Expert Advisors and Automated Trading - page 9

Hello, everyone! Today, my question concerns fast genetic optimisation and whether or not it is possible to specify a set of initial parameters. Let me explain: Suppose I want to run a quick genetic optimisation. Random parameters are used, and the better the optimisation results, the more the

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Hi everyone, help me please. When I ran the EA trading system(MT5), I found a message in the journal tab that said " take profit triggered #2 sell 0.02 XAUUSDm 2042.486 sl: 2058.181 tp: 2036.359 [#3 buy 0.02 XAUUSDm at 2036.359]" This event represents the automatic opening of an order. When the

My Expert Advisor (EA) is unable to execute all orders.The price hits the stop order and the order disappears without being opened, without any reason in the journal.I only see "cancelled order".What are the possible reasons and how can they be resolved

I don't use MT5 to develop my strategies. The reason is that you cannot backtest an EA without historical spreads The reason it's important is because let's say you write a strategy, and then it loses continually you try different settings but all loses. Your conclusion will be that it is a losing

Hi, one of the EAs that I purchased does not show under "My purchases" in MT5. Any suggestion? Thank you in advance

Dear all. I am a new member. I have Problem when trading. At first a place a buy order. After that, I place another order so on and so on. There are so many order that I can't edit Take Profit and Stop Lost for each order. Can I Right Click the Chart and Have The option for me to set take Profit for

Two items that may be related. This happened a quite a while ago, worked around it but thought you guys should know about it. The function "TextGetSize("A", w, h)" returns the exact same values in 'w' and 'h' regardless of the FontSize selected. I believe that to be incorrect as that used to work

When we subscribe to any SIGNAL provider on MQL5 ...How is the LOT size calculated .... Equity / Balance /Deposit

Hello everyone, I recently came across a trader on TikTok and followed him out of curiosity to PU Prime, where he is running a PAMM account . I decided to join with a very small amount, mainly to observe and understand the system — and honestly, I’m quite impressed by the performance so far. I’m not

Hi, I have MetaTrader 5 installed on my Macbook. Have some doubts - 1. Do I need to keep my Macbook always on in order to run the EA? 2. Can I test two different EA's at one time in my MetaTrader 5? Like can I log in to two different demo accounts in my MT5, so that I can apply two different EA's on

I am running into an issue, where every time I request the DEAL_ENTRY, only DEAL_ENTRY_IN is returned. This occurs no matter if I am looking at a ticket for the entry of a position vs the ticket for the exit of a position. Based on some research, this may be a bug. If this is correct, what is the

Hi guys i have this code //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| TripleTF + Indicators (XAUUSD H1|M5|M1) | //| Requirement: 3 charts with different timeframes + input indicators|

#property copyright "Copyright 2024, MetaQuotes Ltd." #property link "https://www.mql5.com" #property version "1.00" #include <Trade/Trade.mqh> CTrade trade; CPositionInfo pos; COrderInfo ord; input group "=== Trading inputs ===" input double RiskPercent =

Hi, I am unable to download free EA's. I click on the Download button in the left panel. It asks if I have "MetaTrader 5"? I click "Yes". and it gives a prompt - "Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid." Please help

I subscribed to a SIGNAL Provider ...he cancelled the Signal after just 5 days of providing Signals ......I want to get a Refund for this ...How can i get the refund

I’m transitioning from manual trading to EA trading and would appreciate some guidance on execution architecture. I work full time and my strategy needs execution at a specific time of day when I’m often unavailable, which is why I’m moving to automation. Currently, I analyse on TradingView, then

WebRequest with the same code called from the same type of computer on the same network can return mysterious 404 or 403 even though other computers on the same domain using the same code return server error 200 (ok). Server is working with no issues. Code has no issues. Problem seems to reside in

Testing an EA that has the following function called in OnTrade() event. The goal of the function is to find the highest Ask price for the current bar. Later I want to extend the function so I could get the Ask Price for any bar back in history and use it in an indicator private : double

I'm backtesting a strategy and to do that I'm automating some of the process. I need to draw some rectangle zones through history in H1. I have done that using this ObjectCreate ( 0 , objName, OBJ_RECTANGLE , 0 , startBarTime, upperLeft, endBarTime, lowerRight); And I clean all of them on

"the sell order request could not be completed" i have already read the other threads regarding this issue, and i am already using zeromemory before the order the ea was working fine last weekend, now i get this error .... also, if i run it through the strategy tester it works fine, no errors....

I have made a trading bot with python that works with MT5 using the MetaTrader5 module. it fetches data from MT5 to my program and sends back a request for position. now I know that the strategy tester in the MT5 can be used to backtest expert advisors , but I wonder if there is a way to use the

Hello , so i got a situation with my one of my EAs , so basically on the backtest everything works fine, trades are set to be when they should and closed when they should , but on live trading , the bot is not setting trades to be , and is not respecting the rule of not opening a new trade if the

There is a EA that i downloaded from MQl5. I changed some settings and added 2 inicators to it, it seems very profitable now. Can someone rescripts that Ea with the new indicators added

Hello everyone I have an EA that works well in the MT5 strategy tester but it does something else in the real demo.I hope you can help me correct this. This is a very profitable strategy 📈, I will provide the source code .mq5 file if anyone wants to help me.Thank you in advance

I am currently working on optimizing an EA based on SuperTrend clustering, and I am honestly struggling to find a solid and reliable optimization process. I have tried different approaches, and the ones that seem the most logical to me involve using genetic optimization with a large set of

Hi everyone I would like some feedback on my code or how I can make it more efficient as it uses several conditionals and loops. I wanted to create a multicurrency news filter for when 30 minutes before and after the current time there is an important news event. For each news event I need its

Since the latest version of MetaTrader 4 - Verion 4 - Build 1400 - 10 Nov 2023 was released I get the message that my product requires active MQL5 account in Tools->Options->Community. My user ID and password is entered on the Community screen. The same user ID and password I used to enter this

I've noticed that after copying history with CopyRates MT5 keeps copied array in memory. It's ok for cached access but when I run through lots of symbols my memory ends fast. And memory stays occupied until MT5 exits. Is there any way to forcibly release memory occupied by CopyRates cache

Hello! I keep receiving this notification on my terminal send request failed(invalid certificate). This notification starts once I open the first trade on terminal. I closed the trade, notification keeps coming. If I restart the terminal, notifiation stops until I open again one trade. Kindly