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Hello, I am encountering this error.. What does it mean ? test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) strategy tester report 3 total trades test on XAUUSD,D1 (netting) strategy tester report 6 total trades test on GBPUSD,M30 (netting) disconnected there are no trading operations

Is there a way to debug the runtime to see exactly where in the process the EA is getting stuck on in the MetaEditor or elsewhere so I can try and modify it. Thanks in advance

Hi everyone, Im just wondering if there is a software or EA that copy trades to others accounts but copy each trade as manual orders. Normally when using copys EAs they copy trades with magic numbers even using magic equal to zero is not a manual order

I used to be able to read news on forexprostools.com, but now getting error 5004, "cant load file"..... has something changed there? Here is my code: string ReadCBOE() { string cookie= NULL ,headers; char post[],result[]; string TXT= "" ; int res; string investingUrl=

I wanna loop through history deals but why am I getting print zero here? i tried HistoryDealsTotal() and HistoryOrdersTotal() both printing zero, what seems to be wrong here? tks all. double totalProfitLoss = 0.0; int totalDeals = HistoryDealsTotal() ; Print("Total historical deals__:"

Hello everything is fine? I need to make changes so that my robot operates only within the open market, so that it does not operate in auctions and after the closing call, I saw that there was nothing native for this, so I developed the following methods that run every tick: bool IsMarketOpen() {

When the following Expert is initially attached to a chart, The SpinEdit value 25 is displayed. If the timeframe is changed, the value 25 is no longer displayed. However, clicking the up/down arrows will re-display the value. Changing timeframes again will hide the value. Is there a way to keep the

Please help me understand: I am running the tester strategy with an expert of the MT5 market on gold with four different brokers Dukascopy, Swissquote, FP-Market and Ava-Trade and I get completely different results. In particular with Swissquote and Dukascopy the result from 01.01.24 to today is

I have been testing a new custom EA and have it running on 6 separate computers. Each with a different demo account. About 10 days, the 2 Dell laptops (both I-7 16 G) suddenly stopped entering orders. Journal on both Dell laptops simply says "activated for drlipsitz". Everything is normal on the non

Hi everybody, I'm experiencing a problem with Metatrader 5 optimizer which I've never encountered before. I don't know since when this is happening. When I run a single test from the optimization result list, sometimes the result is different: different number of trades, profit etc. Here is an

Hey guys, My recent optimization results are not what they seem to be. When double-clicking an entry in that table, both backtest and a visualized strategy run yield a totally different result (results of backtest and single visualization test match). Not only the profit is mismatching, but also the

As I run optimization test ,get result and run single test result not match the result. Get huge deviation, not sure it's optimization get error or single run get error. It's so confuse me. I do lot of tests base on this version code,over one month. MT5 base on version 5, build 2981. Always skip the

Hello, I've been testing some EA on MT5 strategy tester. But I'm getting 2 totally different results from running the strategy tester with and without visual mode. I think It should be reasonable to believe in the results of visual mode testing. And since the optimization results are based on

I am not a professional developer and I am trying to make an EA based on published examples, my personal additions, my limited general programming knowledge (html, php, databases, but not MQL5) and the help of the AI Assistant built into the MQL5 Meta Editor. I have made several small EAs and none

Hi I am new to MT4/MT5 and I'm trying to backtest some EAs. There are a couple EAs I've tested that will place trades like the <Deleted> bot but I tried 4-5 others and they all fail to place any trades. I noticed in the journal that the bots do not initiate any buy trades but has many sell trades

I was testing an EA that a developer put on the codebase for trading Gold ( based on Keltner channel and EMAs) . Here is how the backtest looked on "Real Ticks" modelling: Here is how the backtest looked on "Every Tick" modelling for the exact same setting, same leverage, and same time range (same

I'm totally at a loss for what the problem could be; I have the following request being sent to multiple accounts (held on various brokers and MT5 terminals): request = { "action" : mt5_interface. TRADE_ACTION_DEAL , "symbol" : pair, "volume" : lot_size

Hi all, When exporting the optimization cache file of an optimization and when importing them again later on in the Optimization tab, it seems the chart of scores becomes incomplete and shows a much lower number of passes (see enclosed pictures original vs saved/exported/reimported). Is it possible

MT5 has a very bizarre way of handling files... instead of defaulting to the directory where the executable is running it likes to mess things up and confuse the hell out of everyone but putting files in various places and give everyone the runabout... the reason for doing things this way escapes

I'm creating a Rectangle Label using the CHARTEVENT_MOUSE_MOVE event, for every time the event fires I invoke obj_rect_label.Create(foo, bar, lparam, dparam); my question is that, is this method safe in terms of memory management? or do I need to delete/destroy the previous object before recreating

Hi I have already done some tests with the metatrader5 successfully, but now always comes the error message :history cache build error. Unfortunately, I have google so far no solution for the problem can find. Does anyone know how to fix the error

Hello everyone. 1. I am trying to attach a template to chart and then take a screenshot. 2. I realized when I use ChartScreenshot too soon the template is not loaded yet and it is not visible in screenshot. 3. I use Sleep function to avoid this. I am wondering if there is a better solution

I'm unable to set any of the Left() / Right() for a certain CWnd instance. maybe Im wrong but I expect to change the dimensions of - for example - a CEdit object using these methods. could anyone provide an example for the use case? whenever I use CWnd::Left( 100 ) I can confirm that the output from

Firsr of all hello everyone. I'm form Poland and I'm new in this topic, so please just be gentle;) Anyway, I'v started to learn how to build EA few days ago. So I'v started to read theory and I thought that practice from the beginning would give me some benefits too. I understand basic instructions

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Hi, Is there any way to retrieve the account owner's name in the Strategy Tester when testing EAs? Running AccountInfoString (ACCOUNT_NAME) in the Strategy Tester returns "Tester" instead of the account owner's name. I'm running MT5 2361. Thanks

Hi there, anyone an idea? For whatever reason, the corresponding - ChartGetInteger(m_chart_id,CHART_WINDOW_HANDLE) - returns zero.

Hi! Any EA, of any source works on one of my computers. I have many EAs that I use every single day. I have other people using the same EAs that I do and tonight I went to trade the Hong Kong opening as usual, loaded the EAs on my multiple charts, different strategies and none of them worked. So I

Please i work in Python and this error appears Can anyone solve this error as this image shows hello all please can any one help me for tis error appear when run simple code in python script in metatreder 5 (2023.11.23 16:19:14.975 Python 'c2': python process thread create error [The system cannot

Hi everyone, I'm just learning about mql5 programming. I had a little difficulty and created an expert advisor. I want to enter the MQ5 indicator code into the Expert Advisor but without using the onCalculate function. My code runs smoothly for indicators. But I want to use it directly into the EA