Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 76

Hi all. I just got my first EA up and running and I am finding that the indicator values lag about 5 minutes behind the values displayed on the chart. I see a bit of chatter about this. Is this a common thing? I saw one post that suggested coding a custom indicator. I managed to find the code for

Yet another quirk of MT5, with exactly the same conditions the visual tester does the job right while the non-visual tester opens a position when it shouldn't. I'm having a very deep look into this and there's no "randomness" in the code. - I tried all modeling methods (everytick, 1 min ohlc, etc..)

Hi. I am new to MQL5 so I apologise if I don't describe my issue well or use the correct terms. I am trying to get Indicator values using iCustom and CopyBuffer, but I am just getting zero values. I am working on an Expert Advisor that uses three Indicators: TEMA (9), Vwap bands (9), and CCI (9)

CopyTickRange not working for demo account but same timerange of ticks can be requested through symbols,view

Hi! Please see subject. I occasionally see scores in the 90s, and curious to know if 100 is the max, or it it's possible to break beyond 100. Thanks. 😊

All the testing parameter was same. except the modeling. I'm fully confused with these upside-down results. Can someone please tell me why is that? Results of Modeling - "Every Tick" Results of Modeling - Every Tick based on real ticks

Hello! OrderCalcMargin() cannot be used on indicators . How can I go around this? Thanks

hi, i'm new here creating a new topic, but i search a lot of things. In special this problem if can we help me void RangeBreakout::TotalProfit() { floatingPNL = 0 ; int total_positions = PositionsTotal (); for ( int i = total_positions - 1 ; i >= 0 ; i--) { ulong ticket =

Hi, I'm still using MT4 instead MT5.  I have try many times to perform backtest and optimisation test. Once optimization test have done it will show tick graph and result finding on profit, drawdown, risk and etc. How to use/implement the result into real setting EA? 

Hello everyone, I am working on an price EMA crossover expert advisor on metatrader 5 which should have the following conditions : 1. if price closes above ema ,an alert is triggered as well a buy stop pending order 2. if price closes below ema ,an alert is triggered as well a sell stop pending

I am looking for an EA for either MT4 or MT5, any of the 2 works for me that has these characteristics. 1- Be able to set that when the open operation has, for example, "50" pips in profits, that operation is modified and automatically set to breakeven. 2- Be able to set that when the open operation

Why is the panel of some EAs not displayed correctly in MetaTrader? Is there a solution for this problem

I use this code block to calculate the lot size. but when it comes to indices the calculation is very different. as an example, this code block calculates lot size for 10,000$ account with 1:500 leverage is around 3.0 lots. but when it comes to balance 6,000$ with 1:100 leverage , the code is

Hi Can anyone explain the code ordercloseby to me When I use it to close buy and dell orders it gives me error 3 Thanks

I must be really stupid because I can't figure out how to get the strategy tester to work. Every time I press "start" a second passes and then there is a toy beep. I don't understand this. As a newbie to algo trading I have also copied codes from YouTube videos but they also don't work for

I had a look and it seems it's possible but a lot of the ways I found connected to forex factory but because they have some kind of firewall in place it stopped most EA's that do this from working. Is there any other methods? I just want the EA to pull the news data and be able to turn on/off the

I am using metatrader 5 on a linux manjaro distribution through wine and I am having some coding problems. I am pretty sure the code is right but it keeps giving me compile errors on the OP_BUY and OP_SELL as undeclared identifiers and when I search in the Trade.mqh file I cant find them so

I coded a Simple Trail Stop EA from a tutorial video that i found on the net. It compiled successfully with no errors. Here it is below. #include <Trade\Trade.mqh> //Create an instance of CTrade CTrade trade; void OnTick () { //We calculate the Ask price double Ask= NormalizeDouble (

hi, it seems that some times, in tester graphs get wierd and also the testing graphs don't clean one after the other (I don't have an image now) but if one ends in +20, the second drops 20 and the graph doesn't clean (I still see the last graph and the second one is a continuation) does any one know

THIS IS READY MADE FULL AUTOMATIC EA MAKE THIS EA SEMI-AUTOMATIC 1. FIRST ORDER OPEN MANUALY 2.THIS IS MARTINGLE EA CONVERT IT ANTI MARTINGLE

hello guys, i'm trying to get historical data on index to do a backtest of an EA. The historical data center doesn't work. It's not importing data, it's not downloading anything. I have tick data from dukascopy but the import doesn't work. I tried 2 different mt4, 2 different brokers and i have the

Hello, i am getting the below when publishing my EA, it fails validation, i tried with many lot sizes. can you help please test on EURUSD,H1 (netting) 2019.04.18 11:00:00 failed instant sell 0.1 EURUSD at 1.12706 sl: 1.15714 tp: 1.12514 [Invalid volume] 2019.04.18 11:00:00 failed instant sell 0.1

I coded an expert advisor. it's works on indices, not in currency pairs. but in the verification process, it only be tested on EURUSD pair. which 100% have issues when the EA operation. is there any method to process this EA for a indices

I'm not a programmer so I ask the following question. Is it possible to create an EA using an indicator that only has the .ex5 but not the .mq5

Can someone help me, I would like to sell my EA on the marketplace but it is not passing the rigorous inspection. Is there anyone who is experienced with helping others pass inspection

I currently running an optimization and in task manager I saw that not all my cpu cores run at maximum is there a way to make it run at full speed

Hi Everyone, It's my first post here. I am not a developer and I tried to ask CHatgpt and different tools for help in creating the code (hopefully I will learn the MQL5 and write on my own some day) . Could you pls help me with checking why I get some syntax errors? I gave up.... initial scope: I

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I need to create a custom Demo version for my EA., so I used the OnTesterInt(); function and update a flag if the EA was loaded to strategy tester. but the code doesn't works as expected. What I did wrong here?. bool OnTeseter = false ; int OnInit () { if ( TimeCurrent () < ExpireTime) // If

static matrixf x_norm2m(SAMPLE_SIZE1, 4 ); // matrix for prices normalize //--- request last bars if (!x_norm2m. CopyRates ( _Symbol , _Period , COPY_RATES_OHLC , 1 ,SAMPLE_SIZE1)) { Print ( "CopyRates error" ); ExtPredictedClass=- 1 ; return ; } // Ahora puedes