, properties and buffers. After numerous tests, I only managed to present the first instance of

Dear all, I am trying to write an MQL5 indicator, but the buffers are empty. Additionally, the arrows are logically not shown. Can someone please help me? Here's the code: #property description "Fractals" #property indicator_chart_window #property indicator_buffers 4 #property indicator_plots 4

Hi, I have this sample code for the MTF RSI indicator. The first thing we check in onCalculate is whether the number of bars calculated by the RSI handle matches the number of bars in the selected timeframe. If they don’t match, the function returns zero. This works well in the open market, and

i'm trying to make an indicator that works on M1, it checks if the minute candle closed above previous hour high or below previous hour low and marks it, it seems i have a problem with getting previous hour high and low, the below code works but not consistent, sometimes it marks candles that did

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

i used to have multiple moving averages on my chart and it worked flawlessly until earlier today i only have one ma and wanted to add more, but no matter what settings i put into the ma, when i click save nothing new was added, and only the first moving average remains. is this some kind of a bug or

Hi all, I am looking for an Indicator with show Divergence on the macd version i attach below , with a sound alert signal. Can any one programer help out please. Thank you

a nice indicator i think green GBP /red USD se the pic

Can someone convert this ADR or recreate it for MT5 (MT4 Source Code Included)

Can anyone out there advise if there's an MT5 version of this indicator? Even a recreated version with the features highlighted in green (from the MT4 version, for which I don't have the source code) doesn't help—I've been unable to find an MT5 ADR indicator that matches the settings and delivers

Different zigzag's indicators please post here

Hi all. I'm trying to make simple indi which will speed up placing sup/res lines on the chart. It will place Hline on mouse click only while holding (ctrl for Blue or shift for Red line) but I don't know how to combine CHARTEVENT_KEYDOWN & CHARTEVENT_CLICK or I'm doing it the wrong way? Can...

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hi everyone i have an issue with my indicator, the arrow buffer is filling with some strange values that draws wrong signals on charts here is the issue picture and here is the code: #property strict #property indicator_chart_window #property indicator_buffers 5 #property indicator_plots 2

Hello. In MT4 I had a MTF MA indicator and it is working nice. The problem is that I can't find any sample in MT5 which works the similar. Simply, I want to use 1 min chart and I want to attach to that chart SMA calculated on 15 min chart. I can't solve that. Any help will be very useful. Thanks

CTJM Candle Timer - Indicator for MT5 : This indicator will shows the time remaining until the end of the candle. You can choose colour and the font size. Author: Jivarajah Tharamarajah

Check out the new article: USD and EUR index charts — example of a MetaTrader 5 service . We will consider the creation and updating of USD index (USDX) and EUR index (EURX) charts using a MetaTrader 5 service as an example. When launching the service, we will check for the presence of the required

Check out the new article: Decoding Opening Range Breakout Intraday Trading Strategies . Opening Range Breakout (ORB) strategies are built on the idea that the initial trading range established shortly after the market opens reflects significant price levels where buyers and sellers agree on value

Simple Trading System: A semaphore signal indicator based in the idea from "325 golden strategies" collection. Author: Nikolay Kositsin

New article MetaTrader 5 on Linux is published: In this article, we demonstrate an easy way to install MetaTrader 5 on popular Linux versions — Ubuntu and Debian. These systems are widely used on server hardware as well as on traders’ personal computers. Author: MetaQuotes

Check out the new article: Neural Networks in Trading: Exploring the Local Structure of Data . Effective identification and preservation of the local structure of market data in noisy conditions is a critical task in trading. The use of the Self-Attention mechanism has shown promising results in

Check out the new article: Atmosphere Clouds Model Optimization (ACMO): Practice . In this article, we will continue diving into the implementation of the ACMO (Atmospheric Cloud Model Optimization) algorithm. In particular, we will discuss two key aspects: the movement of clouds into low-pressure

MQL5 Programming for Traders – Source Codes from the Book. Part 7 : The final seventh part of the book discusses the advanced capabilities of the MQL5 API, which will be useful when developing programs for MetaTrader 5. These include custom financial symbols, built-in economic calendar events, and

MyRSI by John Ehlers : John F. Ehlers’ RSI with “Noise Elimination Technology" for MT4 Author: maximo

Check out the new article: MQL5 Wizard Techniques you should know (Part 53): Market Facilitation Index . The Market Facilitation Index is another Bill Williams Indicator that is intended to measure the efficiency of price movement in tandem with volume. As always, we look at the various patterns of

