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Does anyone know of an indicator that will send an alert when a candle has posted above or below the upper or lower bollinger bands? I've seen a few that will alert when it crosses but I'm only interested in when a candle posts above or below the upper or lower bollinger bands. 

Can anyone tell me how I can get Order Close time for any closed order in History? I tried HistoryOrderGetInteger(tktNum, ORDER_TIME_DONE) But it gives me order opening time which is the first column in History tab of MT5. I want the time which is specified in "Time" column of history tab in MT5....

Please find the attached EA. I modified the original version of EquityManagerV2 by Don Perry and Gene Katsuro. This will (should) automatically close all trades when your balance shows a gain of X percent. I'm not a coder, feedback is appreciated, please make any corrections as necessary. Just open...

Hi guys. I only want my EA to open a trade after its had 2 losing signals in a row, how can i do this? Also I want it to not take a trade after 2 wins in a row, then wait again for 2 losing signals before entering. example: So if it see's 2 losing signals in a row, takes the third, say its also a...

Hi MQL admin I realised that MQL has now shifted technical issues other than financial issues to the forum. The message icon on the top right hand side will count eg "1" when I PM other users. It will also count when others PM me and i have yet to read the message. Please take a look at this...

I am trying to get the close time of the order from History Tab in MT5. I used HistoryOrderGetInteger(ticket, property_id) where I tried property_id = ORDER_TIME_DONE as well as ORDER_TIME_SETUP but none of these giving me order close time. Is there any single command or combination of commands in...

Hi can mql5 be used to login to a web site using username and password and download a page after the login page? In JavaScript, there is the callback "Asynchronous call" and dealing with http redicection, which library mql5 may have for this kind of things? Thanks

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Hi All I have a text file the has one record in it with two pieces of information: 5W;100 My read function is only returning "5W"  and I want if to return(read) 5W;100 so that I can parse the information from the whole string.   My Question is: How can I read the whole text file record and not just...

Good morning everyone,  I want to write a simple expert advisor, but I don't know how to do it. Can someone help me? I want that my EA do this:   - At "Time T" it opens "Buy" or "Sell" position with "Amount z"   - It close the position when TakeProfit is "x percentage" of "amount z"  or StopLoss is...

Hi I am amateur programmer in MQL5 and want to make an EA which can potentially profit in markets. How do you come up with strategy/trading ideas? Which strategy type do you suggest for begginer to try out? For example, some kind of breakouts or moving average crosses? Any advice

Hi, Can someone please help. Some months back I opted to become a signal provider . However now I want to buy/following a signal but I can't because my account is seen as a signal provider. How do I cancel this signal

Hi all, Example: A signal provider on MQL5 - Gross Profit Pips 35,010 less Gross Loss Pips 14,945 = Net Profit Pips 20,065. Same signal provider's account on myfxbook is showing 2,053 net pips It is like one tenth 1/10 of the MQL5 figure. Why does MQL5 not show the same,correctnet pips figure of

Hello , please help me fix this.. i got an error while backtest ea for H1 timeframe but no problem for M1.. it say critical error in the EA, array out of range (1278,19) when i compile there is no error sign.. i don't know how to fix this.. //--- main loop         for(i=limit; i>=0; i--)...

Hey Guys, I'm fascinated with trading like you all and I want to experience how to create a robot. I have zero knowledge about this subject. I do have a stretegy I've been using for years and i want to see if i can create it in an algorithim. Where can i start to learn this stuff? Thanks

im trying to figure out why when I click on  Position Size Calculator (MetaTrader indicator) it doesn't activate the trade. ive gone over the installation numerous time still doesn't work. thanks in advance. 

Hi there.   I want to write myself a custom indicator which displays a histogram on the main chart that uses price/time parameters defined by clicking and dragging a rectangular area on the chart.  The user would click and drag an area of interest on the chart, and when the mouse button is released,...

Hi! I know that when you synchronize the metatrader  indicators and experts from you computer it uploads to the servers... but what if I erased metatrader form my computer, can I download the settings from the servers to my computer? Thank  you!!!!

Hi there, If I want to search through the +100 pages of indicators (https://www.mql5.com/en/code/mt5/indicators) by subject, can it be done? Or must I manually search each individual page? I have tried the search function at top right, but it is ineffective.

Hi, I am still trying to understand MQl4, so my question may be basic. My EA has ability of opening upto 10 orders, and I need to place a trailing stop to all trades depending on the order in which they were opened. Looking at topics like  https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/191264 , I note that the...

After I login the forum, how can I find my own topic posted before. thx

I have on a demo account 13 open positions: but OrdersTotal() shows zero(?):     uint o = OrdersTotal();    Comment("OrdTotal ",o); How do you get the open positions in MQL5?

Hi All, I want to know that Is there any way we can add functionality of auto update in EA? So our client don't have to do any thing they can enjoy latest versions without any difficulty. 

Hi there, I've been using Strategy Tester to test several EAs across multiple time frames/symbols. The report you can download is quite intensive in terms of pulling the data out to CSV etc. Could someone please advise on the following: --> Can you test an EA in 'batch' mode as per the...

Hello, I am tying to use iBands() in an EA but I dont understand what the value returned mean ! Please help me !

Hi This mql5 code prints the oldest bar info first.  How can I get array indexed so that the current bar on the chart is in index 0 and thus prints out first? Thanks MqlRates rates[20];CopyRates(_Symbol, PERIOD_D1, 0, 19, rates);for(int i=0; i<20; i++){   Print(rates[i].high);}

hopefully someone of the staff is reading it and start to change it! I tried to debug an indicator with mt5 connected to MetaQuotes-Demo: MetaTrader 5 Desktop Demo. In the option for the debugger I wanted set: And these are the first Bars I get: 2018.09.19 09:37:17.258 CaVol (EURUSD,H1)       Bar[2]...

I am still having problems. Service desk referred me back to forum and sorry cant publicize the code. Ea complies to all this https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/2555 but automatic validation always returns a no trade error. On my side trading works in all conditions like strategy tester, demo account...

hello there i am new to trading and learning about trading robots  i am currently 18 years old living in the United kingdom and have around 1800 gbp to invest overall in a robot and in my mt4 account i was wondering what will be the best robots for my situation as i have not a lot to invest in, how...