Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 187

  Beginners  (2)
please i am trying to create an ea that will draw two line starting from 22:00 GMT at night and to 02:00 GMT in early hour of the next day, the upper line will be the highest high among the four 1hour candles and the second will be the lowest low of the same four candles
Hi Everyone, My friends join this broker, they run EA on MAM/PAMM MT4 Platform But if you look closely at image attached, the trade lot size is not representing real trade . The trade shows It's open the trade with 21.70 lot size. But somehow It isnt, the real lot size traded is 54.24 lot in the
  help to code  (4)
Good evening to all, I appeal to you because I have a problem with my code, indeed normally it must perform an order every 100 min: buy if the market is up or sell if it is down. The problem is that my code only executes sales, but it does not make purchases. I can’t figure out why he won’t buy
hi I write a EA that trading stocks how can i set the trading time to NYSE time ? That will auto update when the clock is move back or forward by the sesson
I want to double the volume as soon as balance doubles, I tried the following code OnTick but it doesn't change the volume even after balance is over 20000. I also understand that this code will keep on adding 2.5 to the volume every tick as long as balance stays above 20000. How do I write the code
  What's wrong  (9)
Hi, what's missing in this EA, it does not trade, I have tried to make it work but without success. Christer
My question is simple: I have developed an EA that requires multiple indicators to work. When I upload all the necessary files in the mql5 marketplace, because I want to sell the EA in a single package, will the files be automatically packed in a single Expert Advisor file? Thanks in advance to
Hi, I'm coding an EA and I have this problem with a 2-dimensional array: when I backtest the EA the "array out of range" error pops up, can anyone help me please? input int LookBackPeriod= 10 ; //Look back period input int NumStds= 5 ; //Number of half stds int
Hi, I'm new to the forum so please excuse my mistakes if any in requesting answers to my query. I'm having issue in selecting the inputs while selecting optimization with "All Market Watch symbols" option. When I select a single symbol I'm perfectly able to select the input variables that need to
Though I close meta trader program after running automated trading experts, does it works properly
All i need is an EA to do the following; I place the Buy or Sell trade that EA has 3 Values for me to put my desired Inputs. Enable/Disable EA #1 Activate the Trailing Stop After X PIPS OR PROFIT Is reached. #2 Valve for how close to follow the current price from just like a normal Trailing stop
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Hi there, I have beeing with problems like "off quotes", if you have this problem very often (like me) its kind of annoying, but there seems to be a solution, and this is how i manage to solve it and actually finally allows me to manually close the orders i want to, still difficult to do it all very...
I am thinking to make a "concurrent" system that would have several EAs running simultaneously. And I thought it would consume less resources if some AE just won't run if they are not needed. But when that is needed another EA would have to run them ... So I've been looking at the documentation but
In the code below I run a function every H4. But the issue is when I put it on the chart it runs immediately for the first time before it starts running every 4 hours. How can I fix this code so it runs only when the chart 4 hour duration ends? Please note that I've only included the most relevant
Hi,im new in this lenguage, i have an idea for my EA, but i cat write it, i think it is basic but can u help me with a basics to can write it. im going to put de requirements of my EA: <Deleted>
Anyone knows whether there is an EA that can stop opening new order (but can close order and trail) for the coming week? paid or free. Please tell me. Something that I can input into a table for the close only mode period
Hi I am trying to use the MACD divergence indicator as a signal for my EA. In order to do this, I have tried to add another array into the indicator that stays at 0 and signals 1 when a divergence condition is met. I wanted to plot this array intially to see if it worked before using it in the EA. I
I have an EA which has been working for a month on a demo account. I recently tried to backtest the same interval to verify it with the live tradings from my account history and it is completely different. the data is the same and it is broker's data. What is wrong and how can I get the same
Hi, quite new to all this but when I try to drag my EA onto a chart, nothing attaches and I get an error "Cannot Load ......." Any help would be appreciated
Hello, I use multiple EAs and Currency Pair for trading for nearly a year. I have faced a difficult problem with News and suffer major loss. My EAs go to the wrong trend with martingale when News came. It happens the fourth times in the past year and It becomes my major source of loss. I wonder if
  Code a simple EA  (1)
Hi Guys, I have been successfully trading a simple indicator lead system for sometime now with decent success. I am looking for someone to code it for me. The system consists of 3 versions of the same indicator that reference different timeframes. All 3 concur then take a trade in the direction
Last night, due to unknown reason my window corrupted and i can not boot my PC. I reinstall window and reinstall everything including MT4 and EA i purchased on the same PC. I lost 1 activation after that. Is it possible to regain my lost activation? The EA i purchased cost a couple thousand dollar
Hi, I have a binary file containing an array and my expert advisor needs to read it. However, I can't get it to open the file. I can open it with a script though. I think that the expert advisor is not looking for my file in the same folder as the script. I have put it in
Hello, I am trying to get realtime ticks from mt5 to database Postgresql through dll and the problem is that when I try to apply my expert to  few graph mt5 failed.  I use boost thread and boost mutex. Does mt5 support it? And how concurrency designed in mt5? Maybe mfc used? Thanks...
I want to calculate the pip value. And I also want to calculate the margin of the future before opening a position. But I am not 100% sure if I am doing it correctly. Can someone confirm if this calculation is correct? Thank you so much
My trading signal has been live on MQL5 for six months now and I still have no subscribers. I know I am not allowed to advertise my EA here on the forum in MQL5. Any recommendations where I can advertise my EA? Facebook groups does not seem to work
Hello, I have searched and searched and can find nothing that helps me!  My problem is I have coded a custom indicator and the values of it change when you refresh the chart (right click and click 'refresh'). Once it has been refreshed once per bar, the values remain as correct. I call on this...
Hi, I got also this error message: test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) tester stopped because OnInit failed there are no trading operations I use this condition to enable the EA only on Hedging account      // Enable only for hedge account   if(account.MarginMode()...
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Hi Friends I have defined an enum_TREND_STRENGTH and defining a variable of this enum type 'trendStrength'. enum_TREND_STRENGTH trendStrength; Since I have not initialize the variable, getting warning message: possible use of uninitialized variable 'trendStrength' . How can I avoid this warning
Hi guys, I hace several questions about OnDeinit function When close MT5 does this function works? I mean, I use 100 charts, each one with the same indicator. If I create a function that deletes all indicators of all those 100 charts into OnInit, It will work? My problem is that I use the same 3