Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 35

Just wondering if anyone has come across any alternatives to the genetic algorithm for backtesting that they would be willing to share

I'm talking about memory reserved using the third parameter of the ArrayResize function. Is there a way to find out how much memory is reserved for an array

Hello,I have expert advisor works with many symbols simultaneously,The EA doesnt support multiple symbol testing, I've tested all symbols separetly,is there a way or a sofware to combine multiple MT5 strategy tester results into one

I need to know the end time of each trading session to close position. I've imported historical data into MT5, and in reality, the end time of each session is not fixed. For example some sessions end at 20:00, while others end at 21:00. Is there a way in MQL5 to determine the current session's end

Hi, How can I modify this, to make it read a value from a txt? (and how should the txt be written?) I've tried with this ... but I think I'm very far away Please help, now money for freelance. //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //|

Help. I'm stuck. I'm trying to find the range in a chart using the bool function. Unfortunately, I always get True. What am I doing wrong? Please help. This is my beginning with mql5. input int InpRangeBars = 4 ; double RangeHi = 0 ; double RangeLo = 0 ; bool FindReange (){

Hi everyone,  I have already been helped by members of mql5, so I try again with an other problem.  I want to add Trailing stop in my EA but I don't know where I can put the modification without break my code.  For exemple, this is my part of 'Order Close - Buy' :  double SL_Buy =...

Apologies for inappropriate formatting. If I attempt to format the code in code block, a big block shows up. If use HTML button on RHS, entire typed text disappears... First of all, we need a global variable to hold the profit's calculation. In case you are tracking multiple EA's at once you may

I have created an EA that I am doing some forward testing on. I have two sets of settings, let's call them 'A' and 'B'. I have on live account with the EA and settings 'A' running. Now when I login to my second = demo account and I put the same EA on the chart with settings 'B' it also changes the

I am new in MQL5. I am struggling with writing a function to get last open trade ticket for a specific type and Open price of that ticket. Appreciate any help. // Function to get the ticket of the last trade of a specific type ulong LastTradeTicket( ENUM_ORDER_TYPE orderType) { ulong lastTicket

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Hello, is there a sure to prevent overfitting when testing a system over historical data

FOREX EA trades USD pairs strictly and is programmed to trade news and hold weekend trades. Strategy uses standard open position based off candle sticks formation, occasional hedge and trades on 1hr timeframe

Sir , It is working this One Symbol // Show Grid is Switched Off ChartSetInteger ( ChartID (), CHART_SHOW_GRID , false ); // Show Ticker is Switched Off ChartSetInteger ( ChartID (), CHART_SHOW_TICKER, false ); // Show Volume is Switched Off ChartSetInteger ( ChartID ()

Context: This post is intended to be useful to those looking for ideas on how to set up an optimisation/setfile discovery process for themselves. Much more selfishly, I am also looking for advice from the more experienced on my optimisation process (which I will lay out below). I have been trading

I can go inside the if block even when the condition is met. The IsNewBar() function works properly but for some reason the condition in the if() block is never met. The var counter never increments. Any idea?? datetime dt; int candleNro; int counter = 0 ; int OnInit () { dt = Time[ 0 ];

java: ZoneId zoneId = ZoneId.of( "America/New_York" ); LocalDateTime localDateTime = LocalDateTime.of( 2023 , 05 , 30 , 15 , 16 , 17 ); //datetime in java ZonedDateTime zonedDateTime = localDateTime.atZone(zoneId); System. out .println(zonedDateTime); ZoneRules rules = zoneId.getRules(); boolean

I have a relatively simple EA that I'm optimizing and when I run tick data the tester freezes at 99.8% complete and produces no error messages but will just sit there for hours until I stop the optimization. The peculiar behavior is that my agents can process 1 test just fine, but if it has to do

Hello guys i need to determine the number of points suitable for the amount and percentage i want to risk i realise that as the account balance changes the number of pints used to calculate lot size can produce a lotsize greater or less than the desired amount and some times even greater or less

How i can resume back test if new day available.. for example.. i finished back test from 1/1/20230 to 31/12/2023 .. can i do back test from 1/1/2023 to 1/1/2024 without start it from the beginning... Only take time of 1 day as resume back test

Code here, mql5 newbie, can anyone tell me why it print array out of range (number71,55)?Thx a lot(Want to calculate the average high-low 20 days) #property indicator_chart_window #property indicator_buffers 4 #property indicator_plots 4 double DayHigh[]; double DayLow[]; double

Over the weekend I went to dowload and import last weeks data (from Tick Data Suite). I imported the bars as per normal and it showed the data. I then ran a test and got the error message that data is missing. I then went back to the custom symbol and ran a request and it said 0 bars. I have tried

hi good day can anyone tell me if i made myself an EA and i wanna sell it to someone what can i add to it that the person i sold it to cant resell it

Hello there. I opened a socket on MT5 and connected it with the server. But I could not send data from server to mt5 with socket. So I want to send a value from the server to the meta. can you help me. I would be very happy if you show a small example

test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) 2022.02 . 01 09 : 50 : 40 failed instant buy 0.01 EURUSD at 1.12584 sl: 1.12334 tp: 1.12734 [Invalid volume] 2022.02 . 02 10 : 04 : 40 failed instant buy 0.01 EURUSD at 1.12886 sl: 1.12636 tp: 1.13036 [Invalid volume] 2022.02 . 03 15 : 44 : 40 failed instant buy

I have been working on an EA for some time now and suddenly the code just seems to not work on my VPS anymore but still works just fine on my home PC. The issue seems to be that the trades open just fine but then modifying the stoploss of an open trade throws errors. I have tried copying the code

Could you guys please help me find out what's wrong with this MQL5 EA. So basically the original of this EA is an EA that helps you move SL to the A1 point after the price moves to an A2 price point. I did some modifies this EA to move the SL one more time, SL at the A1 point will move to the B1

Greets, Here's a quick implementation of a grid trading idea showcased here I'm not sure if I've made a mistake, or if the concept simply doesn't work, but it always results in a loss in backtesting. Maybe someone can have a look, play with it, and possibly give ideas. Since the strategy apparently

I am having the following error while i am trying to login to my account using Metatrader5 Python Module: Failed to connect to account #1234567; error code: (-7, 'Unsupported authorization mode, OTP or certificate password needed') Any help will be appreciated

Hi everyone Just as there's a function for selecting a position by ticket " PositionSelectByTicket ", there's also a solution for deselecting a position, although I don't think this will be of much use, since according to the documentation, even when a position doesn't exist, you can still retrieve