Check out the new article: Data Science and ML (Part 36): Dealing with Biased Financial Markets . Financial markets are not perfectly balanced. Some markets are bullish, some are bearish, and some exhibit some ranging behaviors indicating uncertainty in either direction, this unbalanced information

Adjustable Moving Average EA : This Expert Advisor opens trades based on the crossover of two adjustable moving averages. You can fully customize the periods, type (e.g., EMA, SMA), and direction (long-only, short-only, or both). It includes optional Stop Loss, Take Profit, and Trailing Stop

New article Payments and payment methods is published: MQL5.community built-in services offer great opportunities both to MQL5 developers and ordinary traders with no programming skills. But all these features can't be implemented without in-house secure payment system, that provides a convenient

Hey traders 👋 I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much we rely on indicators in our trading strategies—RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Moving Averages, and the list goes on... Some say indicators are essential tools for analyzing market behavior and timing entries/exits. Others argue they lag

Volume Oscillator : A volume oscillator is a useful technical analysis indicator that predicts the strength or weakness of price trends Author: Artyom Trishkin

Hello, what should i use along with OrderSelect? if (! OrderSelect (i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES)) // Ensure order selection is successful return ; if (! OrderSelect (i, SELECT_BY_POS, MODE_TRADES)) // Ensure order selection is successful break ; if (! OrderSelect (i, SELECT_BY_POS

The purpose of this thread is more personal ... At some stage (some 4 years ago, posted it at this post : https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/175938/page17I ) coded one variation of an indicator that I named TMA centered. After that somebody shortened it's name to TMA and ever since I am receiving emails...

Hi All,   Working on a Multi Time frame stochastic oscillator tool that works well for me as a manual trading strategy ive integrated into part of my EA and it works fine forward testing it but I cant back test it using strategy tester.   Ive done a lot of modding of the code lately to really strip...

Dolly Graphics v16The Dolly indicator has been updated to reflect the new code available with the new 600 series MT4, hopefully when MetaQuotes release the next platform update everything continues to operate. The indicator is currently being tested and checked for any obvious bugs and will be...

I CANNOT DOWNLOAD or INSTALL new MT4 at my VPS, I think the IP of my server is banned by mql5 for this, anyone has any idea or how to contact mql5 offically, the support messaging system just direct me around and cant really even a message

Trades from 2022 and 2023 are archived in one of my MT4 accounts . Does anyone know the reason for this and if it is possible to unarchive these trades? All history show correctly in MyfxBook but not in the terminal. The broker, IC Markets, could not explain why this happens in only one of my

Hello, I want to close all opened or which open trade automatically except 2 most recently opened trade. My code extern int BlindClose = 2 ; void CloseOldOrder( int MagicNumber) { int OldOrderClose_totalOrders = OrdersTotal (); int OldOrderClose_count = 0 ; int

I had abandoned Strategy Tester for more than a year. Then I decided to try it again. Terrible experience just like in the old times. I write an EA that is an absolute winner in the backtests, then I put it to work on a live account (demo, of course) for three days and it loses money for three days

HI I am using Macbook air 2015 using BIG SUR version 11.7.10. on the app store it says my system is not compatible. i contacted the apple support and they told me to ask for a previous version of MT4 which is compatible with my system. hope someone can help on this

Hi coders, I'm learning programming now to develop a simple Stochastic indicator . I don't know what codes are lack of resulting the indicator wasn't updated automatically. Upon a New Bar is launched, there are 2 issues :- 1) Stochastic "< 80" or "> 20", the DotLine wasn't removed automatically 2)

Hi I have seen If two object crossed with each other then the cross section get white or in other color. Is there any way to avoid that?   I don't want the white area, I want it to be full blue. How can I do that? One thing predicting object cross section are is not possible as its dynamic. Regards...

From the topic u will get fast my problem I'm a beginner EA programmer, this is my first EA pls see my Code I really dont get why its still not working, I mean why do I get still "invalid error" //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|

Why did you post your MT 4 question in the MT 5 Indicators section instead of the MQL 4 section , (bottom of the Root page )? General rules and best pratices of the Forum. - General - MQL5 programming forum ? (20 17 ) Next time, post in the correct place. I have moved this thread. Hi guys

I started this thread to post all news/signals indicators and EAs we have now and will have in the future.