Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 37

When I download historical data from metatrader using the XM broker, is the data already adapted to daylight saving time

Found this on Poul Trade Forum at www.kbpauk.ru the first backtest profit factor .99 2nd,3rd, and fourth backtest better this one attached is the 5th backtest with a profit factor 4.00+ and less than 3%drawdown for this year.Tried fwd. testing this week with no trades. Seems it doesn't work on fwd....

Hi, may I ask why my code is not working :(, the error keeps getting the same code 4756, I have printed the debug printed log it seems nothing wrong with it but it still wont open any trades at all. I started some researches on official website about the OrderSend function but I still couldnt find

Subject: Issue with Changing Lot Size and Refreshing Trading Settings on VPS Hello Support Team, I am facing an issue with my VPS, which I use to run the MetaTrader platform. The problem is that I am unable to change the lot size for my trades. I have tried several steps to resolve this, but

Hello, I am new to MQL5 and may be missing something, that is why I need your help. I have simple EA that checks the performance of the indicator and it seems to work fine, but I found that it has ignored indicator conditions and hasn't opened trades several times. Can't seem to find the reason for

Hi guys, I have a question for you - maybe there was similar, but I did not find it - I created an EA bot. On every Strategy Test worked well everytime and the performance was really good. (different months, different settings...I tried it on many ways) Then I added to a Demo account for a real test

I ordered the EA and it worked fine with the default settings, so I closed the programming job. But now every time I change a variable, the EA starts working incorrectly. I contacted the programmer but he refuses to admit fault. Can MetaQuotes force a programmer to redo an EA

I am currently testing an EA I built that places pending limit orders. Everything works fine when I test with visualization enabled, but I receive an 'invalid request' error when testing without visualization. Could this be a limitation of the tester, or is there an issue in my code that I need to

Hi Guys, I have made mathematical interpretation in one of my expert advisor, my issue is when I testing it on MT5 demo account the results are correctly placed, but when I testing it in my broker's demo account its suddenly changes it value, for example i bought 0.01 lot at 2750 and target it only

Good Day Need some assistance with this error, I have published the same file previously with no problem

I just noticed that OrderInfo.Type() always return a 0 for all type of Orders. Why is this so? OrderInfoType always return 0 mql5 //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Check OrderInfo.Type().mq5 | //|

Hello everyone, My setup : Server1, has 74 local agents, this is where I start the optimization process Server2, has 74 local agents, which are added to Server1 Local Network Farm. Both are running Windows10 and latest stable MT5 version (build 4620). My problem is that I'm running a c++ pipe server

I have tried to backtest an expert advisor, but it doesnt work. I wonder why... Screenshot attached

How to draw a trend line in the visual chart in the strategy tester? everytime I hit start in the tester, a new chart opens and I am not able to use the drawn trend lines. any help?

I searched through File* functions in the docs, but didn't find anything

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 have built a trading bot , and when i back test it from may last year to now it is profitable genarating 57% profit when risking 1%, but the issue is when i back test from january last year the bot does not produce the same results within the same period it was profitable that is from may to now

Can I programmatically clear the StrategyTester journal on the start of my backtest run? Thanks.

Hi, So i'm trying to build a scalping system that watch the market in 5 minutes timeframe and execute trades based on simple algorithm, until here its all okay (I hope so), but when it comes to lot size its a bit tricky. The formula i calculate lot size is: willingToSpend = accountValue * .01 //

My MT5 EA is creating a file that will be read by an external system, and then that system creates a response file that my EA reads. This process happens once per M1 bar and takes about 1-2 seconds, so when running live, timewise there is plenty of margin. The problem occurs when running a backtest

I have a problem with optimization: when I run a backtest with a strategy, it takes about 8 minutes. However, when I run a simple parameter optimization over the same strategy and period with 10 variants, the optimization takes around 58 minutes, which is more than 7 times longer. I didn’t have this

I have omitted error handling for brevity. Let's assume there are no error while opening a position. The below code works fine for me. MqlTradeRequest request; MqlTradeResult result; ZeroMemory (request); // Ensure request structure is clean ZeroMemory (result); // Ensure result structure is clean

Hi all! I try to create a code to check if the last buy position (what is closed) if it closed ik loss or in profit. i Try to create a bool function so before the trade started , the EA is sure that the last buy position is not closed in loss (false). if its closed in loss it return true and then i

Hello! Am working on an EA and I wanted to alternate orders. I have failed to make it possible. I want to check if previous trade was BUY the next trade should be it's opposite and vise versa. Help will be much appreciated folks

Dear I try to optimize a trading robot from my PC, after running sometime optimize running my all core show status finished and some core show disabled. but my optimize show running, but core show finished. Do i know what is this status mean, is my optimize stop or it is running. I have some

Hello, My name is Oskar, I have good performing strategy which would perform even better with quicker executed trades , I got idea that something like button would help me, So my question is... Is possible to create button for MT5 which after clicking would open automatically 2 position Buy and Sell

Hi, I'd like to perform a series of tests, +30 presets, with an EA across multiple symbols, 20+. I could do that manually, opening the .set file in the Tester, runnnig, waiting, and then doing it again, but of course that would be a hell of a work, so a script-based automated mode would be

Just got round to using services and suddenly the services context menu has been replaced by the scripts context menu. My service will only run on a chart! MT5 version 5.0.0.4626 from [redacted] Any ideas

Below is aportion of my code that once the condition is met it has to draw an arrow above the next opening candle. Teh arrows do not get drawn waht am i doing wrong if (open[ 0 ] > rsiLevel && close[ 0 ] < rsiLevel) // If candle opens above 50 and closes below 50 { // Position the

I used the predefined list, but it gave 1 error that says: cannot convert enum enum MY_TIMEFRAME { D1 = PERIOD_D1 , H4 = PERIOD_H4 , H1 = PERIOD_H1 , M15 = PERIOD_M15 , M5 = PERIOD_M5 }; input MY_TIMEFRAME Timeframe = H4; int OnInit () { datetime time = iTime ( _Symbol