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Hi friend, I am running an EA test on EURUSD using my 24 core processor but Strategy Tester using only one core and it telling me the test will finish in 33 hours so I am asking if there is anyway to add the other 23 cores to the process? Regards

hello guys, I'm trying a very simple EA that should close position at the end of the week . it enters long when the price is above the last high and exit on friday at 23 or for a stoploss triggered. same thing for short position. during backtesting it enters and triggers stoplosses but does not...

Can the timeframe be the input parameter when it is transmitted to the CExpert class? I try  input ENUM_TIMEFRAMES pPeriod = PERIOD_CURRENT;int OnInit() { pPeriod = iPeriod; if(pPeriod == PERIOD_CURRENT ){pPeriod = Period();} ChartFirstID = ChartFirst(); if(ChartPeriod(ChartFirstID)!=...

Hello everyone, I hope this message finds you well. I am encountering an issue while testing my EA today, and I'm hoping to get some insights. Yesterday, everything was running smoothly, but today I'm receiving the following alert: ``` 2024.03.01 09:46:07.550 Tester EURUSD : no history data from

I did see some EAs with an icon and some not. How can I add an icon

Hello! Is there any function that retrive below info from market? Like how many contracts were sold and how many were bought at a price level

hai all, help me how to make ea for test only and dont display the indicator in test mode, im serach in google not get anything somone can help me.

So I'm pretty new to MQL5 and Metatrader in general but I wanted to build my own EA with simple moving average and stochastic crossover. I feel as though I have the code right but when run in the strategy tester it places no orders, even when the conditions to do so are seemingly met in the data. Is

Hello people, there is a thing that is bugging me out (you know, like "BUG-ging"). I know it probably is a feature. I just wanted to ask why on gods green flat earth (not literally, just a quote) do input groups inhibit the calling of indicators...?!? Here are three test indicators that work pretty

Hello everyone, I was wondering why I get this alert when testing EA : 2024.03.01 09:46:07.550 Tester EURUSD : no history data from 2019.01.01 00:00 to 2024.02.26 00:00 yesterday everything went well, today i only get this alert. thank you Ner

Greetings, Trying to understand the meaning behind the number in the backtest results for Margin Level %. At what level would it be considered a 'bad thing", ie, being margin called in possible future live trading? For example, some of my backtests show this level at 419%, other times it is 1765%. I

Will the broker allow me to open their account on the MT5 platform and use the EA to trade? Arch Dun

Hello there! My EA has a few inputs, including an input for "price" and another one for "volume". My question is: is it possible to have, inside the input tab itself, a line or variable that can multiply price and volume and give me the full value of the transaction on the same window? Which means

Hi Everyone, I am new to coding and would like to create an EA that would work with scripts that are triggered using hotkeys. These scripts would be placing and closing orders. I am not quite sure how the connections are to be made between the script and the EA to make that happen. Any assistance

Hi everyone, I'm new to MQL5 and don't have much experience. A few months ago, I bought an EA on the market. The EA seems to be working fine, but now I want to downgrade my RAM from 16GB to 8GB while keeping everything else the same on my computer. Do you think my EA activation count will decrease

Hi, I am still quite new to MQL5 programming and I am stuck writing the code for a grid EA. Basically, I want the EA to do the following: Step 1. If there are no open positions and pending orders, the EA should call the OpenNewTrade() function Step 2. While there are open positions or pending

Hi, I’m trying to convert this function from mt4 to mt5 but I'm not sure how as I'm not familiar with mql5 code yet. Any help would be appreciated. double GetFunction() { int j,k; double sumw = (Period1+ 1 ); double sum = sumw* Close[ 1 ]; for (j= 1 , k=Period1; j<Period1; j++,k--) {

Hi, I been struggling for some evenings now trying to get the proffit/loss from the last closed order and have tried alot of different codes. When a run my Strategy Tester it feels like it misses orders? and i read somewhere that you can use it in Tick() or in Trade() function?? Should not this be

I get the message " Strategy Tester Report not found" EURUSD 1H. How can I solve this

When a visual test is started on mt5 strategy tester, the window pops up and there is a main chart which using whatever template is saved as tester.tpl, then other charts of the different timeframes that the EA is simultaneously working on. How can I from my EA, manage this other basic charts, maybe

Is there a way to get the MQl5.com user name if the user logged in via MT5

I'm not familiar to C# coding

Why is there a SWAP column in strategy tester under deals with no entries ... when trades HAVE carried overnight

I got several computers here, let me list them down: PC-R = AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16C32T PC-5 = Intel Core i5-10400 6C12T PC-9 = Intel Core i9-10900F 10C20T The situation is, PC-R can add PC-5 and PC-9 to its Local Network Farm PC-5 can only add PC-9 to its Local Network Farm PC-9 can only add PC-5 to

Is there a way to test all time frames in one run, that out puts all results per time frame?

Hi, I wan to ask about buy and sell or entry price. I've heard about the word 'buy at the ask and sell at the bid' but there's no one talking about spread. Using the code below I want to know which one is correct between adding spread or not. void OnStart () { int distance = 100 ; double entry

Good day everyone. I want to use freelance to make an EA But I want to ask if the idea will work before I post it. [broker] has different volatility index with different minimum lot size. Is it possible to make an EA and have all the volatility index with the options to choose lot size for each

Is it possible to get a huge slippage during strategy testing? I've been testing an EA on M5 XAUUSD chart and found that the test account was stopped out due to a huge slippage. The stop loss level was about 160 pips, but the filled price was about 1080 pips, which was about 7 times the SL distance

Hi Everyone, I'm developing my EA. The thing is that I want to make only one trade each time. How can I check If the current trade is open in order to avoid the enterTrade functionality while it is opened? And also I've noticed that I had some problems related to "failed market sell 0.1 XAUEUR sl

Hello guys! I created that topic because I am having some issues trying to set an expiration date in my orders. I am using the MT5 Python API, and that´s the structure: request = { 'action': mt5.TRADE_ACTION_PENDING , 'symbol': [stock symbol], 'price': [price] , 'sl'