Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 47

Hi everyone, I hope you're well 🙂, I'm still a beginner on this famous MQL5 language, but I hope to make progress slowly but surely, However, I do have a few questions, even though I'm thinking of answering them myself one day in the future, but I can't hide the fact that I'm itching to know if

Hello folks, I would like to know if with the Strategy Tester, it is possible to step backward like forward?. With F12 key I can go forward (as I want), but I would like to go backward as well. Is there some way to do that? Thanks in advance, Cyberglassed.

I have built lots of indicators and EA's in my time and I have a chap who would like to purchase an indicator from me. I am happy to provide the indicator and we have spoken extensively of the risks and such. He is 100% aware of what he is getting into. I haven't however ever sold one of my

Hi all, I am trying to optimize an EA, I have no trouble testing my strategy on a single test but once I try to optimize the inputs or test it on multiple symbols, the test run but not a single trade is taken on any pass. I don't receive any error. Any one had a similar problem? I tried to define my

Hello guys, how can i round a double to lowest number? I have issue for lotsize in martingale 1.5 Starting from 0.01 i have 0.01 * 1,5 = 0.015 (i want round down to 0.01)

Im new to coding, so my line for OrderSend is showing wrong parameter count, what would be the problem and how can i solve it OrderSend ( Symbol (),trade.SellLimit,Lots,entry, 3 ,sl,tp, "Gulitsa" , 0 ,expiration,Red);

Hi, I would like to develop a script that can connect to online mongodb atlas database threw Rest API to make CRUD operations (the authentification is with an API key ) by using the webrequest() function any help or suggestion

What can i use instead of SYMBOL_TRADE_TICK_VALUE ? I am calculating lot size based on risk percentage. Its giving me right lots on EURUSD,GBPUSD but it gives wrong valuein US30, USDJPY. Can anyone help me. I am calculating lot size based on risk percentage. Its giving me right l double calcLots(

Hi, i need to insert a time condition on which the EA trade only between 2pm and 5pm (variables that I will change on backtesting ). I've read several thread but cannot find a way to understand to how to manage "time variables" properly. Any idea on implement it very easily? (an IF Timecurrent > 2pm

Sir, I want to change this Colour Candles but it doesn't work to changing this colour candles int OnInit() { ChartSetInteger ( 0 , CHART_SHOW_GRID , false ); ChartSetInteger ( 0 , CHART_MODE , CHART_CANDLES ); ChartGetInteger ( 0 , CHART_COLOR_BACKGROUND , clrBlack ); ChartGetInteger ( 0

Hello! We're trying to upload our first EA in MQL5 Marketplace, and we are on the last part of the process now. Unfortunately, it gives us this error. Our EA is on M10. What does this mean? and how to solve this error? Please see attached file

Hello, I am new to coding mql5. And I have been coding a scalping EA. Now I need to code it to trade between a time range and two time periods should be as inputs to optimise it afterwards. I need a help with this issue. My code is down below. Thank you

I seem to be having a pathway issue i remove the "AccountNumber" as i dont want to give away my pathway info anyways If anyone could help resolve this would be great. Just noticed AppData Folder is missing in the Root yet i can still manually search it in the control panel function

Hi all, I'd like to hear your opinion about over-fitting and reoptimization. When we tried to find the best parameter for our strategy we often found an over-fitting situation and we all know that over-fitting could lead us to loose money. One thing that I know is that the over-fitting strategy will

Hi everyone, I hope you're all well. how to have several stop losses for a single position pls ? For example: I open one position of 0.10 lot and I would like to have a different stop loss for each 0.01 lot, Do I have to open 10 positions of 0.01 lot ? it's not possible with PositionModify Thank you

// Importing necessary libraries // These libraries provide access to Position Information and Trading Functions. #include <Trade\PositionInfo.mqh> #include <Trade\Trade.mqh> // Define the size of a trading position // 'lotSize' represents the volume of an individual trade in the financial market

hello i think this is a bug and should be fixed - where i can report this? if i do some large FULL optimalization that will take several hours - lets say 77h like on screen in attachment 294784 paasses to do but in some cases (+- 30%) - i KNOWN that this parameter set that is now processed is WRONG

Hi! I want to send an OANDA order request via mt5.send_order(), but it is returning none type. Here is my order request: action: 1, Type: int symbol: US100, Type: str volume: 0.01, Type: float type: 0, Type: int sl: 16627.5, Type: float tp: 16701.75, Type: float deviation: 20, Type: int magic

HI I am trying to use iCustom with the simple call form of OnCalculate indicator. int OnCalculate ( const int rates_total, // price[] array size const int prev_calculated, // number of handled bars at the previous call const int begin, // index number

Hello. I have been reading dozens of articles for three days, but reading those articles just gave me a headache. I just want to do something simple. Create a simple field on the chart where the user enters a value as a string and then I can enter that value into the variable. Please, without

Dear developers, i am trying to write a hedging expert advisor and i have some strange issues with making it work properly, first let me explain the whole idea and then mention the issue: suppose LotMax = 1.0 (input box variable) it is p etty much a bot that when it hits its TP it applies some of

hello, is there a script that gives alert when the account balance reaches a certain level, thanks in advance

Is there a way to display in a bar chart ROI and DD by month and by year on startegy tester report or on a histogram inside the tester? I have tested my EA since 2008 to 2023 and i want to visualize these stats

Is it possible to convert two not very complex advisors from MT 4 to trading in the MT 5 terminal? Auto-translation applied by moderator

I have this code for saving tickets that are stored in an object of the CArrayLong class void Save( void ) { if (m_tester || m_optimization) return ; //--- string name = "" ; if (!GenerateFileName(name)) return ; if (m_basket.Total() == 0 ) { if ( FileIsExist (name))

hi guys i bought an EA which is not working on my VPS PC now. I am loggin into my mt5 account and also into the community account, but the EA does not appear. when i check the market and click on the EA, it just says renew...but i rent it last week for the duration of one month. how to solve this

i have two charts on the screen. both representing the same currency but different timeframes 15M and H1. below code i use to draw an arrow. works fine but problem it is getting drawn on M15 timeframe. i want to draw it on H1 timeframe. I believe the issue something to do with the chartId but

Good day. I would like to find out if there is a way to drag and move (or another way) ALL stop losses at once. For example if you have multiple trades open and want to move all the stop losses. Currently I drag all the stop losses to the new target, but would prefer a way to select all and move

Is the description for my freelance job here at MQL5 understandable? And what financial outlay should I plan for? Thank you for your feedback

Hi, I have a strategy and I optimize it for a better input parameter. Now I optimize + backtest + forward test, supposedly the result of OptimizeA parameter was the best in backtest but on forward test OptimizeB parameter was the best. While backtest shows best parameter on the historical price and