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With Metatrader 5, Different speed when collecting historical ticks depending on whether they are old or modern

Hello everyone, I notice that when collecting historical trades from a broker with Metatrader 5 Backtesting , the speed of collection is very different if the collection dates are older or more recent: If the dates are old, the data collection is very fast and if they are more recent, it is very

How to download or how to navigate comfortably in the discussion threads of the freelance area

Hello everyone, In the freelance area, when a job is developed, a discussion thread is generated between the applicant for the assignment and the developer. In my experience, I can't comfortably navigate that thread when I want to check the most initial pages. So I would like to ask the community

How to extrapolate the optimization of an EA from a "Broker A" to a different "Broker B"

Hello everyone, It is well known that, in the foreign exchange market, for any symbol and for the same period of time, the development of the candles is "significantly different" if we first observe it in a "Broker A" and then we observe it in a second " Broker B". This implies that if the

Copy-Trading: Limit case in the rule of proportionality of lots. Will this trade open?

Hello everyone, If the Signal Provider has a balance of $1000 and opens a trade with 0.01 lots, will a subscriber with a $500 balance open the trade? I have looked for this question in the knowledge base and although it talks about batch proportionality, this borderline case, nothing is clear to me

Copy Trading: What is the correct information on the number of trades of a Provider's signal?

Hello everyone, I am considering copying trading signals and, if I take any signals, I find that "insistently" the nº of trades per week multiplied by the nº of weeks of signal life does not match the nº of signal trades at all. Let's see an example (without mentioning any particular signal): Where

The Parabolic Sar is misleading because it doesn't report the "No Trend" Market... Or does it?

Hello everyone, I am studying the Parabolic Sar in depth and none of the internet tutorials I have found talk about how the Psar reports Sideways Market situations (ie "no trend"). It is as if for this indicator the market was either only bullish or only bearish. And as we all know that is not a

Strange representation of Heikin Ashi candles, how is it interpreted?

Hello everyone, I am studying the technical indicators one by one and when I thought I had fully understood the Heikin Ashi candlestick indicator (watching various tutorials on the Internet), I have applied it in my Metatrader 5. And I have come across this: Where very strange things appear: In

Copy-Trading: What happens if a signal provider stops issuing them?

Hello everyone, Again I would like to present some of the questions that I have not found in the detailed guide: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/10773#q23 It is implicitly understood that the provider can do whatever they want with their signal and I would like to please find answers to the following

Copy-Trading: Any explanation for these slippages?

Hello everyone, Within the subject of Copy-Trading, I would like to tell you what seems to be an error in the list of slippages between the provider's account and the possible brokers that a subscriber can use. I have not seen this detail in the exhaustive FAQ list on this subject

Where do the announced Increments of the signals to copy come from?

Hello everyone, I'm considering copying some signal. But I can't understand how the announced Increments are calculated for each signal: For example, I take an account where the numbers are simple: And we see that, correctly, the increase is calculated in this way: So far, all ok... But now let's