Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 22

I've been trading a few years for myself, I have some success for a few months then fall into same old traps of chasing, FOMO, hanging on, basically discipline! So wasting a lot of time trying to get it right! I would like to try a few EA's that can stick to the rules! But where do you start looking

I am trying to get the value of a trend line drawn by the user on the chart. Any ideas? I can't figure out a proper way to draw a trend line since there is so much personal intuition on what a pivot point would be considered. Is there a way to get the value of the trend line so I can use it to code

Hello guys I am watching for a EA which copies Whatsapp messages to an EA. Does anyone know an EA? i already build a program to read out SL TP and BUY SELL. If i copy them in a Text is it possible that an EA can read them and copy in to a signal? Hope for help thanks. Regards Steve

Wishing all a happy weekend. I have coded a IsNewBarSession, which is supposed to return true at first cross of timeStamp with cATS.checkTimeCross(vHour,vMinute,vCurrTime,vPrevTime). I could not apply a proper logic/condition to return [false] if timeStamp have been crossed. For Asian Session start

I would like to "just" add + 3 columns of user criteria, as I would like to come out with 3 different formulas straight from 1 optimization instead of running the optimization again to come out with another user criteria value. I made the 4 user discretion options in OnTester. But my question now is

Hi, All the variables bellow are double s, I'm accumulating them summing with other double s like: profit = ( double ) HistoryDealGetDouble (deal_ticket, DEAL_PROFIT ); but in the end, when trying to do a`MathRound`, simple as this, it returns error: withdrawn_sum = MathRound (withdrawn_sum, 2 );

Hello friends I want to implement the FiboFan object on the chart with the help of standard MQL functions. But it seems I forgot something because nothing is displayed. Is it possible to guide me? #property copyright "Copyright 2023, MetaQuotes Ltd." #property link " https://www.mql5.com "

Slippage is int value or double value? extern int Slippage = 3 ; //OR extern double Slippage = 3.0 ; OrderSend ( Symbol (), OP_BUY, SendOrderBuyLot, Ask, Slippage, BuyStopLoss_SendOrder, BuyTakeProfit_SendOrder, SendOrder_Comment + Li_12, SendOrder_Magic, 0 , Green);

Hi~Guys! Is it possible to cross time frames in practical EA development? For example, I want to go long when both 1 hour and 4 hours are long, or short when both 5 minutes and 1 hour are short. Can the code be put into practice? There will be no problem with the program logic during backtesting

Hello anyone know where i can find Magickeys mq5 source code ? cant see it in any of my folders

Hello! I need some help. I have an MT5 EA working right now based on the RSI Strategy. It works very well, but I wanted to make a change and I can't get it to work. There is only one position open at a time. Even though I have coded stoploss and take profit, I have them both with value 0. My buy

Hello! I have downloaded this EA which is free on mql Market Place " Candle by Seconds ". It works fine, however, cannot place any trades on the new chart created. Manually or by another EA attached , I get this [ invalid request ] error

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Automatic validation of all my products is stuck, how can I restore it？？

Hey, guys! As the documentation well says, the function TesterStop can be used when the account reaches a pre-defined drawdown or when a certain amount of trades are executed to stop current testing. But I'm looking for other usages for it, since it drastically speeds up the optimization testing

There is a ea with a license key only for 1 account number . Can the account number simply be changed in the heading of metatrader 4

Hey everyone, been running into some problems and i'm a good 4 hours into spinning my wheels and i'm about to go down the rabbit hole in the forums/books so i figured it might be worth a shot to ask. I've been testing my EA on the strategy tester and for some reason when there's definitely a trade

Hi I used mt5. history_orders_get (f,t) and mt5.history_deals_get(f,t) but I got an issue understanding what are those columns : ['ticket', 'time_setup', 'time_setup_msc', 'time_done', 'time_done_msc', 'time_expiration', 'type', 'type_time', 'type_filling', 'state', 'magic', 'position_id'

Hi ! I created an EA based on SAR indicator, I have excellent results in backtesting (over 3 years) but as soon as my EA runs on a real account, it's catastrophic! Example: this Friday: loss -10$ in live in 18 trades, in backtest today (same EA): gain +50$ in 15 trades. I'm lost, can't be only

I am trying to figure out why only me and a couple other people experience certain bugs when doing forward tests ( https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/454524 ). I believe the bugs might be hardware related. After some experimentation I found out that the bugs happen when the number of inputs

If I am trying to output multiple lines, how do I do this? Comment("Apples");Comment("Oranges"); The code above will only output: Oranges As if it is being re-written on the same line again

Calculating a moving average on price data usually means the first few values of the MA buffer (usually the period), is empty. That makes sense. But on closer inspection I found that the first 8 values of the iDEMA buffer with period of 5 contains a random float value, far removed from the price

I created this topic in order to avoid creating a separate topic for each OOP question (I have already created several of these)

I have scripted and EA to get post request to my server with the required response but I am not able to add it to any chart it is getting removed automatically , however it is working perfectly when i am using OnTick() function , please do resolve this error

Hi, Since yesterday my copier doesn't work anymore on 1 account... I reinstalled, logged out and in etc but nothing changed. Any help here what to do? Broker says everything fine on their side

Hi, I want to write a set file inside an EA. The condition is like this, if time frame is PERIOD_M15 using this set value for this variable if it's PERIOD_M5 using this set value, in code would be like this FileWrite (filehandle, ... StringFormat (

I want to create a "robot" that would automatically find strategies, based on the indicators requested and some basic operands (>, <, ==, etc) the key is that I want to backtest using only OHLC data, NOT as an expert advisor. the way I test indicators now, is that I make a "backtest" but within an

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

Greetings, I run Backtest and Forward Test for an EA using two different modellings ("Every Tick" and "Every Tick Based on Real Ticks") in MT5 and I got totally different results "Every Tick" modelling was in profit and "Every Tick Based on Real Ticks" was in loss ! Which one is more valid and why

if I buy an expert advisor from MQL5 market with (let's say) 10 activations is it legal for me to re-sell the purchased EA for 9 activations? (me and another 9 traders use the same EA)