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Hi everyone, I am coding an ea and want to backtest it by avoiding all major news 30 minute before, can anyone tell me how to find past news bars(from 1999 to 2021 if possible) with code? Thanks in advance

I did some research and looks like it´s quite easy to manipulate your stats. Real example. You make deposit of 450 to your account, open multiple trades and when all trades is nicely profitable then close few of them and withdraw as much as you can from your account. After withdraw you close winning

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Hello all, I am curious as to it is better to backtest over a longer period or shorter period. I know the obvious answer is longer period, but technical analysis likely develops over time, making the modern times more relevant. In the case of this image, is this sudden linear increase due to moving

Migration of major brokers to MetaTrader 5 is well underway. On April 2017, XM.com, IC Markets and Hedge Total have announced the launch of the multi-asset HFT platform. "It is something we have been patiently expecting for a long time, and I truly believe it will be a game changer for XM", — says...

Hi, I have 4 activations left of the EA I bought. It doesnt show under "toolbox"-"market"-"purchased". How do I get to activate it

I have an EA that works on my demo account . when you load it on the real(live)account no trades open no errors. cant get hold of the person who created the EA. what can I do

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Hello, The strategy tester of the latest terminal uses a lot of memory. The amount of memory used also increases significantly with the length of the Data Period. For example, when optimizing my simple strategy using iMA with Fast Genetic Based Algorithm: - 1 month uses 459 MB per process

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HI everyone. I meet the problem test on EURUSD,H1 there are no trading operations test on NZDUSD,H1 there are no trading operations test on GBPUSDcheck,M30 there are no trading operations test on XAUUSDcheck,Daily there are no trading operations I already add CheckVolumeValue, CheckMoneyForTrade

Hello Everyone, I am fairly new to Programming in general. It would help me a lot if someone can tell me is it necessary to learn C/C++ or even concepts like Pointers in order to develop Expert Advisors? Thanks, Alex

Does MQL5 offer the opportunity to become a promoted seller/listing at all? I saw an email that went out today that had a few listings and I wondered if they were random items or if they were selected for a reason

Why am I not receiving alerts on my phone from the mt4 system on my computer? I connected them properly and I can only do a test message but all the notifications that pop up in computer do not appear on the phone..why

Hello, How to decrease drawdown after i got High current drawdown in 36% indicates the absence of risk limitation. my signal not show in public for everyone. Thank you

I made a purchase at a price of 0.9615 and sell it when the price was 0.9586. other parameters look like this: spread 0,0004 volume 0,2 leverage 1:100 balance 10000 I try to calculate the profit: ((open_price - close_price) - spread) * ( volume * balance * leverage ) = profit So, if we substitute

Hi let's say that I want to make my own OHLC symbol from ticks based on history. i'm not sure how to do so, because to set the close value, you need to set it one tick before the new bar, but how do you know it's the last tick ? if you set it after the new bar, then it's data based on the new bar

what is the way to find volatility in market

Hi Everyone, i hope you guys can assist me. I have very little experience with MQL5 but im not sure why im getting an invalid price error sometimes when running my EA. Below is example of my code. I think somtimes the market spikes to quickly for my EA to open pending order therefore the price is

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone had some more detail on Open Prices Only on the strategy tester. I have developed a robot(with a programmer which I am not one) that back tests nicely with open prices only, however when placed on tick data it is less successful. Is there a way to make my robot

if the below is executable , is the a way to Alert a function without storing its value in variable just by calling the variable between the brackets of the ALert? int x = 3; int y = 10; Alert (x+y); is the a way to Alert a function without storing its value in variable just by calling the variable

Would someone explain to me the highlighted part? Thanks for your help

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How to write the code for calculating how many LOT I can trade for så that the robot know how many LOT it can trade. I have not see anything about that. How do you trade så that you don´t trade for more then 5% of what you have on the account? Lars

What's up everybody? I have recently bought an indicator program for my MT4 platform. There was an issue with the install and so therefore, I purchased the indicator program with a different card because I thought it didn't go through. Now it is stating that I have a financial restriction onto my

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It is very annyoing that top-up method by PayPal disappears time to time without notice

Hi Everyone, Is there anyway that I can change m feedback for a finished freelance job. I want to elevate it

Hey guys, how do I get a trigger when opening position is modified? By modified I mean when the Stoploss or take profit is changed, or the position itself is partially closed. I have tried to use PositionTotal() but it only changes when position is opened or closed. Would anyone like to point out

HI everyone, I have questions about the virtual hosting, that i can't get help with. I currently have a Metatrader running on my machine connected to to a virtual Server. I assumed this means that when my machine is off or MT4 is closed that my EA keeps running. This doesn't seem to be the case.. I