Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 437

Hi I have very easy profitable forex strategy. I tested that on USDJPY USDCAD and GBPJPY. but it should works on all pairs. Every day from 8 00 to 11 15 i take max price and min price . my width is max - min if price reaches max i will open buy position : so my open price is max, my TP is max +...
Which one wins the battle? Automated trading or Manual trading . I want everybody's pro's and con's, Who has experience with succesfull automated and manual trading? Why do you chose the one over the other? (or do you do both?) Thank you
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Good Afternoon, I have an EA with twomoving averages triggering an order execution as described below. The problem I am facing isa delay between the order execution itself and the cross of moving averages. In this example you see thecross occurred below 205 (past candlestick) but order was sent...
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I used many iMACD in MQL4, almost 100; I used only the last data of the iMACD; and the EA runs quickly ( no longer than 3 seconds), use about 1.1G ram ; yesterday I rewrote the EA in MQL5, it runs, very slowly, waiting 5 minutes ,and no reply, used more than 2.8G ram; so I cut down the most of...
I'm trying to set a SL, here's the formula used : request.sl=NormalizeDouble(SymbolInfoDouble(Symbol(),SYMBOL_BID) - (SLFactor * SymbolInfoInteger(_Symbol,SYMBOL_TRADE_STOPS_LEVEL) * _Point),SymbolInfoInteger(Symbol(),SYMBOL_DIGITS)); printf("SL requested : %G", request.sl);...
  Semi Auto trader  (1)
Morning I have a system that works on a one hour time frame and it produces entry and stop numbers for 5 hours and then also gives you the pending orders for the opposite direction for the 5 hours. My questions is does anyone know of an EA/Auto Trader that I can take and input all the numbers in...
what am I doing wrong? there is a screen-shot of a part of a code responsible for moving average . I replaced all variables with values so you can see the settings. the other screen-shot shows the difference in drawing the MA and the MA indicator thrown on the chart (or rather all 4 types of them)
Hi, I'm looking for a simple martingale EA that would reverse the BUY and SELL signals using the martingale method and when it hits for example BUY take profit it would start with BUY signal. For examle it would BUY 0.1 lots, stop lose, SELL 0.2 lots, SL, BUY 0.4 lots, SL, SELL 0.8 lots, TP and...
  EA comparison  (3)
Hi, I want to know if are there any web where I can find an EA comparison. I have found in the Market a lot of EA but I don't know how to choose one. I have looked at several EA but in all of them the review from the community is that are scams, that the results in a live account are not good and...
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Hello everyone, I am building a REST client EA which makes HTTP calls to an external web service. I would like to know which is the best and simplest way for the EA to perform the HTTP query and get the JSON data. From what I have seen in Code Base, coders use to make HTTP calls in the context...
Please does anyone have the set up of MT4i copyier software ?The one i downloaded is currupted and would not install, i have tried severally to instalel it but all to no avail.i need it to copy live trades from my demo account to my live account because of sliperage.
Hi MQL5 users. I decided to use stop loss for my current EA. I found I get similar profits level for small stop loss level and large stop loss level. For example, with stop loss 70 pips, I achieve 1040 GBP profits whereas with stop loss 123 pips, I also achieve near 1023 GBP profits. In this...
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Does anyone know the problem that pending order in the Expert Advisor not function correctly. The pending orders are executed in the strategy tester correctly. At "Active Trades" in the demo and in real account correctly. At "Alpari" in the demo account but not in the real account. In real account...
Hello there, I want to build something based on the Expert Signal Class from the Standard Libary. I know quite a lot about Web programming with PHP, JS and stuff but I am fairly new to those "higher" programming languages. MQL (C++ based) is one of those I guess. So I have some questions and I...
Hi everybody , iwrite this little message because i don't know what im suppose to do with my new ea. yesterday i've by this ea an since this moment , i can't use it , i can't backtest strategy... but with the same ea (demo this time) i can trade , i can backtest. if it can help someone mt4 give me...
Hi, I made a simple custom indicator and I'm trying to use it in my EA. But there is a problem with loading values from indicator - iCustom always returns an empty value (tester, demo). When I show graph in EA tester, indicator is showed correct. There is OnTick method from my EA: void OnTick(){...
This was noted as a function of MT5 however, there appears to be no option for this in the strategy tester interface. 
Hello, Is it possible to follow a signal while my computer is shut down ? Because i follow a signal right know but all operations are done when i connect my account... I would like the signal followed when I m offline also. Thx, piR
Is it possible to setup for a backtest on several pairs and save the files. Running overnight instead spending time on the day. I know how to save the best file by writing a file with the data after doing a single run on the best result. but it is saved in the agent MQL5\Files  and gets erased after...
I have a EA that was working fine, and suddenly turned into an indicator with I think the last release, plus I made code logic changes only. I have no indicator code up in the initialization and it is in the Experts folder, but says Indicator and will not run as an EA. I have one function that...
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i am runing EA on mt4 platform where i am runing my EA but i am receiving a msg in journal that prevents EA from trading "signal-failed connect to server login.mql5.com"
  mql5 and metaeditor problem  (12   1 2)
Hello I want to emphasize at the outset that I am a novice in mql5. I have the following problem : - I just wish my expert system exported my data to a txt file every minute but exactly on time 55 seconds , eg 1.55, 2.55, 3.55 and so on. I do not want to use the onTick section because not every
Can anyone tell me a EA opens a trade automatically with SL. Thanks
  multiple signals  (4)
Can I run two signal providers on the same account? I tried to add a signal provide once I already installed one
Hi,  I am trying to backtest a strat which involves reading some external data from a CSV.  I read in the documentation that FileOpen only works if I place the file in the MetaTrader 5\tester\\MQL5\Files directory, so I did this.  However as soon as I run the backtest the file gets deleted and can...
I had been having some difficulty translating my EA into mql5, but after a while I eventually succeeded however, 10 percent of the time it's performance on mt5 differed greatly with it's performance on mt4, and this disparate occurrence would arise on around the same date, and on multiple currencies...
hi, m having a doubt... i want to upload my robot but as m seeing backtesting is must and my robot works on other 2 eas which is there inside it so back testing of the ticks is not possible... so need suggestions.. what to do???
Hey, i have a problem with uploading my ea on the market. There is ab problem because i have nor source code. I´m using molanis strategy builder , but just the standard version. It means that the source code ist not available. On Pro Version it is available but not on my standard version. So i cant