Technical Indicators - page 27

I'm Looking for help on how to initialize terminal data before OnCalculate is called. Attached is a sample indicator and associated log file showing the errors posted - I thought that after calling CopyRates for an 'old' bar, eventually the data would download and things would start working - but...

Why is the sleep function not working properly within a while loop? bool loaded = false ; while (!loaded) { if ( CopyTime (BCIndex, PERIOD_CURRENT , time[start_pos - 1 ], time[rates_total - 1 ], BCtime) != - 1 && CopyTime (PCIndex, PERIOD_CURRENT , time[start_pos - 1 ], time[rates_total - 1

I am intrigued why among the many properties available to query for any position after closing, its highest Drawdown is no readily available? I noted such a data is plotted in one of the MQL5 reports for an EA, but in the list of entries such data in not available. In TradingView this information is

Hi, I am a concerned trader who has been using the stochastic oscillator . While upgrading to MT5, I note the settings lack the k% & d% period and slowing feature which are essential parts of my strategy and present on MT4. Please let me know why they are missing on mt5 and if this is something that

I am developing a function to create a list of unique pairs with open positions. Say USDJPY has a long and short position and GBPJPY has a long positions, the result should be "USDJPY" and "GBPJPY". For this I create an empty array to store the names. First I loop through all open positions, then

Both failed when i try to load in M1 chart and want to copy D1 date. Error 4401 //+------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| Copytest.mq5 | //| Copyright 2022 | //|

How do you apply an indicator on a multi-buffered indicator in MQL5 in general? For example, Moving Average applied on Bollinger Bands. First, I create the variables: int Bands_handle; int MA_handle; double MA[]; Then I create the indicator handles in the OnInit() function (note that Bands_handle

please what is the correct formula for mq5 when mq4 is like this ? MarketInfo(ExtSymbols[i], MODE_TICKVALUE)

Hello. So I have an indicator and a structure I'm using in it. In OnChartEvent() function I call for some function of the structure. This function changes some variables inside the structure object. It works for the first time, and for the second one constructor of the structure object is called for

Hello, Basically I would like to use a symbol as an indicator in another chart. For example, in my EURUSD chart, i'd like to have an indicator below that rapresent GBPUSD price. Simple as that. I couldn't fine the code in the codebase section... Can you help me with this? Thanks

Hello guys, I am testing in custom indicator to get screenshots of all currency pairs and all time frames in a chart open. I used CharOpen() function. But some price charts take too long time to load prices and bar data. I only got the " Loading " message in screenshot. I use Sleep(5000); to wait

Hi everyone, this is my first post and im asking experienced programmers if its possible to be able to change the indicator moving average in steps of .25 the EMA SHIFT instead in steps of 1. ? If my question is not clear , please let me know. cheers Serge

Is it feasible on a theoretical level?: A chart that uses control points during active trading

There may be a common bug in MQL5 indicator functions or I'm missing something. The problem arises when I try to apply any indicator on any custom indicator. For example, in MQL4, you calculate the moving average of any indicator by first filling an array with the indicator and then calling the

The Indicator I'm making works this way, it reads the Histogram bars of this custom indicator I made (MACD from TradingView). It finds the previous 4 chunks of bars separated by groups of above or below 0, then inside each group it finds the highest candle in the Price chart (if bars are above 0)

I am having trouble coming up with the specific code that I need. What I am desiring is for an up Arrow for the below condition: On the 15 min time frame, when the candlestick closes above a given EMA by a certain Pip range. Say, 1-10 Pips for example. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I wanted to port Kase Peak Oscillator indicator from mt4 to mt5 because couldn't find it by googling. I am new to mql that is why I don't know much about it but I have a little experience with coding. Below I've provided a code which I modified from mql4 using this guide

Hi, I'm trying build a tick indicator and while debugging I run in to this problem. So I create a test code as below. The code below get latest tick data from SymbolInfoTick and CopyTick then compare the time in msc if it is the same tick or not which it should always be the same since it is the

Hi guys, could someone please suggest a command to draw an indicator in foreground? I tried ObjectSetInteger(0,"My-indicator",OBJPROP_BACK,false); but the line is still projected under the candles

Hello, Grasping at straws here, but does anyone know a faster way to get an Objects type than good ol' ObjectGetInteger(chart_id, objname, OBJPROP_TYPE) ? Always seems to be the slowest part of any indicator or script I create. Thanks in advance :)

So, i've coded many EAs, but i'm a bit new on indicators. I made a Donchian Channels indicator for MT5, but i want to make an EMA of the BASE line and i can't find how, i already checked the Custom Moving Average indicator source without luck. So any help would be great, thanks :) In short: how to

Dear Fellows Greetings. I have created an indicator class and following methods are defined to get value on single index bar. //+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ //| METHOD: GetIndexTSV()

Dear Fellow I am having challenge to figure out why there is 2 bar shift when I send bar[index] to Indicator class. Even after two days for debugging I have failed to find the reason for it. The code and screen shot is attached for ready reference herewith. You will also notice that Hammer/Shooting

Hi Guys I wanna make inside my own custom indicator some modifications to the existing chart & period data, and save the results in my own series arrays (let's say: cust_open[], cust_close[], cust_high[], cust_low[], cust_time[], cust_tick_volume[], cust_volume[], cust_spread[]). so it's technically

Hello everyone, I tried to setup an Expert-Advisor in mql5 trading with several Indicator-Signals using the Signal-Classes from StdLib. I've searched a lot for examples, but can only find complete Trading-Systems with objects of "CExpert" (propably just made with a wizard). But I cannot find any

Hi, I want to create CSignalRSI class object to get signal result. I've create object, but how can I set my symbol and period to get LongCondition() and ShortCondition()? I've created SignalRSI object, but how I can set my symbol and time period to get signal result? SignalRSI = new CSignalRSI;

I am just beginning to learn MQL5, and wonder if I can get your help with a problem I encounter. Lets consider an example in which I want to calculate the median price of the last 10 days, I collect one array of the low prices and other for the high prices of the last 10 days. One could loop over

Hi there, I'm looking for an indicator just like the atas system for meta trader. I see there is a volume order book on (Alt+B) orderbook section which is only working on win10 or above. ( maybe good if it's useable on win 8.1 as well, but not relevant it this case ) So is there any kind of

Hello, In MQL4 there was IndicatorCounted () whose equivalent in MQL5 is prev_calculated. But the big difference is that IndicatorCounted () is accessible from anywhere in the program, whereas prev_calculated is only accessible from the OnCalculate event. Is there an equivalent function in MQL5 to...

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