Expert Advisors and Automated Trading

When this expert advisor was back-tested using tick-story dukascopy tick data with 100% tick modeling quality the profits were significantly higher compared to the mql5 data with 100% tick modeling quality. My confusion is which back-test is accurate. back-test Method: Every tick based on real ticks

Is matching the EA time with the broker’s time one of the biggest challenges

Can someone tell me which ea is the best in MQL5 market ? There are so many EAs in MQL5. It is difficult to find good EA

Hello everyone, I have an MQL5 Expert Advisor (.mq5 file) that I need compiled into a .ex5 file. I am on Android only and do not have access to a PC or MetaEditor. The EA is based on the ICT "One Setup For Life" strategy using: - Macro time window filters - Stop Hunt detection - Inversion FVG and

Hello, I'm working on a multi‑symbol Expert Advisor that monitors trade events across several instruments. I know that OnTradeTransaction is triggered when a trade transaction occurs on the account, but I'm not entirely sure about its scope when used in an EA. If I have a single EA running on a

Hello, i have easy trend indicator. ( attached picture ) It only write sell/buy signal does not make auto trading. Is there a way to make it auto ?Best

So my name is Christoper. I am from Scotland. I have recently started trying to design an EA to get off a building site. I am an engineer so trying to adapt that and to a different part of life get me off this building site I have recently created a EA that has 1.79 profit factor a drawdown of 0.40%

Hello Everyone. I have created this Renko chart generator for MT5 because I have searched for a good Renko chart generator for a long time and I did not find one , so I decided to build my own and share it with the mql community for FREE. You can find it attached. If you want any improvements let me

Newbie query: Can anyone help me with my understanding of the EA OnTick Function? I have developed a simple custom indicator and I access this indicator from within a custom EA I have also developed. I am using the OnTick function to process each tick and assess aganist the indicator values to...

Greetings everyone, I have recently started testing mt5 for algorithmic trading , however I have noticed that all of the codes I wrote had the same issue in the Strategy Tester - floating arrows; Arrows displaying buy/sell signals appear to be at an offset from the actual chart regardless of the

I already turned off Algo Trading and ensured the EA is disabled on every timeframe, but it continued opening trades and significantly affected my deposit. Could you explain the correct way to fully stop or uninstall an EA so it cannot place any further trades

I am developng EA, I want to set max slippage in mql5, do anyone know how to set max slippage

Buy Signal: Entry Condition : The first candle is below the EMA-5, with its high point not touching the EMA line. This candle becomes the alert candle. The second candle breaks the alert candle, signaling the buy entry. Sell Signal: Entry Condition : The first candle is above the EMA-5, with its

I am experiencing a critical issue where AutoTrading turns OFF immediately after enabling it. Environment: - MetaTrader 5 on Windows 10 - Also reproduced on Mac (Wine environment) - Broker: XM (TradeFin Limited) Issue: - When I click "Algo Trading", it turns ON briefly and then immediately turns OFF

Hi, I am running MT5 on Ubuntu/Wine. I have 28 charts open with a EA attached (on a demo account). I noticed that my EA was missing good entry points, and I found that starting a single chart with EA on my Windows box would open the trade as expected. Further investigation seems to indicate that the...

#define func(arg1, arg2) Print (arg1); arg2; func( "Hello" , ExpertRemove ()) // fine func( "Hello" ,) // Warning Makes no sense for me. There are many cases, when I explicitly do not want to have the second argument, but I also dont wanna mess up my code with even more macros with different names

Hi all. I am migrating my EAs from MT4 to MT5. Yesterday I ran some back testing and worked fine. Today I get this error. and MT5 won't let me run optimizations. Says: - debug version of "Advisors\EA.ex5" detected - optimization cannot be started Thank you in advance for your time

Happy and successfull new year, fellow Traders! Did anyone yet have the problem of the Strategy Tester giving you zero trades / zero results in the overall optimization window? When I start the optimization (as seen in the screenshot below) it does some optimization step and instantly finished with...

Hi everyone, I’m using the official MetaTrader5 Python package and trying to retrieve per-day quote/trade session time windows for symbols. From MQL5 docs, I can see session window functions exist: SymbolInfoSessionQuote : https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/marketinformation/symbolinfosessionquote (and

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 guys, I was interested if anyone have some EA that is working stable on prop firms like FTMO and similar. All of them I was trying, free and paid were not good at all. I also tried freelance with job offer, here I was not successful as well with anything stable and performing for long term

Use the CODE button (Alt-S) when inserting code. A moderator corrected the formatting this time. Please format code properly in future; posts with improperly formatted code may be removed. The paths are correct both in the Python file that creates the signal and in the expert advisor , but the

After this mornings update on 24th July '25. Every EA I try to compile, even ones that have previously had no issues, are now showing fast 'Fatal Compiling Error : Unknown Error' Im going to assume this isn't just myself having the issue. Is there something I can do to counter this issues, Or just

My mother language is Arabic, I will try to make this article as simple as possible, away from technical jargons. This article is about using two Python scripts (master_client001.py and slave_server.py) to copy trades locally (at the same PC or Laptop) between two MT5 platforms (Master and Slave

I'm looking for Expert Advisor for MT5 that can help me: 1. to set tp, sl automatically (which my tp and sl are always fixed, like when I set limit, tp & sl will always be 100pips) 2. change my sl to entry point (breakeven) when some conditions triggered (when order running between utc 1400 to 1600

Hi guys i want read my ini file created inside of File folder of metatrader5 , is possible to do that exist a ini command for doing