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During the last month I've created an EA which is able to find the best historical combination between a pattern and all its relevant indicators/values. Here is an example: We give the EA all the "morning star" formations for the EUR/USD between 2010 and 2020 as input, and it returns which

Hi, can someone help me with pivot points ea

when I create a buffer with CopyBuffer through iCustom we find the buffer upside down, in practice, if we take a buffer of size 5, the last value will be taken with buffer [4 [. I would like to flip the buffer and take the last value with buffer [0]. By last value I mean the value corresponding to

hi, let me start by saying that i am totally new, and i am interested in buying one, but there are too many, does anyone in this forum has an honest recommendation which one to buy, and would be great if he/she can tabulate why to buy. Kindly, be practical as much as possible

Hey everyone, is it even possible to wirte an EA based on technical indicators, that generates profit over a long period? i don't mean that every trade is a success but that it generates a profit over several years. Looking at the Championchip 2012 i realize that only 20% of the participants...

Hi! I am out right now on my laptop and thinking of running a couple of tests. I have a PC at home as well and these are part of the same local network farm. 1. Is there a way I could access my local PC from elsewhere and leverage its processors? 2. Also, could I use a remote windows instance that

#include <Trade/Trade.mqh> CTrade trade; /*Manejadores*/ int ma_9_h = 0; int ma_15_h = 0; /*Arrays */ double ma_9_array []; double ma_15_array []; int OnInit(){ ma_9_h = iMA(_Symbol,_Period,9,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE); ma_15_h = iMA(_Symbol,_Period,15,0,MODE_SMA,PRICE_CLOSE);

Goodmorning everyone. I have been a programmer for many years, but quite new to MQL5. I would like to clarify a doubt. When I create an EA, the onTick() function (as well as for onCalculate() in indicators) is called when it receives a tick. But is this tick relative only to the symbol where the EA

double loss; loss = -m_account.OrderProfitCheck( _Symbol , ORDER_TYPE_BUY , 1.0 , symb.ask, sl); double stepvol = symb.volume_step; lot = MathFloor (m_account.Equity() * Percent_loss / loss / 100.0 / stepvol) * stepvol; // Percent loss is 5% Hello I'm using the above

Hi Folks! I was trying to use the command ChartScreenShot. I looked up the Docs, and downloaded the example code. https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/chart_operations/chartscreenshot When I executed the code, here is what I received as result. My problem is that according to the Documentation, the...

Hi, I want a simple way to determine whether an EA is running in a System Test or if it is running on a chart. How can I do this? I know it must involve using the OnTester() function, but I'm not sure exactly how to achieve this. I was thinking if there is a way to create some global variable that

hi everyone, doing the backtesting I have repeatedly this error that slows down the process a lot. I thought it was a problem due to the weekend but instead it is not, I thought it was the 0.5 lots instead of 1 but instead no ... compile has no errors. Same problem on the forex with eurusd

I am trying to read closed Trades Takeprofit and Stoploss values but i dont find ways. I have use the HistoryDeals way of reading all closed Trades, but for reading takeprofit and stoploss i dont find options like DEAL_TP or DEAL_SL so 2 questions, 1. why have metaquotes make it so complicate to

Hello. I have a doubt, I hope you can help me because no matter how hard I try I can't find the solution. I want to tell the robot that one EMA has to be equal to another EMA. I tried to put = and ==, but it doesn't take me. I don't know what to do, but ultimately what I want is to tell it to be the

Hi! I have a concept for a couple of custom criteria to optimize for, e.g.: % of days EA hits profit target of X% growth Avg. daily growth percentage Is this possible to code into the strategy tester optimizer? Or can custom criterion only be some new mix of built-in criterion? Thanks

So technically i want to open a trade once a candlestick has closed above the Hline or aleast find a hline that is near the closed and open a trade base on if its above or below. How would i write this in code

Hello, I have a problem. I wrote an indicator that draws different rectangles, on the chart, in green and in red. Now I want my EA to identify these (indicator already implemented) and know which price is eg at the bottom and bottom. Is there a similar program here that can be optimized, or does

Hi! Please see my issue below: 1. Ran a test using the optimizer. 2. Selected "Run Single Test" from the optimizer results . ... However the results are quite different than what the optimizer row shows. Why would that be? What's the point of using the optimizer if it's not working to find

Hello, I want to use 2 strategies in one EA. So, I'll make 2 magic numbers for example Buy (Magic 1) will have Close position (Magic 1) and Buy (Magic 2) will have close position (if Magic == Magic 2) and the same with Sell But how to use position orders to make it have Magic 1 or 2

Hello, I have the following code which is duplicating my orders, I create a Rule //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Teste.mq5 | //| Felipe Sena | //|

Hi, I use function Bar() to find out how many bars are in history. When I run it for D1 timeframe I receive 437 bars when debugging on history data, but more than 6000 when debugging on real data. I have "Unlimited" number of bars in Tools -> options. Is there some settings for debugging on history

Hello, this is data exported to excel: This is code for retrieved data: int h = FileOpen ( "OrdersReport.csv" , FILE_CSV | FILE_READ , '~' ); if (h== 0 ) Comment ( "File " + "OrdersReport.csv" + " not found." ); // First pass loads data from file into arrays dt, val (i.e. date/time, and

Hello, I have searched in vain an EA which will close pending orders (limit buy and sell) once normal orders have reached take profit, any clue? Many thanks

Hi, please see subject. Optimizer seems to work fine without cloud network (slow of course, but fine) - but when enabling cloud network the PC gets reeaallly slow and not much happens, then eventually computer freezes completely. I managed to get the journal to load and it seems like the last

Hi guys am new here (to the forum & to coding) Am trying to code a strategy that executes positions based on candle data collected at the close of each candle, the problem I have is that the ontick function completely messes up the strategy because each time a new tick is released the strategy

Compliments of the year I need assistance, on MT4 it was possible to edit an EA, compile it on meter editor 4 and refresh it on the trading platform before testing it, but o MT5, the edited EA does refresh, example, if you had 0.1 lot initially and you edit the EA to 0.6 lot, compile it and start

Hello Team, I'm looking to find out about whether or not it possible to show Opened Trades/Closed Trades on a Custom Symbol . I have, for instance, coded a (rather ugly) means of extracting the Real Tradeable symbol from Custom Charts made with a Renko Utility: tradeSymbol = ( _Symbol ); string

Hi, I am trying to retrieve the calendar from the investing website to show on MT5. void test() { string cookie= NULL ,headers; char post[],result[]; int res; int timeout= 5000 ; string url= " https://sslecal2.investing.com/?columns=exc_currency,exc_importance&amp

Hi i got an indicator that has too many parameters for the iCustom function call in an EA. i got a "'iCustom' - wrong parameters count" error in MT5 how can i get around that problem ? i'd like to be able to change the indicator parameters inside the EA rather than recompiling the indicator with

Hello, I want to transfer data from demo to live account. This can be done with txt. I need small data for that, but problem is because I have tried to use read and write to specific folder but my code not works. How to do this? //--- open the file ResetLastError (); int file_handle= FileOpen (