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Hi, guys! Im new on MQL5 and also new at this Forum ( my 1st question :D ). I've noticed that my OnTick() is called on every change ( bid / ask). But I'd like to call it only when the close price or tickvolume change, after a real transaction from the market.. Is there a way or even another event to

Why Backtesting does not work: An Overview Article written by http://www.forextraders.com Backtesting is the application of a trading strategy to historical data with the purpose of establishing its profitability. The assumption behind this approach is that if a method works in the past, it will...

Here is what I am asking for advice on. On https://ru.investing.com/ I have a portfolio of instruments, about 30 positions, for which I monitor market conditions. I need a program to collect data from the site and put it, let's say, into a usual excel, recording it during the day on top of the

My brother purchased an EA about two years ago, for whatever reason did not use it , he sent it to me and in back testing it works very well. However it must of come with a license key for a particular account. We with to use the ea but it will not run. Checked with developer and they no longer

I want to update my phone number in my account. MQL5.com requires both SMS codes from my current phone number and the phone number on file. Unfortunately I don't the phone number any more I used to sign up my account. Any way can I update the my account phone number on file

Why are some currency pairs disabled

Hello everybody, I´m looking for this indicator with an alert but cannot find it. Someone can tell me how to create an alarm in this indicator when the second green stick appear? Thank you

I have balance of 18 USD and Im not able to do withdrawal using E-payments ! any one have any idea why

Hi all, For some reason, I would like to stop the VPS temporarily. It already debited my account for 1month subscription on 21st. If I stop it now, will the remaining time of subscription (30-4days) be held until I activate it again? Below post said "free minutes" at post #10

Hi , I want To use this indicator into my EA , or I want to build a custom indicator like this, but this indicator is not in the list from Platform What I have to do? thank you very much I going to leave the indicator

Hi ! I have an issue with my Mt5 I can t send price alert ! Nothing happens ! I can t understand because the email test alert work fine in the options setup !!! Greetings . Carl

Hi to all. Please check the following image Check ticket 164 sell 0.03 price 71,85 profit -1287.00 Check ticket 172 sell 0.93 price 71.75 profit -1277.00 Prices are both quoted USD, two decimal dots, so 0.01 tick difference is 0.01 USD At first sight profit calculation is correct , as it is of

Hello , Help Me And I Would Appreciate To You I Send Front And Back Of my ID And Internet Bill To Seller Status Applications Section To Verifiy My Seller Account , More Than 5 Days Ago But No Response , Can You Tell Me Why ? Thanks

Just got into MQL5 programming and wanting to play around with the strategy tester so I downloaded Scalp All and attempted to use the strategy tester with it. Every time I do it says "Experts\Advisors\ScalpAll.ex5 not found" What's the deal

here is my code: //+------------------------------------------------------------------+//| GetRid.mq5 |//| Babak Jafarzadeh |//| https://goodlibrary.ir

For the benefit of our community, developers and customers / traders, please add "timeout" for those who initiate arbitrage process in a freelace job. E.g. 7 days or more (selectable ?) If no reaction from the other party then it will automatically benefit the initiator. This will hopefully improve

good evening everyone, glad to notify you about the challenge i am experiencing when i am trying to install mt5 on my computer windows operating system. i am seeking for some help from anyone who can. i will be glad for your response. thank you

Any issue with MT4 and MT5 before I do the upgrade

Hi all, Due to the Windows 10 update causing my Market EAs to become deactivated and removed from my charts (https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/326759), I have lost all my custom EA configuration settings. I have learnt my lesson and will in the future save all my customised EA configurations settings to

sometimes I found the user name has cross line on, what does it mean

Hello Traders, How do you solve the problem of over optimization ? i tried the mt5 tester with the forward tester the in sample data was 2 years and the out of sample data was 3 years, 2 of them defined in the tester and the last one year, i test the final forward results on them. when i do that i

Problem solved There is no error in the code. && LastHistoryDirection() >= 0 //Last Historical Trade Direction >= fixed value ) { RefreshRates(); price = Bid; SL = 40.0 * myPoint; //Stop Loss = value in points (relative to price) if(IsTradeAllowed()) {

I wrote a program which makes sound when there is price change larger than spread between ticks and displays what is happening in a separate window. Any comments? int size = 4 , x, spread, stored_bid[ 5 ]; void OnTick () { for ( int x= 0 ; x<size; x++) { stored_bid[x] = stored_bid[x+ 1 ];

I'm currrently build an auto trade system and kinda stuck here. All I want is just to get the ATR value at bid price and use this value * 2 as my stop loss. Any input? Sorry for bad script, I just started to get to know mql5 for a few days. double Ask = NormalizeDouble(SymbolInfoDouble(_Symbol

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I am using the crosshair feature and wonder if it is possible to save this feature to appear automatically on all charts, any advise would be appreciated

How can i acquire actual central bank interest rates in a mql5 code? swap rates of metatrader are wrong or arbitrarily set by broker

I want to know if a person who has a trading account with metatrader5 can subscribe to signals whose provider account is on Metatrader4

Hello, I always test my experts on Current spread. I guess that means the real spread for the porker. But now, I am testing with spread 2 .. But what that means? Is it 2 pips or 20 pips? I am looking for a porker to give me same as the tester spread. They write something like spread = 2.3.. Is that